VIDEO-Bob Baer on Bush SPYING

[liveoaktx]

Selections from hardball

[Skinner]

1. Whoops. I already deleted the other two.

:blush:

So you might want to change this one back.

[liveoaktx]

2. You are FAST-I saw that and was changing it while you were posting

Sorry, I don't know why the other posted three times, slippy finger!

[ddeclue]

3. Bob Baer the spy or Bob Barr the Congressman??

Did Bob Baer something too?

[NewJeffCT]

4. Baer is ex-CIA

I only saw the beginning, but he said it's a new policy and didn't seem comfortable with it. However, if somebody is posting a video, I assume he said something stronger than the few seconds I saw.

[ddeclue]

5. Yeah that's why I said Bob Baer the Spy...

I've read his book Sleeping with the Devil.

[Al-CIAda]

6. Interesting clip. Thanks.

Interesting tid-bit on perhaps bombing journalists.

[capi888]

7. Bob Baer, was the CIA agent

George Clooney played in Seriana.....He was a Field Officer for the CIA.

[guruoo]

14. Bob Baer - same guy who spilled the beans about US-Osama relationship...

and US training and arming of bin Laden
to fight the Russians in Afghanistan.
Ask any SF that's been to Afghanistan about
it. This Mujahideen link is one of the things
that helped them quickly earn a lot of hearts and minds.

Still searching for the link to that story.
Here's something else I ran across along the way...

Robert Baer and Greg Manning

Presenter: Monica Attard

Sunday, 29 December 2002
Tower collapse

File photo of the second tower collapsing into the street


First aired 21/4/2002:
Robert Baer, a former high ranking CIA agent who says Osama Bin Laden told the world he was about to attack the United States, yet still, the US administration did nothing, and Greg Manning, a victim of the attacks.
<snip>
http://www.abc.net.au/sundayprofile/stories/s557317.htm

[Straight Shooter]

8. I'm getting angry that people against domestic spying are on the defensive

It's illegal. That's it, end of story.

Bob Baer's position is a little difficult for me to pin down. I'm sure he was excellent while in the CIA, for that very reason.

Thanks, liveoaktx. I'll have to watch this again a couple of times to really figure out the interplay here.

[Eric J in MN]

9. Thanks. You spelled his name right. At first

I thought you meant to refer to Bob Barr, but you didn't.

10. thanks

This guy, Baer wasn't very passionate. He was sort of apologetic in his tone, not to offend the administration.

[BigBearJohn]

11. Thanks

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

12. In case you didn't know, it was his memoir that inspired "Syriana"

(the recent Clooney / Matt Damon film) and both it ("See No Evil") and his attack on Saudi Arabia and US oil politics ("Sleeping with the Devil") are great reading. He also did a 2-part documentary on suicide bombing ("The Cult of the Suicide Bomber") which aired on Channel 4 this year.

http://www.channel4.com/news/microsites/C/cult_suicide_bomber/index.html

[liveoaktx]

13. One more comment on this- I found it hilarious to watch Mitchell

when Baer said journalists could be among those being spied on. She looked like it didn't occur to her!

[Earth_First]

15. liveoaktx, thank you so much for your work! (request:)

Will you or do you have intention of putting up Ted Steven's most recent tirade on the Senate floor while addressing the ANWR language being stripped from the Defense Appropriations Budget?

THANKS!

[liveoaktx]

16. I'm actually watching it right now from a bit ago and recording it

He was about to cry, wasn't he?

[Earth_First]

17. I tuned in about 2 minutes too late to CSPAN

I'm anxiously awaiting seeing it actually.

Kudos.