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The deepest and most damaging penetration of the U.S. Defense Department by an enemy agent in recent history was pulled off by a spy working for the terror-sponsoring, drug-smuggling Castro regime. The spy’s name is Ana Belen Montes, known as "Castro’s Queen Jewel" in the intelligence community. In 2002 she was convicted of the same crimes as Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and today she serves a 25-year sentence in Federal prison. Only a plea bargain spared her from sizzling in the electric chair like the Rosenbergs.Promptly upon Montes’ conviction a Cuban spy named Gustavo Machin, who worked under diplomatic cover in...

[full title]:The Saddam interrogation: Ten years after the tyrant's execution, the CIA agent who grilled him reveals the shattering truth... that everything the US thought it knew was WRONG CIA analyst John Nixon grilled the ruthless dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein In the course of interrogations, Saddam 'turned our assumptions upside down' In his 2010 memoir, Bush wrote: ‘I decided I would not criticise the hardworking patriots of the CIA for the faulty intelligence on Iraq.’ But that is exactly what he did. He blamed the agency for everything that went wrong and called its analysis ‘guesswork’ while hearing only...

I give you Alcee Hastings, Democrat from style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" lang="EN-US">Florida, the next chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence should Democrats win a majority in the next Congress.Before I explain exactly why that is a bad thing for America, let me make clear that I am a registered Republican. I tell you this up front because several of my friends who say they are Republicans have told me recently they intend to vote for Democrats this November, because the Republican Party has betrayed their trust. These “Republicans” have two main gripes with the party they embrace...

Saturday, May 25, 2002 – Print Edition, Page A4 Four years ago, Stephen Gale, a University of Pennsylvania terrorism specialist, made a presentation to security officials of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.He outlined to them scenarios where hijackers crashed planes either into nuclear power plants or into major buildings, such as the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.An FAA official responded by telling Mr. Gale his predictions were outlandish.On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Mr. Gale had a sinking feeling as he watched news of the attacks in New York and Washington."I did feel pretty weird," he recalled yesterday."That's no accident. I...