Bookworm on Nov 16 2012 | Filed under: CIA
Tweet At Cal, I wasn’t sophisticated enough to understand that I was being taught the Marxist version of history. All I knew is that my love for history was predicated on the power of personalities, while the history they taught at Cal ignored individuals and focused on mass movements that were described in terms of [...]
Bookworm on Nov 09 2012 | Filed under: CIA
Tweet That’s some big news. Three days after the President wins reelection, the head of the CIA, who just happened to be on the Benghazi watch, resigns, citing an affair. That opens the way to a lot of ideas. I’ll accept that he was indeed having an affair. Did he resign because he was being [...]
Danny Lemieux on Feb 11 2011 | Filed under: 9/11, CIA, Egypt
Tweet Has the U.S. ever been so clueless as it is today with respect to events going on in Egypt? CIA Director Panetta just admitted that he gets his information on Egyptian events from the media, rather than from his own agency. National Intelligence Director Jim Clapper, meanwhile, pontificates about how the Muslim Brotherhood is [...]
Bookworm on Aug 24 2009 | Filed under: CIA
Tweet First Nancy Pelosi got into a very public battle with the CIA, one that she abruptly dropped. Now Eric Holder is starting the same war with his announcement that he has decided to appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen CIA terror interrogations. I’ll ask again what I asked before in connection with [...]
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