The bad news is that the Obama Administration is 99% behind the CIA’s “tain’t nobody’s business if we spy (on the U.S. Congress), lie, and torture” stance on, well, spying, lying, and torture. The further bad news is that Republican Sen. Richard Burr1 of North Carolina, incoming chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, wants to…
Tag: CIA follies
The CIA lies and lies and lies. And the Obama Administration is totally down with that.
What has our CIA been up to recently? Mark Mazzetti and Carl Hulse of the New York Times fill us in: An internal investigation by the C.I.A. has found that its officers penetrated a computer network used by the Senate Intelligence Committee in preparing its damning report on the C.I.A.’s detention and interrogation program. The…
The Education of Fred Kaplan
You’ve got to hand it to Fred: he’s not turning his back on Afghanistan, no matter how crappy it gets. Long ago, I used to ridicule Fred for his Pollyanna reports on our cool weaponry, including a 15-ton “Guided Multiple-Launch Rocket System” that, Fred insisted, people called the “70-kilometer sniper round,” which, coupled with our…