Jose Padilla was arrested two years ago at O'Hare International Airport by the FBI on a "material witness" warrant. Padilla was alleged to have met with senior al-Qaeda operatives in Afghanistan and Pakistan, received training in the use of high explosives, and sent...
Internet Nukes
Two years ago Jose Padilla was arrested for allegedly being sent back here by al-Qaeda "to reconnoiter potential sites" for detonating a radiological dispersal device – sometimes referred to as a "dirty bomb." President Bush promptly...
What Really Caused Tenet’s Departure?
If you thought the neo-crazies had lost control over President Bush, think again. A neo-crazy delegation – headed by Richard Perle – marched up to the White House last week and demanded that Bush fire Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) George Tenet....
C’est la Guerre
When President Bush declared War on Terrorism, he pledged to prevent regimes – such as North Korea, Iran and Iraq – from providing chemical, biological or nuclear weapons to terrorists. Of course, Iran and Iraq had both developed chem-bio weapons and had...
Gulf War III
American Likudniks have been "examining" the consequences to our national security of an Israeli preemptive strike against certain Iranian facilities and programs, all now subject to an International Atomic Energy Agency Safeguards Agreement. Whenever President Bush...
When Intelligence Is Disinformation
During the Cold War, Soviet intelligence agencies sometimes provided us "disinformation" – false information, intended to obscure the truth. Hence, there were frequently sharp differences of opinion within our own intelligence community as to whether or...
Tenet’s ‘Slam-Dunk’
Ernest Hemingway once defined "sin" as "something you feel bad about, afterwards." On the evidence presented in Richard Clarke's "Against All Enemies," and in Bob Woodward's "Plan of Attack," Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet ought to have a terminal case...
Neo-Crazy Coup d’Etat
Perhaps you haven't noticed – certainly the neo-crazies hope you haven't – but we have just experienced a coup d'etat. What's a "coup d'etat"? Well, according to Edward Luttwak, author of Coup D'etat: A Practical Handbook, "A coup consists of the...