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The Wall Street Journal October 3, 2003 Editorial:'Stupid' Intelligence If there's a silver lining to the controversy surrounding the Valerie Plame "outing," it's that an increasingly poisonous dispute over counterterrorism policy has been outed along with her. We're talking about the disagreement between the Bush Administration and many of the career intelligence officials at the State Department and the CIA. Let us stipulate that most American diplomats and CIA employees do their duty in loyal, and often courageous, fashion. But for a cadre that dominated U.S. anti-terror policy for years, September 11 changed everything except their thinking. They continue to...

<p>If there's a silver lining to the controversy surrounding the Valerie Plame "outing," it's that an increasingly poisonous dispute over counterterrorism policy has been outed along with her. We're talking about the disagreement between the Bush Administration and many of the career intelligence officials at the State Department and the CIA.</p>

'Walk with me rapist' guilty By Lawrence Buser buser@gomemphis.com July 11, 2003 An accused serial rapist described by a prosecutor as "the worst of the worst of the worst" was convicted Thursday of attacking and robbing four young women while armed with a gun or knife. According to victims, DNA evidence and his own confessions, Larry Dewayne Johnson was the man dubbed the "walk with me rapist" who preyed on teenage girls and young women in a series of highly publicized attacks in 1997 and 1999. A Criminal Court jury of eight women and four men also followed the prosecution's...

The resignation of Rand Beers from the National Security Council is giving off plenty of sparks. Just before the Iraq war began, Beers quit as one of the government's top counterterrorism officials. He's now joined John Kerry's presidential campaign and went public this Monday in a Washington Post page-one profile, in which he branded the White House's Iraq policy an "ill-conceived and poorly executed strategy." That, apparently, was too much for Fox News Channel anchor Brit Hume, who on air accused Beers of having falsely testified under oath about Colombian terrorists training at al Qaeda's Afghan camps, reports our David...

'The Declining Terrorist Threat' - one year later "Judging from news reports and the portrayal of villains in our popular entertainment, Americans are bedeviled by fantasies about terrorism. They seem to believe that terrorism is the greatest threat to the United States and that it is becoming more widespread and lethal. They are likely to think that the United States is the most popular target of terrorists. And they almost certainly have the impression that extremist Islamic groups cause most terrorism. "None of these beliefs are based in fact." Those are the words of Larry C. Johnson, a former State...

President Bush's massive homeland security shakeup won't fix one of the biggest problems faced by U.S. intelligence probers who failed to anticipate the 9-11 attacks: lack of CIA and FBI coordination, a former government counterterrorism expert said Thursday night. "Part of the problem that's not addressed in the president's plan is ... the issue of the coordination of the different agencies and the law enforcement information with the intelligence information," former State Department counterterrorism official Larry Johnson told Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor." Johnson said that, unlike Bush's plan, it wouldn't take an act of Congress to fix the...

<p>Respected counter terrorism expert Larry Johnson is on the O'Reilly Factor tonight -- discussing his "controversial theory" that the two events are linked. 8 pm and 11 pm edt.</p>