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Trento’s Take: Murdoch and Prince Bin Talal Demonstrate Money Is More Important Than Fighting Terrorism
Apparently, it is coming as a shock to some of the millions of angry, jingoistic Americans, who thought Fox News was seriously patriotic and not just one of Rupert Murdoch’s money grubbing ventures, that the prince of media darkness is now in business with a real Saudi prince. My earlier column ...
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The Secret History Part II: The C-802 Cruise Missile: How the CIA left the Navy Defenseless against an Iranian Missile
In 2006, the U.S. Navy claimed it had a defense against the Iranian C-802 cruise missiles. But Iran, once again, put U.S. credibility to the test. Dur...
The Secret History Part I: The C-802 Cruise Missile: Iran’s Threat in the Persian Gulf
Scores are still being settled from the Iran Iraq War in the 1980s. It is no wonder. If anyone has any doubt about Iran’s ruthless use of all its h...
START/CTBT Mired in Shifting Politics
In a city known for the sometimes overwhelming presence of acronyms, two have been noticeably absent from the Senate floor for over a decade. T...
Trento’s Take: Dubai Cops: “Round Up The Usual Suspect: Israel…”
Dubai is a very curious place. It is run by a very rich sheik who allows very bad things to happen in his glittering little Sheikdom and always gets a...
Dirty Waters: The Politics of Ocean Pollution
While most of America was still reeling from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, Carnival Corporation – the world’s largest cruise line company – reported a better-than-expected third quarter profit last year of $1.3 billion.
Over the same period, revenues reached $4.1 billion, amounting to a 32 percent profit margin and generous shareholder returns. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Micky Arison called the figure “an achievement” given the “global economic environment” and a...
Read more...Dirty Waters: Cashing in on Ocean Pollution
Despite their reliance on natural resources to sell cruises, the cruise line industry defends its right to treat the oceans like a sewer and a waste dump.
On a trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, a few years back, Shauna and David Schober were snorkeling off the coast with a tour company that took them by boat to explore some underwater caves. But their snorkel excursion was cut short when less than a mile away a cruise ship discharged its septic tanks.
Read more...The Marcellus Shale: New York is the Natural Gas Industry’s New Lab Rat
Under some of the most beautiful parts of rural New York State in the pre-Jurassic era formation called the Marcellus Shale is an unimaginable fortune in natural gas. Getting that gas to market has become an obsession of Wall Street and the biggest gas drilling companies in the world. In this gas rush, New York is fast becoming a geological science experiment that many experts fear will have profound, dire environmental and health consequences. The drilling companies use a witch’s brew of water,...
Read more...The Atlantic Water Summit …After These Messages
[Editor’s Note: DCBureau.org sent a pair of reporters to Atlantic magazine's October 29th Water Summit. Our reporters were prevented from videotaping the conference by The Atlantic who arranged to exclusively tape the event, but did not offer it live. We present our Atlantic — approved video report by Allison Sickle and a companion piece by correspondent Byron Moore that was not shared in advance with Atlantic’s team of editors and advertisers.]
The main Ballroom at the National Press Club was pa...
Read more...On Prioritizing Terrorism
The bungled attempt by the young Nigerian to blow up Northwest Airlines flight 253 on Christmas Day has raised a lot of eyebrows in and out of government. Within days The New York Times was reporting that Abdulmutallab had been trained in Yemen by the one-time Guantanamo detainee Ali al-Shihri, that his wealthy father, the Nigerian businessman Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, had “urgently sought help from American and Nigerian security officials when cell phone text messages from his son revealed that he...
Read more...The No-Fly List: Americas Maginot Line Part II - How The CIA Lets Terrorist Fly
Had President Obama been aware of what the CIA did to the government of New Zealand in 2006 he might have been even more angry at his national security team. John Brennan, his counterterrorism advisor, conducted an investigation that failed to connect some old CIA dots that would have gone a long way in explaining why the CIA does not like to share information, even with the President of the United States.
When Brennan expressed surprise that Yemeni Al Qaeda operatives had advanced to the point o...
Read more...The No-Fly List Part I: America’s Maginot Line
Politicians have long made promises that if taxpayers spend enough money, they can be protected from evil forces. The Maginot Line was supposed to protect France from a German invasion. The Germans defeated it easily because it was poorly conceived and largely built as a boon to French contractors. America’s Strategic Defense Initiative, the hugely expensive — $50 billion and counting — and failed “Star Wars” missile defense system envisioned by President Reagan, has so far only protected the bo...
Read more...Vietnam Reconsidered
A recent NEWSWEEK cover story – HOW WE (COULD HAVE) WON IN VIETNAM, by Evan Thomas and John Barry (November 16, 2009 ) – has responded to the ever-louder jungle drums of the recovering Right and pulled the stake and raised up for more recent generations the vampire logic behind the argument that “..the United States could have won in Vietnam – if only the U.S. Congress hadn’t cut off military aid to South Vietnam.” It quotes Dwight Eisenhower as maintaining that “if you fight you must fight to w...
Read more...Trento’s Take: Fox News Can’t Upset Murdoch’s Saudi Prince
Last month I appeared on Fox News Network’s morning show, Fox and Friends, to talk about airline security. Normally such appearances end up as clips on the Fox News Web site. Granted, the Steve Doocy interview was hardly groundbreaking, but that is s...
Read more...Trento's Take: The CIA and Airline Security: The Dots No One Wants to Connect
Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan’s report to President Obama seemed the essence of candor. What was released to the public on January 7, 2010, seemed hard hitting and provided the illusion that ...
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KBR Denied $20 million; Less than a Time Out but More than a Slap on the Wrist
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in Iraq didn’t come from enemy fire. Maseth was electrocuted to death due to U.S. private military contractor KBR Inc.’s shoddy electrical work. Now, for the first time, KBR is losing millions of dollars as a consequence. The Army decided to deny KBR bonuses, which were routinely awarded to the firm for “excellent” work.According to KBR’s Security and Exchange Commission 8-K filing, they have been denied $20 million so far. Barry Piatt, press secretary for Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND), said, “The AP reported the figure at $25 million, but we are not sure where they got that figure.” If KBR’s SEC filing is accurate, $20 million could be just the beginning. If this review process continues, they’re expecting to lose $132 million in award fees for their work from January 2008 through December 2009. A press release from the Democratic Policy Committee on Thursday said that this is the “right call,” but only a “first step.” Senator Dorgan, the soon to retire chairman of the DPC, sat through 21 hearings about waste, fraud and corruption in military contracting since 2003. His countless hours listening to accounts of KBR’s “widespread sloppy contracting work that killed soldiers,” impacted KBR little, until now. Dorgan said that the Army’s decision “will send a long overdue message to military contractors that they will be held accountable for their performance, but the Army needs to send that message much more powerfully.”
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Thank you internet trolls: Or how to stop worrying and learn to love anonymous attacks from complete hacks on forums
In December, reporter Allison Sickle wrote an in-depth piece about the environmental impact of drilling in the Marcellus Shale. While there were many people who thought the piece was fair, a few organizations took issue with our characterization of the environmental challenges facing the Marcellus Shale region. Soon after posting, a flood of comments came in flaming the article for being “alarmist,”’ for not mentioning all enormous benefit gained by drilling, and calling out the author’s research and “so called experts.”We were unsurprised by the comments, the internet being the ultimate bastion of anonymous invective, but the organization and speed of these attacks were alarming. After a dig through the site analytics, it wasn’t too hard to spot the forum that was probably responsible for the attacks on the story. It isn’t unusual for us to get calls from corporate hacks that take issue with our articles (Nestle), but this new brand of grassroots attack is a different animal.
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