Bob McCarty Writes

As long as U.S. military leaders fail to address the impact of two bad decisions they’ve made since 2007 regarding the conduct of the war in Afghanistan, American troops serving in that country will remain at higher-than-necessary risk of being killed or wounded by their so-called “allies” in the Afghan National Security Force. Seven weeks [...]

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Members of the news media have written numerous stories related to the Feb. 26 shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla.  Along the way, race isn’t the only aspect of the case they’ve gotten wrong. In a Findlaw article republished by Reuters April 6, reporter/lawyer Stephanie Rabiner shared news that police in the [...]

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Did a memo signed Oct. 29, 2007, by then-Undersecretary of Defense (Intelligence) James R. Clapper Jr. lead to the deaths of American soldiers in Afghanistan?  It’s a weighty question, but an analysis of recent killings of American and coalition troops by police and army members of the Afghan National Security Forces seems to suggest the [...]

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Over the weekend, 43-year-old Shawn Morgan confessed that he suffocated Breeann Rodriguez with a white plastic bag, according to an Associated Press report.  Had it not been for his confession, Edgar Rodriguez and Claudia Ramos might have had to face charges for the murder of their three-year-old daughter.  Why?  Because both reportedly failed polygraph tests [...]

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The headline of a post published today at The Foundry says what many believe is fact:  Detainee Interrogations: Key to Killing Osama bin Laden. What’s more important, however, is to answer the question, “What type of interrogation techniques provided actionable intelligence on Osama Bin Laden?” During the past 24 months, I’ve conducted in-depth investigations into [...]

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Following James R. Clapper Jr.’s testimony during a meeting of the Senate Armed Services Committee meeting this morning, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) called for the director of National Intelligence to resign. Senator Graham’s call for Clapper’s resignation is based on a lack of confidence in the man at the helm of the nation’s vast intelligence [...]

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Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. surprised a lot of people when he told a packed House Intelligence Committee hearing room audience the Muslim Brotherhood is “a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried al-Qaeda as a perversion of Islam.” Not me, though.  I’m already familiar with his [...]

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