[HolgerDansk]

"."The people who are leading al-Qaida now seem a lot more professional group."

Make that a lot more dead, after a few hours ago...

[rintense]

"It's going to take 10,000-15,000 dead Americans before we say to ourselves: 'What is going on'?"

Oh really. For all the painting of Imperial Hubris, seems Anonymous would do better if he stopped hiding behind his false bravado and revealed his name.

[Timmy]

Howell Raines is probably "Anonymous."

[Cicero]

So this is an anonymous article by Anonymous from the Anonymous Intelligence Agency with permission from anonymous authorities to tell an anonymous story.

Either it's completely bogus, like deep throat, or that rat George Tenet approved it, which wouldn't surprise me a bit, the lousy clintonoid.

[Shermy]

In an interview with the Guardian the official, who writes as "Anonymous",

Just look at the list of Kerry foreign affairs advisers. Probably one of them.

[AmericaUnited]

"Deep Anonymous" is really Bob Woodward.

[wimpycat]

The tone of Imperial Hubris is certainly angry and urgent, and the stridency of his warnings about al-Qaida led him to be moved from a highly sensitive job in the late 90s.

In other words, he hasn't been privy to the really "sensitive" data since well before 9/11.

[jackbill]

Is Julian Borger any relation to Gloria Borger? If so, it seems that they deserve each other.

If anyone watched "her" interview with VP Cheney last night, you will know what I'm talking about.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Well surprise surprise someone else writes a bush bashing book praising our enemies as genious freedom fighters

I guess stupidity falls hand in hand with freedom of speach but these people are traitorous wreches deserving of a swift traitorous justice !

[WorkingClassFilth]

The source is Bill W. from Alcoholics Anonymous. He always does this kind of thing when he falls off the wagon.

[nothingnew]

This one is unprecedented in being the work of a serving official with nearly 20 years experience in counter-terrorism who is still part of the intelligence establishment....... and is a cowardly piece of shit.

FMCDH(BITS)

[joyce11111]

It's a load of crap!

[JohnnyZ]

The White House has yet to comment publicly on Imperial Hubris, which is due to be published on July 4, but intelligence experts say it may try to catch bin Laden and drag him through the streets just as this B.S. book hits the shelves.

[olde north church]

After I read this column the first thing that came to mind was: Are there still people who try and use the old "reverse psychology" thing, as in, everybody knows terrorists want Kerry to be president BUT if somebody says, terrorist want Bush, etc, etc, etc.
If the author of this book is any indication of the caliber of our intelligence officers, it's no wonder we're in the straits we're in.

[Hostile]

Hmmm ex-intelligence official, disgruntled employee, know-it-all tone...this is Richard Clarke, isn't it?
No fair double-dibbing in the Bush bashing. Let someone else take a turn telling us how much better off we'd be if only we'd listen to him.

[theFIRMbss]

>The tone of Imperial Hubris is certainly angry and urgent

If this book is true --
if large numbers of black ops
people are upset --

this could be awful.
These particular people
could vent their anger

using their talents
directly against the Feds,
or by providing

an "opening" for
the bad guys to strike the Feds.
Interesting times . . .

[piasa]

But Vincent Cannistraro, a former chief of operations at the CIA counter-terrorism centre, said he had been vindicated by events. "He is very well respected, and looked on as a serious student of the subject."

1984 -1987 : (US : CANNISTRARO IS DIRECTOR OF NSC INTELLIGENCE) Who is Vincent Cannistraro? Director of NSC Intelligence from 1984 to 1987, Vincent Cannistraro went on to serve as chief of operations for the CIA's Counterterrorism Center and to lead the CIA's investigation into the bombing of Pan Am 103.
47 posted on 09/30/2003 3:21 PM PDT by aristeides

[mrsmith]

Just to fill out the thread, Anonymous is Michael Scheuer.

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1163164/posts