wow:
Stand with Sadie....or he'll send you to Gitmo
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I am on my ipad at an all day meeting and don't remember my log in (my computer remembers it but not my piad), so I cannot respond to this at length. "Involved" meant I was the Bosnia desk officer in Jan 2002 when this stuff happened--at the table? Um, not quite, but in the room? Sure.
--Steve Saideman
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Sadie's role as a CIA operative is well known. It is part of what gives him credibility.
Listen, we were facing an existential threat. Without front line freedom fighters like Sadie, right now your university would have been turned into a madrasa and you'd be speaking Arabic and eating felafels.
Even though Sadie is Canadian, he's still a patriot and defender of freedom.
Semper fi & hook 'em horns, Sadie. We stand with you.
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Not to violate (or confirm?) Godwin's law, but this sounds, well, pretty banal:
"Orders had to be given to allow the US commanders in Bosnia to pick the suspects up from the Bosnia government and put them on a plane to Gitmo, and the paperwork went right through my desk. It seemed like a not-so-awful idea at the time..."
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Here is my longer explanation: http://saideman.blogspot.ca/2013/07/gitmo-in-rear-view-mirror.html
Mortimer--funny post. As a Texas Tech prof, we did not hook 'em but were taught by the univ. president at orientation that it is "guns up!"
When I taught the big intro IR class at McGill, I knew that some folks considered my year in Rumsfeld's Pentagon as tainting my legitimacy/credibility. So, I suggested that it was just like Snape teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts. Perhaps me posting here fits the same category.