How did 5 alleged Al Qaeda members come together to form this statement, given that they are being held each in isolation at Gitmo? Are they allowed to meet and discuss various topics, including... [Want to read the whole piece? Visit atlargely.com for full links, other content, and more]...

by Jeff Huber: Last week, at a meeting of his country's ruling party, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak accused Iran of "trying to devour the Arab states." Don't worry, Hosni. Iran won't eat you. It can't. It can't sit on you either. It's too far away. What led Mubarak to say such a mean thing about ...

by Jeff Huber Truth is truly stranger than fiction. Graham Greene's 1958 spy novel Our Man in Havana told a tragicomic tale of false intelligence crafted to suit the needs of a political agenda. John le Carre's 1996 The Tailor......

by Jeff Huber Last spring my dog Shady and I were walking across the bridge over Pleasure House Creek when I heard a disturbance in the water. I looked down and saw a Great Blue Heron breaking the water's surface. The heron flicked the water from its wings, flapped them, and went flying down the cre...

by Jeff Huber "As this law [of extremes] begins to lose its force and as this determination wanes, the political aim will reassert itself." --Carl von Clausewitz Young Mr. Bush has managed to irretrievably lose his Iraq misadventure, saving his successor the trouble of trying to put off defeat indef...

by Jeff Huber I have known and served with many military intelligence officers. A handful of them were brilliant. The preponderance of them validated the adage that says military intelligence is to intelligence what military music is to music. I have also known and worked with many Air Force officer...

I tend to use the New York "Murdoch" Post for kitty litter in general. Today, however, I had to respond to the insanity known as Ralph Peters - who earns his propaganda paycheck with pride, but little else in the form of facts or substance. Let's take a tour of Peters' distorted world-view...

Posted by Kathy A must read post by Marcy Wheeler on the Plame Leak and Bush's involvement (usually called treason): Scottie McC doesn't know it yet. But that's basically what he revealed this morning on the Today Show (h/t Rayne). During the interview, Scottie revealed the two things that really pi...

Sure, I am away for over a week and I come back to all hell breaking loose. Former White House press secretary, Scott McClellan, has apparently come to terms with being used as a propaganda tool for the Bush administration. In a new and apparently scathing book, McClellen pretty much says what all o...

With 80%+ of the US public not much liking our leader, Bush has found love in the arms of a foreign nation, Israel... nope, not hardly.  In Jerusalem, over 14,000 police officers have to guard Bush from the public.  Yes, one city has to basically empty out its police stations so that the m...