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POPSNOT EVERY WRONG IS A CRIME???WHAT???? Ralph McGeehee a 25 year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency enlightened us with this following paragraph from his 1983 book “Deadly Deceits,” which edifies a familiar pattern of deception that we have witnessed but we never understood. He stated the following about the CIA: READ at SOURCE.........
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POPSU.S. soldier 'waterboarded his own daughter, 4 Tabor, a soldier at the Lewis-McChord base in Tacoma, Washington, was arrested after being seen walking around his neighbourhood wearing a Kevlar military helmet and threatening to break windows. Police discovered the alleged waterboarding when they went to his home in the Tacoma suburb of Yelm and spoke to his girlfriend. She told them about the alleged torture and the terrified girl was found hiding in a closet, with bruising on her back and scratch marks on her neck and throat. Asked how she got the bruises, the girl is said to have replied: 'Daddy did it.' Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk
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POPSTomgram: ...Destabilizing Pakistan I found the views presented in this post quite troubling. Upon reflection, I think that is because my cynical suspicion is that its more likely to be true than false. (Even more so, because I really don't like being "cynical").
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POPSThe Christmas Bomber Speaks … Finally
The intelligence he possessed was perishable. Each moment that passed that he was not speaking meant lost counterterrorism opportunities. Every hour, every day, every week that went by gave them precious time to close bank accounts, e-mail addresses, phone numbers he knew about, and shut down training camps, safe houses, and other intelligence leads he could have given us. Terrorists he knew about have been put into hiding, and other leads that were hot in the days immediately following his capture have since gone cold. The mishandling of Abdulmutallab’s questioning is an intelligence failure of massive proportions. And it highlights the problem with the Obama administration’s approach to terrorist interrogation. The administration’s approach is built on a law-enforcement model unsuited for the challenges of the war on terror. Here is why: In law enforcement, interrogators generally question terrorists after an attack (or in the case of Abdulmutallab, an attempted attack)
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POPSAn App to Peer Into the Future No, it's not exactly "Looking Glass" or "Yellow Book" technology, but it could be handy in the persuasion department for improving one's habits.
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POPSTerror attack on US 'certain,' Senate told I saw this assessment this morning and it was very sobering. So, now the Senate has been 'told', I hope the same message of potential attacks, over-all danger, and the absolute necessity of each of us being on the alert is also being broadcast. I bet the security at the Super Bowl will be high. But who can protect against an underwear bomber or a woman with an explosive device stuck up her behind?
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POPSChina Downgraded as Spy Priority Latest headlines. Taiwan arms sale the latest wedge between US and China Cyber attacks take aim at the heart of the American empire Google and China: the new era of cybercrime Ex-Pentagon official sentenced to 3 years in China spy case (I am sure we are still a top priority for China) Factbox: Sources of tension between China and US How does this make any sense?
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POPSMARC THIESSEN: WATERBOARDED TERRORIST ASKED CIA TO WATERBOARD HIS COLLEAGUES....... "So his responsibility to allah is to resist as far as he can and then once he has reached his limit he is free to spill his guts. so if you know that, that is their philosophy, this was the first guy who told us, then applied to KSM and other terrorists, so if you know that, what do you do? You find techniques that you know are safe, that will not harm the terrorist, that will not cause them severe pain nor any lasting injury, that are within our laws and give him something to resist."
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POPSU.S. citizen in CIA's cross hairs Maybe it's just me, but I find this story a bit disturbing. In fact, the whole idea of a government agency targeting people (whether they are US citizens or not) for assassination seems a bit scary. How is this that much different than someone entering the US with the intent to kill people? Why is one considered a terrorist act, but the other is not? And it's pretty likely that a Predator missile strike doesn't simply kill the one individual being targeted, but others around him.
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POPSChris Cox for Congress: Suffolk County Republican Committee Chris served as Senator John McCain’s Executive Director for New York State and is co-founder of the consulting firm, OC Global Partners, LLC where he advises US companies on selling their products in new markets abroad and bringing in capital allowing them to expand their business and grow their workforce in America. Previously, Cox was a corporate associate at the law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP in their New York office where he worked in the Private Equity Group. During his tenure, he advised major private equity fund clients on acquisitions. Cox also fought for the rights of New York State small business owners in Albany on a pro-bono basis. He has long been active in conservation issues and is a fiscal conservative who will fight for limited government and lower taxes and is committed to defending the values and liberties in our constitution. Cox has been saying he will work to create new jobs and make life more affordable for Suffolk County residents.
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POPSBrit Commandos Gun Down Mossad Agents
This evening, I was watching the BBC series MI-5 and it concluded with a British SWAT team gunning down Israeli Mossad agents at the Saudi Arabian Embassy in London. Oh my -- Reality: 'The times they are a-changing.' Of course the Brits were dealing with Jewish terrorist before most of us were born so it's perhaps easier for them to consider such story lines. (Like the bombing of the King David Hotel by right-wing Zionist in 1946) This TV plots was much like that early incident at the start of the Zionist invasion of Palestine -- an attack upon a hotel, like the recent Mumbai attack in India. Pretty good series. Shown in dozens of countries. Award winning. And the chance to be a religious wacko murderer, war profiteer, terrorist, etc. is equally distributed among many extremist groups: Crazy Christians. Evil Venezuela. USA CIA plots. Mossad. Arabs. Basque Separatist. The IRA. Red Army. Shining Path. All more real. Like the USS Liberty will be acknowledge one d
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POPSCIA Man Retracts Claim on Waterboarding Now comes John Kiriakou, again, with a wholly different story. On the next-to-last page of a new memoir, The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA's War on Terror (written with Michael Ruby), Kiriakou now rather off handedly admits that he basically made it all up. "What I told Brian Ross in late 2007 was wrong on a couple counts," he writes. "I suggested that Abu Zubaydah had lasted only thirty or thirty-five seconds during his waterboarding before he begged his interrogators to stop; after that, I said he opened up and gave the agency actionable intelligence." But never mind, he says now. "I wasn't there when the interrogation took place; instead, I relied on what I'd heard and read inside the agency at the time."
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POPSHaiti's history of hardship This video puts Haiti's hardships in historical perspective. These people were kept in perpetual poverty by their colonial 'masters'. The continued injustice needs to stop! The meddling of the CIA and others have been a travesty.
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POPSwww.statemaster.com This appears to be a very useful source of data that may help provide objective (data) Findings, to support some of the Conclusions that will hopefully emerge from current modeling efforts. At the very least, finding this source has reminded the that the CIA Factbook is also a treasure trove of such useful information.
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POPSWe're executing Gitmo prisoners and calling it "Suicide" "Scott Horton doesn't ask another pertinent question -- whether it is feasible that the three men died as a result of "enhanced interrogations" that went too far, or whether they were deliberately murdered. The panic that greeted the arrival of the corpses at the clinic on that dreadful day suggests the former, but on reflection it seems unlikely that three accidental deaths could occur in such a short space of time. As Guantánamo takes on a new name -- the Death Camp -- these doubts need to be addressed one way or another."
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POPSClash with CNN's Amanpour over 'torture'.... An interesting exchange. I wish there could have been more discussion and Thiessen had been allowed to further explain why he believes waterboarding is not torture. And I would have liked to hear the other guy explain his rationale that torture breeds more terrorists. Amanpour makes the statement that many in our prisons are becoming terrorists without making it clear that it's radical Islamic proselytizing that is rampant there not torture.
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