The House of Representatives will investigate the Sheepdogs…
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says his panel will investigate whether the CIA broke the law by not telling Congress earlier about a secret [non-operational] program to deploy hit teams to kill individual al-Qaida members.
As the Wolves nibble at the edges…
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Homicide bombers posing as guests attacked American luxury hotels in Indonesia's capital and set off a pair of blasts Friday after evading hotel security, smuggling explosives into the Marriott and assembling the bombs in a room on the 18th floor, where an undetonated device was found after the explosions.
The bombers had stayed at the hotel for two days and set off the blasts in restaurants at both hotels. The blasts killed eight people and wounded more than 50, authorities said. At least eight Americans were among the wounded.
And what is this horse manure?
A senior U.S. official told ABC News the [Jakarta] attacks came as a "surprise."
A second U.S. counter-terrorism official said the CIA and other intelligence agencies had given no indication to the White House of "any threat reporting in the last 18 months" involving the Indonesian al Qaeda affiliate, Jemaah Islamiyah.
And if some fine, upstanding CIA operative had blasted the suicide bombers before they self –detonated, would the House be gearing up to investigate him and his superiors right now?
I dreamed I saw a great wave climbing over green lands and above the hills. I stood upon the brink. It was utterly dark in the abyss before my feet. A light shone behind me but I could not turn. I could only stand there, waiting.
--Lord of the Rings
Yes we're all waiting--waiting for that grand betrayal. It will be in the Spirit of the Times.
(Sheepdog/wolf metaphors courtesy of Bill Whittle)
If there is an attack here, they will find someone like McVeigh and Nichols who was involved to pin the whole thing on like they did in Oklahoma City - even if they have to invent some right-wing guys involvement to cover up an AQ operation.
The sad fact is there likely will BE a stooge like McVeigh to point to and say "see, we told you that the ex-military right-wing extremists pose the biggest threat" (those AQ-connected Islamists aren't the terrorists that you're looking for, move along).
Their whole paper trail for setting this scenario up was exposed by the Homeland Security memo that made this statement.
It will give them the excuse they're looking for to declare Marshall Law and that whole "Constitution thingy" needs to be set aside to round up "threats" to the people - not one of which will be a member of Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, or Hamas - even if they were the ones who did it. This is THE plan.
Posted by: babylonandon | July 17, 2009 at 01:27 PM
As you obviously know, the only reason for this whole charade is to cover Nancy Pelosi's butt (if they can tell it from her face: both need covered). The Democrats know there is no there there, but they expect the rubes to believe there is a huge scandal, and that the CIA lies to and withholds information from Congress "all the time".
Posted by: Buford Gooch | July 17, 2009 at 03:45 PM
The charade is about more than that that, BG. It's part of the Great Neutering of the USA.
Posted by: baldilocks | July 19, 2009 at 03:13 PM