[Tolik]

If you'd read a piece by Kenneth Timmerman in the July 1998 Reader's Digest, you'd have been much more informed.

Indeed:

 

 

What We Knew…and Didn't Do
By Kenneth Timmerman
April 13, 2004                   http://www.rd.com/common/nav/index.jhtml?articleId=9527512

In July 1998, Reader's Digest published Kenneth Timmerman's report, "This Man Wants You Dead." Three weeks later -- with more than 200 innocent civilians torn to bits by al-Qaeda bombs in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam -- bin Laden's face was plastered in newspapers around the world.
 

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

the so-called incriminating memo is notable mainly for its confirmation of the woeful state of US intelligence. The mention of "media reports" in the first sentence is a sly admission that you could have found out all the stuff in this "classified" briefing by reading the papers. If you'd read a piece by Kenneth Timmerman in the July 1998 Reader's Digest, you'd have been much more informed.

LOL! And thanks for the link, I'll follow it as soon as I post this.