Did anyone see the interview w/Barbara Bodine on CNN this morning?

[Mika]

She and Peter Bergen were being interviewed. Miles O'Brien actually did a double take when she said that the jail escape in Yemen by the USS Cole bombers was proof that they were in a very high security prison.

[NaturalHigh]

1. Is she Jethro's sister?

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Ermmm. sounds like burning the village to save it kind of logic there.

[leftchick]

3. she is the neocon that prevented John O'Neil from investigating

the Cole attack in Yemen. Also one of the reasons he left his job and he ultimately died on the first day of his new job at the Twin Towers on Sept. 11.

I bet Peter wanted to slap her after that stupid comment. She is a political tool of this administration.

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?020114fa_FACT1

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After two months in Yemen, O'Neill came home feeling that he was fighting the counter-terrorism battle without support from his own government. He had made some progress in gaining access to evidence, but so far the investigation had been a failure. Concerned about continuing threats against the remaining F.B.I. investigators, he tried to return in January of 2001. Bodine denied his application to reënter the country. She refuses to discuss that decision. "Too much is being made of John O'Neill's being in Yemen or not," she told me. "John O'Neill did not discover Al Qaeda. He did not discover Osama bin Laden. So the idea that John or his people or the F.B.I. were somehow barred from doing their job is insulting to the U.S. government, which was working on Al Qaeda before John ever showed up. This is all my embassy did for ten months. The fact that not every single thing John O'Neill asked for was appropriate or possible does not mean that we did not support the investigation."

After O'Neill's departure, the remaining agents, feeling increasingly vulnerable, retreated to the American Embassy in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. In June, the Yemeni authorities arrested eight men who they said were part of a plot to blow up the Embassy. New threats against the F.B.I. followed, and Freeh, acting upon O'Neill's recommendation, withdrew the team entirely. Its members were, he told me, "the highest target during this period." Bodine calls the pullout "unconscionable." In her opinion, there was never a specific, credible threat against the bureau. The American Embassy, Bodine points out, stayed open. But within days American military forces in the Middle East were put on top alert.

[Village Idiot]

4. O'Neill made Washington VERY uncomfortable.

O'Neill believed (as most with any sense also believe) that ISRAEL was responsible for the bombing of the USS Cole and subsequent Yemeni scapegoating...

Only a TRULY RETARDED nation would appoint a Jew (AIPAC/Mossad Bitch Bodine) to be ambassador to an Islamic dictatorship like Yemen. WTF is WRONG with this country???