[PDF file]: […] of the William Cohen Group in Washington DC where he works as ‘senior counsellor’ to the weapons and security consultants. Cohen was Robertson’s opposite number at the Pentagon during the Clinton administration.2 Reporting on the referendum for the BBC from Glasgow was Sarah Smith, the former Channel 4 News Washington correspondent, who is the […]
[PDF file]: […] respond to the threat of hijacked aircraft targeting prominent US buildings,58 but that these air defences proved totally inadequate on September 11. We also know that senior Pentagon staff did not tell the full story about that to Congress or the 9/11 Commission. In several cases those whose testimony was misleading were subsequently promoted. […]
[…] the Dog, a ‘threat’ from Albania is created. In the satire-proof America of 2013 the threat is North Korea. The Washington Post reported on 15 March: ‘The Pentagon announced Friday that it would strengthen the country’s defenses against a possible attack by nuclear-equipped North Korea, fielding additional missile systems to protect the West Coast […]
[PDF file]: […] during the Second World War, and (US Army General) Eisenhower’s special advisor on psychological warfare. Between 1953 and 1954, Jackson was President Eisenhower’s special liaison between the Pentagon and the recently-created CIA. On one fundamental principle, Jackson and Eisenhower were likeminded: psychological warfare was preferable to physical warfare, and decisively so in the age […]
[PDF file]: […] the required ‘intelligence’ led the neo-conservatives who were leading the push to attack Iraq to create the Office of Special Plans (OSP), a little unit within the Pentagon, which was conceived by Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defense. OSP’s role was to find or manufacture intelligence which would provide the pretext for invasion. […]
[PDF file]: […] themselves in the swamp like no other President before them. Jared Kushner, for example, has both ‘personal and financial entanglements’ across the Middle East. According to one Pentagon aide, every policy in the region was ‘examined for what it can do for him’. And as for Trump himself, he is ‘at once a symptom […]
[PDF file]: […] years since I did so. However there was a very interesting essay on changing styles in British political policing on 19 ‘Empire of Bases 2.0 Does the Pentagon Really Have 1,180 Foreign Bases?’ at . 20 21 22 8 Against that background, the then Chief of the General Staff, Sir Richard Dannatt, told me […]
[PDF file]: […] Bakiyev owed the state over $80,000,000 in unpaid taxes on fuel supplied to US military aircraft at the Manas air base when it was leased to the Pentagon for operations in Afghanistan. The Prosecutor-General said that Maksim Bakiyev diverted $35,000,000 of a $300,000,000 Russian loan for the construction of the Kambarata-1 hydro-electric project into […]
[PDF file]: […] invasion within the US intelligence and foreign services. This DVD puts that opposition’s case. Cutting together interviews with a large cast of former CIA, State Department and Pentagon officials, some very senior, and footage of public statements of Bush, Rice, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, the film shows that the Bush administration’s ‘intelligence’ on Iraq […]
[PDF file]: […] of the squat, ugly, and unlikeable Panamanian caudillo. The 1988 indictments in Miami and Tampa sealed Noriega’s fate. They silenced most of his remaining allies in the Pentagon and CIA and all but forced Vice President and then President Bush to demand that Noriega leave power. The Latin strongman’s cocky refusal posed an unforgiveable […]
