December 10th, 2008 | Trento's Take | Joseph Trento |
JFK took full responsibility for the Bay of Pigs' failure.
Barack Obama is a very smart man. But smart men have been president-elect before and have been conned by their predecessors. One of the smartest was John F. Kennedy. Like Obama, Kennedy was trying to forge a unity government. He put Republicans in his cabinet (McNamara at Defense, C. Douglas Dillon at Treasury). When he went into a series of meetings with intelligence officials, JFK learned about the nearly completed training and planning for a U.S.-backed invasion of Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro. Kennedy, who also discussed the issue with President Eisenhower, ultimately convinced himself that Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles’ and CIA Director of Plans Richard Bissell’s CIA invasion plan would work.
Continue reading Obama’s Challenge: The Saudi Princes and Afghanistan
December 1st, 2008 | Trento's Take | Joseph Trento |  What does it take to get Steve Capus, Brian Williams, and NBC to do the right thing? David Barstow’s latest revelations in the November 30, 2008 New York Times, laying out retired General Barry McCaffrey’s myriad of conflicts interest as a NBC consultant, were first mentioned in his April 20, 2008 article. That story revealed how McCaffrey and other retired military officers were part of a secret Pentagon propaganda program to bolster public support for the Iraq War by appearing on network news shows.
Continue reading NBC is to the Pentagon what FOX is to the GOP
November 25th, 2008 | Trento's Take | Joseph Trento |  Barack Obama is a very smart man. But smart men have been President-Elect before and have been conned by their predecessors. One of the smartest was John F. Kennedy. Like Obama, Kennedy was trying to forge a unity government. He put Republicans in his cabinet (McNamara at Defense, C. Douglas Dillon at Treasury). When he went into a series of meetings with intelligence officials, JFK learned about the nearly completed training and planning for a U.S. backed invasion of Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro. Kennedy, who also met with President Eisenhower, convinced himself that Allen Dulles’ and Richard Bissell’s CIA invasion plan would work.
Continue reading No Good Choices for the President-Elect in Afghanistan
November 1st, 2008 | Trento's Take | Joseph Trento |
D.C. District Court House
Last week The Huffington Post carried an item about a lawsuit the National Security News Service filed against the United States Navy over the Navy locating and then refusing to release public documents. Our lawyers at Troutman Sanders asked that NSNS not comment on the case while it was before the courts. Late Friday afternoon, the Federal District Court Judge ruled for the Navy that privacy issues outweighed the public’s right to know. In effect, it said the Navy could conceal documents from the public.
Continue reading 44-Year-Old U.S. Navy Cover-Up Continues
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