Tag Archives: CIA

My Hobbies Include “Killin Crakkkas”

The same Justice Department that has launched an investigation into the interrogation methods of the CIA dropped an investigation last month into charges of voter intimidation by two members of the New Black Panthers outside a Philadelphia polling place last Election Day. One of the two men, Samir Shabazz, was said to have been brandishing [...]

CONTENTION OF THE DAY – Waterboarding, Good for Me and Good for You

Newsweek’s Mark Hosenball says the Inspector General’s report and other recently-released documents pertaining to Bush-era interrogations of top al Qaeda operatives do not show that waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques EITs “actually worked.” Hosenball concedes that the detainees gave up a treasure trove of valuable intelligence, but the documents do not “convincingly demonstrate” that [...]

A Nation of Liars

“A nation of cowards.” That’s how Attorney General Eric Holder characterized the United States, soon after his confirmation, referring to our reticence in matters of race. On Monday, when Holder announced his intention to launch an investigation of interrogation techniques used by CIA operatives under the Bush administration, he allowed as how we are “a [...]

CONTENTION OF THE DAY – Pass the Popcorn, Pauline

The graph is based exclusively on non-Latino whites (because that’s who the book is about). If you want to see a visual representation of the development of the bubble that Barack Obama has been living in since he left Hawaii, that graph is it. Judging from the GSS [General Social Survey] data, every white socioeconomic [...]

German Intelligence vs. the CIA on Iran

As noted in the HotAir headlines, here’s a WSJ article – “Germany’s Spies Refuted the 2007 NIE Report” – that will be a must-read for those following the Iranian nuclear program and keeping score on the CIA. (In the world it’s Moon Day Monday, I guess, but so far it’s WSJ Day here in the [...]

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