Anyone want to check these out? ***************************************************************************************** From another list: KAY REPORT ON IRAQI WMD MAY NOT BE
RELEASED In an astonishing reversal, the Bush Administration signaled
that it will not release the final report of the Iraq Survey Group led by David
Kay, which was intended to provide a comprehensive assessment of the state of
Iraqi weapons of mass destruction programs. "I would not count on reports," said National
Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice on September 22. "David Kay is not going to be done with this for quite
some time... I suppose there may be interim reports. I don't know when those will be, and I don't know
what the public nature of them will be," she said. Her remarks came near the end of a
press briefing and seem to have gone unnoted. http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2003/09/wh092203.html A story in the London Sunday Times two weeks ago said that
the Kay report had been "shelved" because the Iraq Survey Group had
found no evidence of Iraqi WMD and that a report might never be published. "Britain and America have decided to delay indefinitely
the publication of a full report on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction after
inspectors found no evidence that any such weapons exist." ("Iraq Weapons Report
Shelved" by David Leppard, Sunday Times, September 14). But in response to a reporter's
question, the White House dismissed the Times account. "I haven't heard anything like that. David Kay
continues to do his work. He's been compiling massive amounts of documents about
Iraq's history of weapons of mass destruction and weapons of mass destruction
program," said White House spokesman Scott McClellan on September 16. http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2003/09/wh091603.html Secretary of State Colin Powell also recently reinforced widespread
expectations of an authoritative, near-term public assessment of the Iraqi WMD
program. "Dr. Kay will be
putting out a report in the very near future, and I look forward to seeing it,
as everyone else does," he said on September 14: http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2003/09/dos091403.html But now "everyone else" can forget about it,
judging from Dr. Rice's comments this week, because Dr. Kay will not be "putting
out" his report after all. "The American people should be prepared for
surprises," advised David Kay at a July 31 news briefing. Indeed. ******************************************************************************************* TERRORISM INFORMATION AWARENESS ALIVE AND WELL IN
THE STATES The project ostensibly is aimed at identifying and tracking terrorists,
but privacy advocates and others say the use of Seisint Inc., a Boca
Raton, Fl., company founded by a millionaire who police say made his money
flying planeloads of drugs back in the '80s, puts millions of Americans'
personal data at risk. "It's federally funded, it's guarded by state
police, but it's on private property? That's very interesting," says
University of Florida law professor Christopher Slobogin, an expert in privacy
issues. "If it's federally funded, the federal government obviously has a
huge interest in it." Already California and Texas have backed away from
the project, citing security concerns, and Florida officials acknowledge that
Matrix appears to skirt the federal laws barring the U.S. government from
collecting routine information on "innocent citizens." "The CIA
doesn't have this now," says Phil Ramer, special agent in charge of the
Florida Department of Law Enforcement's intelligence office. "That's a
major political issue we'll have to cross." Snipped from Newscan Above the Fold (New York
Times 24 Sep 2003) http://partners.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Terror... |
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