[The Great Satan]

Astatement by former CIA Director James Woolsey has given new credibility to suspicions of Iraqi involvement in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the World Trade Center bombing of 1993 -- enough to merit congressional hearings.

In a Sept. 5 article on the Wall Street Journal editorial page, Woolsey was quoted saying that "when the full stories of these two incidents are finally told, those who permitted the investigations to stop short will owe big explanations" to two women. He was referring specifically to former Oklahoma City TV reporter Jayna Davis and Middle East expert Laurie Mylroie, who have independently unearthed evidence of a Baghdad connection to domestic terrorism prior to Sept. 11, 2001.

From a PBS interview with James Woolsey aired last October:

There have been press reports that you've been to the United Kingdom recently.

I've been to the United Kingdom twice this year.

Where did you stay?

Various places.

Did you go for pleasure or did you go for business?

I went for my own reasons.

It's reported that this is related to your passion about the idea that there might be state involvement, particularly Iraqi involvement, in what's been happening.

You'll have to find out about that from somebody other than me.

But the press reports are true? Untrue?

I'm not going to comment on them one way or the other.

OK. Is that because there's a secrecy rule about talking about this stuff?

Because if I do anything to help me advise the U.S. government, I'm not going to talk about it. ...

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In a Sept. 5 article on the Wall Street Journal editorial page, Woolsey was quoted saying that "when the full stories of these two incidents are finally told, those who permitted the investigations to stop short will owe big explanations"

Inasmuch as Woolsey was CIA Director at the time of the first WTC bombing and the Oklahoma City bombing, he must have detailed knowledge of both of these events.

From his willingness to make such a public assertion that "the investigations were stopped short", I infer that his information is incredibly damaging -- even nuclear.

Why, I wonder, is there no apparent interest in Mr. Woolsey's information -- on the part of the Congress or the media.

In intelligence matters, information is shared on the basis of "need to know". I believe it can now be said that the American people "need to know".

Moreover, I suppose, we can probably guess who it is we "need to know" about. Along with what it is we "need to know" about them...