Bikers asked to get close to Bush: "Pishney said he doesn't know what specific role the dozen or so motorcycle riders will play in Monday's event, although they've been instructed to show up in 'biker-oriented' apparel."

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Army Turns to Private Guards : "Two five-year contracts worth as much as $1 billion went to two small Alaska Native firms with little previous security experience. The firms, which operate under special contracting laws enabling them to avoid competitive bidding, subcontracted part of the work to two of the country's largest security firms: Wackenhut Services Inc. and Vance Federal Security Services."

clevescene.com | Crime Family Values | 2004-08-11

White House Has Some Terror Experts Worried

TheStar.com - Kerry fails Iraq test: "Practical politics undoubtedly prompted Kerry's reply. He is loath to admit he cast a foolish vote in 2002. He does not want to alienate voters who were similarly duped, and who are not keen to be reminded of it. And he must not be seen as 'soft' on Saddam. "

The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page: "When Friday's dismal job report was released, traders in the Chicago pit began chanting, 'Kerry, Kerry.' "

Salt Lake Tribune - Opinion: "For Fox News, MSNBC and, most disappointing of all, CNN - the Network of Record - to be spending so much time hashing, rehashing and, most of all, speculating on the gory details of this single case is an excellent example of what's wrong with the mass media today."

Yahoo! News - U.S. Barred From Weakening Dolphin Rules
: "'The record is replete with evidence that the secretary was influenced by policy concerns unrelated to the best available scientific evidence,' Henderson wrote in a strongly worded 51-page opinion. 'This court has never, in its 24 years, reviewed a record of agency action that contained such a compelling portrait of political meddling.' "

Diplomacy Sidelined as US Targets Iran: "The US charge sheet against Iran is lengthening almost by the day, presaging destabilizing confrontations this autumn and maybe a pre-election October surprise. "

Capitol Police Chief Sees No Specific Threat to Hill (washingtonpost.com)

Yahoo! News - Pat Oliphant

Telegraph | News | Iraqi judge orders arrest of American aide to Chalabi Regarding the current charges against Salen Chalabi, Francis Brooke says, "He wouldn't hurt a fly." And many US news services carry that quote. They don't tell us Brooke is on the lam just like his boss.

Yahoo! News - Unmasking of Qaeda Mole a U.S. Security Blunder-Experts: "The revelation that a mole within al Qaeda was exposed after Washington launched its 'orange alert' this month has shocked security experts, who say the outing of the source may have set back the war on terror. "

Chalabi Nephew Under Investigation in Killing LA Times breaks the Chalabi story on 8/3.

Yahoo! News - Iraq invasion a "tremendous gift" to bin Laden: CIA analyst: "It validated so many of the arguments he's made over the past decade,' 'Anonymous' said, particularly the claim by the Saudi-born al-Qaeda leader that the West seeks to occupy the Islamic holy places.
'We have the first one, the most important in the Arabian peninsula, we occupy that in their eyes,' he said in a reference to Saudi Arabia. 'We now occupy Iraq, the second holiest place, and the Israelis have Jerusalem, the third.
'The idea that we would smash any government that posed a threat to Israel -- that's validated by our actions,' he continued. 'And his claim that we lust after control of Arab oil; Iraq has the second greatest reserves in the Arab world.
'So it's been an astounding victory for Osama bin Laden"

CNN.com Chalabi and his friends

CJR July/August 2004: The List by Douglas McCollam Ahmad Chalabi’s defectors told stories to a lot of
reporters who now wish they’d kept their distance
How Chalabi Played the Press