Book alleges Al Qaeda will attack US to ensure Bush win
But now, the newspaper reports, a senior US intelligence official is "about to publish a bitter condemnation of America's counter-terrorism policy, arguing that the West is losing the war against Al Qaeda and that an 'avaricious, premeditated, unprovoked' war in Iraq has played into Osama bin Laden's hands." This senior intelligence official, who writes as 'Anonymous,' also says that Osama bin Laden may attack the US before the November election to ensure the re-election of President George Bush." Anonymous, who published an analysis of Al Qaeda last year, called Through Our Enemies' Eyes, thinks it quite possible that another devastating strike against the US could come during the election campaign, not with the intention of changing the administration, as was the case in the Madrid bombing, but of keeping the same one in place. "I'm very sure they can't have a better administration for them than the one they have now," he said. "One way to keep the Republicans in power is to mount an attack that would rally the country around the president."

The Road To War: James Bamford aims big guns at Bush administration over U.S. role in Iraq
THIS book's title leaves no doubt as to its major thesis. Bamford is one of the growing number of critics who believe the Bush administration was determined to get rid of Saddam Hussein long before the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and that it used these attacks as a pretext for the war in Iraq.

This spy for rent: By James Bamford
Assessing, cultivating and recruiting spies has long been a key job of Central Intelligence Agency officers. But now it is the CIA officers themselves who are being assessed, cultivated and recruited -- sometimes right out of the agency’s cafeteria. In what is leading to a critical spy drain, private companies are aggressively seeking highly trained employees of our espionage agencies to fill government contracts. With the resignation of George Tenet as director of central intelligence and the final hearings of the 9/11 commission this week, the stage is set for the first major restructuring of the intelligence community in decades. While there has been much discussion of moving agencies and creating an “intelligence czar,” the privatization of our spies has been largely overlooked.

Who Was Really In Charge?
Did Bush know Cheney had given orders to down airliners on September 11? The commission staff wonders—and remains at odds with both men over alleged Saddam-Al Qaeda ties.