I'll have to admit Eric, that those reports that were coming out so soon after the attacks did disturb me. Old timers here (most of you) may recall that my very first post here (I'd link it, but I'm lazy) was very shortly after 9/11 and that the reason I even came here to begin with was because I was in Manhattan that morning across the street from the Palistinian embassy.  As you can imagine, everyone thought that the Palistinians were prime suspects as the whole ugly affair was happening and the city sent 50 cops or so down to protect the embassy while their comrades were dying in the towers and they were helpless to do anything about it and yet they might have been protecting the killers. They simply didn't know. Nobody did.

For whatever reason, I realized that David's lyric "who am I working for, who do I protect?" was written all over these guys faces...it was haunting.  It seemed like it was only hours later that bin Laden had been fingered as the culprit behind the attacks after all. That bothered me a lot because I figured that if they had enough information about the guy to bird dog him that fast, then they definately knew something beforehand. I'll probably never know for sure, so I'll always have to wonder I guess.

So yes, this topic is something I've thought a lot about. And it does concern me. But I also remember reading a couple of stories about Saddam being secretly escorted out of Baghdad just after we first took the airstrip. That obviously wasn't true...or then again, was it? It all seems so Xfiles-ish.

Anyway, you're right about one thing, I'd feel a lot more comfortable if they'd never have tried to hide any part of the official reports.

"Who am I working for? Who do I protect?" comes to mind once again...