...agencies warned India of the Mumbai attacks. Maybe they did. However, itâs interesting that the report says: U.S. intelligence agencies warned their Indian counterparts in mid-October of a potential attack âfrom the sea against hotels and business centers...
... BALA MORGHAB, Afghanistan, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Building bridges in Afghanistan requires more than bricks-and-mortar. It requires deft diplomacy and an appreciation of tribal politics, especially if the bridge in question is to survive sabotage attempts by...
...deciding that we would be better off sticking our money into spy satellites than into human beings in the trenches of intelligence. This works fine in theory, but satellites can’t see what goes on behind closed doors and hear conversations that we need to...
... . . . India's record on counterterrorism is abysmal, almost deliberately so. The government in New Delhi steadfastly maintains a wall of separation between law-enforcement agencies like the one that used to separate the FBI and CIA before the Patriot Act...
...of Defense John Hamre, and Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, who might instead land the job as the Director of National Intelligence.) Drop down a tier, as Yochi Dreazen of the Wall Street Journal wrote last week, and you find the Obama transition people using...
... In the last week I've seen two more films that have left me wanting a Senator with the kahunas to reinstate HUAC and root out the Hollywood writers, actors and studio execs guilty of wholly un-American activities. Exhibit A: Rendition, a tale about an inn...
... Whatever his real motives are for embarking on his first tour in ten years, Steve Coogan seems to have a success on his hands, with initial mixed reviews giving way to mostly fulsome praise. It's a show of two halves â the first featuring his "less succe...
... "The time has come for a new beginning, a new dawn for American leadership," he said standing shoulder to shoulder with his new team at a Chicago press conference. "They share my pragmatism about the use of power and my sense of purpose about America 's r...
...Gibson, it "has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq. ... And, you know, that's not a do-over, but I wish the intelligence had been different, I guess." Â And while President Bush doesn't "spend a lot of time really worrying about short-term history,"...
...figures to be more vulnerable to economic pressure now that oil has fallen closer to $50 than $140 a barrel. The Central Intelligence Agency estimates that Iran's government relies on the oil sector for 85% of its revenue. Soaring oil prices allowed Iran to...