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Claims (24)
James Woolsey appointed
CIA book_quoted
“for what the Washington lawyer expected as a consultation, not to be appointed as the CIA director, but Clinton offered him the job. Woolsey is said to have gotten off on the wrong foot. He proved unlucky and unskilled. The Mogadishu debacl…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 9:37
James Woolsey member_of
Project for the New American Century host_asserted
“Woolsey is the CIA director that they finally arrested Aldrich Ames for basically being a spy inside the CIA. So you can't make that up. He, after he moves on from the CIA director's job, he becomes a member of PNAC, the Project for New Ame…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 3:00
James Woolsey worked_with
Robert McFarlane host_asserted
“So he was there for other reasons, just FYI. He also worked with Robert McFarlane, the guy running Iran-Contra, to create an Energy Security Council, which seems a bit odd. He's done all kinds of other...…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 4:01
James Woolsey sat_on_advisory_boards_with
Dick Cheney host_asserted
“He sat on advisory boards with Dick Cheney, Rupert Murdoch, Jacob Rothschild. He was hired as a spokesperson for NBC, which is basically CIA. So, yeah, he's very, very interesting.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 4:29
James Woolsey sat_on_advisory_boards_with
Rupert Murdoch host_asserted
“He sat on advisory boards with Dick Cheney, Rupert Murdoch, Jacob Rothschild. He was hired as a spokesperson for NBC, which is basically CIA. So, yeah, he's very, very interesting.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 4:29
James Woolsey sat_on_advisory_boards_with
Jacob Rothschild host_asserted
“He sat on advisory boards with Dick Cheney, Rupert Murdoch, Jacob Rothschild. He was hired as a spokesperson for NBC, which is basically CIA. So, yeah, he's very, very interesting.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 4:29
James Woolsey accused
Soviet Union book_quoted
“In a book that he wrote, this is very interesting, in 2021, now this is the CIA director. He's got access to all of the classified information. He, in a book that was published in 2021, accused the Soviet Union of the assassination of JFK. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 4:57
James Woolsey collaborated_with
Brent Scowcroft book_quoted
“He had set on presidential commissions during the Reagan era when Brent Scowcroft brought Woolsey onto a group to study nuclear forces. He and Scowcroft collaborated on articles advocating basically the SDI narrative. And early in the Bush …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 6:33
James Woolsey contributed_to
Michael Dukakis book_quoted
“and had been an army officer during Vietnam. He contributed policy advice to Michael Dukakis' presidential campaign in 1988 and had done the same for Clinton in 92. That summer, Sandy Berger, who coordinated national security for the campai…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 8:02
James Woolsey contributed_to
Bill Clinton book_quoted
“and had been an army officer during Vietnam. He contributed policy advice to Michael Dukakis' presidential campaign in 1988 and had done the same for Clinton in 92. That summer, Sandy Berger, who coordinated national security for the campai…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 8:02
Dave McCurdy recommended
James Woolsey book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 9:04
Sandy Berger summoned
James Woolsey book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 9:04
James Woolsey warned
United States book_quoted
“Barely a week before Woolsey's confirmation hearing, a Pakistani extremist went on a shooting spree at a road intersection outside of CIA headquarters, throwing Langley into a rage as two agency officers died and three were wounded. The new…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 9:59
James Woolsey argued_for
United States book_quoted
“Woolsey used that analogy to argue that Americans, instead of enjoying Cold War dividends and a reduction in intelligence budgets, ought to spend as much or more, of course, because now we've got this new threat. He wanted Clinton to spend …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 10:28
James Woolsey announced
CIA book_quoted
“deteriorated even more. Woolsey proved wooden with the spooks, endearing no one. He raised hackles among the secrecy cult at Langley when he announced the CIA would declassify Cold War records, including covert action. He was merely repeati…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 11:39
James Woolsey initiated
CIA book_quoted
“The hysteria followed his initiating personnel cuts during a government-wide review that had been ordered. Woolsey wanted them deeper and quicker. Actually, Woolsey directed the cuts away from the DO, but few secret warriors paid any attent…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 12:13
James Woolsey tried_to_take
Bill Clinton book_quoted
“The hysteria followed his initiating personnel cuts during a government-wide review that had been ordered. Woolsey wanted them deeper and quicker. Actually, Woolsey directed the cuts away from the DO, but few secret warriors paid any attent…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 12:13
James Woolsey denied
Haiti book_quoted
“on Langley's face, telling a television audience the CIA had great relationships in Haiti. At the White House, Nancy Soderbergh of the NSC staff scored the Eriskeed profile a textbook case of politicalization of intelligence. Meanwhile, Mog…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 14:56
James Woolsey replaced
Tom Fitton book_quoted
“on Langley's face, telling a television audience the CIA had great relationships in Haiti. At the White House, Nancy Soderbergh of the NSC staff scored the Eriskeed profile a textbook case of politicalization of intelligence. Meanwhile, Mog…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 14:56
James Woolsey member_of
Project for the New American Century host_asserted
“I have in my notes on him when I was doing this, he was in PNAC, which is the Project for American, a New American Century. I mean, he basically has indicated when we go back, when Warhamster and I finally get to the Fabians, you're going t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 1:21:48
James Woolsey headed
Freedom House host_asserted
“You know, he was chairman of the Freedom House. The Freedom House, for those of you who don't know, is basically a CIA front. It's the one that goes around and gives countries democracy scores. And obviously the ones they want to overthrow …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 1:22:14
John McCain appointed
James Woolsey documented
“while he was running his 2008 presidential campaign as an advisor on energy and climate change issues. He literally has no experience in either one of those. So what was he doing as an advisor to John McCain? Because it wasn't energy or cli…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 1:24:38
James Woolsey member_of
Genie Energy caller_asserted
“definitely occurring in the 1990s. So who knows what the real purpose of that money is? I also noticed on this Wikipedia page that Woolsey currently sits on the advisory board for a energy company called Genie Energy with Dick Cheney, Ruper…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 1:29:02
James Woolsey represented
Claire George book_quoted
“He had a legal role representing Charlie Allen trying to buck a reprimand for being involved in Iran-Contra. In 1992, Woolsey would have been better recognized as a Jackson Democrat, referring to Washington State's Henry Jackson, because he…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 5:58
Mentions (37)
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July 14th, 1995. It could be called the seventh floor day. Four of the five witnesses had either been the director of the CIA or the deputy. They included Dick Helms, Webster, John McMahon, and James Woolsey. The commission would hear from …
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We're going to start, where we left off yesterday was James Woolsey coming in as the CIA director. So let me, with our Gladio glasses, just highlight a couple of, he looks like Elmer Fudd, just so that you guys get the picture here.…
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He spent a lot of time in the Department of Defense. Here's his academic pedigree. Stanford University, where the CIA has a huge institute out there. Rhodes Scholar, University of Oxford. And Yale Law School. So he's worked for both Democra…
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Which, those of you who's been here for a while, not surprised at all. He started with Carter. He was in the Reagan administration. He was in George H.W. Bush. And then, of course, he becomes Bill Clinton's CIA director. He ends up being ev…
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Washington, D.C. that also had a major presence in Boston. And it was originally founded during World War II by two FDR administrations. And I'm sorry, I just have to laugh at this. Some of their clients…
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was Freeport McMoran, which is the mining company that was involved in the copper mine in Chile, just for perspective there. So they don't have a long list of notable previous people, but it's during this time that Woolsey...…
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Woolsey is the CIA director that they finally arrested Aldrich Ames for basically being a spy inside the CIA. So you can't make that up. He, after he moves on from the CIA director's job, he becomes a member of PNAC, the Project for New Ame…
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which of course was intimately involved in the writing of the justification narrative for removing Saddam Hussein. And he also was an energy and climate change advisor to John McCain's 2008 presidential election, which basically is a lie be…
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So he was there for other reasons, just FYI. He also worked with Robert McFarlane, the guy running Iran-Contra, to create an Energy Security Council, which seems a bit odd. He's done all kinds of other...…
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He sat on advisory boards with Dick Cheney, Rupert Murdoch, Jacob Rothschild. He was hired as a spokesperson for NBC, which is basically CIA. So, yeah, he's very, very interesting.…
▶ 4:57
In a book that he wrote, this is very interesting, in 2021, now this is the CIA director. He's got access to all of the classified information. He, in a book that was published in 2021, accused the Soviet Union of the assassination of JFK. …
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the book he's a registered democrat and um because of his defense department stints knew about spy satellites but his supposed closest association with the cia before that was in 1989 when…
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He had a legal role representing Charlie Allen trying to buck a reprimand for being involved in Iran-Contra. In 1992, Woolsey would have been better recognized as a Jackson Democrat, referring to Washington State's Henry Jackson, because he…
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He had set on presidential commissions during the Reagan era when Brent Scowcroft brought Woolsey onto a group to study nuclear forces. He and Scowcroft collaborated on articles advocating basically the SDI narrative. And early in the Bush …
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to create the policy on the nuclear posture of the United States. He had been a negotiator on the force reductions in Europe. He had also, which was basically, I don't know if you guys know about the base realignment that they referred to i…
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We didn't see all the politics involved in that because we brought thousands of military people out of Europe. We closed a whole bunch of bases during that time. Not that the countries didn't scream because they depended on us as a huge rev…
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and had been an army officer during Vietnam. He contributed policy advice to Michael Dukakis' presidential campaign in 1988 and had done the same for Clinton in 92. That summer, Sandy Berger, who coordinated national security for the campai…
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more robust views on national security and defense than our party typically projected, unquote. The group which endorsed Clinton included Woolsey. So accordingly to the book, Clinton listened to all of the different opinions. Clinton recoun…
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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…
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for what the Washington lawyer expected as a consultation, not to be appointed as the CIA director, but Clinton offered him the job. Woolsey is said to have gotten off on the wrong foot. He proved unlucky and unskilled. The Mogadishu debacl…
▶ 9:59
Barely a week before Woolsey's confirmation hearing, a Pakistani extremist went on a shooting spree at a road intersection outside of CIA headquarters, throwing Langley into a rage as two agency officers died and three were wounded. The new…
▶ 10:28
Woolsey used that analogy to argue that Americans, instead of enjoying Cold War dividends and a reduction in intelligence budgets, ought to spend as much or more, of course, because now we've got this new threat. He wanted Clinton to spend …
▶ 11:06
According to the author, Woolsey got into a table-pounding exchange with Congress in May at a secret hearing, telling them that our security would suffer if they reduced the CIA's budget. Woolsey would hardly be on speaking terms with Dave …
▶ 11:39
deteriorated even more. Woolsey proved wooden with the spooks, endearing no one. He raised hackles among the secrecy cult at Langley when he announced the CIA would declassify Cold War records, including covert action. He was merely repeati…
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The hysteria followed his initiating personnel cuts during a government-wide review that had been ordered. Woolsey wanted them deeper and quicker. Actually, Woolsey directed the cuts away from the DO, but few secret warriors paid any attent…
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National Security Advisor Anthony Lake and Sandy Berger, now the deputy, also gave the CIA short thrift. Journalists attributed their attitudes to experience in the Nixon White House. When a small plane crashed into the White House grounds,…
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wrestled more feathers. He wanted his own man as his deputy. At the time, Jack Devine, serving as the deputy director, had a past association with Woolsey. The DO's favorite, Jack Downing, basically the classic covert operator, was the only…
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who had came from the NSC staff where he had been the top man for intelligence. Tenet has been a decade on Capitol Hill, mostly as a staff member at the Senate Intelligence Committee. A couple of years earlier, Woolsey had favored shutting …
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and Richard Holbrook. Four more closed sessions were held. Witnesses included John Deutch, Jim Woolsey, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the SECDEF, State and Defense Department lawyers. Tony Lake appeared before an informal h…
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And I kind of fell down a Wolseley rabbit hole over the weekend and was curious because I know you brought him up recently. Well, of course, in this book. But you mentioned he's got a wide resume. But I couldn't remember if you brought up h…
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her stuff, and it talks about a video called Black Start. It was a documentary she did with R. James Woolsey. And I was like, uh-uh. Could it be the same guy we're reading the book with the colonel? And so then I started asking my grok, and…
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So I wrestled with Grok for like 10 minutes and had to pull up the damn book link, feed her the book, go in the index. And then sure enough, it is James Woolsey in this documentary video. It's only like three minutes, but it's on like EMP a…
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Wolseley, and one of the odd chunks I also came across was Erica Kirk's mother was on some document with Wolseley, and then another one was Wolseley co-opted a book called Operation Dragon, and he co-authored it with a Romanian intelligence…
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And coincidentally, Erica Kirk was involved in one of her charities was called the Romanian Angels. And this was a, you know, a children's charity naturally. But I just thought that was interesting. And I wanted to share with you all what I…
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I have in my notes on him when I was doing this, he was in PNAC, which is the Project for American, a New American Century. I mean, he basically has indicated when we go back, when Warhamster and I finally get to the Fabians, you're going t…
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definitely occurring in the 1990s. So who knows what the real purpose of that money is? I also noticed on this Wikipedia page that Woolsey currently sits on the advisory board for a energy company called Genie Energy with Dick Cheney, Ruper…
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In February 1998, he recruited Buzzy Krongard to become his counselor, in which capacity Krongard probably served as Tenet's personal liaison with Wall Street. Krongard's known ties to the CIA, however, go back at least as far as 92. In the…