  From today's Guardian, because it made me laugh: With so many of Richard Clarke's criticisms of the Bush administration hitting home, it would be a shame to overlook an earlier darkly comic episode from the former counter-terrorism tsar's memoir, Against All Enemies. We join Richard shortly after the 1990 Aum Shinrikyo sarin attack on the Tokyo subway, at a meeting with the FBI and the CIA to discuss whether the Aum were operative in the States. "By now," he writes, "I had enough experience with CIA and FBI to doubt that they would ever have heard of the Aum. I was not disappointed. Except for press reports from the previous 12 hours, they had nothing in their files on the Aum.
" Richard asks John O'Neill, representative to the Counter terrorism Security Group, how he can be so sure the Aum are not in the US. "'Did you look them up in the Manhattan phone book to see if they're there? ' 'You serious? ' O'Neill asked, not sure whether I was being funny. When I assured him I meant it, he directed his deputy to leave the conference room and call FBI New York. A while later the FBI agent returned to the room and handed O'Neill a note. O'Neill glanced at it and said, 'Fuck. They're in the phone book, on East 48th Street at Fifth. '" Most cheering. = As a little extra, may I just say urlLink "Fuck off, 'Gareth'". Oh, shit! They've used The Forbidden Name! 
