Post-Iraqi-War Intel Chief Praised

By happy coincidence, Tom Fingar, who supervised the National Intelligence Estimate that helped put the kibosh on plans to attack Iran in 2008, is teaching at Oxford this term at the same time that the Oxford Union has invited Ray to debate again in its historic Debate Chamber (on January 24). It dawned on Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence that we might finally be able to present our annual award (for 2012) to Tom Fingar. (Tom had been too busy with teaching and travel commitments last fall to come to Washington from Stanford to receive the award in our traditional setting at American University.

The Oxford Union was keen on the idea of hosting the award presentation and offered to include Julian Assange, Sam Adams award winner in 2010, by video-stream from his sanctuary in the embassy of Ecuador in London. As if more serendipity were needed, we have also learned that arch-neocon John Bolton, a thorn in Fingar’s (and just about everyone else’s) side when Bolton was Under Secretary of State for Arms Control, will give a presentation in the same Debate Chamber on January 22. This is getting really interesting.

Post-Iraq-War US Intel Chief Praised

 

Bored with the perennial annual “getting ready for Christmas”? Pour an eggnog and tune in to Ray’s relaxed, discursive conversation with Tom Klammer of “Tell Somebody Radio”

-What really went down in Benghazi, Libya.

-How almost-secretary-of-state Susan Rice let herself be set up by John Brennan, who decided to get right out of Dodge rather than go before the cameras to ‘splain what the CIA had been doing there.

-How David Petraeus’s good friend Paula Broadwell spilled the beans, neither the Fawning Corporate Media nor the “shocked” Senators wanted to deal with it.

-Why John McCain and Lindsay Graham were right about Susan Rice, but for the wrong reasons. Her record is quite enough to disqualify her; she has done enough harm.

-Are there no better choices for secretary of state than Rice and John Kerry? Really? Is the U.S. so impoverished in such talent? How about Chas Freeman, but Obama caved to the Likud Lobby last time Freeman was appointed.

-CIA analysis: the 2002 (dishonest) National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq was not “mistaken,” but outright fraud…and they all knew that. Miracles, though, happen. The 2007 (honest) NIE on Iran played huge role in heading off a disastrous war, as George W. Bush acknowledges in his memoir, “Decision Points.”

-historical review on CIA’s birth defect; how it happened that the National Security Act of 1947 actually created TWO CIAs. A structural fault from the outset.

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