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RJ Hillhouse commented on the diary post Bin Laden Turned in by Informant — Courier Was Cover Story by RJ Hillhouse.
I’m trying to run out the door, so this will be short. And I have no interest in evading. 1. No, but they have a lot of experience in raiding homes of high-level Qaeda and could have a high level of confidence there would be some goodies. 1.a. Can you imagine the uproar in the [...]
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RJ Hillhouse commented on the diary post Bin Laden Turned in by Informant — Courier Was Cover Story by RJ Hillhouse.
Nah, speculation is it was dumped.
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RJ Hillhouse commented on the diary post Bin Laden Turned in by Informant — Courier Was Cover Story by RJ Hillhouse.
Never a bad thing if you can get the enemy to take himself out due to disinformation.
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RJ Hillhouse commented on the diary post Bin Laden Turned in by Informant — Courier Was Cover Story by RJ Hillhouse.
I entertained the question for you above, you just didn’t like my answer. When you do a cost-benefit analysis, the advantages of having him dead far outweigh alive. Sure, there would have been intelligence value, but the potential harm that could have come to the US and US interests was too damn high. The really [...]
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RJ Hillhouse commented on the diary post Bin Laden Turned in by Informant — Courier Was Cover Story by RJ Hillhouse.
You’re very welcome! Always a delight to be at the Lake!
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RJ Hillhouse commented on the diary post Bin Laden Turned in by Informant — Courier Was Cover Story by RJ Hillhouse.
The New Yorker was indeed a puff piece. In the old days, Pravda couldn’t have done a better job.
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RJ Hillhouse commented on the diary post Bin Laden Turned in by Informant — Courier Was Cover Story by RJ Hillhouse.
SEALS Team Six is actually DEVGRU. I was chatting with a Navy source tonight and was told (but did not confirm) that DEVGRU has more SEALS than the average team. The actual number is classified. It’s highly unlikely that this was the entire team that took down OBL. These guys won’t talk. It wasn’t a [...]
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RJ Hillhouse commented on the diary post Bin Laden Turned in by Informant — Courier Was Cover Story by RJ Hillhouse.
My understanding is the family got it.
The CIA has a history of giving out citizenship in extraordinary cases.
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RJ Hillhouse commented on the diary post Bin Laden Turned in by Informant — Courier Was Cover Story by RJ Hillhouse.
Tuttle’s right. That’s the game the Hill plays, not the intel community.
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RJ Hillhouse commented on the diary post Bin Laden Turned in by Informant — Courier Was Cover Story by RJ Hillhouse.
Thanks, Suz! You’re great!
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RJ Hillhouse commented on the diary post Bin Laden Turned in by Informant — Courier Was Cover Story by RJ Hillhouse.
No way did they want him alive. I’m sure the contingency plan was there, but OBL’s capture would have unified squabbling Qaeda franchises and fellow travelers like nothing else. And any form of interrogation would have been labeled torture and would have added fuel to that bonfire. This would have strengthened Qaeda. As is, it’s [...]
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RJ Hillhouse commented on the diary post Bin Laden Turned in by Informant — Courier Was Cover Story by RJ Hillhouse.
LMAO
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RJ Hillhouse wrote a new diary post: Bin Laden Turned in by Informant — Courier Was Cover Story
Forget the cover story of waterboarding-leads-to-courier-leads-to bin Laden. Sources in the intelligence community tell me that after years of trying and one bureaucratically insane near-miss in Yemen, the US government killed OBL because a Pakistani intelligence officer came forward to collect the approximately $25 million reward from the State Department’s Rewards for Justice program. The informant was [...]
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RJ Hillhouse commented on the diary post The Spy Who Billed Me Comes in from the Cold by RJ Hillhouse.
Hey, guys! Great to be back and appreciate the warm reception. However, you really are convincing me I’m nuts to do this. ;) Love FDL and have been intending to pop back in since I did the book salon in January, but time just seems to have a way of slipping by. Glad I forced [...]
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RJ Hillhouse wrote a new diary post: The Spy Who Billed Me Comes in from the Cold
After going black a couple of years ago, I’m returning to The Spy Who Billed Me . The blog got a lot of attention, some of it good, some of it, well, you can guess. I broke several national security stories and the best ones are, unfortunately, the ones I chose not to break out of national [...]
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RJ Hillhouse commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Kathryn Bolkovac, The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman’s Fight for Justice
And thank you all for having me back! Great to take a dip in the Lake now and then!
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RJ Hillhouse commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Kathryn Bolkovac, The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman’s Fight for Justice
It’s not an excuse. It’s an observation based on knowledge of the players, particularly the clandestine ones.
I agree they have to be accountable. I don’t realistically think it will happen. Look, the Obama administration just renewed DynCorp’s police training contract in Afghanistan–the same one whose funds were used to pimp little boys. There isn’t even the political will to hold them accountable on the micro level by the contracting agency, so I doubt if government wide effort would have a chance. The DoD and Intelligence communities can barely account for their budgets–kinda, sorta.
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RJ Hillhouse commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Kathryn Bolkovac, The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman’s Fight for Justice
What do you suggest could be done to prevent such abuses of women and children by contractors? What structures could be put into place? Frequent rotation of staff so they don’t get too comfortable with local authorities? What factors such as staffing shortages work against this from happening?
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RJ Hillhouse commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Kathryn Bolkovac, The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman’s Fight for Justice
If contracting were the size it was when this happened in Bosnia, I would agree. But it’s now a $100 billion plus business with several hundred thousand contrators including a gazillion third country nationals.
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RJ Hillhouse commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Kathryn Bolkovac, The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman’s Fight for Justice
Were you ever threatened? Were you afraid for your life?
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