Sunday, May 07, 2006
Ledeen and Hayden
There are an assortment of conservative writers out there who deserve dishonorable mention for their recent efforts at deception and slander. One of them is Michael Ledeen, National Review writer and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is a lodestone and a disgrace for both organizations.
He was denied tenure at Washington University over questions of “the quality of his scholarship” and plagiarism. He was active in the Reagan Administration as a consultant working with the NSC during the Iran-Contra Affair, with which he was very involved. Reagan fired him. He has called for the “liberation” of Iran, Syria, and Lebanon. He has set up the Center for Democracy in Iran, an organization dedicated to regime change in Iran. He is an advocate of “Creative destruction” and “total war.” Ledeen has been excoriated by William Beeman who teaches Middle East Studies at Brown University. He has also been compared to fascists by American Conservative Magazine. He recently wrote that Osama bin Laden is dead, then retracted the claim after bin Laden released his latest tape, then said he would go back to his sources and check them out, then never did.
Ledeen is a shitty scholar, a refugee from the Reagan Administration, a warmonger, and a bad journalist.
In other news, Michael Hayden is expected to be the next Director of the CIA, a fitting post for a criminal and a Bush loyalist. I suppose it makes sense, seeing as the Director of Intelligence for this country (Negroponte) was the ambassador to the Honduras during the eighties under Reagan, where he oversaw Contra operations out of the Honduras against targets in Nicaragua. He also worked with the biggest CIA station in the hemisphere coordinating Contra attacks.
Michael Hayden also refused to answer the question at a National Press Club appearance as to whether the NSA was spying on political opponents of the president. Sounds like a great candidate for DCI under George Bush. If Hayden had just spent the last eleven years of his life as the director of an Arabian horse association he might be qualified to take Negroponte’s job, in the president’s estimation at least.
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 9:59 AM 
