Donald Canestraro’s court filing
Hand deep in the glove
Dangerous liaison arrangements
Under “the pile” and up above

Did Omar al-Bayoumi drop
A note on the restaurant floor?
Recruit al-Hazmi and al-Midhar
Into something more?

No-showing at the no-show jobs
Saudi embassy in touch
Haifa bin Faisal’s account funneled
Payments from Bandar Bush

Why hide it from the FBI?
Tom Wilshire, Richard Blee
Protecting network of agents
From ALEC to GID

Visas granted, passport chipped
Sana’a, Kuala Lampur
Why spike the memo and dangle
the photos with names unlipped?

Here comes that terrible rush
Across the table again
Out of commission, concussed
All buried queries.
Can none then truly know?

Did a letter of introduction
From the blind sheikh in a New York jail
Place Ahmad Shah Massoud’s assassins
In Takhar with two days spare?

Did rebels in the Yemen war leak
The Tenet phone call
To Ali Abdullah Saleh?
“This is my personal

Appeal. Release my man.
Don’t say his name on the phone.”
Same, that would later be killed
Same, then a daughter and son

Did Jessen resurrect his SERE training
As a mindwipe regimen?
Did Alfreda Francis Bikowsky
Sit in on KSM’s?

Not to spy evidence out
But seed a palimpsest in
Backfill the casus belli
With inadmissable din

Did planners of the COG
PNAC, clean break, Team B
Big game safari, the hunt as
A setup, the mammoths half-asleep?

Does everywhere the finger points
Come strategic defeat?
Sorrows of empire, and woe to
The conquered, the proxy,
And the weak

But weakness also redounds
And dissipation runs clear
No longer makers of facts
No longer masters of fear