21 June, 2013 — WashingtonsBlog
Tag: Petraeus
Metadata” Can Tell the Government More About You Than the Content of Your Phonecalls
12 June 2013 — WashingtonsBlog
Why Should You Care If the Government Spies On Your Metadata?
The government has sought to “reassure” us that it is only tracking “metadata” such as the time and place of the calls, and not the actual content of the calls.
Top Spying Experts Explain Why You Should Oppose Spying … Even Though You’ve Done Nothing Wrong
10 June 2013 — WashingtonsBlog
Surveillance Can be Used to Frame You If Someone In Government Happens to Take a Dislike to You … Last Chance to Stop “Turnkey Tyranny”
New Boss at the CIA: Brennan’s “Legal Framework” for Drone Killings By James Gundun
9 January, 2013 — Global Research
As the majority of Washington’s political and media establishments concentrate their firepower on Senator Chuck Hagel’s nomination for U.S. Defense Secretary, John Brennan is doing what he does best and slipping through the shadows. Continue reading
Ruppert Murdoch’s Bid to Persuade Gen. David Petraeus to Run as Republican Candidate in the 2012 Presidential Election By Jonathan Cook
21 December, 2012 — Global Research
Carl Bernstein, of All the President’s Men fame, has a revealing commentary in the Guardian today, though revealing not entirely in a way he appears to understand. Bernstein highlights a story first disclosed earlier this month in the Washington Post by his former journalistic partner Bob Woodward that media mogul Rupert Murdoch tried to “buy the US presidency”.
ICH 12 November 2012: Special – Petraeus Mistress Reveals Secret Benghazi CIA Prison?
12 November 2012 — Information Clearing House
Petraeus Mistress Suggests
Benghazi Attack Was Aimed At Secret CIA Prison
By Tony Lee
Former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus may have told his alleged mistress Paula Broadwell what really happened in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012 Continue
Information Clearing House Newsletter June 28, 2011: Making the World Safe for Hypocrisy: Michael Parenti
28 June 2011 — Information Clearing House
Disgusting, Depraved And Illegal: Petraeus Says Torture an Option for US
By Ken Dilanian
David Petraeus, Barack Obama’s choice to be the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency, says the US should consider using special interrogation techniques when a captive is withholding information that is immediately needed to save lives.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28410.htm
US endgame in Afghanistan: The evil of three lessers By Eric Walberg
14 September, 2010 — Eric Walberg
Which fork will Obama impale himself on, muses Eric Walberg
In his school-boyish Oval Office “Mission accomplished!” speech 31 August, United States President Barack Obama heaped faint praise on Bush’s invasion of Iraq, averring that no one could doubt Bush’s support for the troops, love of his country and commitment to its security when he wrote this most “remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq”. True, it was written at a “huge price” to the US (apparently it was provided free of charge for the fortunate Iraqis).
He vaguely talked of “a transition to Afghan responsibility”, vowing to stick to his promise to begin withdrawal of troops next year, reiterating the Obama Doctrine: “American influence around the world is not a function of military force alone. We must use all elements of our power — including our diplomacy, our economic strength, and the power of America’s example — to secure our interests.” The fact that as a senator, he opposed Petraeus, the mastermind behind the surge in Iraq in 2007 and the one Obama is now staking his presidency on in Afghanistan, was not raised.
NATO DAily Newslinks 11 May, 2010: Albania reportedly to be part of NATO missile shield – Petraeus And NATO Get In Bed With Wali Karzai
Philippe Leymarie, “From Blunder to Blunder in Afghanistan”
11 May, 2009 – MRZine – Monthly Review
‘I also made it clear that the United States will work with our Afghan and international partners to make every effort to avoid civilian casualties as we help the Afghan government combat our common enemy,’ US President Barack Obama promised. He received his Afghan and Pakistani counterparts Hamid Karzai and Asif Ali Zardari at the White House on Wednesday, the same day when the police chief of the Farah province, in southern Afghanistan, said the US Air Force’s airstrike on the village of Bala Buluk on Monday, to free the Afghan troops attacked by guerrillas, had resulted in more than a hundred victims, mostly civilians. As usual, investigations were launched by US and Afghan authorities, as well as by UN representatives.
This kind of ‘blunder’ — which the militaries prefer to dress up in a more technical term ‘collateral damage’ — is common in Afghanistan, especially on the part of the US Air Force, known for its ‘robust’ rules of engagement. According to the United Nations, 2,118 civilians were killed by violence in Afghanistan in 2008, the most deadly year for the people of Afghanistan since the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001 — an increase of almost 40% over 2007. The UN Assistance Mission in Kabul (UNAM) regularly draws up a precise assessment of civilian casualties.
The New Dark Age 