Posted on 07/25/2005 8:16:58 PM PDT by NavySEAL F-16
ON SATURDAY, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson gave the Democratic party's weekly radio address and excoriated President Bush for not having fired Karl Rove and others in connection with the leak of CIA officer Valerie Plame's name to the press. This followed Johnson's appearance before a panel of House and Senate Democrats on Friday, where he made similar criticisms of the president. A self-described Republican, Johnson argued that the failure of the president to fire Rove and anyone else supposedly involved in the leak had severely damaged national security and would certainly hamper future efforts to recruit informants in the war on terror.
Well, it's good to see that the former CIA employee is now worried about the war on terror. But it's a bit late. On July 10, 2001--two months before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon--Johnson wrote an op-ed for the New York Times ("The Declining Terrorist Threat") in which he argued that Americans were "bedeviled by fantasies about terrorism" and, in truth, had "little to fear" from terrorism. And, in turn, he rebuked his former colleagues in the national security bureaucracy for using the "fiction" of the terrorist threat to pump up their budgets.
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strangely my Nexus comes back NULL with that text...how strange for such a supporter of intelligence and secrecy huh?
The Internet is a pesky little thing, isn't it?
Now that he's being paid by the DNC, he's nothing but a paid hack.
See the Larry Johnson op ed posted at FR on 9/11/01
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/520764/posts
Mark Levin read this dumba$$es OP-Ed piece in the NY Slimes from 07/2001 in which he basically said terrorism was not a threat to the US....the guy is a complete leftist....dying to get a copy of the Op-ed so I can fax it to chuck schiester's office...
thank you!
Flashback: "Intelligence Analyst" Larry C. Johnson: "The Declining Terrorist Threat (July 10, 2001)"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1447248/posts?page=11
Also:
Ex CIA Larry Johnson: Terrorism Isn't A Threat, But Big Tobacco Is!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1448666/posts?page=3
Larry seems like the type of Republican who votes for Democrats.
It is all starting to come back to me now.
Larry is a "myth maker", he has been out there for decades. He is likely still "active".
I have to go up stairs and dig into my books.
What a thing is can never be what it appears to be if it is to have effect.
We discussed ol' Lar on the Sunday Talk Show thread yesterday. I did a little research on the web.
Did you know that Larry and Valerie went to CIA school together? I thought that was an interesting little tidbit.
Here's the thread (post #261 if you want to see the links to Larry.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1449417/posts?page=295#261
Interesting Plame connections here.
Thanks for the ping!
I still think the connection between Mr. Cooper and his wife Mandy Grunwald (Hillary's best friend and advisor) is the most outstanding item AND the fact that COOPER CALLED Libby and Rove...inquiring about Valerie...thereby involving them. SETUP!!
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