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rshow55
- 02:39pm Jul 27, 2003 EST (#
13162 of 13267) Can we do a better job of finding
truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have
done and worked for on this thread.
rshow55 - 11:21pm Jun 6, 2002 EST (#2477 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@167.Rz6XacALMTB^1081993@.f28e622/3097
, posted somewhat later, is interesting, too.
Pity the SEARCH capability has gone away again.
Whistle-Blower Recounts Faults Inside the F.B.I. By
DAVID JOHNSTON and NEIL A. LEWIS http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/07/politics/07INQU.html
Coleen Rowley told Senators on Thursday that
the F.B.I.'s bureaucracy discouraged innovation and punished
agents seeking to cut through layers of gatekeepers.
I have no records -- nothing but circumstantial evidence to
support what I say (though there are many ways to "collect the
dots" and "connect the dots" and many ways to check, if effort
is expended.) But I say again that my instructions from Bill
Casey were that I was not even to attempt a "direct approach"
to CIA - since my objective was to actually get something
done. Casey told me, even after my head blew, to keep working
- that I was working on problems of national importance. I was
told that I would be watched, and that if I put, properly
encoded but conspicuously placed, information saying I was
making real progress - there would be a way to "bring me in."
I was astonished, after doing the work, and posting http://www.mrshowalter.net/pap2
- -- that it didn't happen. A Modified Equation for Neural
Conductance and Resonance http://xxx.lanl.gov/html/math-ph/9807015
But I had been told that I had to have reasoning that would
"make it through the system" -- and Steve Kline and I worked
very hard, within our geekish limitations, on polishing our
reasoning.
(If only I'd known lchic at the time - we
might have done much better. She has an artistic-associative
gift we knew nothing of.)
I was also told that, if nothing else worked, my only real
chance was to "come in through The New York Times ". I
found out, and have continued to find out, that the NYT also
has its "layers of gatekeepers." And has its gatekeeping
procedures.
Even so, there have been times that I've thought that Bill
Casey gave me his best judgement.
Other times, it seems to me that Casey simply couldn't
bring himself to tell me that truth --- that there was no hope
for me at all - - and just wanted to keep me working.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/07/politics/07INQU.html
bears careful reading, and seems to me to be ominous, but a
clear warning. How much more hopeful the world might be if
people asked "what matters" -- clearly and competently
enough. The stakes are so high that the question "what
matters" matters for our decency and survival.
People of literary interest might find this sermon moving -
as I do, and an aid to imagining, in human terms, the
obligations and challenges we now face.
WHEN THE FOUNDATIONS ARE SHAKING ..... by Dr James
Slatton . . . . River Road Church (Baptist) in Richmond, Va
...... http://www.mrshowalter.net/sermon.html
People of secular inclinations might want to skip the first
9:27 of the sermon . Thereafter, it tells the story of a
Russian colonel, in the USSR's nuclear forces, who kept is
head, and by doing so, kept nuclear war from destroying us
all.
This contrasts, I feel, with another kind of "gatekeeping"
and "logic keeping." - - - Not all Southern Baptists are the
same MD158 rshow55 3/3/02 3:54pm
Bush 2000 Adviser Offered To Use Clout to Help Enron
By Joe Stephens Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, February
17, 2002
" Just before the last presidential
election, Bush campaign adviser Ralph Reed offered to help
Enron Corp. deregulate the electricity industry by working
his "good friends" in Washington and by mobilizing religious
leaders and pro-family groups . . . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22380-2002F
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