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Jews on the brain.(At War)(The CIA, Jews and politics)
WE all know that something was seriously wrong with the CIA's counter-terrorism operation in the 1990s--and now thanks to Michael Scheuer we are beginning to see what that something was. Scheuer ran the CIA's bin Laden unit from 1996 until 1999. Last year, while still employed by the CIA, he published a book harshly critical of the Bush administration's War on Terror, Imperial Hubris. The book offered something less than a coherent argument. Sometimes Scheuer would call for raining mass fire and slaughter upon the Arab world--and then at other times he would argue that al-Qaeda was an essentially rational organization with limited demands that the United States could and should appease.
Frankly, the book was a mess. But since Michael Scheuer was always consistently anti-Bush (he likes to say that the president "would not know an American founder from an Atlantic flounder"), the mess received an enthusiastic response from the American media.
There's something else about which Scheuer is consistent: his conviction that U.S. foreign policy is controlled by ... guess who?
At a recent Council on Foreign Relations event in New York, Scheuer described the U.S.-Israeli relationship as "probably the most successful covert-action program in the history of ...
- Michael Scheuer.(USA)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor November 22, 2004 700+ words
Byline: David T. Cook Michael Scheuer, who resigned Nov. 12 after running the CIA office that tracked Osama bin Laden, was last Friday's guest. He wrote the recent...
- Pessimism.(Michael Scheuer)
- Newspaper article from: APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map October 9, 2006 700+ words
Michael Scheuer, the former head of the CIA's bin Laden desk who resigned in 2004, was on Oct. 3 quoted as presenting a far more sinister...
- Michael Scheuer's war.(LETTERS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times November 21, 2005 700+ words
...Islamists do not feel threatened. Their faith (at least in the United States and many European countries) is one of the most protected...to be a need for greater attention to this weakness. The United States needs to find a way to limit infiltration. Mr. Scheuer...
- Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror.(book by Michael...
- Magazine article from: Parameters Killebrew, Robert B. June 22, 2005 700+ words
...researched, and crisply articulated. Its conclusion is that the United States is mishandling the challenge of Islamic radicalism and that...Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, and Islam's antipathy toward the United States are brilliantly presented. Bin Laden comes across not as...
- The Al Qaeda enigma: as the US election looms, American leaders boast that the...
- Magazine article from: The Middle East Blanche, Ed November 1, 2008 700+ words
...Qaeda in the last few years, says Michael Scheuer, who once headed the CIA unit tracking...most serious terrorist threat to the United States," former CIA officer Ted Gistaro...increasing the pain inflicted on the United States and its allies in order to force them...
- Spy vs. spy.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
- Magazine article from: Foreign Policy Scheuer, Michael Goodman, Melvin A. Treverton, Gregory F. Baer, Robert May 1, 2005 700+ words
...the security of the United States will increasingly require...greatest risk to the United States as adverse European...important reform. --MICHAEL SCHEUER Author of Imperial...S. embassies. The United States relies on foreign intelligence...
- VOA NEWS: U.S. COUNTERTERROR CHIEF SAYS EUROPE UNDER HIGHER TERRORISM THREAT
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News August 4, 2008 700+ words
...terrorist attack than the United States. But he tells VOA Correspondent...still plotting against the United States. In his first interview...between Britain and the United States. Former CIA terrorism analyst...conspiracy against Islam." Michael Scheuer, who once headed ...
- How Bush helps jihadists; Whose side is the U.S. on?(OPED)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times March 13, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Michael Scheuer, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES...Muslims will begin to believe the United States is his sponsor, and that Washington...Whose side are these guys on?" Michael Scheuer, a 22-year veteran with t
Source: HighBeam Research, Jews on the brain.(At War)(The CIA, Jews and politics)