It’s like we have a secretary of state actually interested in fighting Al Qaeda, for a change.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday questioned why Pakistani officials have not been able to capture or kill members of al Qaeda taking refuge in the country.
“Al Qaeda has had safe haven in Pakistan since 2002,” she told [...]
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Sec. Of State Clinton Calls Out Pakistan
October 29th, 2009
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Robert Gibbs On Cheney’s Beclowning On Afghanistan
October 22nd, 2009
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That anyone listens to people like Cheney is pretty amazing considering the trail of American bodies behind him.
OMG Teh Diplomacy (Iran Edition)
October 1st, 2009
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Wait, so we talk to Iran and negotiate stuff like adults and we get some movement? You’re kidding.
Iran agreed on Thursday in talks with the United States and other major powers to open its newly revealed uranium enrichment plant near Qum to international inspection in the next two weeks and to send most of its [...]
Biden Approach To Afghanistan Sounds Right
September 22nd, 2009
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I don’t agree with nation-building, not now in the way the world is currently going, at least. But neither do I think its wise to just get out while Al Qaeda elements are there. Al Qaeda is the target. 9/11. Seriously.
Among the alternatives being presented to Mr. Obama is Mr. Biden’s suggestion to revamp the [...]
Goodbye, Theoretical Missile Shield
September 17th, 2009
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It’s totally horrible that President Obama scrapped a useless initiative in favor of a sane, realistic one.
Seriously I don’t see any evidence that these types of devices work in any real world capacity, nor do I see the point of spending a whole lot of cash on them to make certain hawks feel better about [...]
Natl. Security Adviser Jim Jones: More Success Terrorists Killed/Captured Under Obama
August 31st, 2009
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Elect a president like Obama who actually takes national security and the defense of America seriously and the results tend to follow.
‘This type of radical fundamentalism or terrorism is a threat not only to the United States but to the global community,’ Jones said. ‘The world is coming together on this matter now that President [...]
Pete Hoekstra: National Security Expert? Don’t Make Me Laugh
August 29th, 2009
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Robert Costa of the conservative National Review has an interview up with Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan. In the interview, Hoekstra has dire warnings – OH NOES – about national security under President Obama:
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R., Mich.), the ranking Republican member of the House Intelligence Committee, tells NRO that the Obama administration’s national-security apparatus [...]
DOJ Appointing Prosecutor To Investigate Possible CIA Abuse
August 24th, 2009
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About time.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA interrogators and contractors may have violated anti-torture laws and other statutes when they allegedly threatened terrorism suspects, according to two sources familiar with the move.
Holder is poised to name John Durham, a career [...]
Leon Panetta Threatens To Quit CIA?
August 24th, 2009
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Maybe he should. Since Panetta took over the CIA he seems to reflexively be defense of the agency’s past – possibly illegal -activities. At every turn he has opposed efforts by the White House and Congress to uncover what was done during the Bush administration.
We can’t ignore this stuff. The past has shown us that [...]
Climate Change: The Security Threat
August 8th, 2009
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But we should totally give in to oil company propaganda and the blogs they send on junkets (*cough* QandO *cough*).
Recent war games and intelligence studies conclude that over the next 20 to 30 years, vulnerable regions, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and South and Southeast Asia, will face the prospect of food shortages, water [...]
Finally, Oversight Of The Bush Era’s CIA Activities
July 14th, 2009
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Because so far the Dems have been mostly talk, and not even enough of that.
The House Intelligence Committee has asked the CIA to provide documents about the now-canceled program to target al-Qaida leaders, congressional officials said Tuesday. The move is a precursor to what will almost certainly become a full-blown investigation into the secret operation [...]
Hey, Dick Cheney’s A Crook
July 11th, 2009
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But you knew that already.
The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency’s director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate and House intelligence committees, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday.
The report that [...]
During Bush Era, CIA Lied To Congress
July 8th, 2009
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And this is why President Obama is wrong when he so quickly wants to turn the page on the abuse of this country by George W. Bush and Co.
Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon E. Panetta has told lawmakers that CIA officials misled Congress ‘for a number of years’ since 2001, according to a letter released [...]
Obama Tells Bush Appointees At Pentagon To Clean Out Their Desks
January 1st, 2009
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New boss.
Despite keeping Defense Secretary Robert Gates in the Pentagon, President-elect Obama’s transition team informed 90 Bush appointees their services will not be needed after Inauguration Day.
Scott Gration, a senior official on Obama’s transition team, called and emailed several of President Bush’s Pentagon appointees about 10 days ago to inform them they were being dismissed.
I’m [...]
Big Gov’t Republicans
December 2nd, 2008
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We’ve got to clean out the stables of national security as well.
‘For a bunch of small-government Republicans,’ one former denizen of the White House who has now stepped back inside for the first time in eight years, ‘these guys built a hell of an empire.’
Eight years ago, there were two deputy national security advisers; today [...]
McCain: Pay For Corporate Tax Cut With Defense Cuts
June 11th, 2008
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These people are insane. Not only do they want to cut taxes for big corporations like the energy companies, but the way they think we should make up for it is to cut defense spending?
Even the people who support cuts in defense spending (I’m not much for that) would think that doing so to give [...]
Hillary Clinton Crosses “The Commander In Chief Threshold” During Her Time As First Lady: Illustrated
March 10th, 2008
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Sen. Clinton repeatedly cites 35 years of experience as a major rationale for her presidential candidacy. Next to her term in the Senate (in which the most significant vote she cast was a vote in favor of the Iraq war), the only other experience of hers that has national significance is the 8 years she [...]
