Showing posts with label CIA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CIA. Show all posts

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Tweets of Note: Recent Political, Public Policy & Pop Culture tweets you may've missed -October 1 thru October 12, 2013 -From Amnesty to Angie Harmon, Jack Bauer to Jack Wilshere, Fraser Nelson to Mickey Kaus and illegal immigration

Congressman boasts immig amnesty will win because "there is no money on the other side" http://t.co/BlXaS9EyeO #wheresCommonCausewhenUneedit
















































































"Jack Wilshere should stick to his guns over Englishness of Manchester United teenager Adnan Januzaj
Jack Wilshere is wrong to make U-turn over Manchester United prospect Adnan Januzaj's eligibility for England – not least because he has a point."



























































I wrote about Chaz's blog post on Monday in my blog post titled, "Chaz Stevens' latest blog post is a reality gut-check for the State of Florida re their lax enforcement of rules and laws re municipal CRAs, including where he lives in the Grand Duchy of Deerfield Beach, where bureaucratic self-enrichment is a tradition, not a rumor
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http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/chaz-stevens-latest-blog-post-is.html





















James Romenesko @romenesko: Chaz Ebert: "Dear Roger, It has been six months since you left us, but...



































Thursday, August 8, 2013

Benghazi -What really happened? "The Truth About Benghazi" - Videos from CNN's better-late-than-never Benghazi special examining the terrorist attacks on the U.S. Consulate that killed four Americans; U.S. Mainstream Media's suck-up of White House narrative and hands-off attitude towards Hillary Clinton looks even worse in retrospect as more facts emerge and cover-up falls apart





CNN video: Benghazi timeline: "We are under attack"

John King: Why Benghazi matters
By John King, CNN Chief National Correspondent
updated 1:23 PM EDT, Wed August 7, 2013
Additional information and videos at:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/06/politics/king-benghazi/index.html


CNN video: Political fallout from Benghazi attack







CNN video: Why didn't the U.S. military respond in time in Benghazi


CNN video: Paying the political price for Benghazi

Recent Benghazi-related news























— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) August 1, 2013






Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Some Spy programs are good for the country and some are bad. But 'Covert Affairs' and Piper Perabo's 'Annie Walker,' well, that was LOVE at first sight! (And very good for USA!) Season 4 of Covert Affairs, now with Hill Harper, starts tonight at 9 p.m. on USA network, DirecTV Channel 242; @CovertAffairs, @PiperPerabo, @TheKariMatchett

CovertAffairsOnUSA YouTube Channel video: Covert Affairs, Season 4 - "Vamos," Previously On Covert Affairs -Season 3 recap. Uploaded July 12, 2013. http://youtu.be/DxAEF0v_Rq0

'Covert Affairs' and Annie Walker are back tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern, and she's going undercover in Columbia, so we'll break out the good pizza and beer for tonight and tape the MLB All-Star Game for viewing afterwards. 
(Repeat episode is at 12:07 a.m. Eastern.)
We have to have our priorities straight, after all.


CovertAffairsOnUSA YouTube Channel video: Covert Affairs, Season 4 - Sneak Peek, Uploaded July 12, 2013. http://youtu.be/bWBBGaZtYo4


The Hollywood Reporter
'Covert Affairs' Bosses Preview Annie/Auggie's Romance, New Blood and 'Darker' Season 4
by Philiana Ng, 
7:00 AM PDT 7/15/2013 



















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Opening credit sequence of NBC-TV's "I SPY" starring Robert Culp and Bill Cosby; iconic music composed by Earle Hagen, who won the Emmy Award for it.
The TV spy program we watched when we were young-and-impressionable, wanted the newest and coolest gadgets to fight evil and evil regimes... back before there were blogs that needed careful tending and persuasive and enthusiastic writing.

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More 'Covert Affairs' videos at: https://www.youtube.com/user/CovertAffairsOnUSA/

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

In honor of espionage and the Season Two premiere of SHOWTIME's Emmy Award winning HOMELAND getting a 60% increase in viewers over last year's premiere, I present some amazing video that needs to be seen to be believed: VICE News videos - Hezbollah's Propaganda War; Morena Baccarin @missmorenab


An inside look at Season Two with the creators and stars of SHOWTIME's espionage drama HOMELAND, the best show on American television. 
http://www.sho.com/sho/video/titles/17717/behind-the-scenes-homeland-season-2


SHOWTIME video: Season Two, Episode One: An asset from Carrie's old life comes in from the cold. Uploaded September 30, 2012. http://youtu.be/-xtJ5lLkW70
In honor of espionage and the Season Two premiere of SHOWTIME's Emmy Award winning HOMELAND getting a 60% increase in viewers over last year's premiere, I present some amazing video that needs to be seen to be believed: VICE News videos - Hezbollah's Propaganda War; Morena Baccarin @missmorenab
Have already watched the new episode on TV twice. Plus, watched the DVD-RW I made looking for hidden clues, so I guess that makes thrice!

More HOMELAND clips are at SHOWTIME's YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/show/homeland/

http://www.sho.com/sho/homeland/home

http://ithitshome.com/

Dana's Unfiltered blog: http://danaunfiltered.com/

Ratings: 'Homeland,' 'Dexter' Score Big for Showtime
http://www.thewrap.com/tv/column-post/ratings-homeland-dexter-score-big-showtime-58666
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"Hezbollah has built a multi-million dollar theme park celebrating its military victories over Israel. It's the latest PR offensive from the Iranian-funded Shia Muslim militia its followers call the "Party of God." Host Ryan Duffy heads to Lebanon to visit this bizarre tourist site to learn how this group that started as a ragtag militia in the 1980s has skillfully used propaganda to transform itself into a military and political force to be reckoned with, and how anti-Hezbollah groups are trying to compete in this war of words." September 2012.


http://www.vice.com/vice-news/hezbollahs-propaganda-war-part-1
http://www.vice.com/vice-news/hezbollahs-propaganda-war-part-1#ooid=tuNjhvNTqb2dIf_zU1QRpOrNm1A1pGyx



http://www.vice.com/vice-news/hezbollahs-propaganda-war-part-2
http://www.vice.com/vice-news/hezbollahs-propaganda-war-part-2#ooid=A0cXVsNTp8c_QoL8UCnCs0K8Uwy3jVSG

Meanwhile, back in Los Angeles... paparazzi cameras go off by themselves when HOMELAND star Morena Baccarin walked the red carpet two weeks ago...


http://youtu.be/3CRtkyxIVvM

And the week before that there was...

Esquire Magazine
WOMEN WE LOVE
Morena Baccarin Is a Woman We Love
And today, she is also the most beautiful woman in the world
By Tom Chiarella
September 10, 2012, 12:00 AM
http://www.esquire.com/women/women-we-love/morena-baccarin-1012

Morena Baccarin @missmorenab https://twitter.com/missmorenab

Special bonus: photo of Morena Baccarin AND Laura Vandervoort together in one photo. Seriously, you might want to sit down first so the double-dose of beauty doesn't make you faint dead away after you click this link: http://twitter.com/Vandiekins22/status/245715759555289088/photo/1

You're welcome!

Sunday, September 30, 2012

More useful clarity on President Obama's Libyan Lies, Misrepresentations & Misadventures: Obscure film was NOT responsible for riot there, security was lax in Benghazi, U.S. Marines were NOT there during consulate attack, and FBI agents are still NOT there two weeks later, a fact that ABC News' Friday evening newscast continued to neglect to mention



senatorcorker video: Appearing on Fox News Channel, Tennessee Senator Bob  Corker, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sounded-off on the lack of information and cooperation the Comm. is receiving re the Benghazi attacks on September 11th. Corker believes the Obama administration's response to Libya consulate attack is "Nothing Short... of Benghazigate." "Both Democrats and Republicans want answers to what happened." Uploaded September 27, 2012. http://youtu.be/wLk6o3N8cB8 
More useful clarity on President Obama's Libyan Lies, Misrepresentations & Misadventures: Obscure film was NOT responsible for riot there, security was lax in Benghazi, U.S. Marines were NOT there during consulate attack, and FBI agents are still NOT there two weeks later, a fact that ABC News' Friday evening newscast continued to neglect to mention
And on Friday, sixteen days after the death of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christoprher StevensABC News national newscast devoted ZERO time to Obama's serial lies about what happened in Libya, not mentioning Libya even once.

No, instead, the lead story was on TSA agents pilfering airline passenger goods. Really?
Yes, nothing at all about no FBI agents being in the country more than two weeks later to investigate.


The Washington Post

In Libya, security was lax before attack that killed U.S. ambassador, officials say
By Ernesto Londoño and Abigail Hauslohner
September 29, 2012 at 2:12 PM
On the eve of his death, U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens was ebullient as he returned for the first time in his new role to Benghazi, the eastern Libyan city that embraced him as a savior during last year’s civil war. He moved around the coastal town in an armored vehicle and held a marathon of meetings, his handful of bodyguards trailing discreetly behind.
But as Stevens met with Benghazi civic leaders, U.S. officials appear to have underestimated the threat facing both the ambassador and other Americans. They had not reinforced the U.S. diplomatic outpost there to meet strict safety standards for government buildings overseas. Nor had they posted a U.S. Marine detachment, as at other diplomatic sites in high-threat regions.
Read the rest of the article at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-libya-security-was-lax-prior-to-deadly-attack/2012/09/29/a56ffca0-0992-11e2-afff-d6c7f20a83bf_story.html


The Weekly Standard

Our Fearless Misleader
By Stephen F. Hayes
October 8, 2012, VOL. 18, NO. 04
After more than two weeks of obfuscation and misdirection from the Obama administration, the American public is coming to understand what the U.S. intelligence community learned in the 48 hours immediately following the September 11 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Among the important new details:
Read the rest of the post at
https://www.weeklystandard.com/print/articles/our-fearless-misleader_653228.html


New York Times
Security Fears Hobble Inquiry of Libya Attack
By David D. Kirkpatrick, Eric Schmitt and Michael S. Schmidt
Posted online September 27, 2012
BENGHAZI, Libya — Sixteen days after the death of four Americans in an attack on a United States diplomatic mission here, fears about the near-total lack of security have kept F.B.I. agents from visiting the scene of the killings and forced them to try to piece together the complicated crime from Tripoli, more than 400 miles away.
Investigators are so worried about the tenuous security, people involved in the investigation say, that they have been unwilling to risk taking some potential Libyan witnesses into the American Embassy in Tripoli. Instead, the investigators have resorted to the awkward solution of questioning some witnesses in cars outside the embassy, which is operating under emergency staffing and was evacuated of even more diplomats on Thursday because of a heightened security alert.