Category: Intelligence
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Oct 3, 2009 in Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, France, G20, Hillary Clinton, Intelligence, Iran, New York Times, Nicolas Sarkozy, Nuclear weapons, Pennsylvania, President Barack Obama, Washington Post | 26 Comments
Wow, that Charles Krauthammer really knows how to turn a phrase. As does French President, Nicholas Sarkozy. Oh, yeah. Check out this article, Obama’s French Lesson:
“President Obama, I support the Americans’ outstretched hand. But what did the international community gain from these offers of dialogue? Nothing.”
– French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Sept. 24
When [...]
By Mel Goodman on Sep 18, 2009 in CIA, Intelligence, Mel Goodman | 8 Comments
The prestigious Brookings Institution has joined the ranks of various government and public institutions to suggest reform steps for the Central Intelligence Agency and the intelligence community (IC).
Unlike previous reform proposals, the Brookings study manages to overlook the serious systemic issues that face the world of intelligence analysis and to propose a full slate of [...]
By Mel Goodman on Sep 4, 2009 in CIA, Mel Goodman | 16 Comments
David Broder, the senior op-ed writer at the Washington Post, has joined his colleagues (Fred Hiatt, David Ignatius, and Richard Cohen) in condemning Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to name a special counsel to examine possible law-breaking by CIA interrogators. And like his colleagues, Broder has put forth a list of irrelevant reasons for turning [...]
By Mel Goodman on Sep 3, 2009 in CIA, Mel Goodman | 13 Comments
CIA Inspector General John Helgerson (left) announced his retirement seven months ago. A successor has not yet been named.
President Barack Obama is permitting CIA Director Leon Panetta to weaken the Agency’s’s Office of Inspector General (OIG). The OIG has produced the only official and authoritative study of the abuses of the CIA detentions and [...]
By Mel Goodman on Aug 30, 2009 in CIA, Mel Goodman, Washington Post | 71 Comments
Editor: This op-ed was first published Aug. 29th at The Public Record, and is reprinted with the express permission of Mel Goodman.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was photographed shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan on March 1, 2003.
The lead story in today’s Washington Post, headlined “How a [...]
By Mel Goodman on Aug 27, 2009 in CIA, Mel Goodman, Washington Post | 22 Comments
Editor: This op-ed was first published Aug. 25th at The Public Record, and is reprinted with the express permission of Mel Goodman.
The Washington Post’s David Ignatius simply cannot get off the wheel he spins for the Central Intelligence Agency. Only two days after the release of the 2004 CIA study of the detention [...]
By Mel Goodman on Aug 26, 2009 in CIA, Mel Goodman, Washington Post | 9 Comments
Editor: This op-ed was first published Aug. 25th at The Public Record, and is reprinted with the express permission of Mel Goodman.
The Washington Post continues to campaign against any accountability for the detentions policies of the Central Intelligence Agency, using its own editorials and oped writers as well as outsiders who support the efforts of [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Jul 2, 2009 in Current Affairs, Hillary Clinton, Hoodwinking, Rendition, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Sara in Italy | 52 Comments
Recently, well, for the past five months anyway, people have been wondering just where Obama was going to make his church home in the DC area. Oh, he tried out a place or two, but you know, there are actual, real people there, and so much media focus, that he just couldn’t get into [...]
By Ani on May 20, 2009 in Barack Obama, CIA, DNC idiocy, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, New York Times, Obama's Broken Promises | 28 Comments
Lord knows I miss no opportunity to take Maureen Dowd to task for her near criminal Hillary bashing, but today her column is a scathing satire entitled “Cheney’s Third Term” which depicts the former Vice President and Don Rumsfeld sharing a fancy Washington dinner while gamely bragging they are controlling President Obama on national security. [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on May 13, 2009 in CIA, California, Popular Vote, Voter Enfranchisement, Voter Fraud, Voting & Voting Rights | 23 Comments
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By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Apr 29, 2009 in Alice Palmer, Armenian Genocide, Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Chicago politics, David Axelrod, David Plouffe, Illinois senate, Intelligence, Legislative Achievements, Turkey | 57 Comments
Thus writes John Kass in the excellent article by the same name, The campaign’s over, Obama; it’s time to lead (Major h/t to my friend, SusanUnPC for the heads up on this article). No freakin’ kidding - Obama needs to stop with all of the damn press conferences (can you believe he is getting [...]
By Mel Goodman on Apr 28, 2009 in CIA, President Barack Obama, Torture | 73 Comments
(bumped up from Monday)
To: The President of the United States
Fm: Melvin A. Goodman
Date: April 25, 2009
Subj: Recommendations for Dealing with the CIA on Issues of Torture and Abuse
President Obama is displaying ambivalence in handling the issue of torture and abuse. He clearly wants to do the right thing and, as [...]
By SusanUnPC on Apr 27, 2009 in CIA, Congress (House & Senate), Elizabeth Warren, Intelligence, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, TARP, Torture | 120 Comments
(bumped up and updated extensively)
HOT UPDATE: John Boehner is taking it right to Nancy, proving that “what goes around comes around,” and that Obama just did NOT think through the torture memo “blowback.”
Politico’s Glenn Thrush reports that Rep. Boehner is “asking the Obama administration to release CIA notes taken during a 2002 briefing session [...]
By Larry Johnson on Apr 26, 2009 in Current Affairs, Intelligence, MSNBC, Media Bias, Media Handling of Story, Torture | 259 Comments
(bumped up from Friday evening)
Although Keith Olbermann has become something of an insufferable boor, he is finally on to something that I would pay money to watch but under specific conditions. First, check out Keith’s challenge:
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
But here’s where I differ with Olbermann’s challenge. [...]
By SusanUnPC on Apr 25, 2009 in CIA, Congress (House & Senate), House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Intelligence, President Barack Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Torture | 115 Comments
Now that President Obama has teed her up — by releasing documents before he thought out all the possible repercussions (except, he thought, to make his MoveOn crowd happy [as if]) — Nancy Pelosi is yowling loudly no way no how, no siree, au contraire, that she was aware that she and lead Congressional members [...]
By SusanUnPC on Apr 25, 2009 in Bush/Cheney, CIA, Current Affairs, Intelligence, Torture | 41 Comments
Tyler Drumheller had a distinguished career in the CIA and was chief of the CIA’s covert operations in Europe at the time that the Bush administration was cooking the facts to justify going to war against Iraq. Since he was in Europe, he had intimate knowledge of the infamous “Curveball,” being held in Germany, and [...]
By SusanUnPC on Apr 23, 2009 in Intelligence, Torture | 28 Comments
First, here is a graphic scene of torture carried out in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that “shows a member of the country’s royal family mercilessly torturing a man with whips, electric cattle prods and wooden planks with protruding nails.” The video and article (WARNING: the article is far more graphic) were featured on ABC’s [...]
By SusanUnPC on Apr 22, 2009 in Al Qaeda, Counterterrorism, George Soros, Intelligence, MoveOn.org, Terrorism, Torture | 124 Comments
(bumped up from Wednesday morning)
George Soros, maybe? The problem in appeasing these activist groups is that there are profoundly serious intelligence-gathering and counterterrorism implications, and extraordinarily time- and energy-consuming legal tasks and confusing agency expectations behind what Obama is suddenly proposing that could suck all the oxygen out of his presidency and the [...]
By John Batchelor on Apr 22, 2009 in House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Intelligence, Jane Harman, National Security, Obama Administration | 13 Comments
Jane Harman hits back with a sweeping, supple victim’s style in a star-turn appearance with Andrea Mitchell re the surprise smear of the California potentate as a Zionist tool.
Shrewdly, Jane Harman’s counter strike on TV is not about the dull facts of the Bush administration case against AIPAC ops, which is likely to be dropped [...]
By John Batchelor on Apr 22, 2009 in Bush/Cheney, CIA, NQR Live Chat, Nocturnal Warrior, President Barack Obama, Torture | 18 Comments
Is it a coincidence that Joe Lieberman of Connecticut opens fire on the Torture Memos imbroglio at the same time as Dick Cheney? No. Both unchained pols were given a free shot by the POTUS trip to the CIA yesterday in order to explain, explain, explain the release of [...]
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By Sarah Palin (Release date: November 17. 2009)
