27-01-2011, 01:25 AM
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:which breaks every rule of covert ops
I don't have any problem whatsoever with Jim's implicit understanding of covert operations -- an understanding that is the product of years of diligent research and important published writing.
If we are to hold analysts and historians to a "you had to be there" standard, then why bother with the exercises of analysis and historical enquiry?
I don't buy the Ambassador Hotel IDs for a number of reaons, but one simple reason will suffice for this particular argument: The spooks allegedly on scene were masters of and otherwise fully conversant with the processes of incriminating conspirators for future control. Which his to say that what in all likelihood kept them away from the scene of the crime was not fear of public identification so much as fear of blackmail by their alleged comrades.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene