Let's hope it's a lesson to the FBI that they can't just send out informants to create crime plots and entrap people not otherwise predisposed into signing on.

as long as there is political pressure to do so, it will continue. whether it's the "war on terrorism", the "war on drugs" or whatever other "war" is declared, the FBI will always be available to be used in its name. it started with prohibition, and has continued unabated since.

This administration has been playing politics with terrorism and dead Americans since 9/11, and I imagine they will continue to do so since the record has proven its effectiveness.

Those CIA tapes which were supposedly destroyed, I wonder who gave the order destroy that evidence.  I wonder what those suspects revealed when they were under torture. Perhaps they said things that some in this government don't want revealed.

The Republicans in Congress, as well as in the propaganda arm of the right-wing media, have no problem throwing our intelligence people under the bus whenever it suits their purposes, as evidenced with the recent NIE, Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities report that was compiled with the approval of the ODNI under the direction of Director of National Intelligence, retired Vice Admiral John Michael McConnell (a friend and associate of Dick Cheney who was hand-picked by the Bush administration just this year for his position), a report that confirms what I imagine our intelligence people have known for some time, that Iran stopped actively pursuing nuclear weapons in 2003.  And suddenly the conclusions as well as the motives of this trusted arm of the Bush of administration has been brought into question.  Something is going on within this White House, it seems that there are factions in conflict.

And then I read garbage like this article in the New York Times, Pssst: Some Hope for Spycraft by an author who apparently is making a living publishing books describing how the CIA failed the Bush White House in the run-up to the war in Iraq, an article which conveniently but not so subtly shifts the blame for the invasion to a failure by our intelligence people, and not a failure of our leadership.  As if it was all a big mistake and not part of a wider plan.

Failure?  No I don't think it was a failure at all, I think that the Bush administration was quite successful in doing exactly what they set out to do, and now they apparently have revisionist history writers, posing as journalists, cleaning up after them in the New York Times.  There's something really rotten about all this, a corruption that seems  pervasive and far-reaching.