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19 Sep 2011, 5:16 am
Allen, who succeeded David Petraeus as the commander of U.S. [read post]
2 Sep 2011, 7:34 am
David Ignatius ponders whether incoming CIA Director David Petraeus will be able to handle the CIA’s skepticism of U.S. strategy on Afghanistan, given the agency’s recent assessment of Afghanistan. [read post]
31 Aug 2011, 5:46 am
David Petraeus, who served as the top U.S. commander in Iraq and then Afghanistan, will hang up his uniform for a civilian suit today, CNN reports. [read post]
26 Aug 2011, 10:15 am
(Kenneth Anderson) The Wall Street Journal’s Siobhan Gorman has an interesting profile today of Michael Morell, a veteran CIA insider (31 years in) who is tapped to help guide the new director, David Petraeus, as he steps out of the uniform and into the suit, through the maze of internal CIA culture. [read post]
23 Aug 2011, 8:58 am
Gates sided with General David Petraeus and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen in 2009 to promote a major (called “moderate”) escalation of the Afghan War; yet he did so without rancor or posturing -- a style Obama trusted and in the company of which he did not mind losing. [read post]
25 Jul 2011, 11:37 am
There's only David Petraeus, the most favorably-publicized (now) ex-general from the most trusted institution in America, the military. [read post]
16 Jul 2011, 9:23 pm
By Tom Engelhardt, originally published at TomDispatch, July 12, 2011. [read post]
6 Jul 2011, 11:07 am
(Defense Dept. photo by Senior Chief Mass Communication Specialist (EXW) Tom Jones, USN/Released) The ceremony to establish the NATO Rule of Law Field Support Mission was the first attended by General David Petraeus on the Fourth of July, 2011. [read post]
5 Jul 2011, 10:32 am
David Petraeus was quoted in the Wall Street Journal as saying, "It is time to take the rear-view mirrors off the bus with respect to certain actions out there. [read post]
5 Jul 2011, 6:28 am
In the past week alone the administration’s new nominee for Director of Central Intelligence, General David Petraeus, suggested during his confirmation hearing before the Senate that there might be a role for torture if the US was confronted with that old canard the ticking bomb scenario. [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 4:14 pm
” – CIA Director (Designate) David Petraeus Before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence I am not a big fan of the CIA. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 2:06 pm
David H. [read post]
14 Jun 2011, 12:41 pm
Military leaders are now regularly put in charge of previously civilian intelligence agencies, as in the case of General David Petraeus, now nominated to leave the Afghan battlefield and become director of the Central Intelligence Agency. [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 8:19 am
The Virgnian-Pilot reports, here, that General David Petraeus apparently submitted a letter to the sentencing judge in the case of two US contractor employees convicted of manslaughter in the shooting deaths of two Afghans after a traffic accident in Kabul in May 2009. [read post]
4 Jun 2011, 8:43 pm
David Petraeus prepares to take over as CIA director. [read post]
4 Jun 2011, 7:33 pm
David Petraeus prepares to take over as CIA director. [read post]
20 May 2011, 1:35 pm
Despite the president’s promise of significant troop reductions this year, early hints about war commander General David Petraeus’s recommendations indicate that as few as 10,000 may be withdrawn, with no combat troops among them (though pressure to increase those numbers is rising). [read post]
16 May 2011, 8:58 am
This is reflected in personnel terms by the impending transfer of Leon Panetta from CIA Director to Defense Secretary in succession to Robert Gates, with General David H Petraeus moving from military commander in Afghanistan to CIA director. [read post]
2 May 2011, 10:52 am
It also addresses a point that I find distressingly prevalent among commentators, even these days (e.g., David Ignatius, James Fallows, Jeffrey Goldberg), that drones make war “too easy. [read post]
1 May 2011, 7:46 pm
And Debbie Eberts emails: “Interesting that Petraeus was tapped for the CIA about the time OBL was actually killed. [read post]
