A conversation about National Intelligence with David R. Ignatius author and columnist for “The Washington Post”, Mark Lowenthal, President and CEO of the Intelligence & Security Academy and John McLaughlin, former American Deputy Director of Central Intelligence and former Acting Director of Central Intelligence
Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. —John Kenneth Galbraith
Knowing that the vote over the weekend in Greece was really a referendum on Euro membership, a majority of the Greek Parliament said yes to staying. European Finance Ministers meet again on Wednesday to solidify the 2nd bailout package for Greece at the same time hopefully a deal is consummated between Greece and its creditors this week. The Greek 14.5b euro bond that matures on March 20th is up by 2 pts. The optimism that all will be completed and contained AGAIN to Greece has yields lower in Portugal, Spain and Italy. The iTraxx Financial Index is also narrower by...
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January 14th, 2009 at 12:11 am
Let me be the first to make the obvious sarcastic comment: The events of the past few years show that we have none.
January 14th, 2009 at 10:40 am
“Let me be the first to make the obvious sarcastic comment: The events of the past few years show that we have none.”
I would suggest that the one day records will be opened and the record will show we have much better intelligence than the average person likes to believe.
Please don’t write me off as a blind supporter, I despise the Bush regime. I just find it very hard to believe there haven’t been attempts to inflict damage on the USA since 9/11. The fact that we have had no major events shows something is working. That is, unless we rebrand hedge funds as terrorist organizations.