Report On Intelligence Activities Relating To Iraq Conducted By The Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group And The Office Of Special Plans Within The Department Of Defense

Author : Senate (U S ) Select Committee on Intell
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0160809584

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Report on Intelligence Activities Relating to Iraq Conducted by the Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group and the Office of Special Plans Within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, June 2008 by Senate (U S ) Select Committee on Intell Pdf

NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT-- OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price while supplies last This report is the unclassified version of the Committee's review based on interviews with current and former Intelligence Community and DOD official briefings, and documentation provided by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Department of Defense, and State Department. The Department of Defense Internal General (IG) also provided the Committee with additional information collected as part of its February 2007 review of the activities of the Office of the Under Secredary of Defense for Policy. (OUSD (P). Intelligence community, counterterrorism analysts, and defense policy advocates may be interested in this volume. Related products: Counterterrorism resources collection can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/security-defense-law-enforcement/counterterrorism Intelligence & Espionage related resources can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/security-defense-law-enforcement/intelligence-espionage Iraq & Persian Gulf Wars resources collection can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/us-military-history/battles-wars/iraq-persian-gulf-wars

Author : John D. Rockefeller
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781437906141

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Report on Intelligence Activities Relating to Iraq Conducted by the Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group and the Office of Special Plans Within the Department of Defense by John D. Rockefeller Pdf

In Feb. 2004 the Committee looked into issues surrounding a Dec. 2001 meeting in Rome, Italy between DoD officials, and current and former Iranian officials, and a related follow-up meeting in June 2003. The Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group was a two person group created in Nov. 2001, after discussions on how to pursue the Rome meeting. While the information obtained at the Dec. 2001 Rome meeting was related to Iran instead of Iraq, senior personnel were directed to conduct the Rome meeting and were involved in the decision-making process on how to undertake the meeting. This report completes the Committee¿s inquiry and the issue of whether the OUSD(P) undertook inappropriate intelligence collection activities.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000063504385

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Briefing on the Department of Defense Inspector General's Report on the Activities of the Office of Special Plans Prior to the War in Iraq by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing Inc.
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Briefing on the Department of Defense Inspector General's Report on the Activities of the Office of Special Plans Prior to the War in Iraq by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Joffé
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429999642

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Routledge Handbook on the Modern Maghrib by George Joffé Pdf

This comprehensive Routledge Handbook on the Modern Maghrib introduces and analyses the region in its full complexity, focusing on the countries of Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya, as well as the northern and western Sahara. In addition to country studies that provide historical and geopolitical background, a series of thematic explorations engage with a range of social, linguistic, cultural and economic aspects, providing a rich mosaic of current scholarship on the region. Addressing important debates such as the volatile international relations among constituent states, the role of women in society, and the environmental impact of climate change, the book considers natural resources, music, media and language, and revisits the history of borders and social tribal structures. What emerges is not only a variegated picture of the Maghrib as a complex and rapidly changing region, but one marked by stark contrasts and divergences among its constituent states based on their Ottoman and colonial experiences, their relationships with their Saharan and Mediterranean neighbours, and their own political trajectories. This Handbook fills an important gap in knowledge on a region increasingly significant in European and American affairs, and will appeal to anyone interested in the history, economies and societies of North Africa.

Author : Daniel E. Zoughbie
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262326193

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Indecision Points by Daniel E. Zoughbie Pdf

How a president who prided himself on his decisiveness vacillated between policy approaches in the Middle East. Although George W. Bush memorably declared, “I'm the decider,” as president he was remarkably indecisive when it came to U.S. policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His administration's policymaking featured an ongoing clash between moderate realists and conservative hard-liners inspired by right-wing religious ideas and a vision of democracy as cure-all. Riven by these competing agendas, the Bush administration vacillated between recognizing the Palestinian right to self-determination and embracing Israeli leaders who often chose war over negotiations. Through the years, the administration erratically adopted and discarded successive approaches to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The results of this irresolution included the stunning triumph of Hamas in the 2006 Palestinian elections, Israel's 2006 invasion of Lebanon, the 2008–2009 clash between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, and, in the end, virtually no diplomatic progress toward lasting peace. In Indecision Points, Daniel Zoughbie examines the major assumptions underpinning U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East during the Bush years. Was there one policy or two? Was the Bush administration truly serious about peace? In a compelling account, Zoughbie offers original insights into these and other important questions. Drawing on the auhtor's own interviews with forty-five global leaders, including Condoleezza Rice, former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Kofi Annan, Colin Powell, Tom DeLay, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Richard Perle, Leon Panetta, Chuck Hagel, Shlomo Ben Ami, and Salam Fayyad, Indecision Points provides the first comprehensive history of the Bush administration's attempt to reshape political order in a “New Middle East.”

Author : Doug & Linda Raber
Publisher : DOUG & LINDA RABER
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780985190514

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Face of the Earth by Doug & Linda Raber Pdf

Smallpox was wiped off the face of the Earth more than 30 years ago, but an outbreak on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico has claimed one life, and the disease is spreading. The conclusion that the outbreak is the result of a terrorist attack is official U.S. policy, but the facts don't add up to terrorism. Tipped off by a former classmate teaching in Farmington, Sarah Lockford, a Washington Post reporter, teams up with Jake Overman, a medical researcher from the Centers for Disease Control, to investigate the outbreak. As the National Security Council debates, the White House readies plans for a retaliatory attack against Iran. A cabinet member with a grudge deploys Army personnel to New Mexico to make sure no one stands in the way of a military response. The Navajo community is secretly shut off from the rest of the world. Roads are guarded, and all incoming and outgoing communications are blocked. The only leak was the phone call to Sarah, and Sarah can't be found. She evades surveillance and travels through the wilderness to the outbreak site, where she and Jake discover its surprising origin. Forced into a cross-country game of cat and mouse, they race to get their scientific evidence to the President in time. If they fail, the U.S. may launch a nuclear attack. FACE OF THE EARTH is fiction, but all of the scientific and U.S. policy information in the novel has been scrupulously fact-checked. The story is frightening because everything in it could happen.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Majority Staff
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781437915709

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Reining in the Imperial Presidency by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Majority Staff Pdf

Documents the various abuses that occurred during the Bush Admin. relating to the House Judiciary Committee¿s review and jurisdiction, and to develop a comprehensive set of recommendations to prevent the recurrence of these or similar abuses in the future. Contents: Preface: ¿Deconstructing the Imperial Presidency,¿ which describes and critiques the key war power memos that gave rise to the concept of broad-based, unreviewable, and secret presidential powers in time of war. Also describes specific abuses of the Imperial Presidency relating to Judiciary Comm. inquiries. Includes a comprehensive set of 47 policy recommendations designed to respond to the abuses and excesses of the Bush Imperial Presidency.

Author : Janine R. Wedel
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780465020843

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Shadow Elite by Janine R. Wedel Pdf

It can feel like we're swimming in a sea of corruption. It's unclear who exactly is in charge and what role they play. The same influential people seem to reappear time after time in different professional guises, pressing their own agendas in one venue after another. According to award-winning public policy scholar and anthropologist Janine Wedel, these are the powerful "shadow elite," the main players in a vexing new system of power and influence. In this groundbreaking book, Wedel charts how this shadow elite, loyal only to their own, challenge both governments'; rules of accountability and business codes of competition to accomplish their own goals. From the Harvard economists who helped privatize post-Soviet Russia and the neoconservatives who have helped privatize American foreign policy (culminating with the debacle that is Iraq) to the many private players who daily make public decisions without public input, these manipulators both grace the front pages and operate behind the scenes. Wherever they maneuver, they flout once-sacrosanct boundaries between state and private. Profoundly original, Shadow Elite gives us the tools we need to recognize these powerful yet elusive players and comprehend the new system. Nothing less than our ability for self-government and our freedom are at stake.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015090381701

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Executive Accountability Act of 2009 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Pdf

Author : Peter Minowitz
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739140192

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Straussophobia by Peter Minowitz Pdf

Leo Strauss and his students have long been accused of mendacity, elitism, and militarism, but the Iraq War has prompted unprecedented levels of caustic and inaccurate denunciations. Inappropriate criticisms have issued from artists (Tim Robbins), politicians (Ron Paul), journalists (Joe Klein), and even highly lauded scholars such as Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Gordon Wood, Douglas Massey, Stephen Holmes, Anne Norton, Shadia Drury, Sheldon Wolin, John Pocock, John Yolton, Nicholas Xenos, and Brian Leiter. In Straussophobia, Peter Minowitz provides a methodical and detailed critique of the major offenders, especially of Drury, who maintains that Strauss established a 'covert tyranny' that would keep the Western world 'mired in perpetual war.' In replying to such charges_and to various authors who belittle Strauss's contributions as a scholar_Minowitz highlights the imaginative yet meticulous manner in which Strauss interpreted Thucydides, Plato, Xenophon, Farabi, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, and Carl Schmitt. Straussophobia also provides both a comprehensive assessment of Strauss's 1933 letter that commended 'fascist, authoritarian, and imperial' principles, and a compelling account of Strauss's influence, or lack of influence, on neoconservative promoters of the Iraq War (e.g., Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, and Lewis Libby). The book likewise breaks new ground in employing diversity discourse to explain and combat the bigotry and buffoonery that pervade attacks against Strauss and Straussians_and in drawing on Strauss to illuminate the distortions that mar some widely-used arguments for affirmative action.

Author : David Mattingly
Publisher : Anchor Academic Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783954899746

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Creating Enemies by David Mattingly Pdf

The Bush administration planned the invasion of Iraq to be a quick “in and out” operation without dedicating a large force for the invasion and the aftermath. The “honeymoon period” immediately after the invasion closed and the insurgency movement emerged and grew when the Coalition Provisional Authority disbanded the army and banned the Ba’ath Party and most of its members from participating in the new government. The results of the orders created an insurgency war that the U.S. and Coalition forces had not planned to fight. The war created numerous domestic and foreign insurgency groups and militias as well as a largely under-governed area in Western Iraq on the Syrian border. The Syrian Civil War drew a number of groups into the country to fight along the pro-Shi`a and pro-Sunni factions. The insurgency war born in the aftermath of the invasion has created regional instability and conflict. The war has also crippled the U.S. in reacting to other global conflicts at a time when Russia is increasing its involvement in world affairs.

Author : John D. Rockefeller
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781437906158

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Report on Whether Public Statements Regarding Iraq by U. S. Government Officials Were Substantiated by Intelligence Information Together with Additional and Minority Views by John D. Rockefeller Pdf

Assesses ¿whether public statements and reports and testimony regarding Iraq by U.S. Gov¿t. officials made between the Gulf War period and the commencement of Operation Iraqi Freedom were substantiated by intelligence info.¿ The Committee reviewed 5 major policy speeches by Admin. officials regarding: the threats posed by Iraq, Iraqi weapons of mass destruction programs, Iraqi ties to terrorist groups, and possible consequences of a U.S. invasion of Iraq. The Committee selected particular statements that pertained to 8 categories: nuclear weapons, biological weapons, chemical weapons, weapons of mass destruction (generally), methods of delivery, links to terrorism, regime intent, and assessments about the post-war situation in Iraq.

Author : Aggie Hirst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135043698

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Leo Strauss and the Invasion of Iraq by Aggie Hirst Pdf

The political philosophy of Leo Strauss has been the subject of significant scholarly and media attention in recent years, particularly in the context of the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. Allegations that a group of Strauss-inspired Neo-conservatives intervened in the foreign policy establishment of the US in order to realise the policy of 'regime change' began to emerge soon after the invasion, and unanswered questions remain a decade later. This book addresses these claims, focusing specifically on a group of Straussians active in the spheres of intelligence production, think tanks, and the media during the period from the 9/11 attacks to the invasion in 2003. Such an examination is intended not simply to identify and expose their activities promoting the policy of 'regime change' in Iraq during this period, but also to challenge them and the Straussian logics underpinning them. Utilising the thought of Jacques Derrida, the book enacts a deconstructive challenge to Strauss’ political philosophy which unsettles the fundamental assumptions it relies upon. In doing so, it exposes the securitising imperative underpinning Straussian thought and the Straussian interventions. It thereby simultaneously addresses crucial issues in political theory and contemporary foreign policy studies, while asserting that these dimensions of international politics can and should be dealt with in conjunction with each other. This book would be of interest to students and scholars of Global Politics, Political Theory, Security Studies and US Foreign Policy, and those outside the academy interested in Neo-conservatism and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Author : John Pearse
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781119994152

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Investigating Terrorism by John Pearse Pdf

Investigating Terrorism takes a look behind the closed doors of terrorist cases. Major players from the world of counter-terrorism, including politicians, lawyers, psychologists and police, offer analyses of recent terror attacks and share their knowledge of terrorist behaviour Deals with legal, psychological and practical issues surrounding how to deal with a real life ‘ticking bomb’ scenario Provides an insight into the most recent police model for interviewing witnesses, victims and suspects Contains the latest analyses of recent terrorist attacks including the recent Norwegian tragedy carried out by terrorist Anders Breivik Contains the views of major players in the world of counter-terrorism, including Lord Carlile, the former HMG’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorist legislation, and Peter Clarke, the recently retired Head of Terrorist Investigations for the UK Incorporates recently-released findings from studies commissioned by New Scotland Yard to study the effectiveness of police interviews with terrorist suspects Includes chapters discussing the context in which people become suicide bombers