Faux Snooze rabidly broadcasting that the NY Times is

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being investigated for exposing banking data filtering used to smoke out the terrahists. How much attention to the following did Faux Snooze afford?? I imagine it was less than none.

The memory hole is deeper than it needs to be.


http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd01312003.html

One of those cut-outs was Mahfouz factotum James Bath, a partner in George W.'s early oil venture, Arbusto. Bath has admitted serving as a pass-through for secret Saudi money. Years later, when Bush's maladroit business skills were about to sink another of his companies, Harken Energy, the firm was saved by a $25 million investment from a Swiss bank--a subsidiary of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BBCI), partly owned by the beneficent Mahfouz.

What was BCCI? Only "one of the largest criminal enterprises in history," according to the U.S. Senate. What did BCCI do? "It engaged in pandemic bribery of officials in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas," says journalist Christopher Bryon, who first exposed the operation. "It laundered money on a global scale, intimidated witnesses and law officers, engaged in extortion and blackmail. It supplied the financing for illegal arms trafficking and global terrorism. It financed and facilitated income tax evasion, smuggling and prostitution." Sort of an early version of the Bush Regime, then.

BCCI's bipartisan corruption first permeated the Carter Administration, then came to full flower in the Reagan-Bush years. The CIA uncovered the bank's criminal activities in 1981--no great feat, considering how many of its own foreign "associates" were involved, including the head of Saudi intelligence, Kamal Adham, brother-in-law of King Faisal. But instead of stopping the drug-runners and terrorists, the agency decided to join them, using BCCI's secret channels to finance "black ops" all over the world.

When a few prosecutors finally began targeting BCCI's operations in the late Eighties, President George Herbert Walker Bush boldly moved in with a federal probe directed by Justice Department investigator Robert Mueller. The U.S. Senate later found that the probe had been unaccountably "botched"--witnesses went missing, CIA records got "lost," all sorts of bad luck. Lower-ranking prosecutors told of heavy pressure from on high to "lay off." Most of the big BCCI players went unpunished or, like Mahfouz, got off with wrist-slap fines and sanctions. Mueller, of course, wound up as head of the FBI, appointed to the post in July 2001--by George W. Bush.

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1. Funny, you would think the criminals committing the

act would be the ones investigated.. Trying to turn this around...

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2. Bwahhahaha - maybe they'll get some traction with this story

since they totally bombed on the Santorum WMD scoop! They are so pathetic it's funny.

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3. What tomorrow's NYT editorial should feature:

A very strong warning, in detail, to all of their readers about the rapidly increasing encroachment on our freedom from this vile, treasonous administration.
Just to drive home the point, I suggest the highly unusual, perhaps unprecedented, placement of this editorial on the front page.

[Disturbed]

4. The RW is pouncing on this but of course

not a word about the NYT and Ms. Miller's bogus reports of WMDs. Standard RW Hypocrisy!

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5. Dupe, self delete

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6. Next story on Faux.... Is Media Bias Hurting the Troops??? Well

if you consider the media's cheerleading in the runup to the invasion/massacre has helped to get us where 15,000 soldiers are missing limbs or have head trauma/brain damage, an untold number have permanent psychological damage and may be unemployable in the forseeable future and almost 2600 of them are DEAD, then yes, media bias has hurt the troops and

FAUX NEWS IS THE SINGLE GREATEST CONTRIBUTOR TO THIS REALITY IN THE COUNTRY.

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7. Rove is pushing his talking points hard. This has been a topic for days

now from the rwing hate club on AM

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8. You would have thunk all the closed bank accounts and frozen assest

in their first year after 9/11 might have tipped al Qaeda off. So too the speeches Bush gave on the subject.

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9. When you are full of sh*t.... there's not much you can say to

save your credibility.... this admin has NONE.