Matt Bissonnette's Information Operation Against a Broken System of Secrecy
“We all knew the deal. We were tools in the toolbox, and when things go well they promote it. They inflate their roles.” --Mark Bissonnette
HuffPo and AP/CBS have an initial description of how Matt Bissonnette's story of the Osama bin Laden…
Did Karzai Fire NDS Head Nabil for Confirming ISI Shared Intelligence on Badruddin Haqqani's Killing?
Afghan President Hamid Karzai today fired the head of Afghanistan's intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security. This move comes as a great surprise, as the NDS was credited with thwarting a recent Haqqani network attack on Kabul…
Dear CIA: Maybe It's Time to Spring for New PO Boxes?
I've suggested since the "names" of the two "trainers" ambushed in Mexico last Friday were released they were likely covers.
Not only are they apparently covers, but one of them was tied to a PO Box whose prior user had already been publicly…
If by "Fact Check" You Mean "Spy on MoDo"
A funny thing happened when Judicial Watch tried to catch the White House buttering up Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal for the Zero Dark Thirty film. It caught CIA doing so.
More embarrassing still, it caught the CIA asking NYT's spook reporter,…
Publisher's Shock and Awe
As I mentioned yesterday, the Pentagon has now gotten a copy of Osama bin Laden kill team member Matt Bissonnette's book, No Easy Day. They're reviewing it for classified information.
So today, the publisher announced that it has almost doubled…
The Paul Ryan Surge, MI's Anti-Obama Blacks, Mitt's Bankrupt Birth, and Other Republican Myths
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On August 11, Mitt Romney announced his pick of Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan as his running mate. A few days later, CrazyPete…
The Diplomacy of Ambushes
The reporting on the ambush of 2 American trainers in Mexico on Friday reminds me of the reporting on Ray Davis' antics in Pakistan last year. Then, there was a squeamishness about mentioning that he was a CIA contractor, even after that had…
Deadly Isaac Was at 2008 Republican Convention
No, not Tropical Storm Isaac, which is expected to become a hurricane later today and hit New Orleans late tonight or tomorrow morning as the Republican National Convention parties on in Tampa. This Isaac is Isaac Aguigui, whom prosecutors…
Admiral McRaven: Taxpayers Should Learn about Special Operations from Hollywood Movies
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Most of the coverage of Admiral William McRaven's letter to the special operations community telling them to shut up has focused on McRaven's insinuation that the recent flurry of activity stems entirely from…
Now Legal Speech in Michigan: “Cold and Hungry, God Bless”
On July 4 of last year, Grand Rapids cops arrested Air Force veteran Ernest Sims for asking a passerby “Can you spare a little change?" Two days earlier, James Speet was also arrested, for holding a sign that read, "Need Job, God Bless." Seven…
Will the NYPD Be Spying on Muslims to Learn What They Think of These Administrative Punishments?
The AP reports that 6 soldiers and 3 Marines responsible for burning Qurans in Afghanistan and for urinating on a corpse, respectively, will receive Administrative punishment (the punishments for other Marines involved in the urination incident…
N!**@r Ha Ha
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Everybody's been talking--and celebrating--Chris Matthews for calling out Reince Priebus on the way the GOP has been playing the race card, both with its welfare reform ad campaign and with Romney's joke about…
Persians Punk Photo Pretenders: Parchin Pretty in Pink
In order to make the case for a military attack on Iran, those who advocate war need to show that Iran is engaged in developing a nuclear weapon. There will be a new IAEA report this week, and we already know that this report will try to…
"With A Neck Like a Jockey's Bollocks" Trash Talk
Yeah, about the title. No, I am not quite sure what it means. Maybe Marcy and other sundry mystery guests will be along to explain the damn thing.
What I can confirm is that it is unequivocally the single most awesome grouping of words I…
This Is Your War On Drugs
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Of all the shootings that have happened in the last day, I suspect this one--of two US government employees in a diplomatic car in Mexico--may get the least attention in the US. The shootout occurred between…
Where Mitt Was Born and Raised: "Public Nuisance," "Blight"
Mitt Romney just made a totally dickish comment at a campaign event in Commerce, MI:
No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place where we were born and raised.
Here's what you need to know about "where…
Dear Johns: Remember the Government Doesn't Destroy Incidentally Collected Intelligence
The Republican party-goers in Tampa will be surveilled by drones.
This will mark the first time unmanned aerial vehicles will patrol the skies over a national convention, according to an engineer with a Naples company that builds and will operate…
The First Rule of the Fight Club...
I've been waiting to comment on the news that one of the SEALs that killed Osama bin Laden has a book coming out on September 11.
The publication will undoubtedly be yet another telling episode in our government's asymmetric treatment of…
NATO Figures: Green on Green Death Rate Exceeds Green on Blue. What About Blue on Blue?
The skyrocketing rate of green on blue attacks, where Afghan security forces turn their weapons on NATO troops, is forcing such desperate measures that NATO has given orders for all coalition troops to remain armed at all times, even when "inside…
Mitt Gets Squeamish about Tithing
Some weeks ago, I suggested one of what I suspect are several reasons why Mitt won't release his taxes had to do with his Mormon tithe.
Add in the practice–which even an outsider like me saw when I lived in UT and worked for a predominantly…