A story in The Guardian talks about an upcoming book published by an anonymous senior intelligence official that condemns the Bush administration’s anti-terrorism policy. What makes this book different from the (many) ones that have preceded it is that the author is still a serving official working in intelligence. Dare we hope that this sort of criticism will keep growing and eventually lead to Bush getting turfed? Personally, I’m not holding my breath–my cynicism about American politics is pretty entrenched–but I’ll be more than happy to eat crow if I’m proven wrong in November!
Here’s another US fun fact, article courtesy of The Nation: During the height of the Cold War (and until the mid 70s) the lock codes for setting off the Minutemen nuclear missles were set to “00000000”–the top military guys didn’t want any sissy, waste-of-time security features to slow things down!) Ai yi yi.