Google as Big Brother…

ABCNEWS.com : Alert Partly Based on Lies
Terror Alert Partly Based on Fabricated Information

By Brian Ross, Len Tepper and Jill Rackmill

Feb. 13 � A key piece of the information leading to recent terror alerts was fabricated, according to two senior law enforcement officials in Washington and New York.

Poll Shows Most Want War Delay
By PATRICK E. TYLER and JANET ELDER

Even after the administration’s aggressive case for going to war soon in Iraq, a majority of Americans favor giving United Nations weapons inspectors more time to complete their work so that any military operation wins the support of the Security Council, the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll shows.

Bush Challenges U.N. to Show ‘Backbone’ in Opposing IraqBy JOEL BRINKLEY

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 � President Bush challenged the United Nations Security Council today to show “backbone and courage” in its deliberations over Iraq, lest it “fade into history as an ineffective, irrelevant debating society.”

Instapundit.com:

Pass the Duct Tape
By MAUREEN DOWD

The president and his secretary of state had been huffing and puffing to prove a link between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. George Tenet, who presides over a C.I.A. full of skepticism about the tie, did his best for the boss, playing up the link to the Senate…

10 million join world protest rallies

John Vidal
Thursday February 13, 2003
The Guardian

Brisk Sales Of Supplies Show Warnings Have Hit Home (washingtonpost.com)

CNN.com – NASA engineer’s e-mail warned of possible disaster – Feb. 12, 2003

Engineer Warned of Dire Effects of Liftoff Damage
By JOHN SCHWARTZ and JOHN M. BRODER

HOUSTON, Feb. 12 � Two days before the Columbia broke apart, a NASA safety engineer warned of the possibility of “catastrophic” consequences if damage from the foam insulation that struck the shuttle in liftoff allowed the heat of re-entry to penetrate the wheel well and burst the shuttle’s tires.