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 undertaking that, by necessity, cannot be officially...
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 Iraqi oil well). Now, let’s look at the...
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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 claims was never returned after the Iran-Iraq War...
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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 order to stop all military tribunals (including...
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http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/04/23/nancy-pelosi-tries-to-have-it-both-ways/ House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pushing back on GOP charges that she knew about waterboarding for years and did nothing. Pelosi says she was briefed by Bush administration officials on the legal justification for using waterboarding...