Satan’s earmuffs, it’s cold! The headline says it all: Why ‘Trust Us’ Is Often Reason Enough Not to Trust the Government. In a stunningly trenchant “news analysis”, Charlie Savage notes that the frenzied resentment that Biden administration spokesfolk like Jen Psaki express towards anyone who doubts their sainted word only makes us doubt them all…
Tag: CIA
The screwing of Matt Gaetz: A Fuller Perspective
A couple of weeks ago I raised the interesting question of whether Rep. Matt Gaetz, who comes across as a walking parody of “Florida Man”, complete with nudie pics on the cellphone, is being framed as a sex trafficking pedophile, when in fact his only “crime” is, well, being a “Florida man”. Well, the sometimes…
The CIA lies well—and David Ignatius is glad to help!
Mole hunt! Mole hunt! That’s the cry over at the CIA, and it’s exciting! See, here’s the deal. Back in the day, it seems that the Chinese were picking off our “key informants” (aka, “spies”), and no one knew how or why. Thanks, however, to bungled “tradecraft” on the part of the Chinese, the good…
Michael V. Hayden, mightily covering ass
Michael V. Hayden, you may be interested to know, is currently a principal at the Chertoff Group and visiting professor at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, and was formerly director of the National Security Agency from 1999 to 2005 and the Central Intelligence Agency from 2006 to 2009. He has a…
Michael V. Hayden seriously full of it, says Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Never piss off a United States senator. There once was no greater advocate of the “War on Terror” than California Senator Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee until the Republicans took over in 2014. But the CIA, in a classic case of compulsive over-reaching, tried to strong-arm her and her committee, turning a…
Hey, John Brennan! The attacks happened in France, not the U.S.!
Leave it to CIA director John Brennan to use terrorist attacks in France to prove that the U.S. Constitution, with its fussy concerns about general warrants, cruel and unusual punishments, and ex post facto laws—which all seem so 18th century these days—needs to be tossed out the window. “In the past several years, because of…
Warts? Fuck yeah, we got warts!
I’ve been reading, with a great deal of pleasure, John Lewis Gaddis’ estimable We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History, written in 1997 after the release of much formerly secret material from the former Soviet Union. While writing about the Korean War, Gaddis quotes an unnamed (of course) source with the CIA to the effect…
An ignominy of Democrats
Nancy Pelosi’s notorious “I never said I didn’t know the CIA was waterboarding I only said I didn’t know about it when they said I knew about it” press conference wasn’t quite as bad as lot of people are saying. (You can view it here.) Unfortunately, Nancy’s been lapped by Harry “Yes, I am a…