It comes in the course of a good Laura Rozen story about the differences in style and results between embattled Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair and CIA Director Leon Panetta:
Paul Pillar, a former senior CIA official and National Intelligence Council senior officer, said it’s no surprise
The Dennis Blair Show continues:
Former Gov. Thomas H. Kean, New Jersey Republican, and former Rep. Lee Hamilton, Indiana Democrat, said U.S. intelligence agencies should have been consulted before the bombing suspect, Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was granted constitutional protections under U.S. law, known as Miranda rights,
What were the wages of Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair’s botched Senate testimony Wednesday about being cut out of the loop on the interrogation of would-be Northwest Airlines Flight 253 bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab? Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), John Ensign (R-Nev.) and Robert Bennett (R-Utah) More…
Following on Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair’s star-crossed testimony in the Senate yesterday about Northwest Airlines Flight 253 — which the GOP leadership is using as a political cudgel against the Obama administration — the Senate intelligence committee heard from Blair and his intelligence colleagues in a More…
Never letting a good blunder go to waste, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), pounced on Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair’s botched Northwest Airlines testimony in a statement this morning:
yesterday several members of the administration’s national security team testified before the Senate concerning the attempted Christmas Day attack by
Apropos of my piece on Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair’s awkward testimony yesterday, Michael Isikoff fleshes out the dissatisfaction felt toward Blair at the White House:
“People are annoyed, angry, and frustrated about this,” said the senior official, who asked not to be identified, speaking about Blair’s
If President Obama didn’t have enough headaches after the loss of the Democrats’ filibuster-proof Senate majority on Tuesday night, another one emerged for him at a Senate hearing on Wednesday morning: Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence.
During the first in a battery of congressional hearings about the failed More…
Hours after Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, told a Senate panel that he thought the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG) should have interrogated would-be Northwest 253 bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab — which suggested that the FBI didn’t get valuable intelligence out of the suspect — the intelligence More…
Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, may think the interrogation of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab went haywire when the would-be bomber was Mirandized instead of being subject to the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group. But FBI Director Robert Mueller had a different take about the value of intelligence collected within the More…
Building off Matt’s excellent post about today’s outbreak of GOP enthusiasm for torture and lawlessness, check out this just-released paper from Ken Gude at the Center for American Progress separating myths from facts about the military commissions, civilian courts, and interrogations with lawyers present. For instance, here’s More…
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