Category: Intelligence
By Mel Goodman on Jan 29, 2010 in 9/11, CIA, Congress (House & Senate), Counterterrorism, Crime, Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, John Brennan, President Barack Obama, Terrorism | 7 Comments
This piece reprinted from The Consortium News with the express permission of the author. It is time for serious soul-searching regarding the role of the CIA and the intelligence community. Last month’s operational and intelligence failures led to the deaths of seven CIA officers in Afghanistan and might have resulted in nearly 300 deaths on [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Jan 12, 2010 in Al Qaeda, Bush administration, Counterterrorism, Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Fox News, Jihadists, President Barack Obama, Terrorism | 53 Comments
* Bumped up * Charles Krauthammer wrote the following piece about a week before Obama’s most recent “I have to have my face on tv” speech regarding our security and the Christmas Day terrorist attempt. Since I cannot stand to watch him (I have the exact same aversion to him talking as I did to [...]
By Larry Johnson on Jan 7, 2010 in Barbara Boxer, Counterterrorism, Current Affairs, Homeland Security, Intelligence | 34 Comments
(I have joined forces with friends who also happen to be genuine experts in the field of aviation security. We are taking the initiative to offer a real solution to a problem that has gone unresolved for far too long. The following letter is being sent to several members of Congress, including Senator Boxer.) For [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Jan 5, 2010 in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, CIA, Current Affairs, Intelligence, Larry Johnson, NBC/MSNBC | 27 Comments
Recently, 7 CIA officers and a Jordanian intelligence officer, were killed, 6 injured, when someone got in Camp Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan. It was a shocking event, especially as reports surfaced that the bomber was freely admitted to the camp. How could that possibly be that he would be allowed on base without even being [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Jan 4, 2010 in ABC News, Africa, Al Qaeda, Counterterrorism, Current Affairs, Death Threats, Foreign Affairs, Homeland Security, Intelligence, Media Handling of Story, President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Terrorism | 32 Comments
You may have heard recently about the Somali man who broke into Durch cartoonist, Kurt Westergaard, to kill him for his depiction of Mohammad in one of his cartoons. Fortunately, he was arrested, and is being charged with attempted murder. What you may NOT have heard was the connection between this same man and Hillary [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Jan 4, 2010 in Al Qaeda, Counterterrorism, Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, George Bush, Homeland Security, Intelligence, President Barack Obama, Terrorism | 78 Comments
* Bumped Up * Not so great, according to this article, Barack Obama Is Vulnerable On Terror – And He Knows It; Barack Obama is playing politics over the attempted Christmas Day terrorist attack and Republicans sense he is weak on the issue, writes Toby Harnden in Washington. Oh, dear. As we know from recent [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Nov 28, 2009 in Congress (House & Senate), Counterterrorism, Crime, Current Affairs, Soldiers/Veterans, Terrorism, Torture | 36 Comments
* bumped up because this is an infuriating story that every American should know about * I’ve been reading a book by the novelist, Vince Flynn, Extreme Measures. If you are unfamiliar with Mr. Flynn’s books, they typically deal with the CIA, Washington, DC, and how politics affect the intelligence community, following the exploits of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 and [...]
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 [...]
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 his [...]
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