Which Obama Cabinet Secretary Did Russian SVR Agent Seduce? Did a Juliet agent in the Anna Chapman spy ring come close to seducing an Obama  cabinet secretary in 2010? That possibility was among startling revelations made by a senior official of the U.S. FBI to the UK’s official state media, the BBC, ABC reports. Frank Figliuzzi, Assistant Director of Counter-Intelligence for the FBI, said the decision to break-up the Russian espionage operation came when it did because, “we were becoming very concerned they were getting close enough to a sitting U.S. cabinet member that we thought we could no longer allow this to continue.”
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Which Obama Cabinet Secretary Did Russian SVR Agent Seduce?

Did a Juliet agent in the Anna Chapman spy ring come close to seducing an Obama  cabinet secretary in 2010? That possibility was among startling revelations made by a senior official of the U.S. FBI to the UK’s official state media, the BBC, ABC reports.

Frank Figliuzzi, Assistant Director of Counter-Intelligence for the FBI, said the decision to break-up the Russian espionage operation came when it did because, “we were becoming very concerned they were getting close enough to a sitting U.S. cabinet member that we thought we could no longer allow this to continue.”

Report: Vice-President Biden was Osama bin Laden’s Secret Weapon The Washington Post today reported on a high-level Al Qaeda plan to assassinate Barack Obama and Gen. David Petraeus by downing Air Force One through some undetailed mechanism. The goal, according to the plan, would be to elevate gaffe-prone Joe Biden to the presidency. Osama bin Laden believed the bumbling former bankruptcy lawyer would inadvertently destroy the United States if left in charge. “Biden is totally unprepared for that post [the presidency], which will lead the U.S. into a crisis,” Bin Laden is reported to have written to senior advisor Atiya Abd al-Rahman. 
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Report: Vice-President Biden was Osama bin Laden’s Secret Weapon

The Washington Post today reported on a high-level Al Qaeda plan to assassinate Barack Obama and Gen. David Petraeus by downing Air Force One through some undetailed mechanism. The goal, according to the plan, would be to elevate gaffe-prone Joe Biden to the presidency. Osama bin Laden believed the bumbling former bankruptcy lawyer would inadvertently destroy the United States if left in charge.

“Biden is totally unprepared for that post [the presidency], which will lead the U.S. into a crisis,” Bin Laden is reported to have written to senior advisor Atiya Abd al-Rahman. 

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Questioned documents detectives in the Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff’s Office announced at a press conference this afternoon their conclusion that the controversial birth certificate released earlier in the year by Barack Obama was “a forgery.” While the conclusion is unlikely to surprise either supporters or critics of the investigation, two interesting asterisks in the controversy were noted: (1) task force members stated they had no proof that Obama was involved in, or aware of, a forgery, and (2) they had identified a “person of interest” who may have engineered the alleged forgery. 
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Questioned documents detectives in the Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff’s Office announced at a press conference this afternoon their conclusion that the controversial birth certificate released earlier in the year by Barack Obama was “a forgery.” While the conclusion is unlikely to surprise either supporters or critics of the investigation, two interesting asterisks in the controversy were noted: (1) task force members stated they had no proof that Obama was involved in, or aware of, a forgery, and (2) they had identified a “person of interest” who may have engineered the alleged forgery. 

Unbeknownst to the press, President Obama met Friday evening with former president George H.W. Bush and his son, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, in the Oval Office. When asked what the men discussed and why it wasn’t on the schedule, the White House released a statement saying, “the three men enjoyed a personal visit in the Oval Office …
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… military sources report mounting indications that a NATO special forces unit – although of which nation is unknown – located and captured Muammar Qaddafi in the Sirte area. They aparently shot him in both legs to prevent his escape and informed a Misrata militia of his whereabouts, knowing they would kill him. NATO was guided by two considerations: first, not to compromise the presence of ground troops in the battle zone in breach of the alliance’s UN mandate; and second, to give the Libyan rebels a psychological victory – especially after they failed in battle to capture Qaddafi’s hometown of Sirte.
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As the United States prepares to send 100 armed troops to Uganda to battle the Lord’s Resistance Army, we revisit a post we made several months ago that calculates the potential for an armed group’s collapse following a decapitation strike on the group’s leadership. Our chart specifically highlighted the LRA and would seem to suggest U.S. forces would best serve their mission objective by engaging and destroying the LRA’s legions of child soldiers instead of targeting the group’s command structure, a grisly prospect. A paper by Dr. Jenna Jordan, presented at the 2010 meeting of the International Studies Association, looks at the potential for collapse of a non-state military group following elimination of the group’s leadership by police or military action. In general, Jordan’s survey finds, the older a group is the less likely it is to collapse following a decapitation strike. Additionally, religiously motivated groups are highly resistant to attacks on their leadership, while separatist and ideologically-motivated organizations are easier to destabilize through decapitation.
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As the United States prepares to send 100 armed troops to Uganda to battle the Lord’s Resistance Army, we revisit a post we made several months ago that calculates the potential for an armed group’s collapse following a decapitation strike on the group’s leadership. Our chart specifically highlighted the LRA and would seem to suggest U.S. forces would best serve their mission objective by engaging and destroying the LRA’s legions of child soldiers instead of targeting the group’s command structure, a grisly prospect.

A paper by Dr. Jenna Jordan, presented at the 2010 meeting of the International Studies Association, looks at the potential for collapse of a non-state military group following elimination of the group’s leadership by police or military action. In general, Jordan’s survey finds, the older a group is the less likely it is to collapse following a decapitation strike. Additionally, religiously motivated groups are highly resistant to attacks on their leadership, while separatist and ideologically-motivated organizations are easier to destabilize through decapitation.

Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, G6 of U.S. Army’s 94th Division, says alleged Iran assassination plot a fabrication by U.S. government to establish casus belli. 

Numerous Nukes Needed A recently released paper by Dr. Matthew Kroenig, occasionally of Georgetown University and presently a Special Advisor in the Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense, tests and validates the hypothesis that “states that enjoy nuclear superiority over their opponents are less likely to be the targets of militarized disputes.” The paper finds that what French strategic planners once described as dissuasion du faible au fort (weak to strong deterrence) may be ineffective in preventing a nuclear first-strike by a similar or better armed adversary. The paper concludes by noting that “The findings of this article suggest that cuts in the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal could increase the probability that the United States will become the target of militarized challenges from other countries.” This position seems to render fanciful a 2009 proposal by the Natural Resources Defense Council to cut the American nuclear stockpile to a mere 500 warheads.
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Numerous Nukes Needed

A recently released paper by Dr. Matthew Kroenig, occasionally of Georgetown University and presently a Special Advisor in the Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense, tests and validates the hypothesis that “states that enjoy nuclear superiority over their opponents are less likely to be the targets of militarized disputes.” The paper finds that what French strategic planners once described as dissuasion du faible au fort (weak to strong deterrence) may be ineffective in preventing a nuclear first-strike by a similar or better armed adversary.

The paper concludes by noting that “The findings of this article suggest that cuts in the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal could increase the probability that the United States will become the target of militarized challenges from other countries.” This position seems to render fanciful a 2009 proposal by the Natural Resources Defense Council to cut the American nuclear stockpile to a mere 500 warheads.