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GOP Sen. Blasts “Most Dangerous Foreign Policy Blunder Since Vietnam”
GOP Sen. Blasts “Most Dangerous Foreign Policy Blunder Since Vietnam” Meanwhile in the Senate, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told the Foreign Relations Committee the Iraqi government is living on “borrowed time.” She also declined to call the troop surge an escalation but rather an “augmentation.” Rice heard criticism from both sides of the aisle. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska had harsh words for the administration’s plan.
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controversial counterterrorism programs run by the Bush administration, including the infamous Total
Every time you hear about intelligence watching North Korea or tapping al-Qaeda phones, something like that, you can bet that corporations like these are very heavily involved. And Booz Allen is one of the largest of these contractors. I estimate that about 50% of our $45 billion intelligence budget goes to private sector contractors like Booz Allen. Mike McConnell, Booz Allen and the Privatization of IntelligenceFriday, January 12th, 2007 http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sMike McConnell, the man President Bush tapped to replace John Negroponte as National Intelligence Director, has been a leading figure in outsourcing U.S. intelligence operations to private industry. McConnell is a former director of the National Security Agency and the current director of defense programs at Booz Allen. We take a look at McConnell and the privatization of intelligence with journalist Tim Shorrock. [includes rush transcript]
National Intelligence Director John Negroponte warned Thursday that al-Qaeda poses the gravest threat to the United States and is rebuilding its strength from secure hideouts in Pakistan. His comments were made in written testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee as part of his annual threat assessment. Negroponte also said that Iraq was at a violent and "precarious juncture," he stressed concern over an increasingly confident Hizbollah and outlined a series of other threats to the United States, including from Somalia, Iran and Syria. Negroponte became the first National Intelligence director in April 2005 but is shortly due to move to the state department where he will become Condoleezza Rice's deputy. President Bush last week named retired Navy Vice Admiral Mike McConnell to replace Negroponte as the new chief of intelligence. McConnell said he would work to increase the coordination between the nation's 16 different spy agencies.
JUAN GONZALEZ: President Bush last week named retired Navy Vice Admiral Mike McConnell to replace Negroponte as the new chief of Intelligence. ( Read more... ) |
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The spy who came in from the boardroom
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/0 The Bush administration's choice last week of J. Michael McConnell to be director of national intelligence is a major blunder -- and not just because the man who will be overseeing 16 different spy agencies, including the CIA, took the job after a "personal approach" from an old friend named Dick Cheney. The problem is with McConnell's résumé. At present, U.S. intelligence is more dependent on private contractors than it has ever been. About half of the rapidly expanding annual intelligence budget, or more than $20 billion, now goes to outside firms. The work those private contractors perform has been slammed repeatedly for mismanagement, privacy violations and bias -- and yet the would-be head of the nation's intelligence effort is a top executive at one of the worst offenders. McConnell, a retired vice admiral and former director of the National Security Agency, is the current director of defense programs at Booz Allen Hamilton |
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tim shorrock
http://www.timshorrock.com/ tim shorrock http://www.timshorrock.com/ |
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Ray Close: "Getting down to specifics"
TO: Distinguished Recipients FM: John Whitbeck Transmitted below are some pertinent questions regarding President In this context, my Iraqi-born Saudi Arabian partner has shown me ( Read more... ) |
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