Jim Mork wrote: > > As for terror cells in Minneapolis, two things: > First, that is our incompetent federal law > enforcement telling us this. So, don�t jump at > the chance to believe it.
Actually, it's supposedly a "leak" by the feds to ABC. The Startribune article relies heavily on the word of Dr. Neil Livingstone, "a Washington-based security consultant with close ties to U.S. intelligence agencies," telling us so. A quick google search reveals that some people think Dr. Livingstone is a good bit less reliable than our federal law enforcement. http://www.fair.org/extra/9507/terror-experts.html (old, but interesting) http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-11-02/pols_naked5.html (more recent and complete) Another "expert" struck a more cautious tone in the Strib article: "I am wondering how it is leaking because FISA is an extremely confidential collection process that is utilized through sealed documents unavailable to the public," said William Michael Jr., a former terrorism and national security coordinator for the U.S. attorney's office in Minneapolis. "Very few people in this state . . . would have direct knowledge of whether [such monitoring] is occurring." Rosalind Nelson Bancroft _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
