Today’s BradCast is packed with news from top to bottom. Please buckle up before listening.
First, Big Oil’s deceptive scam in California (as discussed on yesterday’s show) has succeeded, for now, as Dems pull landmark legislation that would have called for a 50% cut in petroleum usage in the state.
Then, new polling finds Bernie Sanders overtaking Hillary Clinton now in Iowa, as well as New Hampshire, while the party’s internecine battle over more debates continues. On the GOP side, candidates not named Trump are flailing as they desperately try to get attention. It’s not working — neither is their lost hopes of scuttling the Iran peace plan.
Next, author
and national security correspondent Shane Harris joins us to discuss his disturbing new exclusive at The Daily Beast on 50 U.S. intelligence analysts now reportedly charging that the U.S. has been “cooking” its intel on ISIS.
The still-unnamed military intelligence analysts working for CENTCOM, as Harris explains, are reportedly seeing some of their own reports manipulated by higher-ups. “Key pieces of [their analyses] that they feel are very important [are being] taken out, not given the proper context, [and] in some cases making it look like ISIS and al Qaeda are weaker than these analysts actually believe they are.”
So are these charges akin to the way intel on Iraq and WMD was manipulated by the Bush Administration in the 2002/2003 lead-up to war, as revealed by the notorious Downing Street Memos (“the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy”)? Or are these claims more akin to the hyperventilation over unsubstantiated allegations from the Right concerning Benghazi?
Harris tells me his reporting suggests it is more likely the former than the latter, though it remains unclear who is behind the alleged manipulation of intel and how high up it might go, even if proven true. “What I think is notable is that these 50 — actually 52 — professionals who are doing this every day, to go against their bosses, to take this to the IG is a very bold move. They feel very strongly that they have a case,” he explains. “I’ve never seen anything like this. Usually whistle-blowers are in ones and twos, but for a group of people en masse to complain like this is certainly unique in my experience as a reporter.”
We discuss who may be behind the alleged “cooking” of the intel and whether President Obama or the White House is somehow directing all of this as the Bush/Cheney Administration was doing in the case of the manipulated intel on Iraq. Tune in for Harris’ response to those questions and many others, in what seems, at least as of now, a startling, if still-developing story.
Finally, our latest Green News Report is also a very busy one today, and not only because it includes several fresh examples of Sarah Palin’s unparalleled ignorance…
Yeh..So, I am HIGHLY skeptical of this article and the reason being is that the people who are doing the ‘complaining’ are choosing to remain anonymous. Anonymous sources should ALWAYS send up a RED FLAG. This could be a ‘ploy’ by the neocons to try to get boots on the ground in Syria against Putin’s ‘army base’ that is currently being built, and the Russian’s ‘small amount of troops’ they most recently have committed to Syria for Assad’s Regime. I call BS The neocons want their War.
I guess I should clarify. I think the Daily Beast article is a fake. I’m not falling for the ‘manipulating the intel’ thing again like the run up to the Iraq War. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice can’t get fooled again…-W
But the good news today..The DoJ is supposedly going to start prosecuting banking criminals… http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/...ives.html?_r=0 the Japanese Whale hunt has been totally CALLED OFF this year for the first time in a 100 years….and the EPA has ruled Monsanto neocartinoids are killing bees and that they ha ‘erred’ in their previous findings… http://news.yahoo.com/u-court-f...1;finance.html
Thanks for mentioning those, Christy! Had hoped to cover the DoJ announcement a bit today, but couldn’t fit it all in! 🙁
Given the Obama administration’s war on whistleblowers, I’m not sure that I’d agree that the choice to remain anonymous is per se a “red flag,” as suggested by Christy @1.
Were we to have discounted the early reports of NSA spying until Edward Snowden risked all by publicly acknowledging that he was the source?
“50 Analysts” topic:
Obama Admin. prefers “happy talk” while it abandons desperate citizens of Syria and Iraq to savage murdering pedophiles ISIS, as confronting it militarily is politically unpopular.
Obama while on a ‘victory lap’ over the Iran-Nuke deal will definitely not mention up IRAN’s key role in the September 11, 2001 attacks, as laid out by the 911 Commission Report. Hijackers flew out of IRAN with complicity of airport officials. US Federal Courts have issued Guilty verdicts and Judgements: $6 Billion (+ interest) in damages to the survivors of the 2787 Americans it helped al-Queeda murder.
NY tower seized for auction.
Clinton needs to pay attention to what MSNBC is saying about her and her staff: http://dailycaller.com/2015/09/...n-house-video/