New York engagements

Ok, now is the run-up time for the big venture to New York City. Have to plan things...

Something has gone odd with the style sheets here. I will fix that later.

The Counter Convention. Anyone need to hitch a ride east? (I don't think there will be extra space beyond the folks I'm with, but the local anti-war folks are going)

The identity of CIA agent Anonymous has found its way into print, evidently a little while ago in the Guardian. This story talks all about where Imperial Hubris came from and the CIA anonymity rules. Anonymous is actually CIA analyst Michael Scheuer.

Among some in the intelligence community who have either obtained copies of the Imperial Hubris manuscript or heard about certain passages, the rough consensus is that a not-long-for-his-job George Tenet indicated to the [CIA Publication Review Board] that the book’s publication should be allowed, as it might blunt or contextualize some of the scathing criticism likely to assail the agency in forthcoming 9/11 Commission and Senate Select Intelligence Committee reports — and also might aid the cause of intelligence reform. According to several intelligence-community sources, the manuscript was in limbo at least three months past the Review Board’s 30-day deadline earlier this year. Says one CIA veteran: "I think it’s possible that it got the approval around the time Tenet decided for himself that he was leaving."

Pat Buchanan has a new book out and Raimondo thinks its awesome. He threw a couple links in: an insane piece by Office of Special Plans conspirator David Wurmser and a rambling declaration of World War IV from Norman Podhoretz.

Meanwhile Blackwater (yes, that blackwater has an email list) sent me a link about fourth-generation warfare. Interesting.

In Israel, Akiva Eldar demands that the Labor party drop all prior restraints on joining the government. YES. Ugly, tho.

Last Wednesday, in full public view, the supreme forum of the Likud tightened the handcuffs around its leader's wrists. The masses who believed that Sharon is prepared to offer "painful concessions" in return for peace found out that his students in the academy of shackling are not allowing him to pull several hundred Jews out of the Gaza Strip.
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If the disengagement plan and peace are so important to the state and to the party, the architect of Oslo should teach his colleagues a lesson in self-sacrifice; he should inform Sharon that the party is interested in fair representation in the foreign policy-security cabinet and the important ministerial committees of an ad hoc emergency government for a period of one year. The Likud must decide - there are no more excuses.

Posted by HongPong at August 23, 2004 02:11 PM
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