Reply #36: Yeah, it's a practical matter.

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It's a bit early to be calling the accounts of his own agents
on the scene lies. It think it's going to be stall, stall, stall
until they think a sanitized version can be floated. It's still
a while until the election, and Berscolini will do everything he
can to induce sedation and amnesia, and no annoying facts will
be allowed to intrude if it's up to him. If the Italians forget
or let him get away with it I expect they deserve him as much as
we deserve Bush.

That account there is the strongest evidence I've seen that it was
a planned hit, at the command level at least, although I can't say
I'm 100% convinced.

Did you read that the car pictures were not THE car? I guess we are
still looking for pictures of THE car.