Journal: Director of National Intelligence Alleges….

Strengthening Our Nation’s Front Line Of Defense By Dennis C. Blair Friday, December 18, 2009 Phi Beta Iota:  This is a seriously misleading article, our comments are provided after each paragraph. The legislation authorizing post-Sept. 11 intelligence reform — the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 — was signed into law five years …

Journal: Stolen Valor & Ignored Suicides & Amputees

Military Impostors Are Neither Few Nor Proud Mary Schantag, co-founder and researcher for the POW Network, said her group’s Web site lists 3,500 “phonies and wannabes” who claim to be former prisoners of war, medal recipients, members of elite forces or heroic combat veterans. She said she receives new allegations daily. “This is an epidemic,” …

Journal: Weak Signals–Death of Osama Bin Laden & 9/11

Special Report: YEARS OF DECEIT: US OPENLY ACCEPTS BIN LADEN LONG DEAD BIN LADEN NEVER MENTIONED IN McCHRYSTAL REPORT OR OBAMA SPEECH “HUNT FOR BIN LADEN” A NATIONAL SHAME By Gordon Duff/STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Conservative commentator, former Marine Colonel Bob Pappas has been saying for years that bin Laden died at Tora Bora and that …

Journal: Senator Chris Dodd the New Phil Gramm?

Phi Beta Iota: It was Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX) that screwed the American public by inserting 200 pages of lobbyist language into a bill five minutes before passage, with no objection from any other Senator  The insertion completely deregulated the financial industry and led directly to the meltdown of the American economy. Senator Chris Dodd …

Journal: Afghanistan, Options, Anti-War Rally, Cynthia McKinney, Michael Moore, Event Report

Obama’s Options in Afghanistan But whatever the weight given to those historical analogies, it seems clear, from the sampling of American opinion we can take from the blogs that have reached this Web site since we posted “Obama’s Options in Afghanistan” as our latest topic, that many Americans have already concluded that the American enterprise …

Journal: Christopher Ketcham Reflections…

Christopher Ketcham has written for Vanity Fair, Harper’s, GQ, the Nation, Salon, Mother Jones, Men’s Journal, Good Magazine, Radar, National Geographic, Hustler, Penthouse, Maxim, FHM and many other magazines, newspapers and websites. He divides his time between Brooklyn, New York, and Moab, Utah, where he writes more poetry than is publishable or readable. In 2002, …

Journal: Cognitive Dissonance, Military Suicides, and an Alternative Interpretation of the Fort Hood Deaths

For over many years now Phi Beta Iota has been emphasizing both the inappropriate secrecy and obscurity contrived for our dead and wounded, and the almost total black-out on both amputees (many of them multiple amputees) and suicides. We now know that Gulf I brought back over 250,000 disabled veterans, and that the toxic brew …