The NewsMax piece is almost verbatim from the The Deseret News article that I linked up there in #5. The Deseret News piece originally came from The New York Times; they are one and the same. I'm linking this other thread because there's a very interesting discussion on it between browardchad and someone else.
browardchad, that's an excellent observation you made on the other thread. The NYTimes did a complete "redo" of their original Sept. 19, 2001 article, didn't they?
And about that Peggy Noonan article you linked here earlier... Ms Noonan, referring to the Rowley memo, writes:
This is no laughing matter. When an FBI field operative who is the chief legal counsel of her office tells the head of the FBI in Washington that they've been wondering, out in the field, if spies or moles made the fateful decisions, she is saying something huge. She is saying she thinks it is possible that spies within the FBI thwarted attempts to stop or diminish the attacks of Sept. 11. And she wants the FBI director to know this. She uses the word joke, but she knows what she's doing. She's saying: This may be true. When she put this information in a memo that she knows she herself will soon hand-deliver to the Senate Intelligence Committee, she is telling Congress, the press and the people to consider the possibility that spies or moles had some part in the attack on America.
Ms Noonan sounds rather sure of herself in this paragraph, doesn't she? It's almost as if she has some insider whispering in her ear, giving her some information that motivated her to write the "Weenies or Moles?" article.
In other words, this is no laughing matter. When an essayist who has worked in the U.S. government tells the people that she's been wondering if spies or moles made the fateful decisions, she may be saying something huge.
Ya think?
This thing is like a snowball. I think it's time the people in FBIHQ who know something about this speak up. <P>This is no laughing matter. When a well-known and credible essayist who has worked in the U.S. government tells the reading public that Colleen Rowley has been wondering if spies or moles made the fateful decisions, she may be saying something huge. She is saying she thinks it is possible that spies within the FBI thwarted attempts to stop or diminish the attacks of Sept. 11. And she wants the reading public to know this. Ms. Noonan uses the words "The depth and extent of the system failure, at least within the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was greater than citizens knew," and she knows what she's doing. She's saying: This may be true. When she puts this Mole hypothesis on the Editorial Page of the Wall Street Journal that she knows will be read by many people, she is telling those people to consider the possibility that spies or moles had some part in the attack on America.
By the way, where was Eric Holder during all this? And where is he now?