"You're good people."

"Michael. Women and children can afford to be careless. Men cannot."

TYPO corrected to "But the Pashtuns didn't want anything to do with the pagal Arabs anymore, so they alerted Mullah Omar who then warned UBL not to conduct any external attacks from Afghanistan."

If CIA was doing its job properly, the USIC wouldn't even need the ODNI, another post-9/11 GWOT creation.

SOCOM J2, DIA, FBI, NSA, and CIA all had different, relevant pieces of the puzzle before the 9/11 attacks.

The FBI was monitoring the al-Qaida flight students in the US and knew they spent their time concerned with navigation, not take-off, landing, or emergency procedures.

SOCOM J2 in Tampa has a computer program that linked the al-Qaida operatives. I can't recall the name of their program right now, but it was flashing RED in 2001.

DIA was aware that al-Qaida was conducting anti-US plots.

NSA was picking up signals of "something," but nothing concrete.

But CIA had HUMINT sources in Afghanistan that knew al-Qaida was preparing for a mega-attack somewhere. Al-Qaida failed with the Bojinka plot years before.

In the mujahadeen camps, the Pashtun Taliban fighters saw the al-Qaida posters looking for volunteers for a martyrdom mission. UBL requested mujahadeen for a "muscle team," amongst other requirements, like high IQ (to become flight students everyone learned later).

But the Pashtuns didn't anything to do with the pagal Arabs anymore, so they alerted Mullah Omar who then warned UBL not to conduct any external attacks from Afghanistan.

UBL married into Mullah Omar's family and he killed one of Mullah Omar's greatest enemies in the Northern Alliance just before 9/11, so he was "forgiven."

In the summer of 2001, CIA briefed "Dubya" via the PDB, alerting him that al-Qaida was "up to something," to which "Shrub" replied, "OK, got it." [sic]

Had CIA shared their precious intelligence in normal USIC traffic (M3 or WISE TS-SCI systems), the FBI might have detained the four flight students for interrogation before 9/11 and that PDB would have been more valuable:

"Good Morning, Mr President. CIA is aware that al-Qaida is preparing for a major attack against the United States of America. Their previous American target was the WTC in NYC in 1993 and a suicide airline attack plot in Asia which the Philippines security services interrupted. FBI is aware that four suspected al-Qaida operatives are flight students in Texas and Florida. These four flight students have since been detained and are being interrogated by the FBI. CIA and FBI will keep you apprised of any information they uncover."

"OK, got it." [sic]

The 9/11 Commission Report covered all this and suggested an overseer for CIA and all USIC agencies to share data with each other, hence the "bloated" ODNI.

ODNI, DHS, and ICE-- post-9/11 monstrosities, must all go on 20 Jan 2029.

"...how great Hillary was..."

Here is Hillary Clinton yucking it up with Prof. Keren Yarhi-Milo, SIPA dean at Columbia University, a former intelligence officer for the IDF and Israeli Consulate employee in Manhattan.

In 2024, this gorgon is the one who started the campaign to get rid of all pro-Palestinian college students who were protesting the vicious and inhuman ethnic cleansing the IDF was and is conducting in Gaza.

ICE detained and deported many innocent Palestinian or foreign pro-Palestinian college students in 2024 and 2025 thanks to the repugnant she-beast Keren Yarhi-Milo.

"Ha-ha-ha!"

Here are the four Democrats who inexplicably voted with the vile Republicans to cut food aid for pregnant women and children suffering in the expanding food oases of the Feudal States of Amerikkka:

TYPO fixed: "No Rel Pref" is how the US Army issued my dog tags last century.

"No Rel Pref" is how the US Amy issued my dog tags last century.

Hi Marine

SNAFU at the Pentagon. "Situation Normal, All F***ed Up"

BTW: USMC aviation got it's start on little Puerto Rico before WW1.

Canada shares two border crossings with Idaho.

I wouldn't be surprised if CBSA inspectors didn't ask for proof of vaccination or didn't conduct secondary inspections to see what the dumfux of Idaho might be bringing in to healthy, functioning Canada.

Not intrusive to a fellow Soldier, Matt.

My symbol is the atom.

I'll most likely choose an Irish wake with lots of booze and laughs and then be cremated.

I hope I have some fun at the wake, though.

Thanks for that info, Matt.

I am no longer recognized yet I am entitled to a military burial.

I'm gonna look for my old dog tags with its P38 can opener still on them.

The nefarious Trumpf junta creates all of these messes that are both costly and harmful.

Incredible. Russia is acting like a better ally dealing with Iran, than the US as an ally is acting towards Ukraine and NATO (Canada, Denmark, the UK, etc).

Too bad the Islamophobes and neo-cons like Sebastian Gorka and John Bolton (who is about to plead guilty to a national security crime) and AIPAC prevented a lasting detente between the US and Iran.

The Iran nuclear deal worked well and Dummkopf Trumpf threw it away listening to ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu.

Oil-rich Iran and her 93 million people would be on our side today instead of the Kremlin.

Now the US is over $100bn in debt over this idiotic "Forever War."

Thanks Bibi, Dotard, and AIPAC! Irrational Muslim hatred has done a lot of good for the peace-loving, hard-working American taxpayer.

The status quo dinosaurs in Congress are experts at "lip service" and few of them have delivered for the American people.

Why should these brontosaurus upset the boat?

$174,000 per annum salary, travel and expense accounts, slush funds, excellent retirement package after five or six years, all topped off with a platinum healthcare plan overseen by a USN admiral in a world class clinic hidden inside the Capitol building.

And lucrative lobbying positions await them when they leave office.

"I got mine!"

How many poor Palestinians these ~2,000 Britons may have murdered in Gaza is anyone's guess unless they each confess and the numbers are then tallied up by Scotland Yard.

Or if surviving Palestinian witnesses or IDF veterans feeling guilty are able to testify against the Britons.

That would make the work for Scotland Yard or the Serious Crimes Office (SCO) a bit easier.

Note that Ukrainian war crimes investigators are overwhelmed by Russian atrocities and they have been documenting them since the Feb 2022 invasion. The Kiev prosecutor's office estimates that it will take years to sort through everything to at least identify the alleged war criminals.

Prosecuting the IDF soldiers will be much harder and longer since the tiny Palestinian police force was wiped out, along with 262 journalists who were documenting atrocities and taking photographs since 7 Oct 2023.

Worst Person in the World

Oof!

Green Party leader Zack Polanski, a real mensch, is a Jew whose family fled the Holocaust. He signed an open letter to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper urging them to "track the movements of [~2,000] Brits who have served in the IDF" and "subject them to secondary screening where necessary at ports of entry."

The letter called for "robust war crimes investigations in line with domestic and international law."

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Good Morning Doc Sarvis

Thanks for the granularity. I am afraid to look each of them up and see why they did this.

I trust you are well and reading something interesting.

I'm enjoying an Agatha Christie mystery before beginning a more serious tome.

Alternating between fiction and non-fiction, light and heavy, history or current events, works well for this poor kitty who contributes modest OPs to drudge.com.

And to those four Democrats-- whoever you are -- that voted with the GOP to continue malnutrition with America's vulnerable people, GFY!

"Under the legislation, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) would lose $141m in funding for fruit and vegetable benefits for the nearly 5.4m children and pregnant and postpartum women enrolled. Four House Democrats voted with Republicans to pass the measure, while five Republicans voted against it."

~snip~

Meanwhile to our north, earlier this year Canada PM Mark Carney took measures to make groceries and other essentials more affordable for Canadians. How lucky Canada and Mexico are to have compassionate and intelligent leadership in their legislative bodies and executive branches.