"Harsh interrogation"? I think the word they're looking for is "torture". Obama doesn't want people associated with torture. Once more with feeling: TORTURE!

Intelligence-gathering operations are O.K.but

Money talks and it is crying out loud.

So, what the heck is a�Tarp�. Isn’t it something made out of canvas? Yep. Isn’t it something that is a blend of cotton and silk? Yep. O.K. a twelve ounce tarp goes for about $22.00 bucks.

Used in disasters and the construction industries. Pretty good market,
Huh. So, Wall-Mart has a sale $18.00 bucks hey pretty good stuff huh?

So, what is my point? If the dollar gets to such a value, because a dollar bill is made from cotton and linen, that it would be better to reprocess the currency to be able to build a raw material for things like tarps. Is that funny or what? No it is not funny actually very frightening.

Here, one realized there are no rules in the free market system of the world. Take the example that perhaps America does go in to recession/ depression easily the dollar will fall to some simple amount or devalued to 10 cents to the dollar exchange. Or worse no value on the dollar all with those desperate to exchange for what ever. So, the only way to get a trade is to cash in any bundles of dollar bills you can as fast as you can.

A dollar bill is said to weigh one gram according to Google, a pair of processed jeans weighing 12 ounces on sale at Wall Mart Chinese made is about $16 bucks .So in the time of a serious part of the recession if one can flim flam a bag of 420 dollar bills that are worthless being one who has the capability can make a pair of jeans. Like the Chinese, perhaps something like is going on now really fills the definition of money laundering.

Hey, the Middle East radicals, the Asian rim and better believe the Soviets, South Americans that hate Bush will jump in this stuff to watch the American system slid in to a depression. No bombs no mushroom clouds just a lot of cheap jeans shirts pillow cases bed sheets under-ware and its curtains for us too. Probably a whole lot of other stuff too. Gas prices going up. Brace your self because our Treasury Secretary just said no regulation is ever on to stem this problem. I have seen article where twenty nine states here in America are in jeopardy with poor cash flow in government funding. Also half the banks that exist now will be gone. Very serious.

For me the stock market is going to make a huge belly flop because our Treasury Secretary, with Bush and Company have to be doing the same thing Bush is playing the same game legally. Whats really interesting is that the Rockefellers JP Morgan, Rothschild’s, Vanderbilt’s just about the whole Jekyll island group are just watching this stuff playing the game too. Getting ready to buy when everything is dirt cheap.

The problem with discussing Intelligence is that the best of it just isn't up front and center.

Intelligence isn't useful unless it's actionable secrecy.

Case in point:

The Japanese code was "broken" in the Pacific Theater.

It took not just folks who knew Japanese, but dialects, nuances, etc.

It actually required non-native Japanese people who were
given the task of decifering the code. Intelligent folks!

The Intelligence was the fact that you are finding out about this 60+ years after the fact.

Obama should make Palin an Intelligence Czar.

The world would think she was a known known. Meanwhile, those of us who know something about unknowns could quietly go about intelligence gathering.

General (rtd) Micheal V. Hayden going is good news. While it is true that as Director of the CIA he has restored a lot of the lost moral that Porter Goss achieved in his tenure, the charge against Hayden is that, having failed to translate the Arabic language intercepts that would have saved us from 9/11, rather then resign he helped inflict the warrantless wiretap program on America, trashing the U.S. Constitution, degrading our own servicemen, who spent hours listening into the phone sex of other U.S. servicemen rather than protecting our country, and generally using warrantless wiretapping to cover his own butt.

Good bye General. It's good to see you go.

I went to see a speech by Markus Wolf before he died (aka "The Man Without A Face"). He ran the East German secret service for decades without even being photographed, and he was asked about which other spy agencies he rated. His view? The Israelis were top of the heap, the British (MI6) weren't too bad but were under-resourced, and the Americans had basically given up on proper spy work and were throwing vast amounts of money at intercept kit and interrogating / torturing people they caught. His pitch was, basically, that doing successful intelligence is difficult and demands lots of people on the ground listening, being part of communities, making good things happen where they are and giving very early notice of stuff you need to know about.

Now, the guy's morals and political views were interesting - he was still a Communist in 2005 and was proud of the fact that he had a third of the East German population informing on each other - but the basic message was sensible. Real intelligence gathering is difficult, messy and depends on having lots of people on the ground in places where American college graduates just don't want to go.

He was retained by Bush as an adviser before his death, but I guess W only listened to the bits about spying on your own people and not that bits that included the word "difficult".