Feb
17
2006
The Watcher’s Council has seleced this week’s top posts and here are the results. In the council category the winner is A Dialogue by Gates of Vienna, with second place going to Shame, Guilt, the Muslim Psyche, and the Danish Cartoons by Dr. Sanity. In the non council category the winnder is The 10 Commandments […]
Feb
17
2006
Again my apologies to everyone for the light posting. I am starting to work the NASA Exploration Initiative and it is sucking up a lot of time as I ramp up. The good news is I think I know what I will be doing the next 20 odd years. I also plan to finish reviewing […]
Feb
16
2006
Now that we have Saddam talking about terrorism on the US and WMDs I guess all those people who claimed this madman could be controlled are now proven to be a tad naive. Saddam talks about hiding his WMDs from the UN and wishing he had launched more at Israel (that’s sane?). He admits he […]
Feb
16
2006
I will be back this afternoon (2/16/06) to do more listening and appending to the end. Will alert of updates here at the top of the page. update: I am highlighting what I think are important items with a bold font. For reference I am listening to part 1 of the hearings at QT Monsters. […]
Feb
15
2006
Folks, I know a lot of you are awaiting my comments on the Able Danger hearings today – which unfortunately got cut short. I worked late and do not have time to get through the audio files at QT Monsters. A quick scan at the liveblogging at QT Monster and Able Danger Blog indicates there […]
Feb
15
2006
Captain Ed Morrissey has the scoop on how Congress is rethinking the need for a probe of the NSA scandal. Another reason for the ebbing of outrage by Congress, although unspoken and unreported by Babington, has to be the reaction of the American people. Having been informed that the administration authorized warrantless surveillance on international […]
Feb
15
2006
The Democrats are being pushed over a cliff by their “impeach Bush at all costs” liberal base which makes up 2/3rds of their base, but only 20% of the population (and even less of the likely voters). Second, Democrats have become so irrationally angry about Bush that they reflexively oppose anything the president is for. […]
Feb
15
2006
The transcript of the Congressman Weldon’s mid day press conference can be found here at the Able Danger blog. I have posted earlier on the big news of the press conference – Able Danger data still exists and is probably the data sets sent to SOCOM as the lead organization for Able Danger. Before we […]
Feb
14
2006
What else should we call this?
Feb
14
2006
Some new information on Able Danger seems to have broken earlier today in the NY Post which I missed until now. Seems Atta was detected up to 13 times before 9-11: An active-duty military intelligence analyst has told congressional investigators that 9/11 pilot Mohamed Atta surfaced 13 times in a controversial Pentagon computer program before […]