THE HOT JOINTS » Intelligence http://www.thehotjoints.com Breaking News and Opinion Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:14:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Democrats Launch Sneak Attack On Intelligence Agencies http://www.thehotjoints.com/2010/02/26/democrats-launch-sneak-attack-on-intelligence-agencies/ http://www.thehotjoints.com/2010/02/26/democrats-launch-sneak-attack-on-intelligence-agencies/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:18:54 +0000 Chris Jones http://www.thehotjoints.com/2010/02/26/democrats-launch-sneak-attack-on-intelligence-agencies/ You really do have to keep your eye on this administration and this congress every minute of every day. In case you haven’t noticed the assault on our intelligence agencies that was in full swing after Obama’s election has died down in recent months. Things have been very quiet — a little too quite.

That uneasy calm was shattered today as Democrats tried a sneak attack on the intelligence community in the form of a last minute addition to the intel bill.

Stashed in the new intelligence bill literally in the dark of night were 11 pages that banned “degrading” treatment of detainees. Interrogators would face 15-years in prison if something they did was ruled “degrading” by this left-wing Congress.

So-called degrading treatment “includes but is not limited to” exploiting phobias, hooding detainees, sleep deprivation, extreme temperatures, and anything else the gutless bureaucrats decide.

The American people had no idea what they were doing when they put this radical bunch of miscreants in charge. These leftists are f*cking crazy and they’re going to get us all killed.

Fortunately, Republicans howled in protest and the bill was eventually pulled.

-Chris Jones

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For years the United States has literally been under siege by China’s intelligence services. There is hardly a secret left that China hasn’t already stolen. Not only is America awash in undercover Chinese agents like the one “60 Minutes” shows, but Chinese hackers steal Pentagon secrets on a daily basis.

It’s literally open season on the US and nobody is doing a damn thing about it.

Add that to the fact that China has us by the balls financially and you start to realize what bad shape we’re actually in.

Health care reform can wait. What we really need is intelligence reform, but that’s for another post.

By the way, the two jerks in the video only got 15 years. That’s probably the biggest disgrace in this story. That Pentagon employee sold out his country for $2,000. He should have been given life. A life sentence would serve as a deterrent to other traitors.

-Chris Jones

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]]> http://www.thehotjoints.com/2010/02/26/video-60-minutes-shows-pentagon-employee-selling-secrets-to-chinese-agent/feed/ 2 Officials Now Claim They Learned About Extremist Links Of Airline Bomber While He Was In The Air http://www.thehotjoints.com/2010/01/06/officials-now-claim-they-learned-about-extremist-links-of-airline-bomber-while-he-was-in-the-air/ http://www.thehotjoints.com/2010/01/06/officials-now-claim-they-learned-about-extremist-links-of-airline-bomber-while-he-was-in-the-air/#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:10:51 +0000 Chris Jones http://www.thehotjoints.com/2010/01/06/officials-now-claim-they-learned-about-extremist-links-of-airline-bomber-while-he-was-in-the-air/ Maybe I’m being cynical, but something about this just doesn’t sound right. U.S. Border security officials are now saying they learned of the airline bomber’s terror ties after he was already in the air heading for the U.S. They were planning to question him once he landed in Detroit.

U.S. border security officials learned of intelligence about the alleged extremist links of the suspect in the Christmas Day airline bombing attempt as he was en route to Detroit and had decided to question him when he landed, officials said in new disclosures today.

"The people in Detroit were prepared to look at him in secondary inspection," said a senior law enforcement official who requested anonymity because the investigation is ongoing. "The decision had been made. The . . . database had picked up the State Department concern about this guy, that this guy may have been involved with extremist elements in Yemen. . . . They could have made a decision on whether to stop him from getting on the plane."

Just a couple of days after President Obama criticized the intelligence community for it’s failure to connect the dots we hear this story? Like I said, maybe I’m being too cynical but this sounds like a heaping helping of CYA to me.

They really did connect the dots, honest! They were a little slow so he was able to get airborne, but you can bet your sweet bippy he was going to br questioned once he landed! Seriously, he really was!

Yeah, right. This sounds like typical bureaucratic BS to me.

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]]> http://www.thehotjoints.com/2010/01/06/officials-now-claim-they-learned-about-extremist-links-of-airline-bomber-while-he-was-in-the-air/feed/ 1 Secret CIA Program Revealed? http://www.thehotjoints.com/2009/07/13/secret-cia-program-revealed/ http://www.thehotjoints.com/2009/07/13/secret-cia-program-revealed/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:59:06 +0000 Chris Jones http://www.thehotjoints.com/2009/07/13/secret-cia-program-revealed/ bin-laden-crosshairs

In an effort to take Obama’s economic failures off the front page, democrats once again resurrected an issue that so far has also been a failure — CIA witch hunts.

CIA Director Leon Panetta supposedly told Congress about a CIA program last week that up until that point had been kept from Congress at the behest of Vice President Dick Cheney.

Liberals in Congress predictably ran to the press and pointed to Panetta’s disclosure as proof that the CIA lies to Congress, which means Nancy Pelosi was telling the truth when she made that accusation some weeks ago.

You can’t tell the media about a “secret” program they can’t know about, because like a child they’ll keep digging and begging until they find out the secret.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting today new details on the secret program that Panetta disclosed to Congress.

Apparently, the program involved the assassination of top Al-Qaeda leaders.

Amid the high alert following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a small CIA unit examined the potential for targeted assassinations of al Qaeda operatives, according to the three former officials. The Ford administration had banned assassinations in the response to investigations into intelligence abuses in the 1970s. Some officials who advocated the approach were seeking to build teams of CIA and military Special Forces commandos to emulate what the Israelis did after the Munich Olympics terrorist attacks, said another former intelligence official.

"It was straight out of the movies," one of the former intelligence officials said. "It was like: Let’s kill them all."

I hope liberal democrats are not hanging their hat on this one. If the left thinks Americans are going to be upset about a program to kill Al-Qaeda terrorists, they’re wildly mistaken.

Terrorists should be hunted down and killed. Not arrested, not brought back for Eric Holder to give rights to, but killed on the spot.

The most troubling aspect of this latest revelation is not that such a program was being discussed, but that such a program was not immediately implemented.

More troubling still, is the fact that Director Panetta’s knee-jerk reaction to learning of the program was to cancel it.

As usual, this latest CIA dust-up is more about politics than anything else. Like Eric Holder’s determination to prosecute the very people who’ve kept us safe, Democrats are determined to play politics with our national security.

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]]> http://www.thehotjoints.com/2009/07/13/secret-cia-program-revealed/feed/ 0 CIA Station Chief Accused Of Multiple Rapes http://www.thehotjoints.com/2009/01/28/cia-station-chief-accused-of-multiple-rapes/ http://www.thehotjoints.com/2009/01/28/cia-station-chief-accused-of-multiple-rapes/#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:00:14 +0000 Chris Jones http://www.thehotjoints.com/?p=6085 This from ABC News:

The CIA’s station chief at its sensitive post in Algeria is under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department for allegedly raping at least two Muslim women who claim he laced their drinks with a knock-out drug, U.S. law enforcement sources tell ABC News.

Officials say the 41-year old CIA officer, a convert to Islam, was ordered home by the U.S. Ambassador, David Pearce, in October after the women came forward with their rape allegations in September.

Cue the “America is evil”, “America is the real terrorist”, “America is raping Islam” stories. Let the America bashing commence.

-Chris Jones

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]]> http://www.thehotjoints.com/2009/01/28/cia-station-chief-accused-of-multiple-rapes/feed/ 1 Bush Orders Intel Community To Get Bin Laden Before He Leaves Office http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/06/15/bush-orders-intel-community-to-get-bin-laden-before-he-leaves-office/ http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/06/15/bush-orders-intel-community-to-get-bin-laden-before-he-leaves-office/#comments Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:56:24 +0000 Chris Jones http://www.thehotjoints.com/?p=3747 A brand new effort has been launched to try and capture or kill Osama bin Laden. President Bush has asked the British special forces to assist U.S. forces in the effort and they have agreed. Some in the intelligence community believe they know what region of Northwest Pakistan Osama bin Laden is hiding and are prepared to take him out.

Special forces have been methodically rolling-up the Al-Qaeda network member by member both in the Pakistani tribal areas and around the world. The plan is to get those closest to him and push him back towards the Afghan border where unmanned drones flying overhead can spot him and take him out.

All this sounds like a great thing, but I don’t understand why we always have to know about it. We know from his recordings that UBL reads the papers, and is aware of what’s being discussed in the media. I’m sure he’ll be quite pleased to read about the plan to catch him.

-Chris Jones

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]]> http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/06/15/bush-orders-intel-community-to-get-bin-laden-before-he-leaves-office/feed/ 0 Spy Satellite Falling From Orbit http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/01/26/spy-satellite-falling-from-orbit/ http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/01/26/spy-satellite-falling-from-orbit/#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:24:00 +0000 Chris Jones http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/01/26/spy-satellite-falling-from-orbit/ From the AP:

A large U.S. spy satellite has lost power and propulsion and could hit the Earth in late February or March, government officials said Saturday.

The satellite, which no longer be controlled, could contain hazardous materials, and it is unknown where on the planet it might come down, they said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the information is classified as secret.

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]]> http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/01/26/spy-satellite-falling-from-orbit/feed/ 1 New Intelligence Director Has Big Plans For Cyberspace Spying http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/01/14/new-intelligence-director-has-big-plans-for-cyberspace-spying/ http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/01/14/new-intelligence-director-has-big-plans-for-cyberspace-spying/#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:13:09 +0000 Chris Jones http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/01/14/new-intelligence-director-has-big-plans-for-cyberspace-spying/ An article in today’s Wall Street Journal will likely cause seizures at the ACLU and among Congressional Democrats.

The new Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell is drafting a plan to protect America’s cyberspace that will raise privacy issues and make the current debate over FISA and wiretapping look like a “walk in the park.”

“This is going to be a goat rope on the Hill. My prediction is that we’re going to screw around with this until something horrendous happens.”

Just saying “goat rope” in reference to the new intelligence plan probably has Harry Reid and Chris Dodd breaking out into cold sweats.

At issue, McConnell acknowledges, is that in order to accomplish his plan, the government must have the ability to read all the information crossing the Internet in the United States in order to protect it from abuse. WHOAA!

This should be interesting.

-Chris Jones

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]]> http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/01/14/new-intelligence-director-has-big-plans-for-cyberspace-spying/feed/ 0 Transcript of Al-Qaeda Intercept Discussing Bhutto Assassination http://www.thehotjoints.com/2007/12/28/transcript-of-al-qaeda-intercept-discussing-bhutto-assassination/ http://www.thehotjoints.com/2007/12/28/transcript-of-al-qaeda-intercept-discussing-bhutto-assassination/#comments Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:10:59 +0000 Chris Jones http://www.thehotjoints.com/2007/12/28/transcript-of-al-qaeda-intercept-discussing-bhutto-assassination/ The Pakistani authorities claim they have proof that Al-Qaeda was responsible for the Bhutto assassination. The alleged proof is a telephone conversation between two Al-Qaeda operatives that was intercepted by Pakistani intelligence. Here is the official transcript of that phone intercept released earlier today.

The conversation is between militant leader Baitullah Mehsud, who is referred to as Emir Sahib, and another man identified as a Maulvi Sahib, or Mr. Cleric.

Maulvi Sahib: Peace be on you.

Mehsud: Peace be on you, too.

Maulvi Sahib: How are you Emir Sahib?

Mehsud: Fine.

Maulvi Sahib: Congratulations. I arrived now tonight.

Mehsud: Congratulations to you, too.

Maulvi Sahib: They were our men there.

Mehsud: Who were they?

Maulvi Sahib : There were Saeed, the second was Badarwala Bilal and Ikramullah was also there.

Mehsud: The three did it?

Maulvi Sahib: Ikramullah and Bilal did it.

Mehsud: Then congratulations to you again.

Maulvi: Where are you? I want to meet with you?

Mehsud: I am in Makin. Come I am at Anwar Shah’s home.

Maulvi Sahib: OK I will come.

Mehsud: Do not inform their family presently.

Maulvi Sahib: Right.

Mehsud: It was a spectacular job. They were very brave boys who killed her.

Maulvi Sahib: Praise be to God. I will give you more details when I come.

Mehsud: I will wait for you. Congratulation once again.

Maulvi Sahib: Congratulations to you as well.

Mehsud: Any service?

Mauvliv: Thank you very much?

Mehsud: Peace be on you.

Maulvi: Same to you.

-Chris Jones

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]]> http://www.thehotjoints.com/2007/12/28/transcript-of-al-qaeda-intercept-discussing-bhutto-assassination/feed/ 0 Judge Appears Reluctant To Investigate Destruction of CIA Tapes http://www.thehotjoints.com/2007/12/21/judge-appears-reluctant-to-investigate-destruction-of-cia-tapes/ http://www.thehotjoints.com/2007/12/21/judge-appears-reluctant-to-investigate-destruction-of-cia-tapes/#comments Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:45:47 +0000 Chris Jones http://www.thehotjoints.com/2007/12/21/judge-appears-reluctant-to-investigate-destruction-of-cia-tapes/ Much to the bitter disappointment of left-wing types, U.S. District Judge Henry H. Kennedy appeared reluctant today to open his own investigation into the destruction of interrogation tapes by the CIA.

U.S. District Judge Henry H. Kennedy heard arguments from both sides on whether he should hold a hearing on the CIA’s controversial destruction of the videotapes in November 2005, five months after he had issued an order specifically ordering the government to preserve “all evidence and information regarding the torture, mistreatment and abuse of detainees now” at the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Lawyer Joseph “Jody” Hunt, representing the White House, told the judge that Zubaydah and al-Nashiri were not being held at Guantanamo when the judge issued his order, noting that President Bush announced their transfer to the facility in September 2006. He also said the tapes destroyed by the CIA had no bearing on the case of the Yemeni men because, “It is inconceivable that the destroyed tapes could have been about abuse, mistreatment or torture of detainees at Guantanamo Bay.”

And Hunt asked the judge to refrain from conducting his own investigation because the Justice Department and CIA inspector general are already looking into the controversy, including whether the government violated any court orders to preserve evidence. He said that the Justice Department and the administration would notify the judge if the inquiry concludes that the court order was violated.

Judge Kennedy did not say when he would officially rule on these issues, but observers believe he will ultimately allow the Justice Department to conduct their own investigations without interfering.

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