George Kenny has interviewed Dr. Steven E. Meyer, formerly at the CIA and during the 1990s Deputy Director of the Interagency Balkan Task Force – he’s now at the National Defense University, for his website Electric Politics. You can listen to this very interesting interview here (streaming and download on this page).
I HIGHLY recommend this conversation to you all.
The Saker
What is George Kenney’s background?
@Nationalist: from the FAQ on George’s website:
Here’s the short version of my bio: I’m George Kenney. I was born in Algiers in 1956, during the battle of Algiers, to a US foreign service family, and I grew up in the states, in Africa and in Europe. I spent way too much time in graduate school at the University of Chicago (MA in Economics) from which, following family tradition, I joined the foreign service myself. I was a tenured, mid-level career officer, serving as Yugoslav desk officer at the State Department headquarters in DC, when I resigned my commission in 1991 over US policy towards the Yugoslav conflict. Subsequently for a few years I was a consultant in residence at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Those were my salad days as a pundit. I had about 60 articles published in mainstream outlets, did hundreds of radio and tv interviews and talk shows, and traveled extensively through the US on speaking tours. In the mid-1990s, however, I came down with symptoms of a hereditary illness — iron overload — which sidelined me for years. With treatment I’m now operating more or less on two cylinders, more or less permanently. C’est la vie… and I’m glad to be alive!
http://www.electricpolitics.com/faq.html
HTH!
Thanks for posting. I guess I could have done some more googling.
I gathered from the interview that he had been a high level career officer in either the State or Defence Department.