Jules Crittenden

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The Real Bush Intelligence Failure

Published on 2 Apr 2008 at 7:09 am. 1 Comment.
Filed under Intel, moronocy.

All these years later, it’s still effed up, writes Schoenfeld at WSJ. In fact, getting effed-upper. I like this part:

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About That Report

Published on 14 Mar 2008 at 7:07 am. 2 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, al qaeda, Saddam, Intel.

Other views re direct operational links and lack thereof:
Hot Air: Yeah, but what about the IIS contacts with Al Qaeda and the conclusion that Saddam was nurturing of global jihad as one of the few tools left in his “coercion” toolbox?
Weekly Standard: Yeah, but what about the “considerable overlap” and “de facto links.” You know, when […]

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Closed Session

Published on 13 Mar 2008 at 11:23 pm. 2 Comments.
Filed under pols, Intel.

Only the 5th in the House since 1825, called by the GOP to allow a frank and open discussion of the FISA bill. The Hill:

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No Direct Operational Links

Published on 13 Mar 2008 at 10:08 am. 5 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, Intel.

Between Saddam and al-Qaeda, according to a new Pentagon report. Despite hoopla, McClatchy notes debate unlikely to be affected. That’s because of Saddam’s indisputable support for terrorism, the fact that his regime had contacts with al-Qaeda, and because while some people consider that to be a highly dangerous scenario, others never will:

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Phone Call for Mr. Obama

Published on 8 Mar 2008 at 8:58 am. 4 Comments.
Filed under pols, Intel.

It’s reality calling. Another truth-telling advisor with a different kind of message for Obie: Let my telecoms go.

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With a Fourth Estate Like This

Published on 9 Feb 2008 at 10:16 am. 1 Comment.
Filed under media, Intel.

Who needs a 5th column? Gabriel Schonfeld at the Weekly Standard on a federal subpoena for an NYT scribbler:

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Clear as Mud

Published on 30 Dec 2007 at 9:56 am. 10 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, Intel.

Which is what you get smeared with if you try to have a serious discussion of this issue. Bowden gets whacked with hate mail, feels compelled to reargue an argument that was made pretty well the first time. In doing so highlights and fails to resolve the one major flaw in his argument. Clarification on […]

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In Defense of Waterboarding

Published on 23 Dec 2007 at 10:49 pm. 6 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, Intel.

Mark Bowden makes the case. Philadelphia Inquirer:

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Iranian Atomkraft? Nein Danke!

Published on 17 Dec 2007 at 9:44 am. 6 Comments.
Filed under Iran, Israel, Intel.

Such a cute bumpersticker. Remember that? Can we get a Hebrew one? Because Israelis who just won’t take “maybe not” for an answer are here trying to talk sense into the U.S. intel community:

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American Misconception

Published on 15 Dec 2007 at 9:30 pm. 3 Comments.
Filed under Iran, Intel.

Raises threat of war, Israeli public security minister says. Arab News:

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Aspirational Cognition

Published on 13 Dec 2007 at 8:07 am. 5 Comments.
Filed under Iran, Intel.

Theory misunderstood by someone who actually thinks U.S. intelligence is supposed to be a tool of foreign policy, not domestic politics. Get real(politik)! Kissinger at Washington Post goes to the chalkboard, does long division on the NIE. Talk about old school:

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Vexed, AQ Ties, Videotape

Published on 8 Dec 2007 at 8:57 am. 5 Comments.
Filed under al qaeda, Intel.

Because it is now the policy of the United States that the nation’s wartime intelligence business will be conducted in public, it was wrong of the CIA to deprive al-Jazeera of this B-roll offering. NYT:

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What “Is” Is

Published on 6 Dec 2007 at 7:51 am. 7 Comments.
Filed under Iran, Intel.

John Bolton on why the United States intelligence community, and its gleeful fans, have no clothes. Washington Post:

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Say It Ain’t So

Published on 4 Dec 2007 at 7:25 am. 9 Comments.
Filed under Iran, Intel.

Political manipulation of the intelligence on WMD … by intelligence chiefs? In the wake of NIE’s about-face, Podhoretz is suspicious:

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Great News

Published on 1 Aug 2007 at 8:42 am. 21 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, media, Intel.

Now shut up about it already. WaPo on NSA spying:

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Sunday Morning Mutiny

Published on 25 Feb 2007 at 10:15 am. 13 Comments.
Filed under Iran, media, military, Britain, Intel.

The London Times says up to five top U.S. generals and admirals will resign if we attack Iran.
Here are some of the key phrases:

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Ad Libby Trial

Published on 17 Feb 2007 at 10:34 pm. 6 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, media, law & order, Intel.

I’d call this brilliant satire, except that every goddamned, bitter word of it is true. Victoria Toensing in a Washington Post oped states the case for indicting Special Persecutor Patrick Fitzgerald; former Deputy Suckretary of State Richard Armitage; the Cover Its Ass; the Justless Department, former U.S. Self-Aggrandizer Joseph Wilson, and large sections of the traitor media among […]

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National Intelligence Estimated

Published on 2 Feb 2007 at 11:28 pm. 2 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, GWOT, Intel.

Once again, the National Intelligence Estimate, turns out to be a good measure of national intelligence.*
For example, why would the Washington Post, which is staffed by smart people, lede with this:
The U.S. intelligence community yesterday released a starkly pessimistic assessment of the situation in Iraq, warning that even if security improves, deepening sectarian divisions threaten […]

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