Shrubs political and psychological defeat.
Matthew X
profrv at nex.net.au
Mon May 10 07:16:54 PDT 1999
Well barr's barred...there may be a god...Washington Retreating on Iraq Aug 19
The Bush administration has begun to back down from plans for a near-term
attack on Iraq. The controversial plan was shredding the coalition against
al Qaeda, which Washington needs in battling the group. But the Bush
administration's retreat from Iraq, although necessary, forces it to manage
a political and psychological defeat.
RR,don't go there,girlfriend.http://www.stratfor.com/
crypto revisionism
Since 1974 much has been written about the cryptographic success achieved
at Bletchley Park, and dozens of participants and historians have given
their version of what was accomplished. Bennett includes separate short
entries for GCCS, GCHQ, Enigma, Bletchley Park and ULTRA, longer ones for
Alan Turing, Sir Edward Travis, Alistair [sic] Denniston, and a four page
summary under 'United Kingdom'. Evidently the author rightly considers
Britain's cryptographic effort to be of some significance, yet his very
confused account seriously misdefines some common terms, and consistently
refers to the Enigma machine in capitals, as though Enigma is itself a
codename.
Much the same can be said for Bennett's treatment of VENONA, which is
seriously flawed. Suffice to say that his assertion that the Army Security
Agency began work on the Soviet intercepts in 1943 is somewhat wide of the mark
http://www.cicentre.com/BK/BOOKS_West_Bennett.html
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