Re[4]: DT article

[Andrew Brown]

On Saturday, September 15, 2001, at 17:59:30, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote:

MF> Yes. I have and enjoyed them both. It's hard to believe it's the same man.
MF> Throws doubt on the books, alas, unless he's one of those odd people who
MF> think that when you sign something in a newspaper it doesn't require care
MF> or accuracy because it's 'just journalism'.

  I think he should be cut some slack because he was sudenly asked to
  be an expert on a subject of which he knows damn all, and so,
  obviously, do any of his contacts who weren't to busy to speak to
  him. We all make mistakes when slammed against deadlines. I found
  myself writing a piece, ostensibly on the concept of Jihad, in which
  I was expected to announce who had done it, on Tuesday afternoon
  when we didn't even know how many planes had been hijacked. With all
  that said, it was one of the most idiotic remarks by an expert of
  all time.

  Incidentally, there is a brilliant and terrifying piece on the
  incompetence of the CIA, by one of their own people, at

  http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/07/gerecht.htm

  Makes you understand why they want sigint to rescue them. The finest
  quote is one CIA man explaining why they don't have agents among the
  poor: "operations that include diarrhea as a way of life just don't
  happen."


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