Reply #181: Perhaps Hersh got the rumor from Mike Ruppert.

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Or vice versa. Or whatever. The "Coup d'Etat" article in From the Wilderness talks about a supposed sting operation by the CIA, in which its own operatives forged those documents, setting a trap for our pals in the White House to fall into.

And yes, they're still overlooking a LOT. Mainly, I suspect, because so far, they've managed to get away with so much. That's because they exploited everyone's fears after 9/11 so thoroughly (the "new Pearl Harbor") that the media got in line, the Dems in the Senate and House got in line, and most of the American people got in line. Many were KEPT in line by intimidation and name-calling (unpatriotic, unAmerican, "Saddam-lovers," traitors, Neville Chamberlains, appeasers, and more). And all were played like fiddles for awhile, until some of us decided to kick a few things around on the internet, and ask a few questions on our on (our media surrogates certainly weren't doing it).

While all of that was fermenting like some witch's brew, the successful suppression of dissent built on the arrogance and hubris of these people. Soon, it probably gave them good reason to think they were invincible, because they had EVERYBODY in their back pockets.

And that's when you find an increasing possibility of some of these people starting to get sloppy. If everything's in the bag and everybody's scared and the press corps isn't asking questions and you have the Pox "News" network and the limbaughs and the tom delays and everybody else shouting down, intimidating, demonizing, marginalizing or Joe McCarthy-ing those few skeptics who try to ask questions, then you can relax a little as you go about your business. And you assume everyone's so thoroughly threatened and intimidated that you don't even worry about it anymore. And THEREIN lies your Achilles Heel. Then one of you gets too drunk in Ahmed Chalabi's presence and forgets him/herself and mouths off, and dicey stuff gets not only exposed but passed to the Iranians, and you forget about, and misunderestimate the internet and those willing to use it, and a few other things. You get sloppy, you start making mistakes, and it's inevitable that SOMEBODY among your adversaries starts to notice, and becomes motivated to get to work on a few things...