September – October 2004   As the fall elections heat up, quiet efforts by the administration and by prominent media outlets and personalities to keep the CIA leak out of the public eye continue. The full falsity of pre-war claims by the White House about purported Iraq WMD, a relationship between Saddam and al Qaeda, or complicity in 9/11 is never adequately clarified in the presidential or vice presidential debates. Related stories such as the fact that the president’s own relatives number among those profiting from the Iraq war and the ‘war on terror’ are, literally, not mentioned in the ...   more »