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...Europe's governments may have concluded that while torture is bad, terrorism is worse. The bombings in Madrid and London have put tremendous pressure on European governments to prevent another massive attack on their own soil - and that means coordinating efforts with U.S. intelligence. It may be a bogus choice, but if voters had to decide between letting a suspected terrorist run free, and sending him to a faraway place where a moral principle is violated in the hopes of getting information that might prevent a bombing, that's not much of a contest. This may explain why public reaction...
...company garage, it turns out Enron didn't have much in the bank. Forensic auditors have discovered that cash flow in 2000--the money left over after the bills are paid--was a negative $153 million, not the heady $3 billion claimed. The nearly $1 billion profit was bogus. (Forget 2001. Even the auditors couldn't fathom the books that year...
...ticking terror time bomb within the heart of one of the world's busiest airports. As proof, his book reproduces a dire report by France's police intelligence unit responsible for identifying and tracking extremists. The problem, security officials say, is the document de Villiers has brandished is bogus - containing errors and inaccuracies police intelligence agents would never make. Worse yet, they add, his false alarm may have ruined work of agents who are watching a few airport employees actually suspected of Islamist ties - and who may now go underground...
...this: In a single day, more than 4,000 illegal aliens will walk across the busiest unlawful gateway into the U.S., the 375-mile border between Arizona and Mexico. No searches for weapons. No shoe removal. No photo-ID checks. Before long, many will obtain phony identification papers, including bogus Social Security numbers, to conceal their true identities and mask their unlawful presence...
Instead, I felt illuminated. I felt light and free. I felt informed and entertained without feeling bludgeoned by a bogus political message...