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Podcast | An Absolute Must - Blowing Obama's Afghanistan Plan Apart

Goodman and McGovern on CIA deaths in Afghanistan
Melvin A. Goodman is a former analyst for CIA, State Dept. and Defense and author of Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA
Peter B. Collins Show - January 4, 2010
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Ray McGovern started at the CIA in the 1960’s and was daily briefer to Reagan. Combined, Goodman and McGovern have more than 60 years of intelligence experience. They comment on the suicide bomber who killed 7 CIA agents in Afghanistan, the CIA’s role in the drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the likely cycle of vengeance that will follow, and Obama’s decision to commit more US troops. We also talk about the attempt to blow up a US airliner approaching Detroit on Christmas day and the hysterical response, as well as the dismissal of criminal charges against Blackwater mercenaries for the Nisour Square incident. Read Goodman’s commentary at www.truthout.org and McGovern’s dispatches at www.consortiumnews.com.

National News

Afghan Dirty War" Escalates
Consortium News - By Douglas Valentine - January 4, 2010
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On Dec. 31, I listened in dismay as an NPR “terrorism” expert condemned the suicide bombing that killed seven CIA employees in Afghanistan as especially hideous because the CIA victims were spreading economic development and democracy in the area as members of a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT).

Less surprising but no less disingenuous were the comments of CIA Director Leon Penetta who said the dead CIA officers were “doing the hard work that must be done to protect our country from terrorism." And President Barack Obama’s depiction of the CIA officers as "part of a long line of patriots who have made great sacrifices for their fellow citizens, and for our way of life."

On New Year’s Day, Washington Post staff writers Joby Warrick and Pamela Constable began to fill in some of the blanks that the initial propaganda had ignored. Warrick and Constable reported that the CIA officers were “at the heart of a covert program overseeing strikes by the agency's remote-controlled aircraft along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.”

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Video Cartoon | Obama on the Run with Hillary on His Heels
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Violence - Civil

US | Retired Army General Predicts 300 to 500 Casualties Per Month in Afghanistan
Truthout - By Mary Susan Littlepage - Thursday, January 7, 2010
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