Michael O'Hanlon not a shred of credibility left

[ProSense]

O’Hanlon Rips GAO Report: It Is ‘Flat-Out Sloppy’

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Brookings analyst Michael O’Hanlon, however, attacked the GAO, choosing instead to laud the Pentagon’s distortions. In an analysis only he could offer, O’Hanlon rips the GAO report for being both “overly rigorous” and “flat-out sloppy”:

During his recent tour through Iraq, adds, every local briefing he received from the US military said that attacks in that particular sector were down. In addition, for the GAO to decline to judge whether attacks are sectarian or not is to take an overly rigorous approach to the numbers, says the Brookings expert.

“I just think they were flat-out sloppy,” he says of GAO.

By attacking the GAO, O’Hanlon has defied the community of national security experts he alleges to be a part of and has instead allied himself with the discredited ranks of the Bush administration and right-wing lawmakers.

Ironically, while O’Hanlon bashes the GAO when he doesn’t like what it says, his very own Iraq Index borrows heavily from GAO reports:



A senior military intelligence official attributed the Pentagon’s drastic reduction in violence “to a desire to provide Petraeus with ammunition for his congressional testimony.” O’Hanlon’s desire to provide that ammunition has left him in lonely territory in Washington.

Michael O'Hanlon desperately trying to salvage credibility

Bushies claim Iraq violence down, but "Getting Shot in the Front of the Head Doesn't Count"

[TwilightGardener]

1. He is truly pathetic and discredited. That GAO report (thankfully

leaked beforehand--thanks, anonymous patriot!) is the ONLY report with credibility, because it's independent and had no agenda to prove or axe to grind. BTW, how can one be sloppily rigorous? Or is it rigorously sloppy? What a dumbass.

[NewJeffCT]

2. I notived that, too

rigorous, yet sloppy.

what kind of logic is that?

[leftchick]

3. I bet you will never guess where o'Hanlon is at this very moment...

At AEI's Defend The Surge Product roll out party.....


To be followed on Sept.10 with the Iran attack party featuring Michael Ledeen! Who knew O'Hanlon had become a neocon?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1737046

n early September, General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker will provide an assessment of President George W. Bush’s surge strategy in Iraq. What are the implications of the forthcoming Petraeus and Crocker reports? How will they impact the state of play in Iraq and the political climate in Washington?

The event will begin with remarks by U.S. senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC). He will offer his assessment on the situation in Iraq and preview the upcoming Congressional debates following the status reports by General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker. Senator Graham will take questions following his remarks.

On the first panel, AEI resident scholar Frederick W. Kagan will be joined by former acting Army chief of staff General Jack Keane and Michael O’Hanlon of the Brookings Institution to discuss their impressions from their recent trips to Iraq, and to comment on likely future developments.

The event’s second panel will feature the release of “No Middle Way,” a new AEI report authored by Mr. Kagan and an evaluation of the June 2007 report from the Center for a New American Security entitled “Phased Transition: A Responsible Way Forward and Out of Iraq.” Mr. Kagan will present the key findings of his report. James Miller, defense analyst and co-author of the CNAS report, will provide a response to the AEI report. A question and answer period will follow each of the event’s panels.

2:25 p.m.

Registration

2:35

Presentation:

The Honorable Lindsey Graham, U.S. Senate

3:25

Panelists:

Michael O’Hanlon, Brookings Institution

Frederick W. Kagan, AEI

General Jack Keane, U.S. Army (retired)

Moderator:

Danielle Pletka, AEI

4:50

Panelists:

Frederick W. Kagan, AEI

James Miller, Center for a New American Security


Moderator:

Gary J. Schmitt, AEI


http://www.aei.org/events/type.upcoming,eventID.1567,filter.all/event_detail.asp

[EST]

4. All credibility.

That should qualify him for AG, or, at least, director of HS.

[Richard Steele]

5. Overly rigorous -AND- flat out sloppy. Oooookaaaaaaay. nm

[ProSense]

6. Kick! n/t