Sadly, no. As I discovered upon further investigation, the memo is all too real. The provenance of the documents, which indicate that the feds launched a "preliminary investigation" of Antiwar.com, myself, and our webmaster, Eric Garris, is as follows: An obscure blogger made an FOIA request for information about the FBI's investigation of the "High Fivers"- the five Israelis who were arrested on September 11 and held for six months on suspicion that they had some foreknowledge of the events on that dark day.
I wrote about this subject in the August 2003 issue of Chronicles-and, what do you know, that piece is included in the FBI file! Isn't it encouraging to learn that our state-subsidized sneaks are reading this magazine?
In any case, the documents are frightening-and not just because it shows that the feds may have been listening in on my phone calls, reading my e-mails, and rifling through my garbage. They exhibit an overweening incompetence. For example, the memo's author-a high "counterterrorism" muck-a-muck-writes:
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