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  • Former spy chief urges oil cutback [R. James Woolsey]

    12/02/2007 10:44:21 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 142 replies · 1,110+ views
    Miami Herald ^ | Sunday, December 2, 2007 | Jane Bussey
    "We should not just try to import less oil," the former CIA director under former President Clinton told a Miami audience Sunday. "We should destroy oil as a strategic commodity" that allows oil exporting nations to hold monopoly power... Woolsey's wide-ranging speech went from describing how Americans' dollars at the gas pumps made their way to fundamentalist Islamic institutions to illustrating advances in solar energy technology that make it more efficient and affordable... Among his suggestions was California's decision to decouple energy company profits from sales two decades ago, keeping the state's electricity consumption flat while the rest of the...
  • Woolsey: GET SMART [intelligence reorganization]

    12/16/2004 5:11:50 AM PST · by Tolik · 8 replies · 460+ views
    Wall Street Journal via Benador Associates ^ | December 15, 2004 | R. James Woolsey
    Whatever the overall effects of the recent intelligence reorganization, the new director of national intelligence (DNI) should at least be able to bring about one important improvement -- coordinating foreign and domestic intelligence.Such coordination was not really even being attempted before 9/11 because domestic intelligence, for all practical purposes, did not exist. The FBI was the only institution that had ever actually been in the business, e.g. with its very effective long-term penetration of the American Communist Party. But discredited in the mid-1970s by the revelation of excesses, including spying on Martin Luther King Jr., the Bureau had essentially been...