Practically a Guarantee

Yes, there are many in the tinfoil hat brigade who think that the Bush admin. will engineer another massive terrorist attack in the U.S. in the run-up to the election in November, a la the Reichstag fire in 1933. Billmon has views on that.

I don't share that conspiracy theorist view, but I do believe that the Bush administration and in particular the DoJ and FBI are probably blowing it. Until today, I really didn't have any firm evidence to back that view up, but then I read this.

"During the run-up to the Iraqi war, American officials became increasingly concerned about the possibility that Iraqi-Americans in the United States and others might have been secretly aiding the Hussein government. The desire to root out possible spies and conspirators led the F.B.I to interview some 11,000 Iraqis in the United States during the war."

As TAPPED wonders, isn't that a huge number? Wouldn't those interviewers been better used in tracking down potential terrorists? And what exactly did "American officials (whoever they are)" fear that the Iraqis going to spy on?

Perhaps they thought Iraqi spies were infiltrating the peace movement, sapping our strength like fluoride in our water.