I was very pleased on March 8th, when the Inky's Mark Bowden made the very common-sense point that "intel" and "evidence" are two very different things. and that "intel" should not be used against citizens. "Intel" is best described by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on 11 Sept 2001: "Go massive. Sweep it all up. Things related and not."
"Evidence," on the other hand, is what one gets when one uses a rules-based, adversarial, judicial process to carefully separate proven fact from wild accusation.
I have seen zero evidence that the Bush Administration gives a flying whatsis for that distinction.

Rich Gardner

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