Les Aspin person
also: Aspen, Aspin, Les Aspen
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Les Aspin documented
“He rejected the Intelligence Advisory Board study and did nothing until Warner provided a presidential commission in the bill authorizing the CIA budget. So do it or you get no money. The administration opposed this too until Aspen offered …”
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would destroy him, just had a target put on his head. Admiral Howe demanded U.S. reinforcements in a parallel effort to take down the warlord. American commanders also asked for heavy tanks. A July 19th CIA report placed responsibility for …
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after she failed to attain a post as the Attorney General. On the other hand, Clinton's Intelligence Advisory Board actually met and had an agenda. Its post-mortem on the Mogadishu disaster has already been noted. Somalia brought more chang…
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Then put them on the board, the presidential advisory board, the same one that's supposed to approve special operations and covert actions. Yeah, you really suck at it, but here, do it again. Admiral Crowe went to London as U.S. ambassador.…
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Aspen had no intention of slowing down. Instead, he wanted to make the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board the center of things to come, which is what you do when you totally screw up something. Do more of it. The Health Intelligence C…
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But Les Aspin used the Somalia disaster to press Clinton for either a presidential intelligence advisory board study or a presidential commission made up entirely of its own board members. So let us look at ourselves because I'm not going a…
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He rejected the Intelligence Advisory Board study and did nothing until Warner provided a presidential commission in the bill authorizing the CIA budget. So do it or you get no money. The administration opposed this too until Aspen offered …
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Although Clinton gave Les Aspin a broad role in the review, the president's delays, he waited for months in making the selections, showed a reluctance to do anything. Aspin began to move on his own, finally starting the review process in Fe…
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as the director of the CIA, but McCurdy refused. The congressman probably recommended Woolsey. McCurdy headed an advocacy group in which Woolsey participated as his deputy. Woolsey had also known Les Aspen, several times contributed to Aspe…