Tag Archive | "Intelligence"
Stephen F. Hayes: Obama’s intelligence chief admits the value of tough interrogations
Admiral Dennis Blair, the top intelligence official in the United States, thanks to his nomination by Barack Obama, believes that the coercive interrogation methods outlawed by his boss produced “high-value information” and gave the U.S. government a “deeper understanding of the al Qaeda organization that was attacking this country.” He included those assessments in a [...]
Continue reading...James Kirchick: Bush never lied to us about Iraq
Published Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Yet Rockefeller’s highly partisan report does not substantiate its most explosive claims. Rockefeller, for instance, charges that “top administration officials made repeated statements that falsely linked Iraq and Al Qaeda as a single threat and insinuated that Iraq played a role in 9/11.” Yet what did his report actually find? That Iraq-Al Qaeda links were [...]
Continue reading...‘Bush Lied’? If Only It Were That Simple.
Published Monday, June 9, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Search the Internet for "Bush Lied" products, and you will find sites that offer more than a thousand designs. The basic "Bush Lied, People Died" bumper sticker is only the beginning. Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, set out to provide the official foundation for what has become [...]
Continue reading...John R. Bolton: The Flaws In the Iran Report
Published Tuesday, December 11, 2007 at 7:42 pm
Rarely has a document from the supposedly hidden world of intelligence had such an impact as the National Intelligence Estimate released this week. Rarely has an administration been so unprepared for such an event. And rarely have vehement critics of the “intelligence community” on issues such as Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction reversed themselves so [...]
Continue reading...Phil’s networks
Published Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 9:34 am
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