Monthly Archives: May 2006

Hayden “Comes Clean”

LEVIN: An independent review for the CIA, conducted by a panel led by Richard Kerr, former deputy director of the CIA, said the following — and this relates to the intelligence prior to the Iraq war — "Requests for reporting … Continue reading

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Joe Galloway and the “Talking Dog”

Joe Galloway is the "Ernie Pyle" of my generation and one of the greatest friends the American soldier ever had.  He is the reporter who went to LZ X-Ray in 1965 with the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry Regiment.  Yes.  He … Continue reading

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“Chinese” Gordon and the 12th Imam.

"There is an ancient tradition in the Mahommedan world, telling of a mysterious being, the last in succession of the twelve holy Imams, who, untouched by death and withdrawn into the recesses of a mountain, was destined, at the appointed … Continue reading

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Here We Go Again

"The wounded were rushed to the civilian Balad Hospital. Police said that as the Kurdish soldiers drove to the hospital, they fired weapons to clear the way, and one Iraqi Shiite civilian was killed. Shiite soldiers from another Iraqi unit … Continue reading

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Boycott the Gang of Three

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Traffic Analysis

So, the question is — what would NSA do with all those telephone records?  One possibility is that they would know what phone belonged to whom if they intercepted one end of a phone conversation that terminated overseas.  That’s a … Continue reading

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Turf II

"..a senior U.S. intelligence official with firsthand knowledge of events says Goss was dismissed as CIA director after the White House became convinced that strong disagreements with his immediate boss, John Negroponte, were beyond resolution. Those disputes involved changes that … Continue reading

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Turf

While the stature and role of the CIA were greatly diminished under Goss during the congressionally ordered reorganization of the intelligence agencies, his counterpart at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, continued his aggressive efforts to develop a clandestine … Continue reading

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Sharing the Pain

By Tony Capaccio     May 5 (Bloomberg) — Iran may be planning to share the painof any U.S. attack with the world’s oil markets.     A strike against Iran’s nuclear program would probably bemet with an effort to choke off … Continue reading

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Mussawi Gets Life

I am generally opposed on principal to the death penalty.  It is my only liberal position.  My reasons are religious. Nevertheless, in this case I would have voted for the death penalty.  Why?: -He will proselytize in prison, if he … Continue reading

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