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Patrick Eddington

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    Patrick Eddington commented on the blog post Reflecting on 9/11 Through Song

    2011-09-11 17:29:08View | Delete

    Very surprised people forgot this one:

    http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgkv37_hole-in-the-world-eagles_music

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    Patrick Eddington wrote a new diary post: Thoughts On The American Imperium

    2011-03-21 19:16:30View | Delete

    All of this unilateral war-making by the current occupant of the White House has taken me back in time, to our first war with Iraq and my recently published chronicle of that conflict. During the researching and writing of Long Strange Journey over the last 13 years, I began to understand that Desert Storm had not [...]

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    Patrick Eddington commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Patrick Eddington, Long Strange Journey: An Intelligence Memoir

    2011-03-12 16:58:42View | Delete

    My thanks again to you, Tim, and to the entire FDL community…and if you haven’t become an FDL Member, please do so!

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    Patrick Eddington commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Patrick Eddington, Long Strange Journey: An Intelligence Memoir

    2011-03-12 16:57:47View | Delete

    It helps if you trade arms for hostages…I hear that gets you a prime-time show. :)

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    Patrick Eddington commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Patrick Eddington, Long Strange Journey: An Intelligence Memoir

    2011-03-12 16:56:54View | Delete

    people shouldn’t fear their governments, governments should fear their people. :)

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    Patrick Eddington commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Patrick Eddington, Long Strange Journey: An Intelligence Memoir

    2011-03-12 16:55:35View | Delete

    My sincere thanks to all!

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    Patrick Eddington commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Patrick Eddington, Long Strange Journey: An Intelligence Memoir

    2011-03-12 16:53:29View | Delete

    Multiple Presidents from both parties have used the CIA to overthrow governments and assassinate those the USG wanted out of the way. Weiner’s book (“Legacy of Ashes”) does a pretty good job of chronicling that part of the CIA’s history. The current Oval Office occupant has certainly not shied away from using the CIA for such missions.

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    Patrick Eddington commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Patrick Eddington, Long Strange Journey: An Intelligence Memoir

    2011-03-12 16:51:02View | Delete

    It would help if we had a President who did not start his administration by urging us to “look forward, not back.” Accountability–electoral and legal–is the bedrock of a functioning democracy. We do not have such a functioning democracy today. I like to tell people that while we may be living in “The United States of America” we long ago ceased living in “The Republic of the United States of America.” Accountability must be restored to our institutions–executive branch, Congress, and the judiciary. It’s up to us to do it.

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    Patrick Eddington commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Patrick Eddington, Long Strange Journey: An Intelligence Memoir

    2011-03-12 16:47:20View | Delete

    Yes, Halabja is a name that will live in infamy in the twisted annals of the history of chemical warfare. Absolutely hideous what was done to the people of that city.

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    Patrick Eddington commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Patrick Eddington, Long Strange Journey: An Intelligence Memoir

    2011-03-12 16:45:42View | Delete

    Lindh wasn’t AQ, but with the Taliban, I believe. Bin Laden and his inner circle are extremely adept at practicing operational security; it’s the reason they’re still at large almost 10 years after 9/11.

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    Patrick Eddington commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Patrick Eddington, Long Strange Journey: An Intelligence Memoir

    2011-03-12 16:44:09View | Delete

    That’s a good one! :)

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    Patrick Eddington commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Patrick Eddington, Long Strange Journey: An Intelligence Memoir

    2011-03-12 16:43:42View | Delete

    One of my favorite topics. On balance, yes, I think the prior agency connections are a clear source of bias/reluctance to really take on the IC. I don’t think prior IC service should be a disqualifier–I just think that anyone who is going to serve on the staff of the House or Senate Intelligence Committees should have to convincingly demonstrate that they have a real commitment to aggressive, probing oversight…and above all an absolute commitment to ensuring the rule of law prevails.

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    Patrick Eddington commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Patrick Eddington, Long Strange Journey: An Intelligence Memoir

    2011-03-12 16:41:00View | Delete

    They are absurd. If I put the text in front of a judge and showed him/her what was already in the public domain, they would (I would hope) laugh the CIA out of court. Sometimes I think the folks at the Publication Review Board (that’s what the book censor component is called) feel like they have to go after something in your book in order to justify their salaries. :)

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    Patrick Eddington commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Patrick Eddington, Long Strange Journey: An Intelligence Memoir

    2011-03-12 16:38:54View | Delete

    Indeed. And of course, we have our own “Abu Ghraib East” right here in Virginia. Manning’s confinement conditions and treatment are Guantanamo-like.

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    Patrick Eddington commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Patrick Eddington, Long Strange Journey: An Intelligence Memoir

    2011-03-12 16:37:12View | Delete

    Yes. I could potentially litigate over them, which I’ve not ruled out.

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    Patrick Eddington commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Patrick Eddington, Long Strange Journey: An Intelligence Memoir

    2011-03-12 16:36:21View | Delete

    You are preaching to the choir on that one, my friend. I’ve said for years that if we lifted the legal restrictions on what companies like DigitalGlobe and GeoEye can orbit in terms of sensor resolution and eliminate the classification of electro-optical platform-derived data, you’d inject a vastly greater amount of competition into the business. Platform quality would improve and come down in price. More product would be available to federal customers. Taxpayers would save money.

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    Patrick Eddington commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Patrick Eddington, Long Strange Journey: An Intelligence Memoir

    2011-03-12 16:33:23View | Delete

    What I also remember about that episode is how not a single Senator–not one–went after Bush/Rumsfeld for spearing Shinseki like a frog. #gutless.

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    Patrick Eddington commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Patrick Eddington, Long Strange Journey: An Intelligence Memoir

    2011-03-12 16:32:15View | Delete

    Last year, we collected in excess of 1 million hours of video footage from overseas via the drones. More than 1 million hours. Who can possibly look at all of that and make sense of it? And even if you manage to automate some or much of the process, you still need trained analysts involved in sorting out what’s usable from what isn’t. We are reaching the point–actually, we’ve probably passed it–where we’re collecting far, far more that we can intelligently exploit and use.

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    Patrick Eddington commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Patrick Eddington, Long Strange Journey: An Intelligence Memoir

    2011-03-12 16:29:36View | Delete

    Passed the House but not the Senate, last year.

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    Patrick Eddington commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Patrick Eddington, Long Strange Journey: An Intelligence Memoir

    2011-03-12 16:29:01View | Delete

    That’s a tough one. The only way we’re ever going to get the kind of real-time, reliable intel on terrorist groups like AQ is if we can actually infiltrate them–a very, very tough proposition when they are holed-up in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan. We clearly are getting some usable intel from SIGINT, less so (in my view) from IMINT. We simply do not have enough people in this country who’ve come from that region and who can thus at least have a chance of better blending in and potentially penetrating AQ…and AQ knows we’re trying.

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