Greg Palast points out that the outrage over the New York Times article on tracking money trails is a lot of baloney compared to some of the things the Bush administration has done that have harmed our national security.
Link: http://www.buzzflash.com/... and the key graf:
"Yes, let's talk treason. How about this: Before the 9/11 attack, George Bush's intelligence chieftains BLOCKED the CIA's investigation of the funding of al-Qaeda and terror."
There are so many unexplored trails in the story of 9-11. If the US is truely serious about reducing terrorism, why haven't we looked at some of the most obvious and promising leads? Palast explores the connections between the Saudi royal family, the Bin Ladens, and the Bush administration.
15 of the 19 9-11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. There were no Iraqis, yet here we are, stuck in Iraq.
A.Q. Kahn, the father of the Pakistani Nuclear program set up a clandestine network to sell bomb making technology. This technology ended up in North Korea and Libya. Kahn currently resides in a villa supposedly under house arrest, but has yet to be interrogated by the US. Condi Rice was singing praises of Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf as a great partner in the war on terrorism, except for that little bit about helping enemy nations get the bomb.
The Bush administration opposed the creation of the 9-11 commission until the victims families pressured them into supporting it. Then they underfunded and stonewalled the investigation.
I'm not pushing any conspiracy theory, just pointing out that there are lots of leads that point to "allies" such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia that the Bush administration desparately wants to keep under wraps.