Journal: Death of CIA Personnel in Afghanistan

UPDATE: Journal: CIA’s Poor Tradecraft AND Poor Management UPDATE:  Bomber was Jordanian doctor & Jordanian intelligence asset Phi Beta Iota: This keeps getting worse.  We wonder if CIA contractors get stars on the wall–4 employees including the one who was over-ruled by Berger, Tenet, and Brennen in taking Bin Laden out unilaterally; 3 guards, and …

Event: 16 Jan 10 DC Demonstration Against CIA Drone Deaths with Cynthia McKinney and Cindy Sheehan

FACEBOOK DELETES INVITE TO CIA DRONE PROTEST By Brenda Norrell Cindy Sheehan said Facebook deleted an invitation to the CIA Drone Protest in Langley, Virginia, scheduled for 1 pm to 4 pm Jan. 16, 2010. Sheehan said “the CIA is becoming overly involved in terrorizing populations.” Sheehan joins a powerhouse of women activists to lead …

Journal: States of Conflict (AF, PK & IQ) An Update

By IAN LIVINGSTON, HEATHER MESSERA, MICHAEL O’HANLON and AMY UNIKEWICZ    January 2, 2010 In 2009, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan dominated American military and foreign policy. Which themes emerged over the last year? In Iraq, 2009 was the year of relatively smooth transitions. In Pakistan, 2009 was the year of the offensives. In Afghanistan, 2009 was …

CENTCOM Week in Review Ending 2 January 2009

Hot Topics AA: Afghan War Could Spill Over Into Central Asia 12/31/09 AA: Kazakhstan: Kyrgyz secret services are involved in the murder of Gennadyi Pavlyuk 12/30/09 AF: Afghan civilians killed in air raid 12/31/09 EG: Egyptian minister slams Al-Jazeera for ‘instigating civil war’ 01/02/10 IQ: Iraq says more ‘superfields’ up for grabs 12/31/09 IR: Exiled …

Journal: 2010–Welcome to Orwell’s World

In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate called Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that “passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’, ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past’.” Barack Obama is the leader of a contemporary Oceania. In two speeches at the …