The sexual torture videos will be used to blackmail Iraqi officials

This should start to become clearer. Bush is pulling out most troops by the "hand-over" date to a new Iraqi government. As reported in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, Bush is "setting up institutions" that the US will be able to "influence" from Washington.

We have more and more evidence coming to light of Iraqis being sexually tortured and videotaped, and these people being sent out of Iraq to "gather intelligence" under the threat of blackmail.

A quick investigation into the cases of Republicans like CRAIG SPENCE and LAWRENCE KING from the Bush I regime - not to mention a handful of public officials who have been caught or accused in the last two years of criminal sexual acts - should make the situation quite clear.

Imagine if Bush has a video of the next President of Iraq being sexually humiliated and raped - or doing it to someone else. That is quite a lever of control.

This is nothing new - Hoover and the FBI did this to America.

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3886761c4a1d.htm

Blackmail, lies and deceit may be the only fitting description of the 1993 Seattle Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, or APEC, summit where dignitaries from 17 countries are reported to have been placed under electronic surveillance by American agents.

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This week the story continued to develop with new twists and turns. Former officials of the National Security Council, or NSC, and high-level economic advisers tell Insight they remain deeply concerned that classified information may have been leaked for political purposes. "That would make it blackmail," says a former senior-level Bush appointee who asked not to be identified because of an ongoing business relationship with the Clinton administration. "I find the story totally credible. I wouldn't put it past this administration."

I'm not saying they might not be dumb enough to try it, but there are a few problems.

1. They can't be sure of continued power (unless they can be, in which case we are all screwed).

2. More importantly, blackmail schemes always risk exposure. It's the nature of the set up. And once exposed, blackmail loses its power.

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person would think. When has this misadministration demonstrated intelligence?

And they might very well be dopey enough to think they can get away with it.

Before there was videotape and cheap digital cameras available everywhere it was easy for high level political groups to do this. We know that Hoover did, we know the cases of Lawrence King and Craig Spence.

Now it might be a lot more difficult to get away with it.