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# The Global Intelligence Files

On Monday February 27th, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files, over five million e-mails from the Texas headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The e-mails date between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal's Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defence Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor's web of informers, pay-off structure, payment laundering techniques and psychological methods.

## Re: Obama Should Credit Bush for Terror Successes

Released on 2012-08-23 12:00 GMT

Email-ID | 383885
Date | 2010-05-26 14:55:46
From | burton@stratfor.com
To | KesslerRonald@gmail.com

Very well put, but he won't!
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From: "KesslerRonald@gmail.com" <KesslerRonald@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 08:42:16 -0400
To: Ronald Kessler<kesslerronald@gmail.com>
Subject: Obama Should Credit Bush for Terror Successes
Obama Should Credit Bush for Terror Successes
Newsmax
Obama Should Credit Bush for Terror Successes
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 08:18 AM
By: Ronald Kessler
In his speech at West Point, President Obama claimed credit for having had
*more success in eliminating al-Qaida leaders in recent months than in
recent years.*
It was Obama*s usual effort to knock the Bush administration, either
explicitly or implicitly. But as is so often the case, his comparison was
misleading.
While more al-Qaida leaders have indeed been killed by Predator drones
this year than in previous years, the primary reason is that President
Bush was farsighted enough to order a threefold increase in the number of
drones.
Since it takes several years to increase production and install
remote-control facilities, the benefits of Bush*s decision are only now
showing up.
While Obama deserves credit for continuing the Predator strikes, Bush kept
us safe for eight years and made the current success possible by
transforming the way the war on terror is fought.
Aside from the increase in drones, Bush made the FBI more
prevention-oriented. He established the National Counterterrorism Center
in McLean, Va., where 200 analysts from the CIA and FBI sit side by side
analyzing threats 24 hours a day.
Secure video conferences three times a day include representatives from
all parts of the intelligence community and the White House, analyzing
threats and parceling out leads.
Bush*s Patriot Act tore down the so-called wall that Attorney General
Janet Reno imposed, a wall that prevented FBI agents from sharing
information with each other and with the CIA.
The act allowed the FBI to wiretap terrorists, regardless of what phones
they happen to use, as the FBI already did in organized crime cases.
For all the talk about Bush excesses, the fact is that no abuse * meaning
an illegal act for political or improper purposes * has been found.
Obama knows Bush is responsible for the current success.
For Obama, it is standard operating procedure to deny credit or,
conversely, to blame others.
In a press conference with Mexican president Felipe Calderon, Obama
recently cited a Mexican proverb: *Tell me who you walk with, and I will
tell you who you are.*
For 20 years, Obama listened to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. and his
paranoid blame-America accusations, never acknowledging how far the
country has come when it comes to promoting equality.
As with the man Obama walked with for 20 years and considered his mentor,
playing the blame game and denying credit is part of Obama*s character.
Ronald Kessler is chief Washington correspondent of Newsmax.com. View his
previous reports and get his dispatches sent to you free via e-mail. Go
here now.*
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