Bob McCarty Writes

From San Antonio this morning comes news about the FBI’s arrest of five foreign nationals of French-Moroccan descent who had broken into the Bexar County Courthouse.  What makes this news most interesting — and, so far, unreported in the mainstream media — is that GEOINT 2011, an event attended by Director of National Intelligence James [...]

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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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A TICKING TIME BOMB. Those four words appear atop a report compiled by Senators Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) on the “COUNTERTERRORISM LESSONS FROM THE U.S. GOVERNMENT’S FAILURE TO PREVENT THE FORT HOOD ATTACK.” Wondering what conclusions Senators Lieberman and Collins reach in developing the special report as members of the U.S. Senate [...]

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EDITOR’S NOTE: When I launched this blog almost four years ago, I spent much more time writing humorous pieces.  Today, as I devote more time to writing books than blogging, I thought I would share one of my humor posts originally published Jan. 8, 2008.  Enjoy! Bob McCarty Writes has obtained an exclusive copy of [...]

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Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) tried to pull a fast one by sneaking anti-CIA language into some legislation. Thankfully, according to the Washington Times, Republicans mounted a campaign against the provision introduced by McDermott and contained in the $50 billion classified intelligence budget that would ban degrading treatment of detainees and punish CIA agents involved in [...]

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I welcomed the arrival of the first two Season 8 episodes of the Fox Network program “24″ in my living room last night. After all, what man doesn’t enjoy an occasional foray into the adrenaline-filled life of “Jack Bauer”? At about the 28-minute mark of the second episode, however, the story unfolding on my television [...]

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