Unbossed has the dirt on President Bush’s nominee to serve as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center. The NCTC will be a new agency, “responsible for analyzing intelligence on terrorism and for the strategic planning of counterterrorism operations. The NCTC will report partly to the President and partly to John Negroponte, the new director of National Intelligence.”
Bush’s choice is Vice Admiral John Scott Redd. Redd, in his role as deputy administrator and chief operating officer of the Coalition Provisional Authority, was responsible for overseeing two spectatular failures in Iraq. He lost 9 billion dollars while doling out reconstruction contracts and he failed miserably in his job of “training and deployment of Iraq’s security programs.”
And if graft and incompetence were not enough to qualify Redd for a promotion, he also may have been involved in corrupting the Iraqi election results.
His confirmation hearing is tomorrow. The outrage never ends.
What this tells me: John Roberts is an abhorrent choice for the SCOTUS. Look at Bush’s past few high profile nominees:
Wolfowitz for World Bank.
Bolton for UN Ambassador.
This jackass for head of National Counterterrorism.
The only guy we can’t get good dirt on (yet) is Roberts. Do we really need any more dirt other than this ridiculous trend of Bush choosing the WORST nominee possible for EVERY open position?
on the other hand, their current difficulties with Bolton and Plamegate might have softened their appetite for a nasty fight.
On the other, other hand, they also may just be trying to throw as much crap out in the shortest amount of time possible so that nobody on the opposing side has a chance to catch their balance and hit back. That seems more in line with the Rovian attack, attack, attack strategy.
Speaking of counterrorism, note article by William Finnegan in new New Yorker on New York’s very sophisticated and expensive, largely self-funded, counterror operation lead by Ray Kelly. The city was let down by the Feds on 9/11, and has to do it itself because even now the Feds do not take the city’s defense seriously.
Redd, along with the others promoted (or given medals, like former CIA Director George Tenet, who ought to have been sacked on 12 September 2001) have two very important qualities:
(1) They are bone-loyal to Bush and Cheney. Loyalty is the one quality that all Mafia chieftains require, and is far more important than competence.
(2) These people all have incriminating evidence that could be used against Bush and Cheney if they were made unhappy. Bush and Cheney promote them to make sure they are happy.
Footnote: I don’t happen to think Redd is an incompetent on the scale of, say, Donald Rumsfeld. Actually, Redd did actually as he was bidden to do: He “disappeared” the $9 billion from Iraq (which I’m guessing has been funneled into financing covert, off-the-books operations inside Iraq, Iran, and elsewhere) and rigged the Iraq elections. Some say Redd didn’t do a very good job because a pro-Iranian Shiite majority was elected to the new Iraqi government, but I say that’s exactly what Bush and Cheney DO want–Shiite dominance in the new government, and close ties with Iran, will foment further Sunni unrest and continue the violence in Iraq that Bush needs as an excuse to keep American troops in country to “maintain stability”.
Now, where’s that $9 billion and what’s it being spent on? If the Constitutional checks and balances were really in place, the Congress would investigate and learn where the $9 billion has gone. There are so many possibilities it boggles the mind, but let us recall the Iran-Contra Scandal, in which Bush’s father was involved up to his neck–selling arms to the Iranian enemy (an act of high treason) and then skimming the profits to finance the Contras in Nicaragua (in direct defiance of Congress). Like father, like son in this case. I’d wager everything I’ve got that $9 billion is being laundered through offshore banks and funneled through CIA “cutout” companies into all sorts of nasty “black ops” around the world.
And I’m guessing that the Bush/Cheney pirateers managed to skim a bit of the $9 billion for themselves–just enough to keep themselves in yachts and servants.
Only 9 billion? That’s peanuts.
Actually 9 billion buys a lot of covert ops. 9 billion can also be invested profitably–particularly if it’s invested, in say, opium grown in Afghanistan (remember that the US military adamantly refused to destroy the poppy fields that the Taliban had banished, claiming it was the only livelihood of poor Afghan farmers).
I’m not saying that’s what happened in this case, but the CIA has been involved in drug smuggling in the past to finance its operations. What’s a bit of heroin smuggling when you have to win a “war on terrorism”?
Man, if I just had 1/100th of 9 billion I’d be psyched!
I was being snarky. 🙂
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