Gates Predicts U.S. Will be in Iraq and Afghanistan ‘for Years to Come’
Pete Winn | CNSNews.com Defense Secretary Robert Gates predicts the U.S. will be in Afghanistan for years to come. In an article in the current issue of Foreign Affairs, Gates laid out the state of the U.S. military — and how well it is poised to face the future. Gates, who came to his post [...]
Obama’s orders leave framework of torture, indefinite detention intact
Tom Eley | wsws.org On Thursday, President Barack Obama issued executive orders mandating the closure of the Guantánamo Bay prison camp in a year’s time, requiring that Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and military personnel follow the Army Field Manual’s prohibitions on torture, and closing secret CIA prisons overseas. While the media is portraying these orders [...]
What’s CIA Director Hayden Hidin’?
Ray McGovern | ConsortiumNews.com Outgoing CIA Director Michael Hayden is going around town telling folks he has warned President-elect Barack Obama “personally and forcefully” that if Obama authorizes an investigation into controversial activities like waterboarding, “no one in Langley will ever take a risk again.” Upon learning this from what we former intelligence officers used to [...]
Judge’s Order Could Keep Public From Hearing Details of 9/11 Trials
Peter Finn | WashingtonPost.com The military judge overseeing proceedings against five of the men accused of planning the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks signed an order designed to protect classified information that is so broad it could prevent public scrutiny of the most important trial at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to lawyers and human rights groups. The protective [...]
CIA Foreknowledge of the Mumbai Attacks
Posted at 911blogger.com Yesterday, Outlookindia.com reported that the CIA’s station chief in Delhi approached one of India’s intelligence agencies, the Research and Analysis Wing, and passed on a fairly specific warning; “In mid-September this year, the CIA station chief in Delhi sought an urgent meeting with his counterpart in R&AW to pass on some critical inputs. This was part [...]
When Will Obama Give Up the Bin Laden Ghost Hunt?
Robert Baer | Time.com In a talk at the Atlantic Council this week, CIA director-general Michael Hayden said Osama bin Laden is alive. I’ll take his word for it. But bin Laden’s strange disappearance makes one wonder what exactly happened to him. The last relatively reliable bin Laden sighting was in late 2001. A video [...]
BBC Video Proves Georgia to Blame for Hostilities
The BBC video here was aired two days before Russia intervened to stop Georgia’s ethnic cleansing operation in South Ossetia. It needs to be viewed by Bush, Condi, Robert Kagan, Charles Krauthammer, little Billy Kristol and all the neocons and their associated slavering bloggers and newspaper columnists calling for war against Russia, a nation bristling [...]
Scahill: Blackwater Now In the Private Intelligence Business
video from ExpandedBooks.com David Edwards and Muriel Kane | RawStory.com Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, is worried about the giant mercenary firm’s latest foray into private intelligence. “They’re marketing their services to not only foreign governments, but to Fortune 500 corporations,” he recently told an interviewer. [...]
CIA Kills al-Qaeda Bomb Maker for a Second Time
Kurt Nimmo | Infowars.com So disconnected from reality is the average Faux News watcher, the government can kill al-Qaeda terrorists over and over and he does not notice. Abu Khabab al-Masri, aka Midhat Mursi al-Sayid Umar, described as al-Qaeda’s chemical and biological weapons expert, was reportedly killed on July 29 by a CIA drone on [...]
Is Osama bin Laden Dying … Again?
MASSIMO CALABRESI | Time.com Which is closer to dying: Osama bin Laden or the CIA’s effort to catch him? Nothing has characterized the fruitlessness of the hunt for the al-Qaeda leader so much as the recurrent — and mostly inaccurate — reports that he is seriously ailing, or even at death’s door. In 2002, Pakistani [...]
Preparing The Battlefield
The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran. Seymour Hersh | NewYorker.com Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four [...]
General Accuses WH of War Crimes
Dan Froomkin | WashingtonPost.com The two-star general who led an Army investigation into the horrific detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib has accused the Bush administration of war crimes and is calling for accountability. In his 2004 report on Abu Ghraib, then-Major General Anthony Taguba concluded that “numerous incidents of sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses were [...]
UK Top Cop Who Led CIA Probe Found Dead
Rob Harris | MANCHESTER, England (AP) — A city police chief who led an investigation into charges that Britain cooperated with secret CIA flights to transport terrorism suspects without formal proceedings has been found dead, his deputy said Tuesday. Manchester Chief Constable Michael Todd, 50, was found dead in Snowdonia, about 240 miles northwest of [...]
Former CIA official: Mossad behind Mugniyah killing
Evidence in Damascus car bombing points to Israel, says Bruce Riedel, former advisor to three US presidents on Middle Eastern affairs. ‘This proves Israel has infiltrated Hizbullah,’ he notes, adding that Nasrallah has genuine reason for concernYitzhak Benhorin | YNetNEws.com WASHINGTON – While Israel has formally refuted allegations it was involved in theassassination of Hizbullah ’operations officer’ Imad Mugniyah in Damascus on Tuesday, [...]
Did They Reveal the Absence of Confessions?
Why Were the 9/11 Tapes Destroyed? By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS |CounterPunch.org Many Americans are content with the 9/11 Commission Report, but the two chairmen of the commission, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton are not. Neither was commission member Max Cleland, a US Senator who resigned from the 9/11 Commission, telling the Boston Globe (November 13, [...]
Found in Translation
by Philip Giraldi | The American Conservative FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds spills her secrets. Most Americans have never heard of Sibel Edmonds, and if the U.S. government has its way, they never will. The former FBI translator turned whistleblower tells a chilling story of corruption at Washington’s highest levels—sale of nuclear secrets, shielding of terrorist [...]
Sibel Edmonds: ‘Buckle up, there’s much more coming.’
Luke Ryland | DissidentVoice.com In the last few weeks, London Times has run a series of articles about the so-called ‘Sibel Edmonds case’: (For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets,’ FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft‘ and ‘Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy ring probe‘) Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds stumbled into a world of espionage, nuclear black market, narcotics [...]
None Dare Call It Treason
Who is stealing our nuclear secrets – and why are they being shielded by the authorities? Justin Raimondo | antiwar.com The Valerie Plame case is, by journalistic standards, ancient history, and naturally any follow-up on a once-important story is considered bad form. Yet there is an interesting – and rather scary – new twist to the narrative. It [...]
Second thoughts on Charlie Wilson’s War
By Chalmers Johnson I have some personal knowledge of Congressmen like Charlie Wilson (Democrat – 2nd District, Texas, 1973-1996) because, for close to 20 years, my representative in the 50th Congressional District of California was Republican Randy “Duke” Cunningham, now serving an eight-and-a-half year prison sentence for soliciting and receiving bribes from defense contractors. Wilson and Cunningham [...]
