WTF?
Plea bargaining with a terrorist.
Yep. Heard it with my own ears.
Podesta had pegged Brennan for Panetta’s position ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/us/politics/08council.html
Obama Is Reported Set to Revise Counterterrorism Efforts
New York Times, The (NY) - Thursday, January 8, 2009
Author: PETER BAKER
Abstract: Pres-elect Obama reportedly is preparing to scrap Bush administration’s approach to overseeing domestic security and name former CIA official John O Brennan to coordinate counterterrorism; plan would eliminate independent homeland security adviser’s office and assign those duties to National Security Council;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/08/AR2009010804108.html
Obama Taps CIA Veteran As Adviser On Terror - Brennan Has Drawn Fire on Interrogations
Washington Post, The (DC) - Friday, January 9, 2009
Author: R. Jeffrey Smith, Washington Post Staff Writer
Barack Obama has picked John O. Brennan as his top adviser on counterterrorism, a role that will give the CIA veteran a powerful voice on the government’s use of security contractors and on other sensitive issues in which he recently has played a private-sector role.
By appointing Brennan to a senior White House position not subject to Senate approval, Obama is also making him an influential adviser on the Middle East and on Iran, a topic on which Brennan has called for a sharp break with past U.S. policy.
The president-elect’s decision comes only six weeks after Brennan was forced to pull out of contention for the directorship of the CIA because of fears that his statements supporting some controversial interrogation techniques would have complicated his confirmation.
The firm Brennan heads, the Analysis Corp., and its corporate parent have earned millions of dollars over the past decade assisting several federal agencies and private firms on counterterrorism. Those oil and telecommunications firms have worked in countries beset by violence, including Mozambique, Liberia, Colombia and Pakistan — all of which have been topics of intense policy debate in Washington.
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/08/roundup080709.html
National Security
Sustainable Security 101
The Center continued its work on “sustainable security” by publishing an introduction to the subject after Senior Counterterrorism Advisor John O. Brennan said that the United States must redefine its strategy to include all facets of national power.
CAP’s CEO and President John D. Podesta accompanied former President Bill Clinton to North Korea on a mission to secure the freedom of journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee. And Colin Thomas-Jensen offered an analysis on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo in an Ask the Expert video.
More on Lieutenant Quarles Harris Jr:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2232588/posts?page=105
Key witness in (presidential) passport fraud case fatally shot [old article]
Washington Times ^ | 4/18/2008 |
Insanity !
Let’s just give him his harem of
virgins and palace here and now,
if he gives up some meaningless,
lawyered-up tidbit, then Zero can
rest easy that we’re ‘sensitive’ folks.
I’m telling you, they’re setting
us up for an horrific attack ..
some city near you or I will
reap the very painful whirlwind
of these idiots.
God bless us, save us. He and Israel
are our only salvation.
This may have been posted elsewhere. Don’t know, so I am posting it here.
I just saw this on CNN. Mr. Scheuer just tied past and present together in a way none of us could imagine. They are talking about the CIA deaths in Afghaistan:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1001/03/sotu.04.html
BORGER: How does this affect both morale and strategy as the agency expands its role?
SCHEUER: Well, I think it hurts morale to a certain extent, naturally, because of the deaths, but it hurts morale even more because one of the officers who got killed had arranged an operation in 1998 that would have killed or captured Osama bin Laden. And Mr. Brennan was instrumental in preventing that operation from occurring. Instead he said the Americans should trust the Saudis to take care of bin Laden.
So it’s a painful— it’s a painful death, but more importantly it’s a death that didn’t need to occur had Mr. Clinton — Mr. Brennan, George Tenet, and Mr. Berger had the courage to try to defend Americans.
BORGER: Now I wish all of those gentlemen were here today to defend themselves.
SCHEUER: I wish they were too. And I would be delighted anytime to talk with them in public on any — in any forum, ma’am.
BORGER: Well, hopefully we can arrange that one day. Because I’m sure they’ll want to answer your charge.
SCHEUER: I would be delighted. I’m sure they would.
BORGER: But thank you very much for being with us here today, Mr. Scheuer.
SCHEUER: My pleasure, ma’am.
” .........one of the officers who got killed had arranged an operation in 1998 that would have killed or captured Osama bin Laden. And Mr. Brennan was instrumental in preventing that operation from occurring. Instead he said the Americans should trust the Saudis to take care of bin Laden. ........”