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FP: Kenneth Timmerman, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Timmerman: Thanks, Jamie. It’s always a pleasure to appear alongside other founding members of the Vast Right-wing Conspiracy. FP: My pleasure as well. What inspired you to write this book? Timmerman: In the beginning were the leaks. I was curious how highly-classified intelligence information was winding up on the front pages of the NY Times and in other leftist media. Two stories, in particular, caught my attention initially: the leak of the CIA “secret prisons,” and the smearing of Ahmad Chalabi, to which I will return below. I knew quite a bit about...

Several current and former high-level government officials familiar with the authors of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran described the report as a politically motivated document written by anti-Bush former State Department officials, who opposed sanctioning foreign governments and businesses. The report released this week said Iran once had a covert nuclear weapons program, but shut it down in 2003. The authors" aim is to undercut the White House effort to increase pressure for sanctions on Iran and to argue that Iran dropped its nuclear-weapons program in 2003 because of diplomatic efforts in which the authors had participated, the officials...

Forgive me for this post, but I have desperately searched for the link at ABC's website pertaining to tonight’s Nightline segment of an interview with an ex/current CIA expert. I believe ABC has withdrawn the link because of this interview that cited the Ozark Caligula’s Administration as the cause of the current CIA woes. I don’t watch too much from the MSM, so I don’t even know the ABC host who conducted the interview. Basically, the CIA expert was asked what has happened to the CIA. In addition to citing low morale, he stated that a substantial portion of the...

WASHINGTON — Justice Department lawyers objected to a Texas redistricting plan orchestrated by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, but top agency officials brushed aside concerns about diluting minority voting strength and approved the plan anyway, according to an agency memo released Friday. The plan, designed to boost election chances of Republican candidates for the U.S. House, was approved by the Justice Department and the new districts were used in the 2002 elections. Of the state's 32 House seats, Republicans held 15 before the 2002 elections. Under the DeLay-backed plan, Republicans were elected to 22 of the state's seats in...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A fired CIA agent, who a newspaper says told superiors in 2001 that Iraq had abandoned part of its nuclear program, is asking the FBI to investigate allegations that the spy agency dismissed him for refusing to falsify intelligence. A July 11 letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller from the former agent's attorney suggests CIA officials may be guilty of criminal violations involving intelligence he produced on weapons of mass destruction in 2000 that contradicted an official agency position. The former agent's attorney, Roy Krieger, said his client initially asked the CIA's inspector general to investigate charges...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Carol Bellamy has witnessed her share of horrors as head of the United Nations children's agency for the past 10 years, from traumatized Iraqi children to starving Sudanese babies to frightened tsunami orphans. Through it all, she says, she's tried to push forward. ``You can't just stand there and be helpless,'' she says. ``You have to do something.'' Advertisement The 63-year-old executive director of United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF, who leaves her post April 30, recently returned from Asia's tsunami-devastated regions. Of more than 150,000 people killed, more than a third are believed to be...

NEW YORK, January 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Tuesday, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan announced the appointment of a Bush Administration veteran to replace Carol Bellamy as the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Beginning May 1, former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman will replace Bellamy who has been credited with leading the once world-renowned organization into international disrepute. Bellamy, a Clinton Administration pick for the UNICEF post, has been slammed for years by pro-lifers for turning UNICEF into an abortion-promoting organization. U.S. Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) has said that Bellamy is so pro-abortion that, while a Senator...

Latest Spin: OK If bin Laden Lives The latest spin from the intellectual elites is that not capturing or killing Osama bin Laden is a good thing. One person who believes that the world may be better off if Osama bin Laden remains at large is the Central Intelligence Agency's recently departed executive director, AB "Buzzy" Krongard. Krongard may have good reason to feel that way. The New York Times reported last week that an internal CIA report found that the CIA leadership was grossly negligent for their activities leading up to Sept. 11, 2001. The Times said the CIA...

THE world may be better off if Osama Bin Laden remains at large, according to the Central Intelligence Agency’s recently departed executive director. If the world’s most wanted terrorist is captured or killed, a power struggle among his Al-Qaeda subordinates may trigger a wave of terror attacks, said AB “Buzzy” Krongard, who stepped down six weeks ago as the CIA’s third most senior executive. “You can make the argument that we’re better off with him (at large),” Krongard said. “Because if something happens to Bin Laden, you might find a lot of people vying for his position and demonstrating how...

The two top officers of embattled mortgage giant Fannie Mae were fired yesterday for bungling their books in a massive $9 billion loss undermining Fannie Mae's soundness. The ouster of Chairman and CEO Franklin Raines was startling because he'd been an important Washington insider for years. Raines, 55, headed the nation's largest mortgage originator for six years and earned $20 million last year in salary, bonuses and stock awards. The Harvard-educated Rhodes scholar was President Bill Clinton's budget director. The Securities and Exchange Commission said Raines broke accounting rules in running the company and played dangerously with complex and...

Mary Frances Berry's term as a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights ended at midnight Sunday, but as of this writing she maintains that her term doesn't end until January 21, 2005, and imperiously refuses to step down. Her claim is nonsense. Her primary commission documents, signed by President Bill Clinton when he appointed her to her now-expired term, show that her term ended on December 5, 2004. If that alone wasn't enough, the Congressional Research Service issued an opinion to the House Oversight Committee to the same effect. Finally, the decision of the U.S. Court of...

A top immigration official accused of misleading Congress on whether a Clinton administration program was used to allow thousands of foreign nationals with criminal records to become U.S. citizens now heads a fraud and national security program at the Department of Homeland Security. Louis D. "Don" Crocetti, whose credibility before a House subcommittee was challenged by the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General, now heads the Office of Fraud Detection and National Security, which, among other things, is responsible for criminal background checks on foreign nationals seeking naturalization. The appointment was quietly announced in May by Eduardo Aguirre, director of...

Spies rise up against CIA chief By Marcus Warren in New York (Filed: 15/11/2004) The CIA was in turmoil last night as supporters and critics of its new director fought a bitter and very public war of words over his efforts to overhaul America's main intelligence service. The brash management style of Porter Goss, a controversial appointment when President George W Bush picked him for the job this summer, was under unprecedented scrutiny amid reports of spies' morale sinking to its lowest point in 25 years. Many senior CIA insiders abandoned the cloak-and-dagger tactics of their craft to launch a...

The White House has ordered the new CIA director, Porter Goss, to purge the agency of officers believed to have been disloyal to President George W. Bush or of leaking damaging information to the media about the conduct of the Iraq war and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according to knowledgeable sources.

Well, the Bush-Cheney Administration has got a mole infestation, all right, but not of Chinese moles that allegedly burrowed into our nuke labs several decades ago. No, siree. These are Clinton-Gore moles that went to ground only last November, and they need to be flushed out as soon as possible before they can do too much damage. How to find them? Well, one approach would be to carefully analyze for clues the cries of despair -- or shouts of hurrah -- of the media elite. If, for example, the brand-new EPA administrator says she is going to regulate carbon dioxide...

<p>A powerful "old guard" faction in the Central Intelligence Agency has launched an unprecedented campaign to undermine the Bush administration with a battery of damaging leaks and briefings about Iraq.</p> <p>The White House is incensed by the increasingly public sniping from some senior intelligence officers who, it believes, are conducting a partisan operation to swing the election on November 2 in favour of John Kerry, the Democratic candidate, and against George W Bush.</p>

A powerful "old guard" faction in the Central Intelligence Agency has launched an unprecedented campaign to undermine the Bush administration with a battery of damaging leaks and briefings about Iraq.The White House is incensed by the increasingly public sniping from some senior intelligence officers who, it believes, are conducting a partisan operation to swing the election on November 2 in favour of John Kerry, the Democratic candidate, and against George W Bush. Jim Pavitt, a 31-year CIA veteran who retired as a departmental chief in August, said that he cannot recall a time of such "viciousness and vindictiveness" in a...

Releasing a signed letter denouncing President Bush on the same day that the 9/11 Commission issued its much-publicized interim report last week, 26 former diplomats and retired military brass gained very little traction in their bid to knock the President.What people missed is a bunch of disgruntled ex-diplomats who amply demonstrate the deeply ingrained biases of the Foreign Service—or more to the point, the people who comprise the vast majority of Bush’s current foreign policy team.Common sense would dictate that the President of the United States would have the ability to shape his entire administration, including his foreign policy team. But...

Clintonista Boucher Backs Powell's 'Demeaning' Aide Top spokesman Richard Boucher, one of many Clintonista leftovers afflicting the Bush (more accurately, anti-Bush) State Department, has only positive spin on Secretary Colin Powell's controversial underling Emily J. Miller. "I think she's great, and she's doing a good job for us," Boucher is quoted as saying in the Washington Post today. "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert is said to be still seething that Miller ordered a cameraman to stop filming an interview with Powell that ran late. "Russert went on and on and on. We asked the cameraman to help us cut...

When former White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke fingered President George W. Bush for having "botched the response to 9/11," he and other critics left out a major point: Until just two months before the attack, nearly all the senior counterterrorism and intelligence officials on duty at the time were holdovers from the Clinton administration. From the CIA to the Pentagon to the National Security Council (NSC), Clinton holdovers populated the Bush administration's intelligence and counterterrorism community. While maintaining a seasoned cadre of nonpolitical career professionals in senior national-security posts is considered crucial for any administration, former senior government officials...