programmer – I’m thinking bigger than Soros. I’m thinking China and/or Saudi Arabia — another country attempting to overthrow America by using our financial systems against us with repeated massive running of the banks which no one seems to be able to track back to who’s doing the sudden buying and selling. I don’t know that Russia is wealthy enough to pull it off, and I would be surprised if Soros could. Maybe Bill Gates.

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Wretchard – re: the thread discussing what sort of weapon America’s military might have developed that Woodward was hinting at, you might want to look at this article:

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1841108,00.html?xid=rss-topstories

Seems to me that if these electrodes could read the “distinctive neural fingerprints” of a fellow American soldier to read his mind, why couldn’t it also read the “distinctive neural footprints” of — oh, say, Osama bin Laden to overhear and understand what HE is saying when he’s talking to himself?