After all the time liberals spent crying about Guantanamo and it's “horrific” interrogation practices, they wasted no time celebrating their personal perceived victory of OBL’s killing -or- decrying the CIA prisons that delivered them their victory. More irrefutable evidence that liberalism is a mental disorder that completely disables the ability to self detect hypocrisy.
#19: Re “Mosaic of sources.” Holder probably meant “MOSSAD” as a source but he forgot the words and scrambled them up.
Okay, stretching it a bit but you never know.
When I was in Vietnam as a journalist, I had a meeting with senior No. Vietnamese commanders who had defected (ranks in mynotebook show Major, Colonel, General). Out of a hour’s talk, I was able to learn of an event in No. Vietnam in 1965 that even our intelligence people had never heard of (it concerned a mild political protest that was crushed but was, in hindsight, one of Ho’s attempts to establish complete control over the North before he started to send large amounts of PAVN regulars to invade the South via the Ho Chi Minh Trail). From this item, our side learned of more unrest in the North that they had not previously known about (it is still classified as far as I know).
The secret of being a good interrogator (I’ve met some of the best during my Police Science program) and the secret of being a good journalist is to ask a question no one has asked before or thought to ask before. You’d be amazed at what people will tell you when asked. The secret to it all is to ask.
Our on-the-ground intell guys are really good. It gets screwed up the higher it goes up a conventional thinking chain of command. The FBI reports from field agents on Arabs taking pilot training in Arizona and Minnesota were sloughed off on the way up and it gave us 9/11.
We ought a great thanks to those guys who kept their eyes and ears open, and did their job the way it should be done - professionally, thoroughly, determinedly, intelligently.