why can’t he catch even one Valerie Plame leaker? From today’s LA Times:

By Jonathan Turley

Will the real 20th hijacker please stand up?

Wednesday, Federal Bureau of Investigation sources disclosed that their agency had uncovered the identity of the "20th hijacker" … again.

The theory is that one of the planes — Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania — was one person short, with only four terrorists as opposed to the five-member teams controlling the other three planes. Though it didn't release the name of the current suspect, the FBI confirmed that it was looking for a man who it believed was forced to leave the country shortly before the 9/11 attacks.

This means he is not one of the two previously identified 20th hijackers, who are in custody.

The new 20th hijacker is expected to be captured in due time and will presumably join the growing collection of 20th hijackers acquired by Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft.

The status of "the 20th hijacker" has become something of a terrorist time-share. As the government seeks the arrest of the third 20th hijacker, it is struggling to execute its first 20th hijacker — Zacarias Moussaoui. When Ashcroft promised to the nation that Moussaoui would personally answer for the crimes of 9/11, Moussaoui instantly became a trophy terrorist looking at the death penalty.

The problem with the first 20th hijacker is that there is precious little evidence to suggest that he was indeed the 20th hijacker and a great deal of evidence that indicates he was not.

Moussaoui has admitted that he was an Al Qaeda member and a terrorist wannabe — self-incriminating statements that all but seal convictions with a life sentence. However, Moussaoui denies being part of the 9/11 conspiracy — a conclusion that most independent observers have supported.

The hijackers had fairly homogenous patterns of conduct and communications. Moussaoui does not fit this pattern. Moreover, there were no direct communications between Moussaoui and the other hijackers beyond the most extenuated connections. Finally, Moussaoui has been a barking lunatic in the courtroom. It is highly doubtful that Al Qaeda would bring such an unstable figure into its most secretive conspiracy. Indeed, interrogation of 9/11 plotter Ramzi bin al-Shibh confirmed the view that Moussaoui was considered too unreliable and unhinged for such a mission.

I take this as absolute proof that the neoconservatives, although they’ve abandoned Trotsky, have embarked upon a dialectical experiment of unimaginable proportions.

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