Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey Talks 'Black Lives Matter' Movement On Fox News

Alex Wigglesworth at Philly.com offers a piece on Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey and the Black Lives movement.

Protesters who hurl anti-law-enforcement invective are missing opportunities to make a difference in community-police relations, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said during an appearance on Fox News Sunday.

Ramsey was on Tuesday forced to cancel a community discussion at the Eastern State Penitentiary after demonstrators from the Black Lives Matter movement interrupted him with shouts of "racist police."

"I think it's ignorant to do things like that," Ramsey said Sunday after host Chris Palmer played a video clip of the confrontation.
"But I also think the people that are serious in this movement are missing an opportunity to really make a difference," Ramsey continued.

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link;

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/Police_Commissioner_Charles_Ramsey_talks_Black_Lives_Matter_movement_on_Fox_News.html

I interviewed Commissioner Ramsey about homeland security for Counterterrorism magazine a while back. You can read my piece via the below link:

http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2013/05/a-look-at-philadelphia-police.html 

Bob Woodward: Bush Didn't Lie About WMDs To Justify Iraq War

Greg Richter at newsmax.com reports on veteran journalist and author Bob Woodward, who states that President Bush did not lie about WMDs to justify the Iraq War.

Former President George W. Bush did not lie about the presence of weapons of mass destruction to justify the Iraq War, journalist Bob Woodward said Sunday.

The argument has been used for years by Democrats and other detractors, but Woodward said on "Fox News Sunday" that his own 18-month investigation showed that Bush was actually skeptical that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had WMDs as Saddam claimed.

Though plenty of mistakes were made in the invasion of Iraq, Bush actually told CIA Director George Tenet, "Don’t let anyone stretch the case on WMD," Woodward said.

The reason the United States went into Iraq was "momentum," he said.

 

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

 

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/george-wbush-weapons-of-mass-destruction-iraq-war/2015/05/24/id/646530/?ns_mail_uid=266329&ns_mail_job=1622050_05252015&s=al&dkt_nbr=vxjbo5xi 

 

 

You can also watch a video of Bob Woodward talking about Iraq on Fox via the below link:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP6yPjMprK8

Sony Hacking Shows Need For Cyber Laws, General Dempsey Says

Amaani Lyle at the DoD News offers the below piece:

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11, 2015 - The recent hacking of Sony Pictures that the U.S. government has blamed on North Korea demonstrates a need for new cyber legislation that he has helped to champion for two years, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in an interview broadcast today.

Speaking on "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace," Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey said the hacking incident didn't teach him anything new.

"It's actually confirmed what I've been saying. Two years ago, I actually participated -- and I'd like to think in some way led with Gen. Keith Alexander at the time -- the National Security Agency directive: an effort to get cyber legislation passed to account for two things that are vulnerabilities in our ability to protect ourselves in cyber," the chairman said. Alexander was NSA director at the time.

Need for Standards, Information Sharing

"One is some level of standards, cyber standards," Dempsey continued. "And the other was information sharing -- the ability of the government and [the private sector] to share information about attacks, whether it's the signatures of attacks or the actual occurrence of attacks. And we didn't succeed two years ago."

Cyber can be incredibly destructive and disruptive, the general said, with potential to disable critical infrastructure, which could lead to loss of life. Though the United States generally enjoys a significant military advantage, he added, that's not the case in the cyber domain.

"We don't have an advantage," he said. "It's a level playing field. And that makes this chairman very uncomfortable."

CIA's Jose Rodriguez: Democrats Fully Briefed On Waterboarding

Geoff Earle at the New York Post offers a piece on former CIA officer Jose Rodriguez's response to the Senate's CIA report.

WASHINGTON — The former head of the CIA’s interrogation program says the agency gave its congressional overseers specific information about the tactics it used — including waterboarding — after Sept. 11.

“All of these people knew exactly what we were doing,” said Jose Rodriguez, who oversaw the program from 2002-2004 and gave the high-level briefings to Congress, to “Fox News Sunday.”

He said he personally briefed House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi on “all of the techniques … she never objected to the techniques at all.”

He said specifically that he told her about waterboarding and sleep-deprivation.

“She knew, back in September of 2002, every one of our enhanced interrogation techniques,” Rodriguez said.    

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://nypost.com/2014/12/14/democrats-fully-briefed-on-waterboarding-after-911/

Note: You can read an earlier post on Jose Rodriguez vai the below link:

http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2012/06/former-cia-official-reveals-truth-about.html