Posted in Blog Post on Jul 15th, 2009
The American Conservative » CIA Hit Teams. Philip Giraldi from American Conservative reports that the CIA program kerfuffle involving VP Cheney seems to have been more an effort to hide incompetence than guarding an effective tool of the CIA. They would enter the target countries as businessmen on false passports, some of which would be [...]
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Posted in Blog Post on Jul 13th, 2009
Feinstein Says Law May Have Been Broken – NYTimes.com. Feinstein thinks that oversight laws have been broken. The real question is will Lord Darth Cheney be held accountable for intentionally flouting the law? He seems very adept at avoiding accountability, ignoring Congress and being protected by GOP caucus on the Hill.
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Posted in Blog Post on May 15th, 2009
via The Take: Pelosi’s Comments Raise Interrogation Debate to New Level – washingtonpost.com. She seems to be having a problem coming to terms with conflicting statements she made about when she knew about torture as a Bush era policy: Pelosi’s performance in the Capitol was either a calculated escalation of a long-running feud with the [...]
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Posted in Blog Post on Jan 5th, 2009
Panetta to Be Named C.I.A. Director – The Caucus Blog – NYTimes.com. Seems like a strange choice to me, he’s has Congressional, budget and management experience, but no intelligence background to speak of. I would think they could have found a more experienced leader in the intelligenc community.
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