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Why Spend $50 Billion for an Intelligence Community When AIPAC Knows Better?

From On July 3, 2013 · Leave a Comment

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by Jim Lobe

I guess that’s one of the things that occurred to me when I received this Press Release and the letter to the president (reproduced below my post) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) yesterday. All but one of the 47 members of the Committee signed on.

The [...]

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Elliott Abrams Seems Poor Choice to Pronounce on Benghazi

From On May 11, 2013 · Leave a Comment

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by Jim Lobe

As Republican lawmakers and Fox News have been claiming that the Benghazi “cover-up” scandal will prove even bigger than the Iran-Contra and Watergate scandals combined, Elliott Abrams – who, faced with a slew of felony charges by the Iran-Contra special prosecutor while serving as Assistant Secretary [...]

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Former CIA Director and Romney Advisor Hayden Calls for Realism in Mideast

From On October 12, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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As Republican House members grilled State Department officials over the last month’s lethal attacks on U.S. facilities and personnel in Benghazi, Gen. Michael Hayden, George W. Bush’s former CIA director (2006 to 2009) and now a Romney campaign advisor, suggested in a column published on the CNN website that realism [...]

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Don’t Iraq Iran: Foolproof the Intelligence

From On October 2, 2012 · 1 Comment

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Roger Z. George, a former national intelligence officer who teaches at the National War College in Washington, explains how to avoid making the same mistakes the US made before invading Iraq in 2003, with Iran:

- set extremely high standards for evidence
– don’t over-rely on information gathered and supplied by [...]

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