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Page 6 of the Prologue reveals this lovely nugget regarding how far the CIA had collapsed during the 1990's:

"Thanks to Vice President Al Gore, for example, the CIA briefly made the global environment one of its priorities."

Let me get this straight. At a time when the United States had already been attacked in 1993 with the first WTC bombing, when terrorists were blowing up our embassies in Africa, When the USS Cole was attacked, under direction by the Vice President - the CIA was looking into how our insatiable desire for SUV's was ruining the "global environment"? un-freakin-believe-able...

I'd like to see more on this. I'd love to see the source for this.

Posted @ January 08, 2006 10:02 AM | Current Affairs