Michael Scheuer Watch #6: Bad Apples and Basic Questions
Large organizations have difficulty keeping poor performers and misfits out of their ranks. This is often true even in their most mission-critical jobs. There are numerous cases of airline pilots, even...
View ArticleMichael Scheuer Watch #8: Please Pass the Truth Serum
As I noted in the previous edition of this series, in a letter that appeared in the June 2005 COMMENTARY, Michael Scheuer claimed that between 1992 and 1999, CIA officers working in the units led by...
View ArticleMichael Scheuer Watch #10: The Cheese Danish Affair and Ron Paul
Our hero has surfaced. As I predicted, he has been compelled to move from the mainstream to the margins. The latest sighting has occurred not in one of the mass-media outlets where until recently he...
View ArticleMichael Scheuer Watch #12: Expletive Deleted
I had predicted that as our hero’s ideas and associations became better known, he would be compelled to move from the mainstream media to the far-out margins. Yesterday, as evidence that this shift was...
View ArticleMichael Scheuer Watch #13: Guilt by Association
Why has the National Alliance endorsed the work of former CIA officer Michael Scheuer? NatAllNews.com, the best “single source for worldwide pro-White news,” presents some choice quotations from our...
View ArticleWhat Is It With Former CIA Officers?
How come so many of them gravitate simultaneously to the extreme Left and the extreme Right? Michael Scheuer, as we’ve noted here before, is a peculiar hybrid of Noam Chomsky and Patrick J. Buchanan....
View ArticleAll the News That’s Fit to Bury
Let us connect four dots. On September 11, 2001, some 3,000 people were killed by Islamic terrorists in New York, Washington, D.C., and in Pennsylvania. It was a big story; indeed, it made the front...
View ArticleThe Anti-Americanism of George Weigel
How should we think about the religious fanaticism that fuels al Qaeda’s war against the West? One set of penetrating answers can be found in George Weigel’s Faith, Reason, and the War Against...
View ArticleSecond Life
Today’s Washington Post reports on the intelligence challenged posed by virtual worlds like Second Life, in which millions of participants use “avatars,” computer-generated personae, to interact in an...
View ArticleThe Scheuer Charade
Michael Scheuer, the former head of the Osama bin Laden desk and now a leading media “expert” on counterterrorism, has two faces. When he is talking to or writing for the non-mainstream media, he heads...
View ArticleOut of the Box, or Off the Wall?
Over the past few months, I’ve written a few posts that raised questions about the arrangement of the marbles inside the brain of Michael Scheuer, the former head of the CIA’s Osama bin Laden unit and...
View ArticleHellfire Without Brimstone
We’ve been taking down the intelligence community a lot here at Connecting the Dots, and for good reason. The CIA’s failures in the run-up to 9/11, and then in Iraq, and more recently the confusion...
View ArticleTwo Important Announcements From the Pentagon
I’m not making this up: Book Signing – 22 Feb. Author Michael Scheuer will present his new book “Marching through Hell: America and Islam After Iraq” in the Pentagon Auditorium, Room BH650, this...
View ArticleSpelling and “Analytic Tradecraft”
The CIA and U.S. intelligence have gotten a lot of things wrong in recent years, at great cost to our national well-being. A significant part of the problem lies in “analysis,” where data is supposed...
View ArticleI . . . Agree with Michael Scheuer
Gabriel Schoenfeld has done a masterly job of dissecting the bizarre world view of retired CIA officer Michael Scheuer. But today Scheuer has actually written an article that I for the most part agree...
View ArticleMore About the Goofball
Yesterday I wrote about Thomas P. M. Barnett, the author of the Esquire profile of Admiral Willam Fallon, head of Centcom, who resigned following the article’s publication. I have long known that...
View ArticleTrouble In the Cave
The terrorists who carried out the 9/11 attack are a frightening bunch of ruthless murderers. But let’s not forget that they are also human beings, some of them perhaps with very charming qualities....
View ArticleAre Michiko Kakutani and Michael Scheuer An Item?
In today’s New York Times, Michiko Kakutani gives a mixed review to Fareed Zakaria’s latest book, The Post-American World. She faults it for, among others things, some “curious gaps and questionable...
View ArticleThe CIA’s Grand Champion
From 2002-05, Mark M. Lowenthal was an assistant director of the CIA and vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council. He has written one of the more useful books by an intelligence official:...
View ArticleReading The Longest War
Normally, I like a hanging judge, and I am certainly a big fan of Michael Mukasey, the esteemed former federal judge and attorney general. He is one of the most reasonable, learned, and authoritative...
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