Mark Udall calls for a purge of the Obama administration!

Purge of the Obama administration? Purge in the Obama administration? Either one is justifiable, I think.

No, really.  That’s the word he used.

Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) on Wednesday called on President Obama to “purge” his administration of the CIA officials who were involved in the “enhanced interrogation” program detailed in a new Senate report.


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Why is the White House trying to squash Dianne Feinstein’s CIA report?

Not that I particularly object to the Democrats holding off on publishing what was essentially a political hack job against the last President, but


Kerry was not going rogue — his call came after an interagency process that decided the release of the report early next week, asFeinstein had been planning,  could complicate relationships with foreign countries at a sensitive time and posed an unacceptable risk to U.S. personnel and facilities abroad.  Kerry told Feinstein he still supports releasing the report, just not right now.

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CIA now directly arming Kurds.

When this came out, it was a ‘question’ who was doing it….


Previously, the U.S. had insisted on only selling arms to the Iraqi government in Baghdad, but the Kurdish peshmerga fighters had been losing ground to Islamic State (IS) fighters in recent weeks.


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Left apparently ready to shrug off White House incompetently outing Kabul station chief.

Well, if you were ever unsure whether the entire Libbygate thing was overwrought


…actually, if you were unsure: well, why?  It was obvious at the time that the antiwar movement wasn’t really outraged over the issue.  They were just looking for a viable line of attack on a war that they were too petty to support and too craven to oppose.  If they had actually cared then the Left would be the first people screaming about the fact that the slapdash and slap-happy White House team did what they do best, which is screw up in a fashion that might end up getting people killed. Continue reading Left apparently ready to shrug off White House incompetently outing Kabul station chief.

Former CIA acting Director Michael Morell *wants* Benghazi panel.

I believe that he feels it will clear his name.





Via @amandacarpenter.


Moe Lane (crosspost)


Of COURSE Ed Snowden’s heist was an espionage operation.

This should surprise nobody:

Edward Snowden‘s massive misappropriations of classified documents from the inner sanctum of U.S. intelligence is mainly presented by the media as a whistleblowing story. In this narrative—designed by Mr. Snowden himself—he is portrayed as a disgruntled contractor for the National Security Agency, acting alone, who heroically exposed the evils of government surveillance beginning in 2013.

The other way of looking at it—based on the number and nature of documents Mr. Snowden took, and the dates when they were taken—is that only a handful of the secrets had anything to do with domestic surveillance by the government and most were of primary value to an espionage operation.

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I mean, honestly: what’s the point?



Were they spying on somebody relevant at the time that just hung around Chomsky? – That would make sense: God knows that the antiwar movement has always been a hotbed of subversion, sedition, foreign espionage, and general hatred of Western Civilization in general and the United States of America in particular. Continue reading :raised eyebrow: Why on Earth WOULD the CIA spy on Noam Chomsky?





