Comments on: Aftermath http://deepblade.net/journal/2004/08/aftermath.html Cutting through the effects of the US empire Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:49:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Deep Blade Journal » Blog Archive » Bunker buster defunded http://deepblade.net/journal/2004/08/aftermath.html#comment-46 Deep Blade Journal » Blog Archive » Bunker buster defunded Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:55:16 +0000 http://deepblade.net/journal/2004/08/aftermath.html#comment-46 [...] Congressional representatives have acted in accordance with our pleas of August 6 for them to stop the Administration’s determined pursuit of new “usable” nuclear [...] [...] Congressional representatives have acted in accordance with our pleas of August 6 for them to stop the Administration’s determined pursuit of new “usable” nuclear [...]

]]> By: cs http://deepblade.net/journal/2004/08/aftermath.html#comment-105 cs Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:28:19 +0000 http://deepblade.net/journal/2004/08/aftermath.html#comment-105 It's late and I don't have the citation, but earlier I read a quote from Snow about the national security imperative of filling the CIA Director appointment quickly, which I see as one of the talking points in this latest political game. I do hope you post your snow-job piece; I'd like to read it. About the intelligence czar: I don't know what I think about it yet, but thought Kerry made an interesting point that giving the position cabinet status makes the executive entirely accountable for intelligence product, i.e, when the product's wrong blame can't be sluffed off to an outside agency. He also suggested bringing sunshine to the budget process would give Congress more oversight power -- that is, of course, if we have a Congress interested in exercising oversight responsibilities. Of course, this doesn't address the CIA's long history of real or deniably rogue operations. It’s late and I don’t have the citation, but earlier I read a quote from Snow about the national security imperative of filling the CIA Director appointment quickly, which I see as one of the talking points in this latest political game.

I do hope you post your snow-job piece; I’d like to read it.

About the intelligence czar: I don’t know what I think about it yet, but thought Kerry made an interesting point that giving the position cabinet status makes the executive entirely accountable for intelligence product, i.e, when the product’s wrong blame can’t be sluffed off to an outside agency. He also suggested bringing sunshine to the budget process would give Congress more oversight power — that is, of course, if we have a Congress interested in exercising oversight responsibilities. Of course, this doesn’t address the CIA’s long history of real or deniably rogue operations.

]]> By: Deep Blade http://deepblade.net/journal/2004/08/aftermath.html#comment-106 Deep Blade Thu, 12 Aug 2004 05:31:43 +0000 http://deepblade.net/journal/2004/08/aftermath.html#comment-106 Not sure what you mean about Snowe. She seems to be a bit more skeptical. She's <a href="http://www.bangornews.com/editorialnews/article.cfm?ID=427954">quoted</a> in the Bangor Daily News today, "It would be premature to speculate on whether or not his credentials are the right ones for this moment in time. I think the key is going to be the type of reform he is going to be prepared to embrace." Her angle, from her perch on the SSCI, is that she's really steeped in creating this new intelligence czar. It's folly, of course, a way of even further gathering political control for the royal presidency. I should just go ahead and post my little piece on the "Olympia Snowe job" the run-up to war gave us in '02—'03. Our other so-called senator, Susan Collins, another key player in these bureaucratic reshufflings is like a little uncritical puppy dog -- Goss is a "wise choice". Not sure what you mean about Snowe. She seems to be a bit more skeptical. She’s quoted in the Bangor Daily News today, “It would be premature to speculate on whether or not his credentials are the right ones for this moment in time. I think the key is going to be the type of reform he is going to be prepared to embrace.”

Her angle, from her perch on the SSCI, is that she’s really steeped in creating this new intelligence czar. It’s folly, of course, a way of even further gathering political control for the royal presidency.

I should just go ahead and post my little piece on the “Olympia Snowe job” the run-up to war gave us in ‘02—’03.

Our other so-called senator, Susan Collins, another key player in these bureaucratic reshufflings is like a little uncritical puppy dog — Goss is a “wise choice”.

]]> By: cs http://deepblade.net/journal/2004/08/aftermath.html#comment-104 cs Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:18:53 +0000 http://deepblade.net/journal/2004/08/aftermath.html#comment-104 DB -- Thank you for this post, especially the link to David Price's piece in CounterPunch. I wonder what we could accomplish if we used the methodologies of cultural anthropology to wage peace and understanding instead of as tools of manipulation in never-ending war. OT: I was sorry to read this morning that Olympia Snow has lent her voice to the political games being played by BushCo with the Porter Goss announcement. Do you have a sense of how her constituents will react to this? DB — Thank you for this post, especially the link to David Price’s piece in CounterPunch. I wonder what we could accomplish if we used the methodologies of cultural anthropology to wage peace and understanding instead of as tools of manipulation in never-ending war.

OT: I was sorry to read this morning that Olympia Snow has lent her voice to the political games being played by BushCo with the Porter Goss announcement. Do you have a sense of how her constituents will react to this?

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