Just before 8 this morning, I posted on Facebook that I would love to see a discussion panel on MSNBC's show AM Joy with Joy Reid that consisted of Jill Wine-Banks, Malcolm Nance, Naveed Jamali, Clint Watts, and Matt Miller. I wanted them to discuss the Mueller indictments and the fact that 130 members of the White House staff do not have a Security Clearance. The Security Clearance issue is important to me; I knew that 45's daughter, Ivanka, and her husband, Jared Kushner, did not have a viable Security Clearance. I had no idea that spokesperson Sarah Suckabee Sanders, chief White House legal adviser Don McGann, and several other folks could not get a permanent clearance. All of these people have an "Interim" Clearance, which is supposed to apply for 90 to 180 days - no longer. This administration has been inside the White House for over a year, which, unless I learned wrong, lasts for 365 or 366 days. Who can't count here?
In any event, my room mate and I burst into laughter at the same time this morning, while watching AM Joy. Joy Reid had a discussion panel about Security Clearances at the White House - and the three people on the panel were Jill Wine-Banks, Malcolm Nance, and Naveed Jamali. (Three of the five I had hoped for.) At the end of the discussion, Malcolm made the comment that if any of those 130 people entered a US Intelligence office, officers and employees would immediately hit the red button, causing a red strobe light to flash, cover everything on their desks and shut down their computers, and it would be loudly shouted that "Uncleared people" were present. - That's when Beatrice and I started laughing. Both of us had pictured in our minds images of lepers in the Dark and Middle Ages, shaking their clappers and yelling "Unclean! Unclean!"
*** It is truly sad that people with leprosy were shunned and treated so badly before the disfiguring disease was understood.... ***
But Beatrice and I have a weird sense of humor - or do we have twisted minds?
Showing posts with label Naveed Jamali. Show all posts
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Saturday, February 17, 2018
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Miscellany
The past several days have been a television viewing pleasure - Clint Watts has been interviewed multiple times, as has Malcolm Nance and Naveed Jamali. Several appearances by Richard Painter, and some of my favorite Congressmen and Congresswomen have also sweetened the view. I did not watch the State of the Union address last night, but I did watch Joe Kennedy's Democratic rebuttal. And I loved Joe Biden's tweet about Joe's speech. I also laughed myself silly when Sarah Suckabee Sanders said that polls show that "no one" in America is interested in the Russia investigation.... What a hoot!
Anyway, we've had warm weather and wind the past few days, but there is still snow and ice in the parking lot here. It was 62 degrees yesterday, but then 26 last night... Today, clouds are clinging to the tops of the Flatirons, while there are mostly clear skies to the north and east. Besides our filled bird feeders, Bea tossed out raw almonds for the birds and squirrels this morning. The usual ravens and blue jays were here, and then a flock of about 100 starlings appeared, but they left after ten minutes. Tipsi, the white tail-tipped squirrel, has been much in evidence the past few days; and our usual sparrows, finches and chickadees are abundant.
Tonight is the really wild and crazy lunar event - there's a "super" moon, a "blue" moon, a "blood" moon, and a total lunar eclipse. My brother-in-law and his neighbor are planning out the best place to be, at the best time, to take photos of the event... I plan on sleeping. I'll see all sorts of wonderful photos via the internet tomorrow.
I finished reading Emergence, the latest C. J. Cherryh Foreigner series book. - And I want another new one, immediately, as usual. Last night I finished reading the latest Pendergast novel, City of Endless Night, by Preston and Child - and I want another new book in that series, too. I'm starting to re-read all the Pendergast novels, in order, again.
And - just to be silly - Enlighten yourself! Go read a new book!
Anyway, we've had warm weather and wind the past few days, but there is still snow and ice in the parking lot here. It was 62 degrees yesterday, but then 26 last night... Today, clouds are clinging to the tops of the Flatirons, while there are mostly clear skies to the north and east. Besides our filled bird feeders, Bea tossed out raw almonds for the birds and squirrels this morning. The usual ravens and blue jays were here, and then a flock of about 100 starlings appeared, but they left after ten minutes. Tipsi, the white tail-tipped squirrel, has been much in evidence the past few days; and our usual sparrows, finches and chickadees are abundant.
Tonight is the really wild and crazy lunar event - there's a "super" moon, a "blue" moon, a "blood" moon, and a total lunar eclipse. My brother-in-law and his neighbor are planning out the best place to be, at the best time, to take photos of the event... I plan on sleeping. I'll see all sorts of wonderful photos via the internet tomorrow.
I finished reading Emergence, the latest C. J. Cherryh Foreigner series book. - And I want another new one, immediately, as usual. Last night I finished reading the latest Pendergast novel, City of Endless Night, by Preston and Child - and I want another new book in that series, too. I'm starting to re-read all the Pendergast novels, in order, again.
And - just to be silly - Enlighten yourself! Go read a new book!
Monday, June 12, 2017
Photos of Favorite "RussiaGate" People
Chris Hayes, host; Malcolm Nance, expert
Rachel Maddow, host
Maxine Waters, US Representative
Eric Swalwell, US Representative
Naveed Jamali, expert
Joy Ann Reid, host
Clint Watts, expert
My Favorite Experts
With all of the craziness taking place within our federal government at the highest levels, I have become addicted to cable news and certain specific "talking heads." I am speaking of them as a commentator or reporter who is interviewed with a camera close-up of their head, neck and shoulders. And my list of favorite people is increasing each week. My favorite folks with their own shows are: Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, Chris Hayes, Lawrence O'Donnell, Ari Melber, Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer. My favorite commentators and experts are: Clint Watts, Malcolm Nance, Naveed Jamali, Matt Miller, and David Cay Johnston. and, of course, I have a whole slew of Congressional favorites - Maxine Waters, Bernie Sanders, Al Franken, Eric Swalwell, Rob Warner, and Ted Lieu, to name a few....
I sat, riveted, while ex-FBI Director James Comey gave his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee this past Thursday - with Preet Bharara in the audience as support. Bharara, a former US District Attorney, was also fired by the idiot in the White House. Bharara, like Comey, was also investigating 45 and ties to Russia. Hummmmm.... I smell something fishy there.
I will watch, also with great interest, when the new Attorney General will testify tomorrow before the same Committee. Sessions is a big a liar as his boss, the toupeed cheeto. Both men are blatant bigots regarding race, religion, and money. I have the feeling that the Ag will attempt to make his questioners believe he is a very forgetful innocent, who misunderstands a lot of things.
I just finished reading Malcolm Nance's book, The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election. Wow. The book was amazing, and, as Malcolm was a Navy cryptologist during his 20 years of military service, he is capable of describing cyber warfare in easily understood English. Fluent in Arabic, he is active in the field of national security policy particularly, in anti- and counter-terrorism intelligence, terrorist strategy and tactics, torture and counter-ideology in combating Islamic extremism. He studied Russian in high school and worked as an interpreter; then began working in the intelligence field through research into the history of the Soviet Union and the KGB. He subsequently devoted years of research analyzing Middle East terrorism and sovereign nations with ties to Russia. Mlacolm has a great sense of humor, too. It's a fascinating book.
Naveed Jamali is a former FBI operative and an expert on American national security. His parents are French and Pakistani, and he is a native-born American. Naveed graduated from the university with a degree in political science and government. After 9/11, he reached out to the FBI to offer his services. He later became a double agent when a Russian GRU member named Oleg Kulikov attempted to recruit him. The ruse lasted from 2005 into 2009, during which time Kulikov paid agent Jamali for what he thought were classified documents. The operation ended with jamali being "arrrested" by the FBI in front of Kulikov, which blew Kulikov's cover as a diplomat in the USA. Naveed teamed with Ellis Henican to write How to Catch a Russian Spy: The True Story of an American Civilian Turned Double Agent. Naveed Jamali is a Senior Fellow in the Program on National Security at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and serves as an intelligence officer in the US Naval Reserve.
Clint Watts is an extremely thoughtful and articulate man. He received his BS from the United States Military Academy, and subsequently an MA from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (in 2005). Clint served in the US Army as a staff officer in Seoul, Korea, an officer in the Infantry, and as a US Ranger. He was the Executive Officer of the Combating Terrorism Center at the USMA at West Point. After the 9/11 attacks, he was recruited into the FBI, to help coordinate efforts combating terrorism across multiple governmental agencies. Watts also worked as a Special Agent for the FBI; in this capacity he served on the Joint Terrorism Task Force. He also has consulted for the FBI Counterterrorism Division, and for the FBI National Security Branch. Clint is currently a Foreign Policy Research Institute fellow, joining them in 2011. He became the FPRI Robert A Fox Fellow in the initiative focusing on Middle East Studies. He is also the Senior Fellow at the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University. He does consulting work for, and teaches at, police agencies, intelligence sources, and the military.
I sat, riveted, while ex-FBI Director James Comey gave his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee this past Thursday - with Preet Bharara in the audience as support. Bharara, a former US District Attorney, was also fired by the idiot in the White House. Bharara, like Comey, was also investigating 45 and ties to Russia. Hummmmm.... I smell something fishy there.
I will watch, also with great interest, when the new Attorney General will testify tomorrow before the same Committee. Sessions is a big a liar as his boss, the toupeed cheeto. Both men are blatant bigots regarding race, religion, and money. I have the feeling that the Ag will attempt to make his questioners believe he is a very forgetful innocent, who misunderstands a lot of things.
I just finished reading Malcolm Nance's book, The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election. Wow. The book was amazing, and, as Malcolm was a Navy cryptologist during his 20 years of military service, he is capable of describing cyber warfare in easily understood English. Fluent in Arabic, he is active in the field of national security policy particularly, in anti- and counter-terrorism intelligence, terrorist strategy and tactics, torture and counter-ideology in combating Islamic extremism. He studied Russian in high school and worked as an interpreter; then began working in the intelligence field through research into the history of the Soviet Union and the KGB. He subsequently devoted years of research analyzing Middle East terrorism and sovereign nations with ties to Russia. Mlacolm has a great sense of humor, too. It's a fascinating book.
Naveed Jamali is a former FBI operative and an expert on American national security. His parents are French and Pakistani, and he is a native-born American. Naveed graduated from the university with a degree in political science and government. After 9/11, he reached out to the FBI to offer his services. He later became a double agent when a Russian GRU member named Oleg Kulikov attempted to recruit him. The ruse lasted from 2005 into 2009, during which time Kulikov paid agent Jamali for what he thought were classified documents. The operation ended with jamali being "arrrested" by the FBI in front of Kulikov, which blew Kulikov's cover as a diplomat in the USA. Naveed teamed with Ellis Henican to write How to Catch a Russian Spy: The True Story of an American Civilian Turned Double Agent. Naveed Jamali is a Senior Fellow in the Program on National Security at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and serves as an intelligence officer in the US Naval Reserve.
Clint Watts is an extremely thoughtful and articulate man. He received his BS from the United States Military Academy, and subsequently an MA from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (in 2005). Clint served in the US Army as a staff officer in Seoul, Korea, an officer in the Infantry, and as a US Ranger. He was the Executive Officer of the Combating Terrorism Center at the USMA at West Point. After the 9/11 attacks, he was recruited into the FBI, to help coordinate efforts combating terrorism across multiple governmental agencies. Watts also worked as a Special Agent for the FBI; in this capacity he served on the Joint Terrorism Task Force. He also has consulted for the FBI Counterterrorism Division, and for the FBI National Security Branch. Clint is currently a Foreign Policy Research Institute fellow, joining them in 2011. He became the FPRI Robert A Fox Fellow in the initiative focusing on Middle East Studies. He is also the Senior Fellow at the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University. He does consulting work for, and teaches at, police agencies, intelligence sources, and the military.
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