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SHARE        Friday, December 3, 2010
NYT Still Stalking Bête Noire Iran Even to this old-timer, it was shocking the way the Times, and the Post, used the WikiLeaks cables for their campaign for "regime change" in Iran.

(4 comments) SHARE        Monday, November 22, 2010
U.S. Intelligence Thwarted Attack on Iran A draft NIE update on Iran's nuclear program, completed earlier this year, is dead in its tracks, apparently because anti-Iran hawks inside the Obama administration are afraid it will leak. It is said to repeat pretty much the same conclusions as the NIE from 2007. That, in 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program."

(16 comments) SHARE        Monday, November 8, 2010
Bush Boasts About Waterboarding George W. Bush is now peddling his book. In it, he brags that he gave the CIA authorization to waterboard Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Waterboarding has always been considered torture, so we now have a former president whose book includes self-incrimination under international and U.S. law. (And, alas, a current President too scared to do anything about it.)

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, October 25, 2010
Wikileaks' Julian Assange Honored at London Press Conference You are not likely to learn this from "mainstream media,' but WikiLeaks and its leader Julian Assange have received the 2010 Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence award for their resourcefulness in making available secret U.S. military documents on the Iraq and Afghan wars.

SHARE        Thursday, September 30, 2010
Obama-Men: Innocents Abroad; Politicos at Home Before reading through Woodward's book, the excerpts already published had left doubts in my mind that the Obama White House could be host to such an amateurish decision-process-without-real-process. I had seen a lot of White House fecklessness in my 30 years in intelligence analysis, but it was, frankly, hard to believe that it could be so bad this time.

(24 comments) SHARE        Saturday, September 25, 2010
Petraeus Cons Obama on Afghan War The contempt felt by Gen. Petraeus,towards Obama comes through clearly in Bob Woodward's new book. Obama... lacks the courage of his convictions. Teaching law or speed-reading a teleprompter does not a president make. 800 years ago, Thomas Aquinas observed that courage is the precondition of all virtue. ie., you can be smart and well intentioned as all get-out; but you cannot be a real leader if you have no guts.

(4 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, August 31, 2010
What Obama Won't Say Tonight Instead of simply caving in to complaints from Cheney about my "dithering"-" and giving Petraeus and McChrystal nearly all the troops they asked for -" I should have applied the full resources of the U.S. intelligence community to get a handle on the real prospects for Afghanistan.

(3 comments) SHARE        Friday, August 27, 2010
Obama Boxed In by Generals on Afghanistan The next two years are far more likely to witness a Donnybrook between the Pentagon and White House, as the security situation in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate and Petraeus -- now commander of U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan, with his vaunted reputation riding on success -- inevitably demands more troops.

(6 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Can WikiLeaks Help Save Lives? Unless one is to believe, contrary to all indications, that Petraeus is not all that bright, one has to assume he knows that the Afghanistan expedition is a folly beyond repair.

(49 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Memorandum for: The President, Subject: WAR WITH IRAN We write to alert you to the likelihood that Israel will attack Iran as early as this month, that Israeli leaders expect you to give unstinting support, include committing US troops and weapons. This can be stopped, but only if you move quickly to pre-empt an Israeli attack by publicly condemning such a move before it happens.

(6 comments) SHARE        Monday, July 26, 2010
Afghan War Leaks Expose Costly, Deceitful March of Folly The brutality and fecklessness of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan have been laid bare in an indisputable way just days before the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on whether to throw $33.5 billion more into the Afghan quagmire, when that money is badly needed at home. On Sunday, the Web site Wikileaks posted 75,000 reports written mostly by U.S. forces in Afghanistan during a six-year period from January 2004

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, July 23, 2010
For Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone, a Terror Topping A recent exposé in the Washington Post shows that if you have a security clearance and are comfortable being part of a lucrative "self-licking ice cream cone" -" a process that offers few if any benefits while perpetuating its own existence -" then the "war on terror" is definitely for you!

(5 comments) SHARE        Sunday, July 18, 2010
Iranian Scientist Would Not Play Curveball Useful insights often must be seen through a glass darkly. But some can be pulled through the smoke and mirrors shrouding the wanderings of Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri, who is now back home in Iran after 14 months in the U.S. as guest of the CIA.

(11 comments) SHARE        Friday, June 25, 2010
Obama Misses the Afghan Exit Ramp Has it occurred to President Barack Obama that Gen. Stanley McChrystal might actually have wanted to be fired -- and thus rescued from the current March of Folly in Afghanistan, a mess much of his own making? McChrystal leaves behind a long trail of broken promises and unfulfilled expectations.

(14 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Obama and Insubordination: Is He Truman or Mr. Milquetoast? McChrystal, however inadvertently, has given the President the unexpected opportunity to change course and leave behind the fool's errand called Afghanistan. But the general has also thrown down the gauntlet.

(6 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Obama's Timidity and Deaths at Sea A chief lesson to learn from President Barack Obama's recent unwillingness to stand up to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud Lobby is that such timidity can get peoople killed. Also discusses legal considerations

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, May 22, 2010
Dirty Linen Gets Intel Chief Fired Former CIA analyst, Ray McGovern, weighs in on the firing of U.S. Intel Chief, Dennis Blair. "An incompetent manager? Seems so. But Blair also demonstrated a strain of integrity. And that can often be the kiss of death in Official Washington," writes McGovern.

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, May 19, 2010
US/Israel Challenged on Iran There is every reason to believe that Israel will search deep into its toolbox for a way to sabotage the agreement, but it isn't clear that the usual diplomatic tools will work at this stage, and even Israel might deem the covert action ones too risky. There remains the possibility that Israel will go for broke and launch a preemptive military strike at Iran's nuclear facilities.

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, May 6, 2010
Loose Lips on Iran Can Sink America Recently I have been looking on in disbelief as some of the same Democrats (and media personalities) who helped grease the skids for the unnecessary, unprovoked attack on Iraq, are doing a reprise -- changing the script from Iraq to Iran.

(22 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Iran a Threat? I Mean, Really? Netanyahu may not be impressed -" or deterred -" by anything short of a public pronouncement from Obama that the U.S. will not support Israel if it provokes war with Iran. The more Obama avoids such blunt language, the more Netanyahu is likely to view Obama as a weakling who can be played politically.

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