Tenth in a series of blogs chronicling the administration push for war with Iraq. Money for the Iraqi National Congress comes from a pot “under the rainbow,” the State Department says. Summer 2001. The administration appears to be in a holding pattern, with little direct action taken against Iraq during the first two months but the rhetorical foundation for a campaign against Iraq is prepared. Little action also is taken on domestic security, a negative that contributes to 9/11. The media are consumed by the pitiful case of Chandra Levy, a young woman intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons who disappeared on May 1 and who turned out to have had a relationship with Congressman Gary Condit (D-CA). The scandal   more »