Sorry, folks I should do my own homework.
I conclude from reviewing the bios that the named sources hate US, and are making money hating US.
They are
Three People Who Failed America
- Juliette N. Kayyem, a former U.S. government counter-terrorism consultant and Justice Department lawyer,, Harvard Lecturer in Public Policy, and served as former House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt's appointment to the National Commission on Terrorism.
- Paul Pillar, a former CIA deputy counter-terrorism chief, and pushing a book.
- Michael Scheuer, the former chief of the CIA's special unit hunting Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, and making money bashing WOT.
- Lee Strickland, a former CIA counsel who retired in 2004 from the agency's Senior Intelligence Service