The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > Oracle, most humble and yet spiffy, answer me this: > > The US has just announced that a "significant number" of > the prisoners held at Gitmo are there only because the US > offered bounties to Afghan warlords for "Taliban" and > then paid cash without asking questions when some poor > schmuck was delivered to them. > > What other foolish rubbish is still being concealed in > the name of "national security"? Is there a video of > Osama bin Laden pointing at a picture of the WTC towers > with a bullseye painted on them? Is there a report from > the CIA saying that Saddam had already delivered every > single chemical weapon to the American embassy in 1992, > giftwrapped? Is there a psychiatrists report stating that > Chaney gets sexually excited when he sees bombs going > off? > > Oracle, my Oracle, what other stupidities are this inane > bunch of ninnies concealing from the world? And in response, thus spake the Oracle: } Well, I know the answer, but you're not going to like it. } } Ashcroft's Justice Department now has enough power to (a) } tap your phone without notice, (b) search your home or } office without notice, (c) investigate your church, } mosque, or synagogue without notice, (d) arrest you } without probable cause, (e) extradite you to Cuba without } judicial review, (f) hold you incommunicado for an } unspecified amount of time, (g) deny you access to an } attorney, (h) deny your right of habeas corpus, (i) begin } this process on anyone who protests your treatment or } works to have you treated in accord with the US } Constitution. } } All of this is subject only to judicial review by a } secret court whose members are anonymous, at which you } can't present evidence, and whose proceedings are born } classified. } } Sorry, I wish I had better news, but that's how it is. } } You owe the Oracle a Star Chamber. Oracularity 1345-08.