By Ray McGovern on May 20, 2008 in Anti-Semitism, CIA, Commander in Chief, Dick Cheney, Flag officers, Generals Against War, Intelligence, Iran, Israel, Media, Media Bias, NIE, Nancy Pelosi, New York Times, Nuclear weapons, Patraeus, Pentagon, Petraeus, Rice, U.S. Constitution | 91 Comments
To Admiral William Fallon (USN ret.), With Respect
(Open Appeal for Straight Talk on Iran)
By Ray McGovern
May 19, 2008
Dear Admiral Fallon:
I have not been able to find out how to reach you directly, so I have drafted this letter in the hope it will come to your attention.
First, thank you for honoring the oath we commissioned […]
By David Fiderer on Feb 28, 2008 in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, John McCain, Mohamed El Baradei, NIE | 17 Comments
Bio at Huffington Post, where this article was first printed: For over 20 years, David has been a banker covering the energy industry for several global banks in New York. Currently, he is working on several journalism projects dealing with corporate and political corruption that, so far, have escaped serious scrutiny by mainstream media. He […]
By SusanUnPC on Jul 25, 2007 in Al Qaeda, Current Affairs, Food Safety/FDA, Intelligence, Iran, NIE, Soldiers/Veterans | 16 Comments
By SusanUnPC
What are the odds the Bush administration … will heed the admonitions of “[c]urrent and former intelligence officials [who] say the Bush Administration’s National Intelligence Estimate regarding terrorist threats to the United States does not provide evidence to support its assertions and may have inflated the domestic threat posed by the Lebanese political and […]
By Larry Johnson on Jul 23, 2007 in Current Affairs, Intelligence, NIE, counterterrorism | 16 Comments
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Larry C Johnson
There is a significant and unexplained disconnect between the latest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Defending the Homeland and the April 2006 NIE, Trends in Global Terrorism. The 2006 NIE made the case:
United States-led counterterrorism efforts have seriously damaged the leadership of al-Qa’ida and disrupted its operations; however, we judge that al-Qa’ida […]
By SusanUnPC on Jul 20, 2007 in Current Affairs, Media, NIE, Plamegate | 54 Comments
Breaking! President Bush will undergo a colonoscopy under anesthesia tomorrow during which time Vice President Cheney will assume control. I can hear the proctologist now: “That’s a rather large polyp! It’s nearly the size of a normal human brain. I am probing the polyp. Its exterior is calcified but the interior appears putrid.”
During July 18’s […]
By Larry Johnson on Jul 17, 2007 in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, CIA, Current Affairs, DoD, Homeland Security, NIE | 33 Comments
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Larry C Johnson
Today’s release of the unclassified summary of the National Intelligence Estimate, Terrorist Threat to the US Homeland, is a black eye for the Bush Administration propaganda campaign that Iraq is making America safer. Despite White House efforts to persuade the public that we are vanquishing Al Qaeda, the intelligence community sees things […]
