Day Six: Our First Purge
Rather than targeting Latinos and Muslims, Trump’s first targets have been disloyal Republicans (and Mormon Harry Reid). That may help us keep a majority who are opposed to Trump together.
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FBI Established Saudi Task Force Just before Joint Inquiry Release
/20 Comments/in EO 12333, Terrorism/by emptywheelThe House Intelligence Committee just released the 28 pages detailing Saudi involvement in 9/11. The pages are actually more damning than I expected. It lays out many damning details we already knew of: including that Bandar bin Sultan’s wife was providing money to one of the suspect Saudi intelligence people, several Saudi apparent agents provided support […]
The 28 Pages
/10 Comments/in Terrorism/by emptywheelOn Sunday, President Obama said this about about Hillary’s email scandal: “There’s classified & then there’s classified.” Perhaps that’s what has led him to decide, after 15 years, the 28 pages on the Saudis’ role in 9/11 can finally be released (or at least reviewed for declassification; given the way the 60 Minutes script ignored […]
America’s Failed Quagmire
/19 Comments/in War/by emptywheelThe WaPo has a report providing new (actually conflicting, especially as to start date) details on America’s “covert” efforts in Syria. In all seriousness, Administration officials (some anonymous) and a former Syrian opposition figure told WaPo that the whole point of this was quagmire: weakening Bashar al-Assad, but not too much. Supplied mostly from stocks owned by […]
While We’re Investigating Intelligence Failures on Syria…
/29 Comments/in Intelligence/by emptywheelFor the past several weeks, we’ve had a series of stories about how the intelligence on ISIS was cooked — at least within DIA. I had grand plans to write some posts on it — to track DIA’s past recent politicization (which I think should raise some skepticism about these claims, though I find them largely credible), […]
Insanity Continues to Build Around Prospect of Iran Nuclear Pact
/4 Comments/in Foreign Policy, WMD/by Jim WhiteFrom the nature of the political feeding frenzy surrounding the ongoing P5+1 negotiations with Iran on Iran’s nuclear technology, it is hard to believe that the Joint Plan of Action under which the countries are now operating was extended last November through the end of June of this year. At the time of that extension, […]
NOW Will Saudi Support for 9/11 become Toxic?
/5 Comments/in Terrorism/by emptywheelBack in a Twitter discussion with Jack Goldsmith about whether President Obama could force a peace settlement with Iran through Congress, I suggested the way to change the politics in DC would be to exercise Executive discretion over all the intelligence we’ve got that shows the Saudis backed 9/11, continued ignore support for al Qaeda […]
Zbig’s Plotting over Chilean Sea Bass
/16 Comments/in War/by emptywheelEarlier this month, President Obama hosted a dinner with past foreign policy luminaries to explain his plan to combat ISIL. He served Chilean sea bass and d’Anjou pear salad as they discussed the future of America’s empire. Harman described the dinner on Monday as “focused and thoughtful.” Over a dinner of d’anjou pear salad and Chilean sea […]
Graft-Sharing Agreement Signed, Ghani Awarded Afghan Presidency
/1 Comment/in Foreign Policy, War/by Jim WhiteOn Sunday, Ashraf Ghani was declared the new President of Afghanistan. Despite months of “auditing” the votes cast in the runoff, we have not yet had an announcement of actual vote totals. That is because Abdullah Abdullah, who won the first round of voting by over a million votes still disputed that he could have […]
The Covert Operation Undermining US Credibility against ISIS
/19 Comments/in Terrorism, Unitary Executive, War/by emptywheelOver the weekend, the NYT had a story reporting the “conspiracy theory” popular among Iraqis that the US is behind ISIS. The United States has conducted an escalating campaign of deadly airstrikes against the extremists of the Islamic State for more than a month. But that appears to have done little to tamp down the […]