It’s just another attempt at former Clinton era people trying to rewrite history. (or stuff it down their pants and walk out of the archives with it)

It was a “slam dunk”….punk.

For instance, what intelligence agency on the planet was doing any better? Other than the Israelis and even they did not seem to be aware of the fact that Saddam had either hid or destroyed his weapons stockpiles.

Wrong. The CIA had good evidence that Saddam had no WMD’s. Tenet specifically briefed Bush on the intel on September 18, 2002. Bush chose to ignore this information, although it turned out to be accurate in every detail. He invaded under false pretenses and lied thru his teeth to Congress and the American people.

That’s a fact, Jack!

Bin Laden Reportedly Leaves Afghanistan, Whereabouts Unknown

Lock and load:

– Sheila MacVicar, ABC News, January 14, 1999

‘”. . . [Mamdouh Mahmud] Salim, alleged to be a key military advisor and believed to be privy to bin Laden’s most secret projects, is also apprehended. The US government alleges that he was under secret orders to procure enriched uranium for the purpose of developing nuclear weapons. These are allegations bin Laden does not now deny. “It would be a sin for Muslims not to try to possess the weapons that would prevent the infidels from inflicting harm on Muslims, but how we could use these weapons if we possessed them is up to us.

With an American price on his head, there weren’t many places bin Laden could go, unless he teamed up with another international pariah, one also with an interest in weapons of mass destruction. Osama believes in the ‘enemy of my enemy is my friend, and someone I should cooperate with.’ That is certainly the current case with Iraq. Saddam Hussein has a long history of harboring terrorists: Carlos the Jackal, Abu Nida, Abu Abbas. The most notorious terrorist of their era all found shelter and support at one time in Baghdad.

Intelligence sources say bin Laden’s long relationship with the Iraqis began as he helped Sudan’s fundamentalist government in their efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction. Three weeks after the bombing, on August 31st, bin Laden reaches out to his friends in Iraq and Sudan. Iraq’s vice president arrives in Khartoon to show his support for the Sudanese after the US attack. ABC News has learned that during these meetings, senior Sudanese officials, acting on behalf of bin Laden, asked if Saddam Hussein would grant him asylum. Iraq was indeed interested. ABC News has learned that in December, an Iraqi intelligence chief, named Farouk Hijazi, now Iraq’s ambassador to Turkey, made a secret trip to Afghanistan to meet with bin Laden. Three intelligence agencies tell ABC News they cannot be certain what was discussed, but almost certainly, they say, bin Laden has been told he would be welcome in Baghdad.”

And intelligent sources say that they can only speculate on the purpose of an alliance. What could bin Laden offer Saddam Hussein? Only days after he meets Iraqi officials, bin Laden tells ABC news that his network is wide and there are people prepared to commit terror in his name who he does not even control. ‘It’s our job to incite and to instigate. By the grace of God, we have done that.’”

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Want more? Here’s the friggin VIDEO and a PILE of Clinton era, multiple intel agency sourced material saying the same damn thing (courtesy of flopping aces)

http://www.floppingaces.net/2007/02/11/no-evidence-of-a-saddam-osama/

Watch the video. You won’t even believe your eyes/ears. The same intelligence sources, the same kind of reporting, etc..only saying exactly the opposite of what they are saying now. And most certainly, anyone who suggests that this assessments were “never” the case..are simply lieing through their teeth.

abc wasn’t the only one. There’s an entire laundry list of media reports, “intel analysts” “various agencies reporting, etc., on this link. That’s not to mention the documents found in Iraq that were translated…backed this up and added clarity to it.

Our own government agencies have become way too political. Even if these agencies were to be privatized, they would remain political.

How can we make these government agencies operate without bias and politics?

My brother had been working on the power grid stuff for some of the states up north for several years. And they had been ahead of the market by several years. Check samsix site.

The Kent’s Imperative site sounds very interesting.

First what you have to know is just exactly who is the Kent they named the blog after.

I will give you a hint, it is not one of them.

Here is the condensed version.

Kent was the guy way up in the food chain that was crucial into the estimates before the Cuban Missile Crisis that proposed it would never happen and wasn’t supported by the Intel.

When the U-2 pictures got shoved into their face, he didn’t bluster and try to deflect, but pulled everyone together and said basically “ok folks we screwed the pooch, now lets figure out why and how we are going to fix it”.

They went back and revisited every scrap of evidence , notes, source feeds and said where did we pick up stuff that confirmed what the reality was and why did we discount all that data compared to other sources to reach the wrong conclusion we stood for until we were countered by hard data.

He really turned things inside and out to understand the workings of how the correct data got minimized and just what were the motives , biases and cultural agendas that tamped down the real true hints and all the dynamics associated with that.

Sort of why didn’t alternative choices penetrate the group think.

Intel is not an exact science.

There is a continuing battle inside and outside the community that you can build math models to project a lot of things and others who say it is a black art of human thought processes that will never be put into computer form.

Kent originated the major drive to document just how analysists were getting from point a to point b and where they screwed up and why.

He started or picked up the importance of already existing ideas of doing the best internal documentation of just how and why intel conclusions are arrived at. To build a library of trade craft so in the future the same bad lessons don’t have to be re learned.

For example near me I have a major power plant that dwarfs the combined size of the local power generation capacity.

But not a drop of that power is fed into the local grid.

All of the output of that plant crosses the line from Florida to Georgia to feed into the grid to power up Atlanta.

And they are looking at having to expand to meet the need.

Plus, believe it or not, some of our in house projects are being limited simply because the growth of all of the groups involved are running into walls like trying to figure out how to get enough electrical power to power up what they need to run.

I have heard stories from those on the inside I know where whole floors of computers had to be shut down during peak use periods because they have been unable to upgrade the power distribution from outside supplies.

Sure they have built the new infrastructure withing their complex, it is just that the power source can’t upgrade their transmission stuff and don’t have any reserve generation capacity to add on the new load.

We are this year putting together our first Billion dollar authorization for out sourcing intel functions.

Go to any agency and you will see the mix of the blue and green badges all over the place.

The inside blues are being drawn off for the bucks of going green.

There are a lot of issues in this whole structure that are still being worked out.

The site I linked to covers this issue in depth and gives reason to pause and think about the implications of how all this can play out and potential bias insertion for all sorts of agendas and reasons.

But that is just one facet of what they cover in their posts.

It is a group blog of members of the community and they bring points to the fore that are worthy of discussion.

A quality blog, well beyond the fluff of most day to day blogging clogging the bit stream.

Kent’s Imperative looks good.

I found that blog about 2 months ago on a search for something else.

I stopped my other search and went back and started at day 1 of that blog and read it end to end in one sitting.

Quality commentary from one end to the other.