Are You Likely Being Investigated? Grab a Calculator and Find Out FBI Director Robert Mueller said in a rather roundabout way that his bureau is conducting 8,000 terrorism-related investigations. Testifying on Jan. 11 before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Mueller noted that Britain’s MI-5 intelligence agency is tracking 1,600 individuals, and then explained that “in general, the number of subjects we are monitoring is proportional to the number of subjects BSS is monitoringâbased on gross national population.” Mueller also pointed out that, compared to the British investigations, the 8,000 include few “active plots involving physical attacks within the United States, less defined networks of extremists, and less developed attack planning.” (US News & World Report)Who’s Getting Rich off the War? The war in Iraq brought with it innumerable lucrative military contracts, and billions of dollars to those with the proper DC connections. A new Playboy article (TDM subscribes for the articles) attempts to unravel these connections, and also sheds further light on the administration’s selling of the war. Via Steve Clemons. (Playboy)
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