Posted on September 28th, 2009 by Philip Giraldi
John M. Cole, a former FBI Counterintelligence and Counterespionage Manager, has publicly confirmed the FBI’s decade long investigation of the former State Department Official Marc Grossman. Cole worked for 18 years in the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division. According to Cole, as in over one hundred cases involving Israeli espionage activities directed against the US government, the Grossman case was [...]
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Posted on September 25th, 2009 by Freddy Gray
Patent nutter Ed Schultz reminds us that Fox News has no monopoly on crazy political TV. (Via Michael C. Moynihan at Reason.)
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Posted on September 25th, 2009 by Patrick J. Buchanan
While America was consumed this summer with quarrels over town-hall radicals, “death panels,” the “public option” and racism’s role in the plunging polls of Barack, what happens to health care is not going to change the history of the world. What happens in Afghanistan might. Gen. Stanley McChrystal has done his duty. He has bluntly [...]
Filed under: War, World
Posted on September 24th, 2009 by Freddy Gray
Daniel Drezner and Andy Heil note that Dmitri Medvedev wants to court some rebellious American voices when he visits the United States this week. According to AP, Russian news agencies quote him as telling a group of visiting foreign experts that “I believe there are dissidents in the United States.” ITAR-Tass quotes him as saying: [...]
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Posted on September 23rd, 2009 by Daniel McCarthy
Rand Paul, running for the Kentucky U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Jim Bunning, has raised over $100,000 so far today in a money bomb to beat the $500-a-plate Washington fundraiser being held tonight by his Republican primary opponent, Secretary of State Trey Grayson. Meanwhile Peter Schiff, eying Chris Dodd’s Connecticut Senate seat, picked up [...]
Filed under: Election, Politics
Posted on September 23rd, 2009 by Philip Giraldi
For those who have not yet overdosed on the Sibel Edmonds saga, here is a link to an interview I gave yesterday on antiwar radio with Scott Horton and Joe Lauria. Joe Lauria was co-author of the three articles on Edmonds that appeared last year in The Sunday Times of London. Horton moderated. I become a little [...]
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Posted on September 23rd, 2009 by Freddy Gray
America’s foray into Somalia last week is already all but forgotten in Washington — filed away as a successful mission in the war on terror. We went in with helicopter gunships, killed a bad guy — or three — and got out, taking some corpses with us for good measure. What’s not to like? For [...]
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Posted on September 22nd, 2009 by Clark Stooksbury
John Cole states that, “Frank Gaffney is an insane crazy person. He has proven it on any number of occasions, but he quite clearly demonstrated that he is a lunatic in the above clip, right there on Hardball.” He then asks, “So why, exactly, are Matthews and his producers inviting him back on the show [...]
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Posted on September 22nd, 2009 by William S. Lind
The Washington Post yesterday made available an unclassified version of Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s long-awaited report on the war in Afghanistan. Politically, the report is bold, in that it acknowledges the enemy has the initiative and we have been fighting the war – for eight years – in counterproductive ways. But intellectually, both as analysis and [...]
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Posted on September 22nd, 2009 by Freddy Gray
Health warning: bound to induce strong bouts of cringing.
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