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DISTURBING NEWS FROM AFGHANISTANBy Larry Johnsonby Larry C. Johnson Taliban fighters linked to Al Qaeda shotdown a U.S. military helicopter on Tuesday reportedly with an RPG. According to FBIS reports, a Taliban spokesman claimed that US forces had inserted seven "spies" into the moutains west... NEOCONS DO IT AGAIN IN IRANBy Larry Johnsonby Larry C Johnson From the same crowd who promised us Iraqis dancing in the street and welcoming us as liberators, another cornerstone of the neocon delusional reality has crashed back to earth. I refer of course to Iran's election... 1364 Versus 1380 and CountingBy Larry Johnsonby Larry C Johnson During yesterday's thrashing of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld by members of the Senate and House, the Secretary sought refuge in the notion that we faced setbacks in World War II and we should take that into... WOE IS US?By Larry Johnsonby Larry C. Johnson GWOT, which is now WOT, may soon become WOE. GWOT, which stands for Global War on Terrorism, has been supplanted by the term WOT, War on Terrorism. However, the White House reportedly is mulling over using... FBI GETS BUM RAPBy Larry Johnsonby Larry C Johnson The latest reports bashing the FBI for dropping the ball in dealing with terrorism are misleading and wrong. (news link) I don't have a dog in this fight because I never worked for the FBI nor... THANKS FOR MAKING MY POINTBy Larry Johnsonby Larry C. Johnson My friend and colleague Andy Cochran has tossed down the gauntlet (which I presume is a metal glove for smacking folks upside the head). I think Andy shares my view that torture and abuse of unarmed... YEAH, BUT HE ENJOYED THE GLAZED CHICKEN AND PITABy Larry Johnsonby Larry C. Johnson The point of the outrage over abuses at Guantanamo is that we are a country based on morals and principles that require us to conduct ourselves in an honorable, proper fashion. If we lower ourselves to... BACK TO THE FUTURE: DEALING WITH THE LOOMING DEBACLEBy Larry Johnsonby Larry C Johnson Wishful thinking is no substitute for empirical analysis and a policy grounded in reality. The Bush Administration is coming slowly and uncertainly to this realization, particularly in Lebanon. Now that the premature euphoria about the birth... WELDON'S WHACKY WORLD PART II: WHAT'S A DIVISION?By Larry Johnsonby Larry C Johnson Representative Curt Weldon's performance on Meet the Press yesterday underscores how off base this guy can be. He is on the House Armed Services Committee, which means he is supposed to oversee the US Military. However,... WELDON'S WHACKY WORLD AND THE TRUTH ABOUT IRANBy Larry Johnsonby Larry C. Johnson According to Congressman Weldon, Republican from Pennsylvania, the CIA is incompentent because it will not accept as fact the bogus claims of a source who is being spoon fed by a confirmed liar, Manocher Ghobanifar. No... SORTING OUT THE IRAQ INSURGENCYBy Larry Johnsonby Larry C. Johnson President Bush and Vice President Cheney need to get a grip on reality. The happy talk about the "fading" insurgency in Iraq ignores some harsh realities that bode ill for the future of U.S. interests in... BOLTON AND THE ART OF COOKING INTELLIGENCEBy Larry Johnsonby Larry C. Johnson The nomination of John Bolton as Ambassador to the UN is another body blow to the intelligence community and sends a clear message to analysts that speaking up about political pressure will only damage your career.... TERRORISM: WHY THE NUMBERS MATTERBy Larry JohnsonBy Larry C Johnson The numbers are in and the news is not good for U.S. efforts to contain and reduce the threat of international terrorism. 2004 marked the highest number of significant incidents of terrorism since the intelligence community... THE FACTS ABOUT "PATTERNS OF GLOBAL TERRORISM" (UPDATED with released "Country Reports on Terrorism 2004" and NCTC Chronology)By Larry Johnsonby Larry C. Johnson (UPDATE: Larry appeared on MSNBC today on this story.) After being outed on this blog site for their surreptitious effort to keep the statistics on international terrorism away from the Congress and the American people, the... STATE DEPARTMENT INTENT ON STONEWALLING ON TERRORISM (UPDATE 4/27)By Larry Johnsonby Larry C. Johnson (UPDATE: April 27 Washington Post cites Larry's scoop.) The State Department and the National Counter Terrorism Center briefed a bipartisan group of the House of Representatives yesterday (Monday) on some of the numbers that will not... GOODBYE PATTERNS OF GLOBAL TERRORISM? (UPDATED 4/16)By Larry Johnsonby Larry C. Johnson (UPDATE, 4/16: Knight-Ridder Newspapers quotes this post in wire story.) Just when you thought the Department of State could not top last year's debacle in failing accurately to count the number of international terrorist incidents, it... KEEPING SCORE ON INTELLIGENCE ACCOUNTABILITYBy Larry Johnsonby Larry C. Johnson The unfortunate impression left by the recent report on intelligence failures submitted by the Robb/Silbermann commission suggests that the CIA in general failed. Yet, as noted in a previous post on this site, we need to... THE SENATOR ROBB, JUDGE SILBERMANN WHITEWASHBy Larry Johnsonby Larry C. Johnson "Dead wrong" is the phrase the media is trumpeting from the report issued by former Senator Chuck Robb and Judge Laurence Silbermann under the title , Final Report on Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding... Third Blast in Lebanon Serves Notice of Life without SyriaBy Larry Johnsonby Larry C. Johnson Another day and another bomb in Christian neighborhood. The Syrian intelligence service is sending a clear message to the fractious Lebanese that violence and uncertainty will be the rule if Syrian security forces are not in... Chaos in Iraq Fuels Worry among Persian Gulf NeighborsBy Larry Johnsonby Larry C. Johnson Extended discussions during the last two months with political and security officials from Persian Gulf States reveals a growing nervousness about the failure of the United States to contain the insurgency in Iraq. Our friends worry... Washington Times Gets it Wrong on the FARCBy Larry Johnsonby Larry C. Johnson Washington Times correspondent, Jerry Seper, produced an alarmist and misleading piece in today's paper titled, "Colombia's FARC Spreads in Central America". The FARC is not spreading, but a U.S. born threat is. The FARC remains on... WITH MEXICAN FRIENDS LIKE THIS WHO NEEDS ENEMIESBy Larry Johnsonby Larry C. Johnson There is a terrorist threat in Mexico against Americans only it is from Mexican police. Two weeks ago (March 4th) a senior US Government official with the Transportation Security Administration was brutally attacked. This official, who... PDB Wars Part II: Back to the FutureBy Larry Johnsonby Larry C. Johnson Changes in how the PDB was vetted and produced go a long way to explain some of the recent intelligence failures. These changes began during the Clinton Administration and have continued in the Bush Administration. Before... THE BATTLE OF THE PDBBy Larry Johnsonby Larry C. Johnson What to do about the PDB? This is but one of a number of significant challenges for John Negroponte when he takes the helm as the National Intelligence Director. The Presidential Daily Brief aka PDB has... Negroponte Inspired ChoiceBy Larry Johnsonby Larry C. Johnson President Bush's choice of John Negroponte as the first National Intelligence Director (NID) is a reassuring sign that an adult will be in charge. The various legislators and pundits lamenting that Negroponte does not have "intelligence... Likely Culprits Behind Bombing of Former Lebanese Prime MinisterBy Larry Johnsonby Larry C. Johnson Today's bomb blast in Lebanon, which killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, is a harbinger that a peaceful, democratic transition of Governments in the Middle East is a foolish pipe dream. Hariri, aka Fatso, has... The Election Result and the Insurgency in IraqBy Larry Johnsonby Larry Johnson Colonel Patrick Lang (US Army Retired) served as the US Defense Attache in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. He established and was the first professor in the Arabic Language program at West Point in the 1970s. He is... A Terror War in Mexico?By Larry Johnsonby Larry Johnson Like a canary in a mine shaft, Mexico is beginning to exhibit signs of distress and we should take the warning on board and begin to address the challenge. The arrest last week of a Nahum Acosta,... Iran's Great VictoryBy Larry Johnsonby Larry C. Johnson Neocons desperate to sustain the good news delusion from Iraq will find little solace in the election results that are supposed to be announced on Sunday, Februay 13, 2005. After twenty years of trying to contain... US GOVERNMENT STILL CONFUSED ABOUT TERRORIST INCIDENTS?By Larry JohnsonBy Larry C. Johnson Confusion within the Bush Administration about how to count terrorist activity persists despite pledges to fix the problems and get the facts straight. The initial problem emerged last spring with the release of the State Departments... |