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Hydra

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17. I don't buy that AQ ran off the rails

Fri Aug 23, 2013, 08:00 PM

Aug 2013

I'm fairly sure they're still on our payroll- they make too useful a face for the faceless "Terror" war. I always knew one day they'd offer OBL on a platter when it was politically sound to do so, but I've never seen a real concerted effort to eliminate them.

There's a very real question as to who the real AQ is though- seems like every place we want to send troops or drone there's an AQ in _____ franchise. If we were a smarter nation, I'd have said it's gotten downright silly...but people still lap it up.

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I wonder who the NY Times mule was? [View all] Luminous Animal Aug 2013 OP

What I don't get is this: why in the age of the interwebs w/ digitized data, any of this matters 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 #1

The "Mule" idea is stupid Hydra Aug 2013 #2

But isn't the NSA et. al. pissing into the wind? 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 #3

The can not control it, but they could shut down sources as they discover them. PowerToThePeople Aug 2013 #4

They don't want to control it exactly, just surveil its enormous entirety 24/7 to bust us whenever 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 #15

I don't know if this is true Hydra Aug 2013 #6

hmm. 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 #10

Exactly Hydra Aug 2013 #11

Someone with names like Manning, Snowden, Assange, Hastings, et. al. ~nt 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 #13

Perfect example Hydra Aug 2013 #14

Yeah, 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 #16

I don't buy that AQ ran off the rails Hydra Aug 2013 #17

War on Terror was a PNAC wet dream. 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 #18

Juith Miller ? bahrbearian Aug 2013 #5

Jeffrey Toobin? LearningCurve Aug 2013 #7

Ha! Luminous Animal Aug 2013 #8

Congrats for the ... 99Forever Aug 2013 #9

I know what I'd do to transmit it Aerows Aug 2013 #12