Bamford gets in the game

I've refrained from buying one of the hundreds of books about 911 and the "war on terror" over the past several years because I think much of their content is speculation and conjecture. However, James Bamford has recently published a book that has my full interest: A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies. Bamford is an excellent researcher and superior analyst which is apparent in his previous books on the intelligence community. Especially now that the 911 commission appears to be making more progress in getting at the truth than I had hoped, I am looking forward to reading this book and watching the 911 reports expose the largesse and corruption which ultimately are responsible for the success of the attacks and support for a war that should never have been allowed to happen.

On a side note, my connectivity has been about as zippy [when it's actually functioning] as sucking cold molasses through a straw lately and, along with Finnish classes and spam clogging my .mac inbox, if you've sent me an email and I've not responded yet please don't despair as I'm not ignoring you. :) We're getting ADSL in a few weeks so this may help things along.