Gordon Prather

Physicist James Gordon Prather has served as a policy implementing official for national security-related technical matters in the Federal Energy Agency, the Energy Research and Development Administration, the Department of Energy, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Department of the Army. Dr. Prather also served as legislative assistant for national security affairs to U.S. Sen. Henry Bellmon, R-Okla. -- ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee and member of the Senate Energy Committee and Appropriations Committee. Dr. Prather had earlier worked as a nuclear weapons physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico.

Tenet’s Failures

The National Security Act of 1947 created the Office of the Director of Central Intelligence, making said DCI responsible for providing “timely, objective, independent of political considerations” intelligence, “based upon all sources available to the intelligence community” to the President, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staffs, and – “where appropriate” – Congressional Committees. … Continue reading “Tenet’s Failures”

Enabling Bush’s Wars of Aggression

Bill Moyers introduced his widely anticipated PBS special – entitled “Buying the War ” – thusly; “Four years ago this spring the Bush administration took leave of reality and plunged our country into a war so poorly planned it soon turned into a disaster. “The story of how high officials misled the country has been … Continue reading “Enabling Bush’s Wars of Aggression”

Ethanol: A Threat to National Security?

In his State of the Union Address this year, the Commander in Chief of the War on Terror asked the newly-elected Democrat-controlled Congress to join him "in pursuing a great goal." To effect regime change in Iran, thereby delivering "a decisive blow to terrorism," and achieving yet another famous "victory for the security of America … Continue reading “Ethanol: A Threat to National Security?”

Conspiracy, Collusion, War

On March 7, 2003, Mohamed ElBaradei, Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, reported [.pdf] to the UN Security Council that "After three months of intrusive inspections, we have to date found no evidence or plausible indication of the revival of a nuclear weapon program in Iraq.” After conducting a total of 218 inspections at … Continue reading “Conspiracy, Collusion, War”

More Mainstream Media Obfuscation

On March 17, 2003, ten days after the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency publicly reported to the UN Security Council that, “One, there is no indication of resumed nuclear activities in those buildings that were identified through the use of satellite imagery as being reconstructed or newly erected since 1998, nor any indication … Continue reading “More Mainstream Media Obfuscation”

Any Casus Belli Will Do

According to Russian intelligence, U.S.-allied armed forces in and around the Persian Gulf are being readied for an attack on Iran in the very near future. However, the pretext for the attack may not be related to the increasingly frantic, but totally unsubstantiated, charges that the Iranians have a nuclear weapons program, deep underground and … Continue reading “Any Casus Belli Will Do”

Novak’s ‘Outings’: Damage Control

Hours after the jury convicted Lewis “Scooter” Libby of obstructing justice – preventing Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald from finding out whether a crime had been committed in the outing by columnist Bob Novak of CIA operative Valerie Plame – Joseph C. Wilson IV told reporters that the CIA was holding up publication of Valerie Wilson’s … Continue reading “Novak’s ‘Outings’: Damage Control”

More Sand In Our Faces

Within hours of the verdict that Lewis “Scooter” Libby had “obstructed justice” – had prevented Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald from finding out whether a crime had been committed in the “outing” of CIA Non-Official Cover operative Valerie Plame and her cover, Brewster-Jennings & Associates, and if so, who had committed it – the Cheney Cabal … Continue reading “More Sand In Our Faces”

Fool Me Thrice?

Way back on 26 May 2003, more than a month before the Cheney Cabal outed Valerie Plame as a covert CIA operative – running agents in Iran, Iraq and elsewhere, seeking information on weapons of mass destruction, under cover of Brewster-Jennings, a CIA-front “energy consulting” firm – the New York Times published an editorial, calling … Continue reading “Fool Me Thrice?”