(0 comments)Sorry I’ve been silent for a couple days. I’m in the midst of negotiating a deal to close by the end of the month and have been generally consumed.
Just wanted to pass on an amusing post from one of my favorite blogs:
Philip Giraldi’s unusually good national security sources make his writings at American Conservative consistently worth following. His take on the Cheney/CIA mystery program is well worth a read, and not just because it agrees with what I wrote yesterday.The most interesting bit for me was Giraldi’s surprisingly thorough account of how the program ended. According to his sources, a Delta Force team arrived in Kenya on false passports, botched the job and needed to be bailed out by the Ambassador, who, naturally, had no idea they were there. The program didn’t so much end at that point as languish in administrative limbo. Another notable take-home from Giraldi’s piece.
The perpetrators in Kenya also quickly discovered that white boys born in the American south sporting crewcuts and speaking no foreign language had difficulties in blending in as foreign businessmen.All in all, as Bush era initiatives go, a fairly good day.
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Hey! Welcome back. Thanks for the tip, good article.
maybe you should accept some guest posts ;) who knows who might have something good to the blog going!?
good to keep the blog going***
"white boys born in the American south sporting crewcuts and speaking no foreign language had difficulties in blending in as foreign businessmen. "
What? pffftt.. I can totally pass as a Canadian.
And they still cannot comprehend why their polices, and operations fail. Sounds like the originators of these programs and operations grew up reading Nick Carter and Bolan novels without understanding that they are fiction.
That's a telling little outtake, thanks for the pointer. I need to check out his writing.
What bugs me with the growing Cheney 'revelations' are the orchestrated leaks to papers like WSJ (the first with 2 intel sources" confirming it was an assassination team), thus allowing them to frame the news with weasel words and qualifiers that make it sound almost like business as usual, and as if the VP had done nothing out of the ordinary. And that sets the tone for subsequent discussion, which now presents Cheney as being hounded for no good reason.
Spin machines at work. Once it gets out they can't stop the revelations but they can (try to) control how the VP appears in all this. What BS.
Someone will have to be sacrificed in the investigations about torture, since the president’s pardon for all the lower life forms has covered their buts. Unlike the Iraq prison scandal, this time they will not be able to sacrifice some grunts, but not the officers and investigators who made the police. I still have not figured out if this is an attempt at a defense by Cheney, or a real inept defense. However they are going to have to sacrifice someone.