Marc Ambinder has a seriously detailed curtain-raiser on a turf war that’s roiled the intelligence community for months. Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, and Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, have clashed over who controls the top U.S. intelligence officer in various foreign countries. But More…
With the Pakistani foreign minister and Army chief of staff in town, what does Leon Panetta vow in his first conversation with the press as director of the CIA? From The Washington Post:
CIA Director Leon Panetta said yesterday that U.S. aerial attacks against al-Qaeda and other extremist strongholds
Despite Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) imprudent confirmation last week that the unmanned aerial vehicles that the United States uses to fire missiles at militants in Pakistan come from Pakistani bases, the U.S.-Pakistani relationship over the drones has only gotten stronger, even if the price of quiet cooperation is public More…
Brandeis University’s Micah Zenko has an interesting op-ed in The Boston Globe looking at the stepped-up use of missile strikes against Al Qaeda targets in Pakistan. Long story short, they’re alarmingly effective. But more importantly, look at why:
From a purely military perspective, the Predator surge has largely succeeded
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