Since I've been swamped with work all day and been too busy to post, I now get to do back-to-back links to Fred Kaplan. In this article, he says we're about to see more attempts to read our mail, listen in on our phone conversations, etc. and — this is the troubling part — doing so without accountability or adherence to the law. Lovely.
In the meantime, I can't help but join the chorus of blogs linking to this article. Here's the first paragraph…
BAGHDAD — In March, he was declared captured. In May, he was declared killed, and his purported corpse was displayed on state-run TV. But Wednesday, Omar al-Baghdadi, the supposed leader of an al-Qaida-affiliated group in Iraq, was declared nonexistent by U.S. military officials, who say he is a fictional character created to give an Iraqi face to a foreign-run terror group.
Tune in tomorrow when Omar al-Baghdadi unmasks and is revealed to be Andy Kaufman.