Landrieu phone plot: Men arrested have links to intelligence community

[babsbunny]

http://rawstory.com/2010/01/men-charged-attempting-bug-landrieus-office-intelligence-links/

By Sahil Kapur
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 -- 10:54 am

WASHINGTON -- Two of the three men arrested on Tuesday along with "ACORN pimp" James O'Keefe for "maliciously tampering" with Sen. Mary Landrieu's (D-LA) phones in her New Orleans office have ties to the United States intelligence community.

The three accused by the FBI of "aiding and abetting" O'Keefe are Stan Dai, Robert Flanagan and Joseph Basel. O'Keefe is 25, and the other three are 24.

[bluestateguy]

1. Cheney still has holdovers in the CIA

and they are protected by the stupid-ass civil service laws.

Fucking Pendleton Act.

[Stevenmarc]

2. More like the lack of intelligence community

[stray cat]

3. But little intrinsic intelligence.....

[NYC_SKP]

4. Gingrich, Lieberman, Kristol, Kantor, and Richard Perle???

...and Krauthhammer???? :wtf:

...The IC CAE in National Security Studies Program was established during 2005 in response to the nation's increasing need for IC professionals who are educated and trained with the unique knowledge, skills and capabilities to carry out America's national security objectives.

The CIA summer school packet also notes that Dai "served as the Operations Officer of a Department of Defense irregular warfare fellowship program."

standai Landrieu phone plot: Men arrested have links to intelligence communityDai has been an undergraduate fellow with the Washington-based national security think tank Foundation for the Defense of the Democracies (FDD), according to his College Leadership Program award biography at the Phillips Foundation -- as Lindsay Beyerstein first reported.

FDD claims that it's partly funded by the US State Department. Its Leadership Council and Board of Advisers comprise many high-profile conservative politicians and public figures -- including former House speaker Newt Gingrich, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), former Bush official Richard Perle and columnist Charles Krauthammer....

Oh please let this be fully investigated!

:patriot:

[arcadian]

5. From Foundation for Defense of Democracies,

http://www.defenddemocracy.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11774010

Iraqi Translator Speaks About Army Experiences
John DeLooper, The GW Hatchet
10/13/2004

Iraqi translator Humala Aqrawee, who works for the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division, addressed two dozen students in the Marvin Center Wednesday night.

At the event, organized by sophomore Stan Dai and senior Cassandra Waite, Aqrawee thanked U.S. soldiers for their support in Iraq. She also stressed that troops motivate the Iraqi people to defeat international terrorists.

"The Baath party encouraged division and conflict," said Aqrawee, a Kurd whose brother was killed by Saddam Hussein's Baath Party and sister was killed by terrorists. "People who opposed them were neutralized."

Aqrawee, who attends meetings with Iraqi leaders, sometimes enters serious fighting with American commandos to communicate with Iraqi citizens. She speaks Arabic and two dialects of Kurdish.

"Wherever there is combat or meetings, fun. I go there," she said.

After speaking for about 10 minutes on her personal experience, Aqrawee said media portrayals of a worsening situation in Iraq are inaccurate.

"If it is getting worse, why are 25 percent of the ministers female? If the economy is so bad, how come we can buy satellites?" she said in response to a question by sophomore Josh Schrier about accurate media perspectives. "We have free media, with weekly and daily newspapers."

Aqrawee encouraged students to read the Web pages of each of the troop divisions in Iraq for more information.

"Don't get the picture according to the media. Get it from what you see," she said. "When my sister got killed, your media said the translator for the 101st got killed."

While expressing hope about Iraq's future, the translator also said that foreign terrorists and former Baath Party members are the biggest threat to security in the war-torn nation.

"We have bad neighbors," Aqrawee said. "You have Mexico and Canada, we have Syria and Iran who are sending terrorists."

She also looked ahead to Iraq's elections in January and said the Iraqi people would accept the nation's next democratically elected leader.

After the event, junior Lauren O'Leary said she found Aqrawee's comments insightful.

"I was glad to have perspectives of people who had been there and lived under Saddam. They're so effusive with praise," she said. "Even conservative media doesn't show this view."

Dai, who organizes events to spread awareness of democracy and terrorism on campus, said Aqrawee has an impressive resume. Dai and Waite are fellows with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

"She follows the troops around in face-to-face negotiations and combat raids," he said. "She's got guts."

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6. they have been trying to down play this this evening on the news.

I hope they do find a definite link to some other source.