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Bugger the ten commandments, let's read between the lines

When the admistration keeps saying that they have "credible intelligence" that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction...you really have to wonder exactly how they got that intelligence.
Among the hundreds of meetings and briefings that took place in the Pentagons bowels in the months leading up to Operation Iraqi Freedom, one earned the fleeting disdain of The New York Times, whose columnist, Bill Keller, sniffed that "several man-hours of valuable intelligence-crunching time" had been "consumed [by a writer] who claims -- I am not making this up -- that messages encoded in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament provide clues to the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden.