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Cato Institute (blog)
March 21, 2018
Cato's Chairman, William Niskanen, came for ward with one of the earliest arguments against war with Iraq, in December 2001, in a debate at the institute with former CIA Director James Woolsey, and in a follow-up article in the Chicago Sun-Times under the headline "U.S. Should Refrain from Attacking ...
CTech
March 14, 2018
On Tuesday, homeland security advisor and Former CIA Director James Woolsey commented on the appointment of CIA Director Mike Pompeo to U.S. secretary of state, which was made known earlier that day. "He is a very able individual," Mr. Woolsey said. "A candid man who is clear about what ...
Democracy Now!
March 12, 2018
Former CIA Director James Woolsey recently admitted the U.S. meddles in overseas elections. During an interview with Laura Ingraham on Fox News, Woolsey laughed about it and said the U.S. takes such action "only for a very good cause." Woolsey made the comments shortly after 13 Russians ... CIA
Winona Daily News
March 3, 2018
When Mueller indicted a few obscure Russians, I thought that the witch-hunting expedition might end. That was too much to hope for. Instead, Mueller, absent any Republicans among his investigators, plods on in the never-ending effort to impeach Trump. For no other reason than “progressives” hate him. CIA
The Real News Network
February 24, 2018
James Woolsey, a hardline neoconservative who led the CIA in the 1990s, insisted in an interview on Fox News that when the U.S. meddles in foreign countries' politics, it is "only for a ... James Woolsey: Oh probably, but it was for the good of the system, in order to avoid the communists from taking over. CIA Director
The Real News Network
February 24, 2018
James Woolsey, a hardline neoconservative who led the CIA in the 1990s, insisted in an interview on Fox News that when the U.S. meddles in foreign countries' politics, it is "only for a ... JAMES WOOLSEY: Oh probably, but it was for the good of the system, in order to avoid the communists from taking over. CIA Director
Richmond Register
February 21, 2018
According to the indictment by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Russian trolls, operating out of St. Petersburg, took American identities on social media and became players in our 2016 election. On divisive racial and religious issues, the trolls took both sides. In the presidential election, the trolls favoredÃÂ ... CIA Director
The Intercept
February 21, 2018
James Risen and Glenn Greenwald have both won Pulitzer Prizes. They both have found themselves in the crosshairs of the U.S. government for their journalism. And they both write for The Intercept. But Jim and Glenn have taken very different approaches to covering the Trump/Russia story. This week onÃÂ ... CIA Director
Reason (blog)
February 20, 2018
During a Friday appearance on Fox News, former CIA chief James Woolsey shared a laugh with host Laura Ingraham over the United States' history of interfering in elections throughout the world. The two yukked it up after Ingraham asked Woolsey to confirm that the United States does not "mess around inÃÂ ... CIA Director
B92
February 19, 2018
The United States "do it too," writes Scott Shane, and mentions Serbia and the overthrowing of President Slobodan Milosevic as one example. "Millions of pamphlets, posters and stickers printed to defeat an incumbent in Serbia," along with "bags of cash delivered to a Rome hotel for favored ItalianÃÂ ... CIA Director
The Hill (blog)
February 17, 2018
When asked whether the U.S. interferes in other countries' elections, James Woolsey said, “Well, only for a very good cause in the interests of democracy." “Oh, probably, but it was for the good of the system in order to avoid communists taking over,” he told Laura Ingraham on her Fox News show on FridayÃÂ ... CIA Director
San Francisco Examiner
February 14, 2018
By R. James Woolsey and Brent Turner on February 14, 2018 1:00 am. At first glance, a citizen or “expert” might be persuaded that the way to provide adequate security surrounding the current U.S. election systems is to make sure the systems utilize paper ballots. This is certainly a good idea, but only one piece of theÃÂ ... CIA Director
Business Insider
November 27, 2017
Former CIA Director James Woolsey dined with President Donald Trump last weekend at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida — where, a report said, they had a "lengthy conversation" at the main dining table surrounded by several of Trump's friends, associates, and political allies. A tipsterÃÂ ... CIA Director
The Hill
December 31, 1999
Former CIA chief James Woolsey was asked last month on Fox News whether the U.S. government was continuing to meddle and "mess around in other people's elections?" Woolsey replied with a smile and said: "Only for a very good cause. In the interests of democracy." Obviously, democracy is ...
WTOP
December 31, 1999
His first director of the CIA, James Woolsey, was left out of major decisions - so much so that when a deranged pilot flew a small plane into the White House, people joked that it was Woolsey trying to get a meeting with the president. Bad relations between a president and the CIA can have ...
Care2.com
December 31, 1999
This is the message that James Woolsey, who served as director of the CIA during President Bill Clinton's first term, has seemingly put forth in his recent interview on Fox News. Among the year's top news stories has been the announcement that a handful of Russian nationals will face indictment for theirÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
February 26, 2018
In the course of that work, Flynn suddenly espoused views of the Turkish government diametrically opposed to what he'd previously said, and, according to former CIA Director and Trump adviser James Woolsey, discussed a plan to kidnap the Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen from exile in the United StatesÃÂ ...
Kyiv Post
February 24, 2018
25, 2017, event in the basement of the U.S. Capitol, Room HC 8, was ostensibly a panel discussion, organized by former member of Congress and current lobbyist Connie Mack and featuring former CIA Director James Woolsey and Taruta. The purpose of the fake hearing was to review allegations ofÃÂ ...
The Real News Network
February 24, 2018
James Woolsey, a hardline neoconservative who led the CIA in the 1990s, insisted in an interview on Fox News that when the U.S. meddles in foreign countries' politics, it is "only for a ... JAMES WOOLSEY: Oh probably, but it was for the good of the system, in order to avoid the communists from taking over.
The Northwest Florida Daily News
February 23, 2018
According to the indictment by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Russian trolls, operating out of St. Petersburg, took American identities on social media and became players in our 2016 election. On divisive racial and religious issues, the trolls took both sides. In the presidential election, the trolls favoredÃÂ ...
RT
February 19, 2018
Finian Cunningham (born 1963) has written extensively on international affairs, with articles published in several languages. Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, he is a Master's graduate in Agricultural Chemistry and worked as a scientific editor for the Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, England,ÃÂ ...
B92
February 19, 2018
The United States "do it too," writes Scott Shane, and mentions Serbia and the overthrowing of President Slobodan Milosevic as one example. "Millions of pamphlets, posters and stickers printed to defeat an incumbent in Serbia," along with "bags of cash delivered to a Rome hotel for favored ItalianÃÂ ...
Sputnik International
February 19, 2018
When asked whether the US meddles in the elections of other nations, ex-CIA director James Woolsey said "probably," and added, "only for a very good cause in the interests of democracy." "Oh, probably, but it was for the good of the system in order to avoid communists taking over," Woolsey, who servedÃÂ ...
The Hill (blog)
February 18, 2018
When asked whether the U.S. interferes in other countries' elections, James Woolsey said, “Well, only for a very good cause in the interests of democracy." “Oh, probably, but it was for the good of the system in order to avoid communists taking over,” he told Laura Ingraham on her Fox News show on FridayÃÂ ...
CNN
February 1, 2018
Former CIA director James Woolsey told CNN Wednesday that it was possible the showdown could be defused by making redactions to the document. The memo, however, has become such a political cause celebrate among conservatives that it would be extraordinarily difficult politically for Trump to backÃÂ ...
Outer Places
January 30, 2018
After sufficient pressure, however, the director of the CIA, James Woolsey, began releasing records of the CIA's involvement in UFO investigations, including the Air Force's projects to research UFO sightings (Project SAUCER and Project SIGN). These investigations were conducted in spite of the officialÃÂ ...
Salon
January 29, 2018
However, in 1993, the year Clinton was inaugurated, and as pressure was mounting on the CIA to confirm that it had followed UFO stories, Director of Central Intelligence James Woolsey “ordered another review of all Agency files on UFOs. Using CIA records compiled from that review, the study he orderedÃÂ ...
Long Island Business News
January 22, 2018
... addressed a sold-out audience in October 2017. The institute's first event featured Gen. Colin Powell. Biden recently toured the region, discussing his memoir, “Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose.” Upcoming events at the Global Institute include Former CIA Director James WoolseyÃÂ ...
Long Island Business News
January 22, 2018
... addressed a sold-out audience in October 2017. The institute's first event featured Gen. Colin Powell. Biden recently toured the region, discussing his memoir, “Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose.” Upcoming events at the Global Institute include Former CIA Director James WoolseyÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
January 18, 2018
In late 2002, Michael Ledeen joined Morris Amitay, vice-president of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs; ex-CIA head James Woolsey; former Reagan administration official Frank Gaffney; former senator Paul Simon; and oil consultant Rob Sobhani to set up a group called the Coalition forÃÂ ...
Yonhap News
January 18, 2018
1994 -- James Woolsey, the director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, makes a secret visit to Seoul for talks with South Korean President Kim Young-sam on ways to prevent North Korea's development of nuclear weapons. 2004 -- North Korea proposes an inter-Korean meeting to discuss ways ofÃÂ ...
Daily Herald
January 10, 2018
Survived by her sister, LaRue (Lloyd) Taylor; granddaughters, Tonya (James) Woolsey, Kim (Curt) Gehrke; great-grandchildren, Bronzen (Crystal) Woolsey, Brock (Candace) Woolsey, Kajli Gehrke; great-goddaughter, Rachael (Garrett) Trahan; great-great-grandchildren, Bella, Ruby, Cambria, Damian,ÃÂ ...
MassLive.com
January 9, 2018
SPRINGFIELD - Forty years after the founding of the Springfield Armory National Historic Site on the campus the Springfield Technical Community College, the property finally has sole possession of its collection of historic weapons. As part of a formal agreement between the National Parks Service and theÃÂ ...
San Francisco Chronicle
January 7, 2018
Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army Gerald O'Keefe, National Parks Service Superintendent James Woolsey and Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno are expected to attend. The Springfield Armory was founded by George Washington and served as a manufacturing center for U.S. militaryÃÂ ...
Stars and Stripes
December 29, 2017
Craig Gralley spent more than 30 years at the CIA, where he worked as a chief speechwriter for three agency directors: William Webster, Robert Gates, and R. James Woolsey Jr. When Gralley, now 62, retired from Langley in 2013, he began writing in the voice of someone quite different: legendary WorldÃÂ ...
Raw Story
December 15, 2017
Ambassador James Woolsey, a former CIA director under President Bill Clinton, has put Fox and their host Lou Dobbs “on notice” amid the network's continued attempts to discredit special counsel Robert Mueller and undermine his Russia investigation. In a statement provided to Raw Story, Woolsey'sÃÂ ...
Business Insider
November 27, 2017
James Woolsey, the former CIA director who has been cooperating with the special counsel Robert Mueller, had a "lengthy conversation" with President Donald Trump over dinner last weekend at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort. Woolsey, who served on the board of Michael Flynn's lobbying firm, Flynn IntelÃÂ ...
Raw Story
November 27, 2017
A key witness in the special counsel probe ate dinner with President Donald Trump over the weekend at Mar-A-Lago. James Woolsey, the former CIA director and board member at Mike Flynn's lobbying firm, took part in a “lengthy conversation” Saturday with the president, reported Business Insider.
NBCNews.com
October 27, 2017
WASHINGTON — Former CIA Director James Woolsey has been interviewed by FBI agents working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller about allegations that Mike Flynn discussed the potentially illegal removal of a Turkish cleric from the U.S., Woolsey's spokesman told NBC News. "Ambassador WoolseyÃÂ ...
Haaretz
October 26, 2017
Former CIA director James Woolsey pitched a $10 million contract to two Turkish businessmen to help discredit a controversial U.S.-based cleric while Woolsey was an adviser to U.S. President Donald Trumps election campaign, three people familiar with the proposal said. Just eight days after formallyÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
August 23, 2017
Former CIA Director James Woolsey said on Wednesday that President Trump has not reached the level of foolishness that former President George W. Bush reached when he said he looked into Russian President Vladimir Putin's eyes and got a sense of his "soul." Woolsey made the comment whileÃÂ ...
RealClearPolitics
June 1, 2017
JAMES WOOLSEY, FMR. CIA DIRECTOR: I don't know whether it was him or whether it would have been somebody else in the incoming administration. But I don't see anything untoward about having a back channel communications as long as you're doing it accurately and within the confines essentiallyÃÂ ...
Politico
June 1, 2017
Former CIA Director James Woolsey was offered his old job back in the administration of President Donald Trump, Woolsey told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Thursday, but he turned down the job over concerns with Michael Flynn, then the incoming national security adviser. It was FlynnÃÂ ...
HuffPost
May 23, 2017
Former CIA director James Woolsey, who advised Donald Trump during his campaign and transition, used unfolding news of the deadly attack in Manchester, England, to slam the president's predecessor, Barack Obama. In comments that Media Matters posted online, Woolsey told Fox News anchorÃÂ ...
CNN
May 14, 2017
(CNN) Former CIA Director James Woolsey told CNN's Fareed Zakaria on Sunday that he believed it would be tough to find a "willing" candidate to replace fired FBI Director James Comey. "I find this whole thing, this whole week, to be very troubling for inchoate ways and inchoate reasons," he told Zakaria,ÃÂ ...
The Intercept
December 31, 1999
James Risen and Glenn Greenwald have both won Pulitzer Prizes. They both have found themselves in the crosshairs of the U.S. government for their journalism. And they both write for The Intercept. But Jim and Glenn have taken very different approaches to covering the Trump/Russia story. This week onÃÂ ...
Richmond Register
December 31, 1999
According to the indictment by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Russian trolls, operating out of St. Petersburg, took American identities on social media and became players in our 2016 election. On divisive racial and religious issues, the trolls took both sides. In the presidential election, the trolls favoredÃÂ ...
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