Mike Mcconnell

FISA Fight: Attack Of The Epic Failure

Martin Bosworth | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mike McConnell, Government Surveillance, Politics, FISA Bill, Obama, Warrantless Surveillance, Barack Obama, Wiretapping, Fisa, Politics News

This was a battle the Democrats absolutely could have won. Instead, they knuckled under and granted a corrupt and authoritarian president one of his greatest victories.

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U.S. Intel Chief Includes False Chain Email Story In Speech

LA Times | Andrew Malcolm | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lighthouse McConnell, Mike McConnell, Director of National Intelligence, Candian Lighthouse, Director of National Intelligence Mike Mcconnell, Politics News

Over the weekend, when many of you were out doing errands instead of postponing work at your office desk by visiting The Ticket and learning lots of t...

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Terrorists Crossing the Border: Genuine Threat or Hard-Right Ploy to End Immigration?

Russ Wellen | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mike McConnell, Nuclear War, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Paul Williams, Nuclear Weapons, Rush Limbaugh, Graham Allison, Sibel Edmonds, Lou Dobbs, Nuclear Terrorism, America's Truth Forum, Tom Tancredo, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Politics News

If anything bears repeating, alerting the world to nuclear terrorism does. Paul Williams fights the extreme form of jihad that nuclear terrorism constitutes with his own brand of extreme jeremiad.

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U.S. Troops in Pakistan? Utter Madness

Gareth Porter | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mike McConnell, Michael v. Hayden, Taliban, Musharraf, Al Qaeda, Democratic Leadership, Pakistan, David Petraeus, Politics News

The intelligence analysts know that bin Laden is salivating over the prospect of Americans fighting in Pakistan.

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Intelligence Director McConnell Backtracks On Waterboarding

Thinkprogress.org | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mike McConnell, Director of National Intelligence Mike Mcconnell, Mcconnell Waterboarding Torture, McConnell Torture, Politics News

Earlier this week, The New Yorker reported that Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell said that "waterboarding would be torture" if used ag...

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US Spychief's Plan To Monitor Internet Raises Major Privacy Issues

Wall Street Journal | Siobhan Gorman | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mike McConnell, Cyberspace, Director of National Intelligence, U.S. Spy Chief, Privacy, Politics News

Spychief Mike McConnell is drafting a plan to protect America's cyberspace that will raise privacy issues and make the current debate over surveillanc...

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National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell: Waterboarding Is Torture

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 01.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Intelligence Chief, Director of National Intelligence Mike Mcconnell, Warwire, Waterboarding, Mike McConnell, War on Terror, Mcconnell Waterboarding Torture, Torture, Politics News

The nation's intelligence chief says waterboarding "would be torture" if used against him or if someone under interrogation actually was taking water ...

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Mike McConnell Is Flat Wrong

Chris Dodd | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics

Read More: Mike McConnell, Fisa, Chris Dodd, Constitution, Politics News

This belief that the administration and anyone who helps them is above the law is on display throughout his New York Times op-ed.

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Neocons Strike Back on Iran

Philip Giraldi | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics

The neocons who have been calling for an assault on Tehran have lashed out, indicating that agenda driven ideology trumps reality every time. The pundits who wanted a war last week still want one this week, NIE be damned.

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Looming: US To Release New Intelligence Estimate On Iran

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 11.14.2007 | Politics

Read More: Mike McConnell, Chief Spy, Intelligence Chief on Cherry-Picked Intelligence, Chief Spy Intelligence, Iraq Intelligence, Politics News

National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell said Tuesday he would resign if administration officials mischaracterized or "cherry-picked" intelligenc...

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Intelligence Czar McConnell A Principal Architect Of Private Security Industry

KPIX - CBS 5 San Francisco | Frank Viviano | Posted 10.05.2007 | Home

Read More: Mike McConnell, Iraq War, Director of National Intelligence, Iraq, Booz Allen Hamilton, Cia, Private Security, Home News

Where does the buck stop? It�s a question that Washington has ignored through a long succession of scandals in Iraq, while senior offficials plead i...

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Timeline Suggests Intel Director Gave False Testimony To Congress

Washington Post | Posted 09.29.2007 | Politics

Read More: Mike McConnell, Fisa, False Testimony, Politics News

Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell told Congress last week that a May wiretap that targeted Iraqi insurgents was delayed for 12 hours by...

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My Video Chat with John Conyers

Arianna Huffington | Posted 09.27.2007 | Politics

Read More: Warrantless Wiretapping, Fisa, John Conyers, Judiciary Committee, Mike McConnell, Miers Bolten Contempt, Josh Bolten, Conyers Video Chat, Video, Harriet Miers, Conyers Contempt, Habeas Corpus, Politics News

John Conyers has become the point man on some of today's most contentious upcoming political battles -- so I thought he would be the perfect person to inaugurate our new Video Chat feature.

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