Bush Appoints Gen. Peter Pace To Intelligence Advisory Board
Bush Appoints Gen. Peter Pace To Intelligence Advisory Board
On Feb. 29, President Bush issued an executive order revamping the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB), “a nonpartisan body offering the President objective, expert advice on the conduct of U.S. foreign intelligence.” Historically, the PIAB has provided checks on administration’s intelligence gathering.
Nevertheless, Bush has been determined to stack the board with his loyal Bushies. Federal government employees are barred from serving on the board. But on Tuesday, the President announced that he was appointing Gen. Peter Pace to the PIAB. From the press release:
The President intends to appoint Peter Pace, of Virginia, to be a Member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board.
Pace served as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Pace has been a consistent defender of the Bush administration’s failed policies, insisting in 2006 that everything in Iraq is “going very, very well from everything you look at” and claiming that Rumsfeld “leads in a way that the good Lord tells him is best for our country.” He also stepped in to write a letter during the Valerie Plame leak trial endorsing Scooter Libby’s character, specifically noting his “selfless” nature.
Earlier this month, Bush also appointed his former homeland security adviser Fran Townsend to the board. Townsend was a key player in broadening the administration’s surveillance powers and vocally supported “special methods” of interrogation.
Last month’s executive order also guts the Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB), a sub-unit of the PIAB that “advises the President on the legality of foreign intelligence activities.” Bush transferred much of the IOB’s investigative powers to DNI Mike McConnell, a Bush appointee.
Who’s next — Scooter Libby?
(HT: State of the Division)
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March 20th, 2008 at 2:48 pmBush appoints another yes-man to keep himself insulated from reality.
So what else is new?
March 20th, 2008 at 2:49 pmThere is a report just out from the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, advising us that he has none.
March 20th, 2008 at 2:50 pmAsked his opinion of the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board, ralph hussein wonder llama replied:
“Presidential Intelligence? I think it would be a wonderful idea.”
ba-da-DUM!
Thank you folks, I’ll be here all week. Try the veal.
March 20th, 2008 at 2:50 pmSorry O/T:
Slowdown could have been avoided
A well-respected economist says the U.S. is now in a recession…and that Congress and the Federal Reserve could have stopped it.
Who could argue with someone named Laksham Achuthan????
And the best part:
(my emphasis added.)
March 20th, 2008 at 2:51 pmOh, and the Recession of choice is just part of the GOP plan to wreck America and break the middle class.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
March 20th, 2008 at 2:53 pmAnother Cheney-Rummy-Bush sycophantic factotum for a sinecure.
March 20th, 2008 at 2:55 pmPace is currently CEO of SM&A Strategic Advisors, a defense consulting firm.
March 20th, 2008 at 2:56 pmPeter Pace Picked a Pack of Pickled Peckers
March 20th, 2008 at 2:59 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
March 20th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Asked his opinion of the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board, ralph hussein wonder llama replied:
“Presidential Intelligence? I think it would be a wonderful idea.”
ba-da-DUM!
Thank you folks, I’ll be here all week. Try the veal.
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***sound of throat clearing***
Tap… tap… tap…
March 20th, 2008 at 3:01 pmLoyalists to the Reich are being lined up and put in place to make the transition from bush to mcbush easier.
Hate to say it, but I think the real USA is done for, for good.
March 20th, 2008 at 3:02 pmHow many packed pickled peckers did Peter Pace pick?
March 20th, 2008 at 3:06 pmtest
March 20th, 2008 at 3:07 pm(ralph taps microphone)
H-hello? Is this thing on?
What is this? An audience or a jury?
March 20th, 2008 at 3:08 pmRalph… we need to talk…
This keeps up, it WILL be a jury…
March 20th, 2008 at 3:10 pmWho ever said they are packing people in to protect bush’s bubble have it right. Yesterday, when Cheney responded with a “SO?!?!?” to Raddatz’ point that the majority of the US is against his war of aggression, occupation and profit I was struck by the idea that he has to maintain the bubble or bush, even if he is a puppet, might crack and do something they can’t control. He doesn’t care about the public, he cares about maintaining his hands on the trottle.
March 20th, 2008 at 3:10 pmDieNowForPeace Says:
March 20th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
How many packed pickled peckers did Peter Pace pick?
All the pickled peckers that Peter Pace could pack into a pickled poopshoot.
March 20th, 2008 at 3:12 pmI guess it wasn’t such a great idea taking comedy advice from Billy Hill, huh?
March 20th, 2008 at 3:13 pmLoyalty over competence – the Bushie way.
March 20th, 2008 at 3:15 pmHow’s NOLA doing, by the way?
Scooter Libby loses his law license and Peter Pace gets this great job. Oh the injustice …
March 20th, 2008 at 3:16 pmHey TRoS, I been lookin’ all over for you. I thought we were having dinner?
March 20th, 2008 at 3:17 pmRalph, you actually READ Billy Hill’s comments. Don’t you know they kill brain cells?
March 20th, 2008 at 3:18 pmI wonder what kind of board Bush will put Admiral Fallon on…
Water?
March 20th, 2008 at 3:21 pmEstimates of the Iraqi deaths caused by Saddam’s regime amount to a maximum of one million over a 35-year period (100,000 Kurds in the Anfal campaign in the 1980s; 400,000 in the war against Iran; 100,000 Shias in the suppressed uprising of 1991; and an unknown number executed in his prisons and torture chambers). Averaged over his time in power, the annual rate does not exceed 29,000.
MORE KILLED BY THE AMERICAN INVASION
Using the 2005 census total of 4,050,597 households in Iraq, this suggests 1,220,580 deaths since the invasion. Accounting for a standard margin of error, ORB says, “We believe the range is a minimum of 733,158 to a maximum of 1,446,063
March 20th, 2008 at 3:22 pmJust to round out the Presidents Intelligence Advisory Board, in a bi-partisan fashion, may I suggest he appoint Eliot Spitzer?
March 20th, 2008 at 3:23 pmHe’s not doing anything just now, and his stupidity ranks right up there with the rest of the appointees…
Peter Pace Picked to Pack a Pecker’s Policy
March 20th, 2008 at 3:25 pmUnder an agreement struck after the 2003 invasion, no one from the company, Europe’s largest oil group, has set foot in the troubled country; instead, monthly face-to-face meetings with the oil ministry have been held in Amman, the Jordanian capital, and weekly contact has been maintained by video-link.
With parts of the global oil industry threatened with nationalisation and much of the Middle East still closed to foreign ownership of reserves, access to Iraq, with the world’s third-largest oil reserves, has long been viewed as a huge prize. Although no decision has yet been made in Baghdad over the nature of the development or the eventual exploration contracts that will be on offer, Iraq could prove one of the rare countries in the region where companies will be allowed to claim reserves as their own. “This is the big frontier,” says Raad Alkadiri, a senior director at Washington-based PFC Energy.
This is the reason Bush cannot leave , he failed in his objective
March 20th, 2008 at 3:27 pmShayne Says:
Ralph, you actually READ Billy Hill’s comments. Don’t you know they kill brain cells?
No, of course I don’t actually read them, Shayne. That would be silly. But you know how Billy is always trying to be a comedian, so… anyway, I guess it was foolish of me to listen when Billy said “No one ever gets tired of a really good joke, no matter how old.”
I know better now.
March 20th, 2008 at 3:28 pmThe job interview:
Rove: How many ways do you know how to say “YES”?
Pace: Golly, sir, there must be hunderds. Yes Sir; Sir, Yes Sir; Right Away Sir; How High, Sir;…
Rove: OK, OK! Next question. Under what circumstances do you say no to the President (**shiver or worship**) ?
Pace: Hmmmmmmmmm….. I can’t think of a single one…
Rove: Your office will be ready tomorrow.
March 20th, 2008 at 3:28 pmRalph, you actually READ Billy Hill’s comments. Don’t you know they kill brain cells?
Friends don’t let friends read dross.
March 20th, 2008 at 3:30 pmTobie Tall Says:
Using the 2005 census total of 4,050,597 households in Iraq, this suggests 1,220,580 deaths since the invasion. Accounting for a standard margin of error, ORB says, “We believe the range is a minimum of 733,158 to a maximum of 1,446,063
No, Tobie, this is mistaken. One of the trolls yesterday informed us that the true, wingnut-certified total of Iraqi deaths caused by the invasion over the last five years is, like, fourteen.
March 20th, 2008 at 3:30 pmThis is a very good appointment.
http://OsiSpeaks.com
March 20th, 2008 at 3:31 pmRalph,
March 20th, 2008 at 3:32 pmI thought 14 was how many have been electrocuted in the shower that Halliburton wired.
It’s all right if you use MY material, ralph… just give props from time to time.
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Sorry, Shayne. I had ta git busy agin. I spent half of last week sittin’ on my butt postin’ here and at tha Zoo. The dollars don’t run in thru the door on their own, ya know. I STILL hafta go chase ‘em down myself.
(I know… I know… there’s simply NO justice in this universe… but we all know that by know.)
So, hmmm… who are we havin’ for din… HAVING OVER… having over for dinner?
March 20th, 2008 at 3:35 pmChair Friedman – Okay! I’d like to call this meeting of the PIAB to order! Before we get started, I’d like to introduce our new member, General Peter Pace. (giggling and whispers of “he said member and Peter”).
Friedman – Order! Order! We’re glad to have you on board, General.
General Pace – Thank you! It’s always an honor to serve the President and the good lord. (more giggling)
Friedman – That’s enough! Let’s get down to business, shall we? Does anybody have anything intelligent to say?
Friedman – Meeting adjourned!
March 20th, 2008 at 3:36 pmSay, whatever happened to that other highly regarded appointment from last year? What was it? War Tsar? Yeah. How’s that going?
March 20th, 2008 at 3:38 pmChuck_Feney
March 20th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Say, whatever happened to that other highly regarded appointment from last year? What was it? War Tsar? Yeah. How’s that going?
War Tsar? I thought they said Wart Czar! Seein who they appointed, the mistake was a natural…Lt Gen Douglas FLute
March 20th, 2008 at 3:58 pmTRoS: There’s a dolphin hanging out at the Zoo. Tastes like fish, or so I’m told. You can find him on the Critter page.
March 20th, 2008 at 4:01 pmKYJurisDoctor Says:
March 20th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
This is a very good appointment.
Before I offer any opinion, I would like to see if Bush’s hand is still shoved up Pace’s butt. I mean, even shiny military puppets need to know what to lie about.
March 20th, 2008 at 4:04 pmWill Bush call these meetings to order with a little song and dance. I hope they don’t tape them.
March 20th, 2008 at 4:04 pmwas it 14 then , wow my figures are way out
March 20th, 2008 at 4:13 pmAnother ‘good soldier’! Just waht is needed, another ‘yes man!’
March 20th, 2008 at 6:32 pmPeter Pace? The same Peter Pace who said, God would lead Bush to the correct decision on Iraq. Well, God didn’t do so well for being an all-knowing, all-seeing, omnipontent diety.
I guess even God cannot help Bush get even one thing right.
March 20th, 2008 at 6:50 pmYep, McWars has it right. Even the retired General Pace’s livelihood depends on Bush’s wars. His new employer SM&A touts itself as able to “plan for business capture & win competitive procurements” and to “profitably perform on programs won.”
SM&A’s client list is a veritable who’s who of the military-industrial complex:
Boeing, Ratheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, PricewaterhouseCoopers, General Dynamics, Motorola, AT&T, etc.
-AF
Andrew Sullivan Is A Fraud
March 21st, 2008 at 1:20 amWell, despite the bevy of usual irreverent responses from people who somehow morally equivocate all manner of behavior as right in their eyes insomuch as they feel they are doing what is right for themselves [principally], of course dodging the conviction bullet would be of highest priority to them.
However, being intellectually honest these minds should not at all be advising just council on how to administrate war-time conflicts nor any aspect of it as history has bore out in dreary detail what happens when you let limp-wristed appeasists speak for those who know when and how to draw a line for liberty, not just “civil” liberties and other idealogical nonesuch. Pac is a patriot, just leave the man alone and let him do his job.
http://my.telegraph.co.uk/That_Darn_Republican
-That Darn Republican
April 22nd, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Under an agreement struck after the 2003 invasion, no one from the company, Europe’s largest oil group, has set foot in the troubled country; instead, monthly face-to-face meetings with the oil ministry have been held in Amman, the Jordanian capital, and weekly contact has been maintained by video-link.
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March 1st, 2009 at 1:32 pmMiddle East still closed to foreign ownership of reserves, access to Iraq, with thesohbet
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world’s third-largest oil reserves, has long been viewed as a huge prize. Although no decision has yet been made in Baghdad.