Michael Ledeen: Intelligence? You Kidding Me? James Jesus Angleton on “Able Danger.”

NRO ^ | August 12, 2005 | Michael Ledeen

[Tolik]

Nailed It!

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[threeleftsmakearight]

Notice how this story has come out during August recess...when no one is around to be complained to.

PLEASE call your local representatives when they get back.
We MUST NOT allow this story to fade away.
If we let them get away with this, WE ARE DOOMED.

[Lurker]

Mr. Ledeen does it again.

L

[F14 Pilot]

ping

[HarleyLady27]

whenever anything like this comes out, I have to start looking around at something else....what are they doing, or what have they done that they want hidden....

Think back to all the big new stories, what has happened that wasn't reported on then, but it came out later only to find out while the 'big story' was being talked about, this item was being done....

[Peach]

And Gorelick was the one who culled through information as it came in and decided whether to let the entire Commission see it.

So as Clinton's cover-up artist, she made darned sure Able Danger stuff never saw the light of day.

[kellynla]

BTTT

[jacquej]

Marking for later reading....

[G.Mason]

Bump

Build my gallows high

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

...It didn't fit with what the policymakers wanted to believe....

Nonsense.

It was nowhere near that innocent.
That's the Clinton's own back up excuse.

To think that the most evil collection of dirtballs in American History didn't want to accept evil in others is ludicrous.

They knew of the Jihadis and they wanted it to happen.

The most honest response from the scum was when, after the towers were hit, some were heard to lament that it should have happened on the clown's watch so he could have dealt with so great a crisis.

They wanted it to happen.

[lawdude]

"The most honest response from the scum was when, after the towers were hit, some were heard to lament that it should have happened on the clown's watch so he could have dealt with so great a crisis."

In a nutshell!

[Congressman Billybob]

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Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "Another Open Letter to Hillary"

[hombre_sincero]

"JJA: It wasn’t illegal (WRONG!!), first of all. How could it have been? The "information" wasn’t proprietary, and it wasn’t secret. The data came from newspapers and magazines, they just analyzed it, and apparently they analyzed it quite well..."
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Under the guidlines established during the jimmy (traitor) carter administration, the intelligence agencies - NSA, CIA, ASA, USAFSS, NSG, etc - were barred from maintaining any information on any American. (The beginning of protecting presidential treason by the left?)

Any information secondarily or accidentally intercepted or analyzed by any of the agencies must be expunged and all records of any information destroyed. There could be NO dissemination of any information that concerned Americans anywhere in the world or individuals legally within the US borders (or otherwise protected).
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The majority of intelligence is gleamed from "non-classified" sources. What makes information "classified" mainly is simply the fact that we have it and are looking at it!

Example (made up): Who cares if some easet timorian chieftains met in a tent in the middle of the desert and talked about their sheep? What can be so classified about that?

Think! The simple fact that we have the information of who met where and what they spoke of is what must be maintained with the highest security. The security is in HOW we got the information.

Example: if a caller on a radio show says "Joe Blow is an anti America muslim" - the reliability of the statement is next to nil and nobody cares. BUT, if a senior analyst from NSA says the same thing, the probability of accuracy just went up to 95%+! Same information, but what makes something classified is the also the source.

The best source of tactical and strategic intelligence is "unclassified sources".

That is why in WWII the number one slogan to teach the American people was "Loose Lips Sink Ships" !

The ANALYSIS made it extremely classified!

The American intelligence services are unsurpassed in capabilities in gathering and analyzing. The weakest links and the failures come from Lawyers and Politicians who basically are too stupid to understand 90% of what is handed to them. The 10% that they do understand they don't like.

There is probably 20% plus of politicians, lawyers, and judges in the USA who have the one goal of destroying the capitalist republic of the United States.



(long time lurker - who is getting tired of ignorance and lies)

[Tolik]

Thank you very much! In.

Michael Ledeen BUMP.

[johnny7]

Yeah... it was Clinton & GORElick... but if this doesn't get any legs under it, the blame will lay on ALL of us.

During the 911 Committee hearings, we all saw the memo Aschecroft had in his hands... describing Jamie GORElick's 'Wall'. The Republican members saw it... and hardly uttered a peep.

While the real 9/11 blame lies on Clinton... WE can assume part of it by letting this revelation rot on the vine.

[Peach]

What else can we do?

On other important issues we've e-mailed FNC and called our congress critters. Nothing changes.

The best thing to do now is keep the information flow coming to FR, share it with our e-mail buddies to ensure a wider distribution, and call Congress and demand hearings.

[Tolik]

Welcome to the FreeRepublic, good points.

[ModelBreaker]

Please add me to the ping list. I was wondering why I wasn't getting Lee Harris pings :)

[Tolik]

Added to the list. Thanks

I still enjoy reading Lee Harris, but agree with him less often. And even when I agree with his main points, he packages his ideas in the way that can obscure them (lately). IMHO.