What was Gordon trying to sanitize? Why, apparently none other than the name of the source quoted in earlier article, posted here by the zotted "Ethan Allen" at post #99. That source is "Larry Johnson."
I guess I can't blame him for leaving it out, since Larry is now such a well-known moron.
SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 : (OOPS - LARRY JOHNSON) Two months later, the planes of September 11 crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. And Larry Johnson became known, at least in the eyes of some of his former colleagues, as the author of perhaps the most embarrassing op-ed ever published. “The worst,” says one such colleague. “On an issue of national interest, has there ever been a worse prognostication in the history of man?” Probably not. Yet Johnson’s career as a commentator did not just continue after September 11 — it thrived. ---------‘Mr. Counterterrorism Guru’ [Byron York on Larry Johnson] National Review Online ^ | May 24, 2006 | Bryon York
Larry Johnson is the "genius" who wrote these articles :
...Flashback: "Intelligence Analyst" Larry C. Johnson: "The Declining Terrorist Threat (July 10, 2001) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1447248/posts
and
Ex CIA Larry Johnson: Terrorism Isn't A Threat, But Big Tobacco Is! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1448666/posts 58 posted on 07/23/2005 9:46:09 AM PDT by Sam Hill | To 20
He is also associated with the whole Niger flap, Valerie Plame story.
And he downplayed the London airliner plot where terrorists were trying to smuggle liquid explosives onto airscraft in order to detonate them over the Atlantic:
AUGUST 17, 2006 : (FORMER CIA ANALYST [and STATE DEPT HACK] LARRY JOHNSON WRITES ARTICLE FOR ANTIWAR BLOG DOWNPLAYING 2006 LONDON AIRLINER PLOT) Johnson has said Bush hyped intelligence reports about Iraq. He wrote an Aug. 17, 2006 piece for an antiwar blog stating, "It is a week since news broke in London about an alleged plot to blow up nine commercial jetliners, and there are emerging indicators that Bush and Blair exaggerated the truth about the actual readiness of the so-called plot." Johnson has been claiming presidents have been exaggerating the truth about terrorists since 1999. ----- "The Democrats' X-Men," by Michael P. Tremoglie, The Evening Bulletin, 10/04/2006
Larry's also involved with Ellsberg of Vietnam-era Pentagon Papers fame.
Larry's also wrote for the web site Truthout..com, which is in turn associated with the bought-off UNSCOM inspector Scott "Burger King" Ritter.
Thanks for the look back piasa — glad you did that.
Your post reminds me that history repeats itself and understanding that; we understand that we are again living in a 9/10 world.
Thanks for the update, I’ll keep my eyes open for his bylines.
Gordon Thomas writes a lot about the Mossad. He has a lot of sources in Israeli intelligence and other intelligence agencies and tends to spread whatever they tell him. Some of it is useful, much of it is speculation or disinformation, I’ve found his work interesting but unreliable. See his “Seeds of Fire” for an example of his work.
This topic was started in 2003. Thanks piasa for this update in 2009:
123 posted on 06/17/2009 10:09:01 PM PDT by piasa
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/913240/posts?page=123#123