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HOLIDAY of the DAY (for those looking for a reason to stay home today) This is the 64th anniversary of the changing of William “Wild Bill” Donavan’s wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

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Iran’s New Toy

An hour after Iranian state television aired images purporting to show off a captured LockheedMartin RQ-170 Sentinel , General Norton Schwartz, the Air Force’s top uniformed officer, raised the specter of a foreign power copying the stealthy jet’s...

Published 12-13-2011 6:08 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: geopolitics, China, North Korea, Iran, Russia, science, Intelligence, CIA, axcess bloggers, technology
Clancy meets Creighton

According to reports Sunday in both the New York Times and Jerusalem Post , the US and Israel, with supporting roles played by Germany and England, created the stuxnet virus and unleashed it on Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant, destroying...

Published 01-16-2011 7:51 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: Gee Whiz technology, Iran, CIA, axcess bloggers, NSA
Counterterror Kabuki

Let’s start with an age-old problem – connecting the dots. Take a handful of Cheerios and spread them out on the kitchen table. Know that five (three?, six?, any?) of them, if “connected” and placed in a different context, lead to an actionable conclusion...

Published 01-16-2010 14:05 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, Obama, government, history, DHS, Congress, Intelligence, CIA, terrorism
When You Lay Down with Dogs …

The killing of seven intelligence officers in Khost [Afghanistan] by a double agent brings to the fore the problems we are having with intelligence, in general, and human intelligence (HUMINT), in particular. Intelligence, general or HUMINT, is a mucky...

Published 01-12-2010 20:35 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: Middle East, military, Intelligence, CIA, Afganistan, terrorism, counterterrorism
the End Game

The Persian Conundrum is a tertiary puzzle. We will end up with Iran minus a nuclear program; or Iran with a nuclear program; or Iran under new management. We are insisting on the first option, which is least likely and will only happen voluntarily in...

Published 12-27-2009 5:32 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, Obama, Middle East, Israel, government, geopolitics, China, Iran, Russia, Turkey, Intelligence, CIA
Iranian/American Hold ‘Em

Last time, I talked about the gambit being run by the US (holding out international gasoline sanctions against Tehran’s continued unsupervised nuclear activity) and Iran’s response (kidnapping of three Americans and the occupation of a southern...

Published 12-24-2009 13:04 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, Obama, Middle East, Israel, geopolitics, China, piracy, Iran, Turkey, military, Intelligence, CIA, Afganistan, Iraq
Iran Calls Our Bluff

I’ve discussed Iran’s nuclear weapons program in these pages before, but an incident occurred early Friday that has been under-reported. A small unit of special operators entered southern Iraq and occupied an oil well in an area that Iran...

Published 12-22-2009 4:33 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, Obama, Middle East, Israel, government, geopolitics, China, Iran, Russia, military, Intelligence, CIA, Iraq
Inscrutable

Just to set the record straight, President Obama, not Attorney General Holder, has decided to move the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trials [1] to New York’s Southern District. When he moved responsibility for the trials from DoD to DoJ and issued an executive...

Published 11-19-2009 16:38 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, Obama, government, New York, international relations, history, military, law, Intelligence, CIA, lunacy
KГБ Gets the Last Laugh

Scratch another Liberal dream off the list – CIA has been functionally destroyed. And in the process, we may find out whether President Obama is truth-challenged or just not in control of his administration. Less than a month after “bankruptcy...

Published 09-02-2009 13:34 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, Obama, government, Congress, Intelligence, CIA

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