This sure isn’t a way to defend the claims in Woodward’s new book: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she cannot recall then-CIA chief George Tenet warning her of an impending al-Qaida attack in the United States, as a new book claims he did two months before the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. “What I […]
From Yesterday’s NYTimes: On July 10, 2001, the book says, Mr. Tenet and his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, met with Ms. Rice at the White House to impress upon her the seriousness of the intelligence the agency was collecting about an impending attack. But both men came away from the meeting feeling that Ms. […]
Emptywheel has a very interesting post up: On June 29, SCOTUS ruled that even enemy combatants must be treated according to the Geneva Convention. On July 13, Christine Axsmith posted this on her blog on the CIA’s confidential intranet, Intelink. Read on to find out what happened to Christine.
ABC has confirmed that the FBI is actively going after their phone records and even admits the Bush administration makes it so easy: The FBI acknowledged late Monday that it is increasingly seeking reporters’ phone records in leak investigations. “It used to be very hard and complicated to do this, but it no longer is […]
It has gone way to far now: A senior federal law enforcement official tells us the government is tracking the phone numbers we call in an effort to root out confidential sources. “It’s time for you to get some new cell phones, quick,” the source told us in an in-person conversation. We do not know […]
Well things are really heating up in DC: Law enforcement officials executed search warrants Friday on the house and office of the CIA’s outgoing executive director, the FBI said. The agency’s third ranking official, Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, has been under investigation by the FBI, IRS, Defense Criminal Investigative Service and the CIA’s inspector general, said […]
OK sitting here thinking about the revelation today of Bush authorizing the leak I have come up with something. Back when it was being reported that Cheney authorized the leak, one argument was regarding the declassification of information and if the vice-president has that power. It is clear that the President does in fact have […]
Think Progress is reporting that Frist has said they are ready to vote on the motion to censure Bush. Minutes ago, Sen. Bill Frist said on the Senate floor that “we are ready to vote on” a censure of President Bush over warrantless domestic wiretapping “this afternoon or tonight.” This might be one of the […]
Some stories just make me laugh and wonder what exactly is the point, is someone really going to buy this book and suddenly decide to mount convert operations…doubt it, the people who would do such a thing are either military or terrorist trained already, anyways who needs a book when there’s the internet…. BBC News […]
Murray Waas has exposed a new hole in the pre-war intelligence in his latest article. The first report, delivered to Bush in early October 2002, was a one-page summary of a National Intelligence Estimate that discussed whether Saddam’s procurement of high-strength aluminum tubes was for the purpose of developing a nuclear weapon. Among other things, […]