Mike's Blog Roundup
By Mike Finnigan Monday Dec 01, 2008 8:00amVetVoice: Interrogator who located Zarqawi rips U.S, torture policy
Attackerman: A one man military-industrial complex
Ken Silverstein: Accountability, there and here
The Mahablog: Neal Gabler explains why Joe McCarthy — not Barry Goldwater, and certainly not Saint Ronald — was the real father of modern movement conservatism.
The Agonist: Bangkok Airport
Connecting.the.Dots: The comparisons were inevitable: two charismatic presidents in their forties and their dazzling wives moving into the White House with young children.
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An Interrogator Speaks: I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw In Iraq
I should have felt triumphant when I returned from Iraq in August 2006. Instead, I was worried and exhausted. My team of interrogators had successfully hunted down one of the most notorious mass murderers of our generation, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq and the mastermind of the campaign of suicide bombings that had helped plunge Iraq into civil war. But instead of celebrating our success, my mind was consumed with the unfinished business of our mission: fixing the deeply flawed, ineffective and un-American way the U.S. military conducts interrogations in Iraq. I'm still alarmed about that today.
I'm not some ivory-tower type; I served for 14 years in the U.S. Air Force, began my career as a Special Operations pilot flying helicopters, saw combat in Bosnia and Kosovo, became an Air Force counterintelligence agent, then volunteered to go to Iraq to work as a senior interrogator. What I saw in Iraq still rattles me -- both because it betrays our traditions and because it just doesn't work.
Read the whole story here.
it'd be okay?
Sheeeeit!
Speaking of Bangkok, has anyone heard from Bangkok Bob lately? I have been thinking about him since this whole thing began.
Hope everything is OK Bob. Bangkok is huge but maybe he lived near the airport or somethin' and had go to a safer spot
Barry McCaffery is just one of literally HUNDREDS of former generals and admirals who, having left service, are contentedly looting everything they can get their blood-stained hands on.
This is not a "bad apple" kind of thing. I'd bet there are three former admirals/generals who retired since the end of the FRaygun regime whose finances could stand REAL scrutiny.
Generals and admirals have the disticnt advantage of being able to quash investigations by sending potential whistleblowers to their "glorious and honorable' deaths...
There is nobody who was ever a "one-term" soldier who would cross the street to piss on a general officer if the sumbitch was burning up...
And to think that at Nuremberg we prosecuted war criminals...
http://www.aclu-mn.org/home/news/revealingrnc...
This document outlines the planning leading up to the Republican National Convention and how security forces would be working together during the RNC. Many federal, state and local organizations were mentioned in this document, a number of which the ACLU did not know were involved. A number of these agencies are military based, which may directly conflict with Federal law that prohibits the military from engaging in domestic intelligence gathering.
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