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Thursday, March 27, 2003  

BREAKING NEWS FROM CNN
Richard Perle Resigns from Defense Policy Advisory Board

This just arrived in my e-mail in-box:

CNN Breaking News

Richard Perle, head of board that advises U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, resigns.

There's nothing up at CNN's web site yet, so a few quick guesses:

1. A presidential appointment pending.
2. A scandal about to break.
3. A job at Halliburton "rebuilding" Iraq.
4. "Personal reasons."
5. "Family reasons."

Anything else, anyone?

ADDENDUM: Well, ladies and gentlemen, it already appears that choice number two, "a scandal about to break," is the correct answer. So far CNN has only an uninformative blurb, but NPR-listener and world-renowned film director Brian Linse of AintNoBadDude (That's a blog, not a film, by the way.) tells us public radio reports are tying the resignation to Perle's lobbying on behalf of the quasi-criminal enterprise that goes by the name of Global Crossing Ltd.

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