Clearly, this administration’s reluctance to deal with the realities of Islamist fundamentalist terrorism, even under the admittedly weak description of a “War on Terror,” and its insistence that “al Qaeda is on the run,” reflect a denial of reality.
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July 22, 2010 06:12
Washington Post Series Overlooks Intel Success
President Bush had to rebuild the intel community after Clinton’s neglect. Clinton had so downsized and discarded the Central Intelligence Agency, and 15 other intelligence agencies, that his first CIA director quit. George Tenet, the longest-running CIA chief under Clinton, later wrote that his agency was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy as Clinton was leaving the presidency. The National Intelligence Agency, the nation’s listening post, was going deaf, Tenet wrote.
June 29, 2010 03:33
Feds burn ‘deep cover’ Russian spy network
Federal authorities arrested 10 people suspected of carrying out long-term “deep-cover” assignments in the U.S. for Russia that involved integrating into American society as married couples, infiltrating “policy-making circles” in Washington, and recruiting government and business sources.
February 8, 2010 07:20
Former CIA Op: Keep FBI Out of Global Terror Fight
Obama’s Keystone Kops responded to a “man-made crisis” in Detroit on Christmas Day. The resulting confusion and chaos laid bare their utter incompetence and the failure of their strategy to deal with terrorist attacks against America.
February 3, 2010 06:40
China downgraded as intelligence priority
The National Security Council has ordered that the intelligence community downgrade China from a first to a second priority. It’s another victory for an American adversary.
