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Dr. Jack Wheeler, whose death-defying adventures span the globe and whose achievements have inspired wide-ranging acclaim, is providing accurate, insider information about the many staff changes within the Bush administration and federal agencies. On his unique intelligence website, To the Point, Wheeler analyzes recent shake-ups at the CIA and a key departure from the president's national security staff. Writes Wheeler: "'The Sheriff,' as new CIA Director Porter Goss is becoming known, is getting rave reviews from the agency's rank and file for serving notice to the Rogue Weasels that their left-wing views and attempts to sabotage the Bush administration will...

In an indication of their growing estrangement with the Bush administration, neoconservatives are slamming the White House for failing to stop what they describe as an antisemitic campaign to marginalize them being conducted by the CIA and the State Department. This view was outlined in a memo circulating among neoconservative foreign policy analysts in Washington. Obtained by the Forward, the memo criticizes the White House for not refuting press reports on the FBI's investigation of Pentagon analyst Lawrence Franklin that suggest wrongdoing on the part of Jewish officials at the Defense Department. "If there is any truth to any of...

In total, 39 English language books were found at bin Laden's Pakistan compound along with a wealth of other written materials: The 2030 Spike by Colin Mason A Brief Guide to Understanding Islam by I. A. Ibrahim America's Strategic Blunders by Willard Matthias America's 'War on Terrorism' by Michel Chossudovsky Al-Qaeda's Online Media Strategies: From Abu Reuter to Irhabi 007 by Hanna Rogan The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast The Best Enemy Money Can Buy by Anthony Sutton Black Box Voting, Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century by Bev Harris Bloodlines of the Illuminati by Fritz Springmeier...

Because the media do not always remember that nothing should be too dangerous to talk about in America, I would first like to thank TCS for allowing Mr. Apostolou to publish his essay on my work and ideas ("Michael Scheuer's Bloody Logic", TCS, 3/17/05). I am indeed an old-fashioned conservative nationalist, stuck with the quaint belief that U.S. foreign policy should protect Americans first, last, and always. I of course never said anything remotely resembling "America must kill innocent Muslims because of its relationship with Israel" -- although that's a clever way of diverting attention from the arguments of my...

Michael Scheuer, whose book Imperial Hubris lambasts US strategy in the war against al Qaeda, has attracted attention for recent public statements on Israel. The former head of the CIA's bin Laden unit, Scheuer claimed at the Council on Foreign Relations in February that Israel controls the debate on US foreign policy. As important as Scheuer's hostility to Israel is his underlying message: that to keep Israel happy, the US must kill innocent Muslims. While Scheuer's views on the Middle East are unpleasant, they are not far from the orthodoxy among retired diplomats. The view of the superannuated foreign service...

My first personal encounter with the CIA came in 1989. I was living in Washington, D.C., editing a new publication about Communist affairs under the auspices of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. There had been a spate of violence directed against the Communist authorities in Russia; I was among the first to discuss and analyze these events, publishing my findings not only in my own research bulletin but also, to wider attention, in the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Shortly after my articles appeared I got a phone call from a second secretary of the Soviet...

"...According to Scheuer, the tiny nation of Israel is not a valuable ally in the Middle East, but instead the author of a vast conspiracy to hijack the direction of American foreign policy. Scheuer explained to the CFR crowd that Israel dictates the course of its relationship with the United States. He explained, "we can no longer afford to be seen as the dog that's led by the tail." Scheuer further warned, "I don't think we can afford to be led around, or at least appear to be led around by them." So, not only has Israel "covertly" targeted the...

Remember Michael Scheuer? He's the former CIA analyst who penned an anonymous book called "Imperial Hubris" attacking the Bush administration's approach to terrorism. When we last saw him, in November, he was explaining to Tim Russert that American support for Israel is to blame for anti-American terrorism, and that Osama bin Laden is "in many ways . . . an admirable man."....

As expected, former CIA Senior intelligence analyst Michael Scheuer has been making the rounds on political talk shows explaining his dissatisfaction with the U.S. government's policies vis-à-vis the War on Terror, as outlined in his best-selling book Imperial Hubris. Normally we would dismiss clichéd assertions such as Mr. Scheuer's, but his allegations and comments deserve attention as his championing by the MSM elevates him to a position of profound influence among the public. Putting aside Mr. Scheuer's admiration and praise for Osama bin Laden stated two Saturday's ago on Meet the Press (you can read them for yourself in the...

BuzzFlash interview: Michael Scheuer. Ex-CIA bin Laden unit chief explains why insurgents are willing to die fighting us I’m very much frustrated with the inability of our leaders to make more than a superficial effort to understand the enemy, not because we need to sympathize with them or empathize with them, but because he’s so dangerous. We really need to take the measure of the enemy and why the enemy is fighting us.... Islamic militancy is a complex issue, but it’s not impossible for Americans to understand if they’re talked to directly and frankly. So far, we’ve gone through 12...

A senior U.S. intelligence official has written a book under the pseudonym “Anonymous” highly critical of the U.S. war on terror. It should be noted that it is no mystery who “Anonymous” is, Michael Scheuer, a senior official in the CIA who resigned in November during the Bush administration’s shake-up of that department. (1) Scheuer ran the Counterterrorist Center’s bin Laden station in the late 1990’s and authored another anonymous book entitled Through Our Enemies’ Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America two years ago. It is not clear whether it was CIA regulation or because...

The worst book of the year is "Imperial Hubris" by Michael Scheuer, a former CIA analyst writing under the pseudonym of Anonymous. The reason it is the worst is that it contains the worst idea — that Muslim terrorists hate us more because of our policies than for what we are. That idea is pernicious because it is patently false and because it leads directly to appeasement. While it is true that Osama bin Laden and other Islamist terrorists have cited a laundry list of grievances against the United States as a justification for their actions, such complaints are merely...

The CIA is the best place to work in the United States. No federal agency has a smarter, more dedicated or harder-working set of individuals than the CIA's women and men. I had intended to work at the CIA for the duration of my career, and I left it with deep regret and a great sense of personal loss. I was neither forced out nor pressed to resign. Resigning was my decision alone. I cannot state these facts more clearly, and I fiercely deny the accusations that I am a disgruntled former employee. I am, however, a disgruntled American —...

The Washington Timeswww.washingtontimes.com Bin Laden not 'admirable'Published November 28, 2004 Former CIA senior analyst Michael Scheuer offered little in the way of insight on the mentality of the nation's top intelligence agency. "I think without question we're losing the war on terror, sir," Mr. Scheuer said last Sunday on "Meet the Press." Fair enough, especially coming from one in the know. But this former chief of the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit, and anonymous author of "Imperial Hubris," a book that criticizes the administration's handling of the war, has some bizarre ideas that we hope don't become administration policy any...

Call-In Imperial Hubris: Losing the War on Terror C-SPAN, Washington Journal Washington, District of Columbia (United States) Scheuer, Michael, Author Mr. Scheuer talks about his book Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror, which was published anonymously by Brassey's Inc.

Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror, by Anonymous (Brassey's, 352 pp., $27.50) This is an alarming book, but not in the way its author intended. It delivers an urgent danger signal — not about al-Qaeda, but about intelligence services staffed with analysts who think the way the author of this book thinks. This latest attack on the Bush administration's war policies was written anonymously by Michael Scheuer, a veteran CIA analyst who headed the Agency's bin Laden unit in the late 1990s. His assessment of the War on Terror is grimly pessimistic: Everything the U.S....

"Bin Laden's point was driven home for him by U.S. actions. The first was in the contradiction between U.S. pressure on Al-Jazirah to censor or refuse to broadcast tapes from bin Laden and his lieutenants, and the secretary of state's February 2003 rush to publish a not-yet aired bin Laden tape so it would 'prove' to the UN Security Council the reality of al Qaeda-Iraq cooperation. '[T]he administration pounced on the [bin Laden] tape,' Maureen Dowd wrote in the New York Times. 'In the past, [U.S. National Security Adviser] Condi Rice has implored the network not to broadcast the tapes...

‘Anonymous’ resigns from CIA * Says will now serve the national interest by talking publicly about Bin Laden and 9/11-Commission Report WASHINGTON: A CIA analyst who wrote a book criticising the US war on terror resigned from the spy agency after it banned him from publicly discussing his views, his publicist said on Thursday. Michael Scheuer wrote the book “Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror” under the pen name “anonymous” and formally resigned from the intelligence agency on Friday, after 22 years of service. In a statement to the press, Scheuer said that he blamed...

WASHINGTON - A senior CIA officer who has become an outspoken critic of the fight on terrorism turned in his resignation this week, citing a desire to speak more freely about problems in the hunt for Osama bin Laden and the debate over intelligence reform. Current government officials are rarely as vocal as Mike Scheuer, who wrote "Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror." But he called the decision to leave the agency after 22 years "entirely my own." "I have concluded that there has not been adequate national debate over the nature of the threat...

Bush told he is playing into Bin Laden's hands Al-Qaida may 'reward' American president with strike aimed at keeping him in office, senior intelligence man says Julian Borger in Washington Saturday June 19, 2004 The Guardian A senior US intelligence official is about to publish a bitter condemnation of America's counter-terrorism policy, arguing that the west is losing the war against al-Qaida and that an "avaricious, premeditated, unprovoked" war in Iraq has played into Osama bin Laden's hands. Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror, due out next month, dismisses two of the most frequent boasts...