Obama’s Miranda Madness
USELESS CYNICISM
A Senate Intelligence Committee staffer says that in recent
updates to the committee, and in briefing individual Senators,
national security and national intelligence officials have
indicated that they have gained “no actionable intelligence” from
interviews with the so-called “Christmas Day” or “underwear
bomber,” Umar Farouk [...]
Bomber was about to be searched: CIA
CIA Director Leon Panetta, in an article published on Sunday, revealed that a Jordanian doctor who killed seven agency operatives was about to be searched before he blew himself up at a US military base in Afghanistan.
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President Barack Obama to announce new airline safety measures - KSDK
… Rodham Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, CIA Director Leon Panetta and FBI Director Robert Mueller are among those who will attend. After the session, Obama will address the public.
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Bye, Bye Blair?
That’s the way things seem to be headed. As we pointed out last night, administration officials have been saying (on background, of course) that the president “intends to demand accountability at the highest levels.” Presumably, accountability means someone is going to get fired. And if someone got fired for failing to stop the Air Force [...]
U.S. Intelligence Officials Aware of Hasan Efforts to Contact al-Qaeda
“…the enemy is not just “terrorism,” some generic evil… The catastrophic threat at this moment in history is more specific. It is the threat posed by Islamist terrorism - especially the al Qaeda network, its affiliates, and its ideology.” ~ The 911 Commission Report, p. 362
ABC news reports that U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months [...]
CIA Tests DoJ Priorities
Eli Lake and Sarah Carter have a big scoop this morning on news that the CIA “has asked the Justice Department to examine what it regards as the criminal disclosure of a secret program to kill foreign terrorist leaders abroad.” As a result of those leaks, the head of the firm formerly known as Blackwater, [...]
