CEO Mud Wrestling
One of the key moments of yesterday’s Environment and Public Works hearing on the BP Disaster came when Tom Udall tried to pin the CEOs down on whether, as reported by WSJ, at BP’s direction,...
View ArticleWill Senators Filibuster Chuck Hagel’s Nomination to Get the Targeted Killing...
Eleven Senators just sent President Obama a letter asking nicely, for at least the 12th time, the targeted killing memo. They remind him of his promise of transparency and oversight. In your speech at...
View ArticleThat Makes Over 21 Requests by 31 Members of Congress, Mr. President
Adding the letter that Barbara Lee, as well as a list of all Members of Congress who have, at one time or another, requested the targeted killing memos. February 2011: Ron Wyden asks the Director of...
View ArticleOn the Meanings of “Dishonor” and “Hack”
The former NSA IG (and current affiliate of the Chertoff Group profiteers, though he didn’t disclose that financial interest) Joel Brenner has taken to the pages of Lawfare to suggest anyone trying to...
View ArticleEvery Senator Who Supports USA Freedom May Be Affirmatively Ratifying a...
Now that I’ve finally got around to reading the so-called transparency provisions in Patrick Leahy’s USA Freedom Act, I understand that one purpose of the bill, from James Clapper’s perspective, is to...
View ArticleThe Covert Operation Undermining US Credibility against ISIS
Over the weekend, the NYT had a story reporting the “conspiracy theory” popular among Iraqis that the US is behind ISIS. The United States has conducted an escalating campaign of deadly airstrikes...
View ArticleRevisiting David Petraeus’ Crack Plan to Ally with Al Qaeda
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on potential airstrikes against Assad, September 3, 2013 SEN. CORKER: What I’m unaware of is why it is so slow in actually helping them with lethal support —...
View ArticleIf Ending DOD’s Train and Assist Program Is about Returning to Covert Status,...
When Mike Lee, Joe Manchin, Chris Murphy, and Tom Udall wrote the Administration calling for an end to the Syria Train and Equip Program last week, they addressed it to CIA Director John Brennan, along...
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