No Evidence Deliberate UK Distortion of Iraq Intel

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"WMD in Iraq - Evidence and
Implications"

"WMD in Iraq - Evidence and
Implications" 01/10/2004 03:53 AM

WMD in Iraq - Evidence and Implications

WMD in Iraq - Evidence and Implications 01/09/2004 10:10 PM
read the full report here .. report

ceip.org/files/Publications/IraqReport3.asp?from=pubdate
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Mosul attack evidence insurgents' intel
better (USATODAY.com)

Mosul attack evidence insurgents' intel
better (USATODAY.com) 12/24/2004 12:20 PM
USATODAY.com - The implications of the audacious suicide attack in the center of a heavily guarded U.S. military base in Mosul go beyond a failure of base security. The attack is the latest evidence that Iraqi insurgents have better intelligence about U.S. forces than U.S. forces have on the insurgents.

Blair's Iraq evidence 'confusing'

Blair's Iraq evidence 'confusing' 07/10/2004 07:35 PM
Fresh doubts are cast on Tony Blair's use of Iraq intelligence, as the Butler inquiry prepares to deliver its findings.

Kay Says Evidence Shows Iraq Disarmed
(washingtonpost.com)

Kay Says Evidence Shows Iraq Disarmed
(washingtonpost.com) 01/28/2004 05:10 AM
Oh man, could this get any more surreal? .. cards on the table .. it turns out .. not find WMD

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54353-2004Jan27.html?nav=hpt op_tb
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U.S. Has No Evidence Iraq Hid Banned
Arms in Syria

U.S. Has No Evidence Iraq Hid Banned
Arms in Syria 11/14/2003 08:40 PM
Reuters via Wired News Nov 14 2003 8:12PM ET

Ex US-Treasury Chief: Saw No Evidence of
Iraq WMDs (Reuters)

Ex US-Treasury Chief: Saw No Evidence of
Iraq WMDs (Reuters) 01/11/2004 10:27 PM
Reuters - Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said he never saw any evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction -- President Bush's main justification for going to war -- and was told "deficits don't matter" when he warned of a looming fiscal crisis.

No Evidence Connecting Iraq to Al Qaeda,
9/11 Panel Says (washingtonpost.com)

No Evidence Connecting Iraq to Al Qaeda,
9/11 Panel Says (washingtonpost.com) 06/17/2004 05:05 AM
No Evidence Connecting Iraq to Al Qaeda, 9/11 Panel Says .. Washington Post report .. washpost

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46254-2004Jun16.html
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OM being random - but very
deliberate....

OM being random - but very
deliberate.... 07/25/2004 02:12 AM

I finally got to meet Om Malik in person. The fact that I never ran into him in the 90's says allot about me "taking the 90's off." Quite frankly I just didn't care.

But now I do!

Great to meet Om!

Here's his recent post...

Saturday afternoon's random musings

It is a cold, cloudy drank Saturday afternoon in San Francisco. Go ahead and summer in San Francisco. I am migh ty pissed off at the hooligans who started a fight, got our hottest hitter thrown out of the game and basically used all underhanded tactics to win when all athletic prowess failed. (I think they are not even going to make it as the wild cards - go Athletics!)

Nevertheless, watching the game also gave me some time to ponder over the last week which involved nearly six conference calls, ten interviews, one story, one online column, and one conference, BlogOn. So here are some conclusions from that one conference, and other conversations.

• Venture capitalists are merchant bankers whose greed outweighs their tolerance for risk.
• XML....ATOM....RSS....Feeds.. ..ZZZZZZ
• Tool bars, features, search, local media..... its 1997. Nope, its 2004.
• Big Media is dead (1995)... big media is dead(2004). I wonder why only the non-media people seem to think media is dead. And of course no one mentions the fact, if big media is dead, well then who are we going to bitch about. Think about that!
• Have you seen a business model lately? Because I have not
• Web 1.0 guys are looking for redemption.
• Missing at BlogOn opensource guys who could not afford hefty fees. Come On, we got to have these guys in the next event!
• Calacanis has great taste in cigars.

[Om Malik]

Om is right.

BlogOn was acomplete corporate sellout and a complete bore. The only thing going on was out in the hallways. All the old Apple guys are back, AOL, CNN and Yahoo were on stage saying nothing and they even put abunch of irrelevant PR flacks on stage.

Oh boy.

Next week's OSCON will be exactly the opposire. ONLY OpenSource folks - no old PR flacks or big irrelevant companies. Sorry I can't be there.

US Congress Sees More Evidence of Iraq
Inmate Abuse (Reuters)

US Congress Sees More Evidence of Iraq
Inmate Abuse (Reuters) 05/12/2004 05:20 PM
Reuters - New images of Iraqi prisoner abuse contain awful scenes of violence and sexual humiliation, members of Congress said after a viewing on Wednesday that one lawmaker likened to a descent into "the wings of hell."

FOXNews.com - U.S. & World - Iraq
Evidence Led Feds to Albany Mosque

FOXNews.com - U.S. & World - Iraq
Evidence Led Feds to Albany Mosque 08/06/2004 08:11 AM
FOXNews.com - U.S. & World - Iraq Evidence Led Feds to Albany Mosque .. these types of people .. CONNECTED:

foxnews.com/story/0,2933,128193,00.html
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United Press International: 9/11 panel:
New evidence on Iraq-Al-Qaida

United Press International: 9/11 panel:
New evidence on Iraq-Al-Qaida 06/22/2004 01:02 AM
9/11 panel: New evidence on Iraq-Al-Qaida .. This should be an interesting week .. And now this

upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040620-050700-2315r
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Prague Revisited - The evidence of an
Iraq/al-Qaida connection hasn't gone
away. By Edward Jay Epstein

Prague Revisited - The evidence of an
Iraq/al-Qaida connection hasn't gone
away. By Edward Jay Epstein 11/19/2003 06:59 PM
Prague Revisited - The evidence of an Iraq/al-Qaida connection hasn't gone away. By Edward Jay Epstein

slate.msn.com/id/2091354
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To win at offshoring: Start slow, be
deliberate

To win at offshoring: Start slow, be
deliberate 06/25/2004 05:26 PM
As do many IT executives who have outsourced applications development work, Jonathan Sapir, president of InfoPower Systems, stumbled at first.

Jurors deliberate fate of prominent tech
banker

Jurors deliberate fate of prominent tech
banker 04/30/2004 08:35 PM
CNET May 1 2004 0:46AM GMT

McNamara and data distortion

McNamara and data distortion 04/09/2004 04:01 PM
I recently saw The Fog of War, as one of my annual quota of about four movies that I will get to see at a movie theatre. An amazing film. I went into the movie prepared to be sympathetic to McNamara, and was impressed both by his thoughtfulness and by his arrogance. By the end of it, I was loathing McNamara all over again for his duplicity, with some of the same intensity as I felt during the Vietnam War. Remembering his obsession with numbers and with data, it also struck me that if, like him, you advertise your reliance on data gathered (or created) by other people for making your decisions, you are inviting people who have a stake in your decision to game it and muck with the data. That's how we got the inflated body counts. Not necessarily the smartest move on the part of a decision maker, especially one who so obviously thinks so highly of his own intelligence....

The Ajax reality distortion field

The Ajax reality distortion field 04/14/2005 03:33 PM

David Temkin raps it out.

WE spent five years trying to build a "Laszlo-like" rich media interface platform inside of Javascript and tehbrowser. Believe me this is one subject I know about.

I LOVE ODDpost and the Google Maps thingie and what people are doing with D HTML nowadays. Our weboutliner is in D HTML.

But lordy lordy lordy - do these folks have a reality distortion field up. David Temkin agrees. Or shall I say - I agree with him.

Ajax, Ajax, Ajax -- the buzzword has taken the Web world by storm. As it's been presented, A jax ("Asynchronous JavaScript + XML") is a new way of creating rich Internet applications by means of "standard, mature, and well-understood technologies" -- i.e., DHTML. This is the big draw of Ajax, and is the core of the hype.

It is indeed possible (and sometimes even desirable!) to create rich Internet applications using DHTML; I've been talking about this for some time. But the idea that DHTML technology is standard, mature and well-understood is accurate in only a theoretical way.

Until very recently, it was commonplace knowledge that DHTML doesn't work consistently across browsers, isn't maintainable, requires code forking, delivers limited fidelity and so on. And while perhaps this is still common knowledge among level-headed developers, somehow the introduction of the "Ajax" buzzword has induced Web-wide amnesia, and people are now under the illusion that creating full-scale applications in JavaScript is a simple proposition -- just throw in a little script here and there, and you have an app suitable for Web deployment. No new learning required, just a few clever hacks.

Welcome to the Ajax reality distrortion field.

This one post about replacing Flickr's Flash UI with a DHTML UI seems to sum up these contradictions rather concisely:

First, the developer, Neil Kandalgaonkar, writes that this DHTML version of the Flickr UI will work in more places that the Flash UI that Flickr uses:

"So what's wrong with Flickr's perfectly good Flash interface? Nothing. But maybe...you often use operating systems where Flash doesn't work, or doesn't work well."

But later in the post, Neil goes on to write:

"This is a hack that works in just one browser, Firefox. Developing cross-platform DHTML is much harder and more painful. Flash has a lot of advantages over DHTML; it's truly cross-platform, and can do much more special effects. If that works for Flickr, more power to them."

Well, that sounds rather different! Finally, when explaining why someone might be interested in what he's done, Neil writes:

"...you're a web developer and you are interested in this bleeding-edge Ajax stuff."

I'm confused. Isn't Ajax/DHTML "standard, mature, and well-understood"?

Just to be clear: I think what Neil has done is cool. But cool, bleeding edge, difficult and incompatible isn't what Ajax is supposed to be all about.

I sometimes think of how developers look at DHTML apps in terms of grading on a curve. A Laszlo-, Flash-, or Java-based RIA will typically receive all sorts of complaints from Web standards vigilantes about non-standard UI, accessibility issues, problems with bookmarking and deep linking, and incomptibility with search engine crawlers. But a similar app built using DHTML -- excuse me, "Ajax" -- elicits enthusiastic responses from the very same crowd like "Wow! Look at how cool this DHTML site is! Isn't that UI great?"

Of course a full Ajax/DHTML app has nearly identical issues with UI, accessibility, bookmarking, and search engines that other RIA technologies do; but they have the veneer of being "standard". And just to state the obvious, lest we forget: HTML as a standard for Web applications is in a precarious position, with the leading browser vendor actively working to define its own all-new markup language for networked applications, and other browser vendors creating a splinter group that diverges from the W3C to promote their own standards for Web applications.

Theoretically, DHTML is a standard. But to quote Yogi Berra: "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."

[David Temkin]

I couldn't have said it any better myself.

Boston.com / News / Nation / On the
stump, the art of distortion

Boston.com / News / Nation / On the
stump, the art of distortion 09/27/2004 09:19 AM
He just lies .. Boston Globe

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Airport Express and the Reality
Distortion Field

Airport Express and the Reality
Distortion Field 06/07/2004 03:36 PM
At the Wall Street Journal's D Conference near San Diego, Steve Jobs stole the morning stage with the announcement and...

NYT - David Brooks: The Era of
Distortion - anti-Semitism and neo-con
conspiracy

NYT - David Brooks: The Era of
Distortion - anti-Semitism and neo-con
conspiracy 01/07/2004 06:58 PM
unhinged from reality .. The New York Times .. asks

nytimes.com/2004/01/06/opinion/06BROO.html
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And Jobs Gets a Nobel Prize for the
Reality Distortion Field...

And Jobs Gets a Nobel Prize for the
Reality Distortion Field... 06/06/2005 12:09 AM

Normally we see it as our job to try and deflate the soaring egos of Tech Bubble 2.0, but in this case—the suggestion that Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom and company should get a Nobel Prize—Om Malik does the heavy lifting:

I know Jeff meant well… but still … to think of these gentlemen in the same vein as Gandhi, Nelson Mandela… well I guess it was a trade show. As someone wagged, these comments are a good measure of how close this bubble is to bursting and you can see that in the swollen egos in the industry. Fifteen minutes, shall we say?

Skype CEO for Nobel Prize? [GigaOm]

iPod mini audio distortion problems
reported

iPod mini audio distortion problems
reported 04/12/2004 11:24 PM
Some iPod mini owners are reporting problems with the headphone jacks of the tiny digital music players...

Apple CEO creates a 'Reality Distortion
Field' that makes even skeptics nod
their heads in awe

Apple CEO creates a 'Reality Distortion
Field' that makes even skeptics nod
their heads in awe 06/29/2004 07:19 AM
SiliconValley.com Jun 29 2004 10:10AM GMT

Iraq: Intel Failures On the Road to War

Iraq: Intel Failures On the Road to War 07/11/2004 06:39 AM
MSNBC Jul 11 2004 9:22AM GMT

Intel Officials Have Bleak View for Iraq
(AP)

Intel Officials Have Bleak View for Iraq
(AP) 09/16/2004 01:11 AM
AP - The National Intelligence Council presented President Bush this summer with several pessimistic scenarios regarding the security situation in Iraq, including the possibility of a civil war there before the end of 2005.

Dickey: The Real Intel Failure in Iraq

Dickey: The Real Intel Failure in Iraq 09/23/2004 07:28 PM
Newsweek Sep 23 2004 11:03PM GMT

Putin Says Russia Gave U.S. Intel on
Iraq (AP)

Putin Says Russia Gave U.S. Intel on
Iraq (AP) 06/18/2004 07:22 PM
AP - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday his government warned Washington that Saddam Hussein's regime was preparing attacks in the United States and its interests abroad — an assertion that appears to bolster President Bush's contention that Iraq was a threat.

Russia Gave U.S. Intel on Iraq, Putin
Says

Russia Gave U.S. Intel on Iraq, Putin
Says 06/19/2004 10:38 AM
Xposed Jun 19 2004 2:06PM GMT

Powell: Some Prewar Iraq Intel Erroneous

Powell: Some Prewar Iraq Intel Erroneous 05/16/2004 10:51 PM
AP via Guardian Unlimited May 17 2004 3:31AM GMT

GOP Blames Clinton for Iraq Intel Lapse

GOP Blames Clinton for Iraq Intel Lapse 02/11/2004 08:18 PM
AP via Los Angeles Times Feb 12 2004 0:37AM GMT

Intel Assessment on Iraq Security Bleak

Intel Assessment on Iraq Security Bleak 09/16/2004 11:32 AM
NewsMax.com Sep 16 2004 3:30PM GMT

Putin Says Russia Gave U.S. Intel on
Iraq

Putin Says Russia Gave U.S. Intel on
Iraq 06/18/2004 02:35 PM
AP via Los Angeles Times Jun 18 2004 6:55PM GMT

Intel Officials Have Bleak View for Iraq

Intel Officials Have Bleak View for Iraq 09/16/2004 05:48 AM
AP via New York Post Sep 16 2004 9:29AM GMT

Kay Blames Weak Intel in Iraq WMD
Failure (AP)

Kay Blames Weak Intel in Iraq WMD
Failure (AP) 01/28/2004 12:28 PM
AP - Former top U.S. weapons inspector David Kay told members of the Senate Wednesday that the failure to turn up weapons of mass destruction in Iraq exposed weaknesses in America's intelligence-gathering apparatus.

Kay Criticizes Bush, Blair on Iraq Intel

Kay Criticizes Bush, Blair on Iraq Intel 07/18/2004 04:53 PM
Xposed Jul 18 2004 8:10PM GMT

Kay Blames Weak Intel in Iraq WMD
Failure

Kay Blames Weak Intel in Iraq WMD
Failure 01/28/2004 02:33 PM
AP via Los Angeles Times Jan 28 2004 6:23PM GMT

Senator Spoke to Soon on Iraq Intel
Probe

Senator Spoke to Soon on Iraq Intel
Probe 11/04/2003 09:23 PM
AP via Sunspot Nov 4 2003 8:38PM ET

Danish Intel: European Muslims in Iraq

Danish Intel: European Muslims in Iraq 11/04/2003 11:39 PM
AP via The Ledger Nov 4 2003 11:14PM ET

House Seeks Faster Iraq Intel Review

House Seeks Faster Iraq Intel Review 11/18/2003 08:57 PM
AP via Los Angeles Times Nov 18 2003 8:30PM ET
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