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The Rev,
"Okay, enough of that, however, I suspect that you are not writing (free lance) for yourself, but for an organization! Is your organization's objective in having you write, simply to slam the rest of us or to debunk any and everything that we write into Mr. Arkin's blog."

My objective is to debunk most of Arkin's assertions as I find most of them in need of a good debunking. Likewise, if you are posting similar statements that need debunking or are Revisionist, I attempt to provide a different perspective. I find it curious that one who has written many posts urging people to seriously think about events and asking people to open their minds suddenly finds differing ideas and other perspectives problematic. I would love for some organization to pay me for this - please pass on some names if you have them. My wife would greatly appreciate it if I got compensated for the time I spend blogging!

'Center of the Storm' My Years At The CIA

The Rev. completed Mr. Tenet's book and made copious notes.

Despite all of the criticisms that Mr. Tenet's book has taken, which may or may not be valid, the contents of his book nevertheless were very revealing.

His portrayal of a government in disarray was most revealing. All of the infighting at the departmental levels, down to the agency level, and interference and manipulation by the executive branch was most telling.

The so-called 'terrorists' and terrorism (domestically and abroad) will continue to thrive as long as conditions continue as they are in the United States.

The American government is still 'Secret and Unaccountable itself' to the American people.

Thank you Mr. Tenet for a revealing disclosure of what took place prior to, during and after 9/11 within our own government.

On the assumption that I consider myself sane, is there really any way for me to answer this question other than yes?

Dave,

I think and therefore I am? Of course there is another answer, i.e., that you simply believe that you are right.

Another gentleman once told me that anything that what his could not comprehend, did not exist. And he thought he was sane, albeit I was on earth 20 years before he met me.

Okay, enough of that, however, I suspect that you are not writing (free lance) for yourself, but for an organization! Is your organization's objective in having you write, simply to slam the rest of us or to debunk any and everything that we write into Mr. Arkin's blog.

The Rev,
"So are you saying that individuals who agree with your conclusions, and the positions that you have taken are sane?"

On the assumption that I consider myself sane, is there really any way for me to answer this question other than yes?

New Jersey,
"We send men to the moon yet we cant or wont find a way for all of these agencies to communicate with each other."

Getting rid of the wall between the CIA and FBI (which the Patriot Act did, or attempted to do), is only part of the solution. Sharing info is really the easy part. It's extracting the small slivers of critical information from the tons of other non-critical information, getting that information in a timely manner to the people that it's important to, and having the procedures in place for those people to act accordingly. That is a lot harder to do. The more agencies and people that are put into this process, the harder it becomes to gather, filter, piece together and communicate the relevant information. Could we be doing better? Of course. But realistically the major barriers include laws and policies and the beaurocratic cultures of the various agencies. Those are Washington staples, unfortunately.

It looks like the inmates are running the asylum..........one question that wasn't brough up-President Bush rec'vd that notice that Bin Laden was determined to attack America. He went back to clearing brush.As far as I know he did not do thing to alert any agency to this.,Yet later on for the Terri Shavo tragedy he leaves his vaction and flies back to Washington.A known terrorist is determined to strike America & he doesnt pick up a phone but to placate his 'base' he interupts his vacation to intervene in a family matter that is best left to the state courts. Unfortunately every day families face similiar tragedies and I do not see Bush sticking his two cents in those situations.President Clinton's record will get the review it deserves. I do not blame Bush for 9/11 just perhaps in some way he could have stopped part of it from happening. Why didnt anyone at that ranch get off their backsides and do something? Isn't that the job of then NSD Rice to press the president to take action?
Regarding the CIA report what else is new? Everyone is covering thier backsides while the agents in the field put their lifes on the line every day.You mean to tell me that there isnt someone in Washington with knowledge of constitutional law who help draft the safeguards so that the FBI and the CIA can communicate with each other w/o becoming a 5th column? I am I missing something here? We send men to the moon yet we cant or wont find a way for all of these agencies to communicate with each other.Yet somewhere in Pakistan or Afghanistan the next 9/11 is being planned by these religious fanatics.When will we finally get some leadership in government and stop having people who are interested in proving something?

Mike,
The highly edited version I described of the system in place that the FAA used was taken directly from Manno's report. My interpretation of how this system and procedures were working is that it was highly flawed, in part because of the wall between CIA and FBI and in part because of the beaurocracy of having so many different agencies providing intellegence to the FAA in so many different ways. The FAA analysts re-analyzing the information did not help. The way it appears that the people on the ground (the people actually responsible for being on the lookout) were notified seems to leave a lot to be desired also. Neither the CIA or the FBI had specific enough knowledge of 9-11 events to provide a call saying who, what, where, when and how; although if there was communication between the FBI and CIA, they could have probably had a reasonable shot to prevent it. The FAA could have gotten 520 warnings related to al-qaeda and it probably would not have mattered one bit with the system in place and the entrenched beaurocracy. I guess that i am arguing that it was more a failure of the system (and design of the system) than any particular person.

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The Rev has just completed 312 pages of Tenet's book.

He is definitely in a defensive tell-all mode. Having said that, it appears to me that so far he was in an untenable and untried position - given all that was going on, al Qeda, 9/11 and #43's rush to war.

The United States had never, apparentely, experienced anything like 9/11 before. These guys and gals were in uncharted water.

I find it interesting that the Entelligence Estimate regarding Iraq that they were forced to put together #43, usually a 6-month task, had to be produced in less than a month. That's not good!

I also find it interesting that he was actually forced into the director's position given the resignation of his boss and the withdrawal of the designated new head of the CIA.

I never thought that the Rev would be an apologist for the CIA. Besides, I really do believe that Mr. Tenet was and is a decent guy.

They moved him up through the ranks rather quickly (both Administrations), just as George H.W. Bush moved Judge Thomas along rather quickly. However, I don't know if anyone else, based upon what I understand, could have done a better job under the circumstances.

Edit:

Tenet, Cofer Black and Rich gave a special briefing to NSA Rice on July 10.

Re: Dave

At the very least the CIA and FBI had two weeks to alert the FAA (Claudio Manno was in charge of FAA intelligence at the time).

We are told the system was blinking red. We are told Tenet was freaking out, to the point that he, Cofer Black and Rich (the person who ran Alec Station from mid-99 (when Tenet fired Scheuer) through 9/11. Rich's identity is still classified. Sure is strange that perhaps the single most important person in the United States in regards to 9/11 is still unknown. We are told the FAA received 52 warnings related to al Qaeda in the lead up to 9/11.

FBI and CIA knew about Moussaoui. FBI had case files on Bojinka. Author Peter Lance (among others) has stated that the FBI learned of plans for 9/11 from interviews of Murad and from files on Yousef's laptop. FBI also had Agent Williams report on Middle Eastern pilots.

Also, the CIA CTC had FAA representation with at least one agent for CIA and FBI.

Tenet is offended by Helgerson's unfair report. What a joke. Tenet should be prosecuted for at best criminal negligence.

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Dave said: Rev this post was perhaps the most sane one i've ever read from you. Finally we have an area of agreement.

Thank you Dave,

So are you saying that individuals who agree with your conclusions, and the positions that you have taken are sane? I hope not - you sound rather grandiose!

The Rev has also concluded that he is unable to keep America from its ambition to be a worldwide hegemon.

The Rev would simply request that America would, at least, be a "kinder and gentler" hegemon.

Now that's insane!

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I think that if the goverment, and President Bush would have been paying more attention to the problem at hand 9/11 could have been avoided. The whole war thing just upsets me because people are dying in a war that shouldn't be. Don't get me wrong, they have the right mindframe to serve and protect but sholdn't there be other ways besides war????

Arkin,
"But it is also a carefully vetted and sanitized document that makes it clear just how difficult it is to hold public servants accountable." Name me a government document that isn't "carefully vetted and sanitized". That is almost the definition of a government report.

"Whether through secret budgets or bureaucratic selfishness, this is the way the intelligence community works. Heck, this is the way the CIA itself works, with one group not cooperating with another, with one office in competition with another, with the prestige stations and locations looking down on the less fortunate." OK, other than the secret budgets, this is the way the GOVERNMENT in general works. This is not specific to the CIA, NSA or FBI. This is just an ignorant statement.

And how this statement - "The long, grueling fight against terrorism, which depends in very real part on the quality of our intelligence, demands that we keep our focus on the present and the future" equals this one - "anyone who really wants accountability...is not a patriot" is beyond me. This is an assinine assertion.

Katherine,
"Drugs are the great untold story behind most of our international conflicts." All this time I thought oil was the story behind our international conflicts. I must have been high.

The Rev,
"The CIA and the FBI should not function as adversial organizations...Information sharing might have prevented the disasters, like the ones that the U.S.A. experienced on 9/11." This post was perhaps the most sane one i've ever read from you. Finally we have an area of agreement. I realize there are legitimate concerns that the government would dishonestly use FISA authority to investigate people who were not national-security risks but national security should trump that.

Alex,
You say that "THE CHARACTERIZATION THAT THERE IS "NOTHING NEW" in the CIA/IG report is misleading" followed by "The fact that THE CIA REFUSED TO INFORM THE FBI THAT TWO ACTIVE TERRORISTS WERE IN THE US...cannot be repeated often or loudly enough". First off, if your post is going to suggest that the report was something more than a rehash, don't cite examples that rehash. You can rant against Bush all you want as many on this blog are want to do, but there is nothing in your post that i can detect that makes me think there is something of importance in the report that is NEW. Secondly, the CIA did not REFUSE to inform the FBI, the CIA was PROHIBITED from informing the FBI because of the "Wall" that was established during the Clinton administration by Jamie Gorelick when she put in place the procedures that, in her 1995 DOJ memos words, "go beyond what is legally required...[to] prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that FISA is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation." The wall intentionally exceeded the requirements of FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978) and the then-existing federal case law. Janet Reno affirmed the policy several months later in a July 19, 1995, instructing all U.S. Attorneys about avoiding "the appearance" of overlap between intelligence-related activities and law-enforcement operations.

"The "nothing new" response to the CIA IG report reflects a more general posture not just of non-accountability, but of non-examination of critical errors in national policy." Accountability = blame and, quite frankly, there is plenty of that to go around for everyone. I think that an exercise to hold people accountable is an exercise in futility and, also, a complete waste of time. Aside from the normal beaurocratic mess that is the Federal Government, an examination of critical errors has to start with the Carter administration, FISA, and the other directives and changes to the intellegence community that Carter and the democrats FUBARed back in the 70's and the Clinton admin made worse. But most peoples history of this seems to begin in 2000 with Bush.

Mike,
"We still haven't heard why Tenet or Pickard couldn't pick up a telephone and instruct the FAA to put al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar on their No Fly list." It could be that there really wasn't a No Fly List back then. In reality, there were over a dozen lists from various agencies with different amounts of info and no context. For instance, the INS maintained records on all visitors who arrive in the United States. Their list assisted in determining the status of detainees or to find persons. INS officials stated that the August 2001 notice to watch-list Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Al-Midhar was not accompanied by any specific notion that indicated that the INS should use all means possible to find these two suspects.

All the agencies sent their version of info to the FAA Office of Intelligence. This office did a threat assessment on everything sent. If it was determined that it was a threat, the FAA would assign an analyst to open a case file and follow up and evaluate it. Then they would talk it over with the agency that sent the info. Notification of actual or potential threats to government and industry decision makers depended on the degree of validity that could be established within the time frame of the alleged threat. If an alleged attack appeared imminent, and an initial analysis deemed it plausible, notifications would be made immediately. If the threat information was not specific and/or the time frame of the threat was in the future, the analysts had more time to research and evaluate it. Then there was the actual problem of notifying the applicable people. THis was done via information circulars and security directives. But they first had to be declassified. The declassified versions were prepared with the assistance and cooperation of the originating agencies. FAA's Office of Intelligence coordinated these advisories with other government agencies. Regulated entities, such as air carriers and airports, received the notices directly from FAA. In the case of security directives, the threat information was coupled with mandatory security countermeasures that the air carriers and airport authorities were required to carry out. In addition to communicating intelligence concerning threats via written notices, FAA's 24-hour Intelligence Watch alerted aviation industry representatives to threats or events that were of potential interest and that would not necessarily result in the issuance of written notification. When declassification of information was not possible, the Watch relayed pertinent classified threat information to properly cleared industry representatives. And then, the people on the ground would actually have to read and act on the information.

Whew! It appears that the phone was not part of the process. One can see why there was an attempt to streamline information sharing between agencies!

sounds like tenent got his medal just in time

There is no accountability in government. People come and go, jobs come and go, but the bureaucracy has a life of its own, nameless, faceless, but also relentless in its financial neediness, like the blood-sucking plant in "Little Shop of Horrors." The CIA is no exception.

The only intelligence in the CIA is its ability to get funded to stir up trouble around the world. It thrives on enforcing unconstitutional drug laws. Don't forget Daddy Bush was head of the CIA before he was president. Drugs are the great untold story behind most of our international conflicts.

No law should restrict an individual's access to his own body. If he doesn't own his own body, who owns him? We all know what that's called.

Still Secret, Still Unaccountable

....kind of reminds you of #43 and his entire team's 7 years long in office!

The CIA and the FBI should not function as adversial organizations. Although each organization has its own jurisdictional responsibilites, let's face it - there are times when there will be overlap, and the organizations ought to be collaborative.

The FBI, by mandate/charter, has also withheld information from the CIA in the past regarding cell groups operating within the continental United States of America.

Information sharing might have prevented the disasters, like the ones that the U.S.A. experienced on 9/11.

Good Lord, the government is known for leaking, the two organizations should leak information to one another, if nothing else!

THE CHARACTERIZATION THAT THERE IS "NOTHING NEW" in the CIA/IG report is misleading, and I am disappointed that Arkin follows it. A finding that Tenet and un-named others were guilty of malfeasance BY AN INTERNAL CIA REVIEW is significant; as is the story that this report was SUPRESSED, by Goss and Hadley, Tenet's successors as DCIA.

The fact that THE CIA REFUSED TO INFORM THE FBI THAT TWO ACTIVE TERRORISTS WERE IN THE US, after FBI investigators of the Cole bombing asked specifically for information about these individuals, cannot be repeated often or loudly enough. (See Peter Wright's "The Looming Tower" for a full account)

Tenet's culpability regarding 9/11, furthermore, may have had bearing on his support of Bush/Cheney's "fixing of fact" regarding non-existent WMD to justify the Iraq invasion.

Even more troubling is the allegation in the 8/23 NYT editorial that Tenet dropped his focus on Al Queda in Jan. 2001 in order to please his new boss, George Bush.

In 2001 the then-new Bush administration was fixed on deploying a missile defense system, and downplayed the role of "non-state" actors. Condi Rice was a central architect of these policies.

The "nothing new" response to the CIA IG report reflects a more general posture not just of non-accountability, but of non-examination of critical errors in national policy.

This may not be "new", but it could hardly be more important.

WASHINGTON POST ARTICLE TODAY:

Federal No-Bid Contracts On Rise

Under pressure from the White House and Congress to deliver a long-delayed plan last year, officials at the Department of Homeland Security's counter-narcotics office took a shortcut that has become common at federal agencies: They hired help through a no-bid contract.
- By Robert O'Harrow Jr.

afraidofme wrote:

lessee....

drugs, the bush administration... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm crack cocaine infestation...

drug pipeline from Colombia South America to Miami FLORIDA, and San DIEGO, Los ANGELES...

hmmmmmmmmmmm..........

search on Gary Webb, Parry, Letter of Understanding, George H.W. Bush...

read the letter of understanding, it gives the CIA free reign to drug traffick, and protection from prosecution in Central and South America and AFGHANISTAN....home of the largest OPIUM / HEROIN CROP INTHEWORLD...

READ THIS:
Just as the Iran-Contra scandal evolved to include drug smuggling, the Iraq War also is closely related to drug smuggling. While the Bush regime has so far managed to keep the drug smuggling aspects of the war from reaching the media, evidence is beginning to emerge. The evidence comes largely from a former FBI translator turned whistle-blower, Sibel Edmonds. Hired to translate intercepted messages soon after 9/11 this Turkish lady first blew the whistle on the FBI for dragging its feet. She has state emphatically that she has seen documents that prove the Bush administration was fully aware of the terrorist attack before 9/11. While ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN ASHCROFT, has imposed a gag order on her, this courageous lady has only been able to speak in generalized terms. However, she has repeatedly stated that when viewed as an international drug smuggling operation the picture becomes clear.

Sibel Edmonds has provided a huge clue in her generalized statements, a clue that points directly at the BUSH FAMILY and DICK CHENEY. Haliburton the oil services company formerly headed by CHENEY has a long history of involvement in drug smuggling and gunrunning especially through its Brown and Root subsidiary. Brown and Root also has a long history of providing cover for CIA agents. In the late 1970s Brown and Root was implicated in drug smuggling and gunrunning from oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico built by Brown and Root and using ships owned by Brown and Root. In the 1990s Brown and Root was implicated in smuggling heroin to Europe through Russia. The heroin originated in Laos.

The Russian incident surfaced in 1995 after thieves stole sacks of heroin concealed as sugar from a rail container leased by Alfa Echo. Authorities were alerted to the problem after residents of Khabarovsk, a Siberian city became intoxicated from consuming the heroin. Alfa Echo is part of the Russian Alfa group of companies controlled by Mikhail Fridman and Pyotr Aven. The FSB, the Russian equivalent of the FBI firmly proved a solid link between Alfa Tyumen and drug smuggling. The drug smuggling route was further exposed after the Ministry of Internal Affairs raided Alfa Eko buildings and found drugs and other compromising documentation. Under Cheney's leadership of Haliburton, Brown and Root received a taxpayer insured loan through the Export-Import Bank of $292 million dollars for Brown and Root to refurbish a Siberian oil field owned by Alfa Tyumen. The Alfa Bank is also implicated in money laundering for the Colombian cocaine cartels.

THERE IS $80 BILLION IN UNRECORDED PROFITS IN THE FIRST STEP OF AFGHANI OPIUM COLLECTION, refinement...three steps later it could be worth $400 BILLION, in unrecorded profits...

so do you think theDICKCHEENIE and bushCOand CRONIES would want some OUTSIDER

looking over their drug trafficking? HELL NO.

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note...

the bcards shunt regularly spams for bush...

and we all know that the favorite neocon artiste' phrase is...

CLINTON did it,

actually, CLINTON inherited his advisors...

you wanna talk about who his advisors and intelligence community were?

and why are you leaving out the PNAC Letter to CLINTON...

isn't the aftermath of 911, what PNAC wanted?

isn't PNAC the samething as AEI, that was advising the WHITEHOUSE AS THE CIA's GEORGE TENENT WAS BEING IGNORED????

isn't it douglas feith, and the DICK CHEENIE that fabricated the invasion of IRAQ out of

purest B.S., culled from the very rectum of herr dic?

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there are a number of good people in the INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY....

they care about their jobs, that they are not being allowed to do...

witness the exodus of good CIA folk under PORTER GOSS....friend of Paul Wolfowitz, author of PNAC and John NEgroponte, occluder of cocaine trafficking in Central and South AMERICA and obfuscator of terrorists activities via SCHOOL of the AMERICAS.... all former classmates, class of Yale '60...can you say, "they all know the bushes intimately?"

the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is being run for the good of the people who are currently connected to the bushes or

bushCO and CRONYS...

there are 7 people in the whitehouse that were pardoned from the IRAN CONTRA years....felons, drug running selling munitions and combat tools to the IRANIANS ,

BushCO and CRONYs have CUBANO AND MAFIA CONNECTIONS IN FLORIDA....

did you ever see a show called Miami VICE

search on GARY WEBB, COCAINE, GEORGE H.W. BUSH, Parry.....

read all about it....

they are trying to stab Tenent and push his body out on to the stage and say....

"he's the murderer,"

he's the whistle blower you fricking a**holes...

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Whoever made the mistakes, I'm the guy who bears thr brunt.

Wish I knew Bush I'd get the Medal of Freedom. Lets bring back the draft. The GOP would end this war tomorrow.

What everyone is missing in this whole story is that this fiasco was done on President Clinton's watch and that the Assistant Attorney General wrote an order for the FBI & the CIA prohibiting them from exchanging information as the FBI was responsible for USA protection and the CIA was responsible for the rest of the world.
And isn't it wierd that the Assistant AG was on the 9/11 commision.
All of this information was given to the responsible people who had the right to know and was sluffed or unread by those people.
Before you go off the deep end with your responses, do your self a favor and searc for the correct information and do not depend on those misleading with the news.
8 year Army vet

Maureen Dowd once called former CIA Director Tenet "a whimpering, simpering suck-up." Seems like he has been replaced by another one. But relax, folks. Even with all of this high-tech spying - even on U.S. citizens yet - they haven't got the slightest idea about what to do with this information. They are too busy fighting among themselves and building big bureaucratic empires to be paying any attention to the real world.

Tenet is a fall guy? Hardly. He has helped sell the public on the notion that torture is a necessary tactic to prevent terror attacks. That is disgraceful.

We still don't know what happened in the CTC and more specifically Alec Station in regards to tracking al Qaeda operatives in the lead up to 9/11. Interviews with the officials named by position in the IG report are classified. For no good reason, much of the 9/11 Commission's findings are classified until 01/09. Recently, the airlines being sued by 9/11 victims' families decided to sue the CIA and FBI in order to have Alec Station agents testify in the civil trial. Previously, the airlines had sent the intelligence agencies several letters asking for cooperation but were rebuffed. What accounts for all the secrecy? Why is the IC so reluctant for the public to hear from the individual agents involved?

Why haven't there been any more attacks in the US since 9/11? This is an excellent question. We are expected to accept the answer that torture and Constitution trashing anti-terrorism legislation have made the difference. The truth is we don't know. There are likely all sorts of factors involved.

When you use the instruments of government for your own ends, there can be no other end. The job is not to serve the people but the agency or the political cronnies installed. The intelligence is sifted for those things which support the ends of the cronnies and that which doesn't is suppressed. The agency may not even be aware that it's happening and if the cronnies have enough support from the administration the beauracrats will knuckle under at the first sign they may loose their GS-18 job. Much like the press which knuckled under affarid they would be labled as un-patraotic or excluded from the Rove approved press that still to this day , nothing but softballs at the President.

Reluctantly released document? Hogwash! This document was released by Bush's political operative to cover up for the miserable failure Bush. Bush was briefed. Rice was briefed. Who was the DECIDER? Why were the warnings ignored?

Reluctantlt released document? Hogwash! This document was released by Bush's political operative to cover up for the miserable failure Bush. Bush was briefed. Rice was briefed. Who was the DECIDER? Why were the warnings ignored?

Think about this...George W. Bush....mr really stupid, comes into office and puts together two agencies that redirect billions of dollars and give him final sayso on what counts as intelligence...

and it just so happens that the two people appointed to head the agencies are his friends...

CIA director Porter Goss, appointed to lead that agency immediately after 911....how lucky,

incase anyone started leaking the truthNegroponte also known as whome? John Negroponte, had the ability to jerk the PENSION OF ANY INTELLIGENCE OFFICER IN ANY AGENCY, the pension of any whistleblower jerked w/o review by congressional mandate....

how lucky was that? Not as lucky as Marvin Bush being head of security for World Trade Center....and haveing the keys to security offices at Dulles/Reagan INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...PORT OF FRICKING ENTRY

He has his offices in Sterling Virgina, paid for by the Kuwiatis....how lucky is that? doubt me look it up...

search on Bush Crime Family...pages of information...

going back to the formation of the CIA, NAZIS, JFK assassination.......

its your country, YOU SHOULD KNOW, know whos leading you.

there are a number of good people in the INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY....

they care about their jobs, that they are not being allowed to do...

witness the exodus of good CIA folk under PORTER GOSS....friend of Paul Wolfowitz, author of PNAC and John NEgroponte, occluder of cocaine trafficking in Central and South AMERICA and obfuscator of terrorists activities via SCHOOL of the AMERICAS.... all former classmates, class of Yale '60...can you say, "they all know the bushes intimately?"

the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is being run for the good of the people who are currently connected to the bushes or

bushCO and CRONYS...

there are 7 people in the whitehouse that were pardoned from the IRAN CONTRA years....felons, drug running selling munitions and combat tools to the IRANIANS ,

BushCO and CRONYs have CUBANO AND MAFIA CONNECTIONS IN FLORIDA....

did you ever see a show called Miami VICE

search on GARY WEBB, COCAINE, GEORGE H.W. BUSH, Parry.....

read all about it....

they are trying to stab Tenent and push his body out on to the stage and say....

"he's the murderer,"

he's the whistle blower you fricking a**holes...

.

Tenent was led to believe that George W., Condosleazie, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Libby and others....

didn't need his input...

AEI was running the whitehouse and the subgovenrment was gettting ready to put PNAC into play....

game over.

....come in from the cold.

tear this housse of "ill repute," down

.

what's the truth here?

George Tenent is being made the SCAPEGOAT, for a plan bushCO and CRONYs put into action are busy

having their a**es kicked over...

the CIA BELONGS TO THE FRICKING BUSHES, they use it like a personal family tool.

if GEORGE TENENT was kept on the outside of their plot, and told to back off,

you figure it out.

you want to understand the truth here?

SEARCH ON JOHN NEGROPONTE, zmag

and ask yourselves these questions:

1. why does John Negroponte have the ability to jerk the pension/retirement benefits of ANY INTELLIGENCE OFFICER THAT WHISTLE BLOWS? why does he need that special privelege in SERVICE TO bushCO and CRONYs???

2. why was PORTER GOSS, a no name from FLORIDA, home of bush family cocaine , cubanos , election fixing , and other mafia based enterprises put in charge of the CIA? he had no intelligence experience....

3. why does John Negroponte have the ability to exclude any private company from having it's books examined? why does he need that special privelege in SERVICE TO bushCO and CRONYs???

4. why did George W. Bush immediately stop the DECLASSIFYING OF INFORMATION upon taking office? he killed the FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT.

5. why did George W. Bush classfiy everything about 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq?

6. why did George W. Bush and CRONYs for m two new agencies that effectively hid the movement of MONEY and WHAT the money was being spent on.... as well as disabling FEMA, INS and giving a bush appointee last say on what was the official stance of ANY INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ON INFORMATION.....

in the old days:
1. each intelligence agency issued it's own opinion

2. each intelligence agency was UNCONNECTED TO THE OTHERS, to make sure that intelligence couldn't be controlled or doctored.

3. none of the NON MILITARY AGENCIES WAS ROUTINELY HEADED BY A MILITARY APPOINTMENT...the military was excluded from runnnig the CIA, NSA and other "civilian" agencies to avoid military men finding a reason to use the military to solve economic, social or other issues... and because the militaries have their own intelligence agencies.... it's redundant.

Tenent was led to believe that George W., Condosleazie, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Libby and others....

didn't need his input...

AEI was running the whitehouse and the subgovenrment was gettting ready to put PNAC into play....

game over.

....come in from the cold.

tear this housse of "ill repute," down

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a. I give the CIA credit for preventing another attack on US soil since 9/11. That's not something to snicker at.

b. On the other hand with 12 million illegal aliens roaming the country freely and openly, I wonder how many terrorists are here already, in place for the next big one.

We are told that we should shut our mouths and not protest as the CIA and the Bush administration use anti-terrorism tactics right out of Saddam Hussein's playbook. These same public officials tell us they MUST employ such tactics to prevent another 9/11. Yet the very same officials wanted NO PART in any objective investigation of 9/11.

The record suggests Tenet, Hayden and Bush were all DERELICT IN THEIR DUTY. They are lucky that their political pals (the 9/11 Commission) were willing to play the "protect the political Establishment at all costs" game.

Alec Station was setup in order to track al Qaeda operatives. Yet, we are to believe this station simply dropped the ball with two high profile operatives linked to the Cole and African embassy bombings? Absurd! We still haven't heard why Tenet or Pickard couldn't pick up a telephone and instruct the FAA to put al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar on their No Fly list. According to official accounts, these operatives used their real names to reserve and purchase tickets, meaning a single phone call would have been sufficient to prevent them from getting on the planes. Also, the Mossad gave the CIA a list of 19 possible terrorists. We are told Atta, Al-Shehhi, al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar were on this list. So it seems (at the very minimum) a single phone call to the FAA would have led to the arrest of these four operatives. Instead, we are told the FBI sent a rookie agent out to do a physical search for these two operatives. Again, this is absurd.

Che, get your own blog, man!

Tenet's book has been sitting on the chair by my bedside for about 2 weeks, I have been slow about reading it..., I wish I had read it before Mr. Arkin proffered today's query.

But from what I have gathered from the media, phrases like 'plausible deniability', have implications that go far beyond covert intelligence policies and operations. CYA is apparently alive and well in Dodge City!

After all of the hoopla about combining America's intelligence agencies under a single umbrella, America is still no better off today than it was before Bush reluctantly signed off on that piece of legislation.

There is still departmental and jurisdictional infighting going on. Besides, outsourcing intelligence responsibilites to organizations like CACI and other government contractors is also coming back to haunt the Federal government - Abu Gharib is excellent proof of that!

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http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2015.shtml

Economic Armageddon is coming

By Joel S. Hirschhorn
Online Journal Contributing Writer

Stop being a compliant consumer. Face the ugly truth. Don't get fooled by the stock market. Accept the need for the mistreated middle class to become the revolutionary class. The British military establishment's most prestigious think tank sees what too few over-consuming Americans are willing to anticipate. Unjustified and mounting economic inequality is planting the seeds for global economic conflict.

Here is what the new report from the UK Defense Ministry's Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre warned might happen by 2035. "The middle classes could become a revolutionary class. The growing gap between themselves and a small number of highly visible super-rich individuals might fuel disillusion with meritocracy, while the growing urban under-classes are likely to pose an increasing threat . . . Faced by these twin challenges, the world's middle-classes might unite, using access to knowledge, resources and skills to shape transnational processes in their own class interest."

Consider the wisdom of economist John Maynard Keynes: The rich are tolerable only so long as their gains appear to bear some relation to roughly what they have contributed to society. Think of it as proportional and justified economic success. This can be tolerated by poor and middle class people if they believe the economic system is fair and properly rewards those who work harder or have better capabilities. But truly obscene economic rewards angers people. When most prosperity and wealth is unfairly channeled to relatively few Upper Class people, it is only a matter of time until fuming, resentful people in the Lower Class decide enough is enough and revolt. Perhaps violently, if the political system remains controlled by the Upper Class.

A ton of data demonstrate how crazy our economic system has become where a relatively few receive astronomical gains that no rational person could see as justified. One study tracked down home ownership data for 488 CEOs in the S&P 500 Index set of companies. The typical home of the CEOs has 12 rooms, sits on 5.37 acres, and carries a $3.1 million price-tag. Companies big enough to rate S&P 500 status hiked their median CEO pay by 23.78 percent in 2006 to $14.8 million. In comparison, U.S. worker weekly wages rose just 3.5 percent in 2006.

Despite what you hear about the sagging housing market and the many people facing foreclosure, business at the top end of the U.S. housing market is booming. Sales of homes in the $5 million-and-up price range rose 11 percent last year, reports the Dallas-based Institute for Luxury Home Marketing. Ten residential properties sold for over $28 million in 2006. The most expensive, in New Jersey, sold for $58 million; it went to Richard Kurtz, the CEO of Advanced Photonix, a telecom supplier. In the "ultra-luxury market" a set of suites in New York's fabled Plaza Hotel was converted last year into one-bedroom condos that start at $6.9 million.

From another study we learn that pay for American college presidents over the past decade has jumped seven times faster than pay for college faculty. In 1996, only one college president took home over $500,000. In 2006, 112 college presidents hit that mark. Meanwhile, after inflation, compensation for college professors increased just 5 percent since 1996. And college students have faced rapidly mounting tuition far higher than inflation rates.

CEOs are getting away with economic murder. Bob Nardelli, the CEO who departed Home Depot early this year, had an exit package worth $210 million. IBM CEO Sam Palmisano took home $18.8 million in 2006 and will receive $34.9 million in deferred pay and $33.1 million in retirement benefits when he leaves IBM. Even more extreme is the case of Occidental Petroleum CEO Ray Irani. The interest income alone on the $124 million that ended the year in Irani's deferred-pay account totaled $679,396. The Los Angeles Times estimated Irani's total payoff for 2006 at $460 million. Leslie Blodgett, the top exec at cosmetics giant Bare Escentuals, collected $118.9 million in 2006, with most of that coming from the $117.7 million she cleared cashing out stock options. She received 4 million additional stock options before 2006 ended.

Economists Emmanuel Saez of the University of California at Berkeley and Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics found that the richest 10 percent of the U.S. population received 44 percent of the pretax income in 2005. This was the highest since the 1920s and 1930s (average: 44 percent) and much higher than from 1945 to 1980 (average: 32 percent). With more than 140 million U.S. workers, that top 10 percent equals 14 million workers. The bottom half of that top 10 percent had incomes of about $110,000. That may not seem all that high, except that the overwhelming majority of Americans can never expect such income. And remember that many of these top 10 percent Americans are married to or living with equally highly paid people.

When it comes to obscene economic inequality, however, you must focus on the huge gains received by the richest 1 percent -- some 1.4 million people. Their share of pretax income has gradually climbed from 8 percent in 1980 to 17 percent in 2005. Their average income was $371,000. Who is in the top sliver of richness? Economists Steven Kaplan and Joshua Rauh of the University of Chicago estimate that there were about 18,000 lawyers, 15,000 corporate executives, 33,000 investment bankers (including hedge fund managers, venture capitalists and private-equity investors) and 2,000 athletes who made roughly $500,000 or more in 2004.

Do those at the top pay their fair share of taxes? Middle class Americans, after nearly 30 years of tax-cutting, are now paying about the same share of their incomes in federal taxes that they paid before Ronald Reagan entered politics. In contrast, America's richest have seen the share of their incomes that goes to federal taxes cut by over half. That's what happens in a failed democracy in which the rich control the political system.

What the future holds for the victimized middle class will not only depend on the uncontrolled greed of the wealthy Upper Class and its control of the political system. It will also be linked to the coming tsunami of global warming impacts on climate, sea level, water supplies, crops and disease. There will be devastating impacts on hundreds of millions and perhaps billions of people worldwide. Lower Class people will be sacrificed -- left to suffer the consequences. The rich will retreat to their walled, protected and well-stocked havens.

Add to this scenario the inevitable collapse of the entire economic system. At some point it will not be controllable as it is now by those in banking and finance, who are able to manipulate it to sustain economic injustice. Eventually the inherent fundamental absurdities of the global economic system will prove unsustainable. The wealthy Upper Class will have siphoned off most of the world's wealth and hoarded resources to maintain a luxurious lifestyle.

What the future holds: Lower Class economic slaves fighting to survive in a medieval, ugly and bleak world that so many science fiction stories have portrayed. In that hell, their best option will be to rise up and revolt against the rich and powerful Upper Class. With such a prospect, global class war on a sick planet, prevention is a priority. For us, that requires paying much more attention now to economic inequality, economic injustice, economic apartheid and the many attacks on the middle class. If not, we get Economic Armageddon along with environmental disaster.
Joel S. Hirschhorn's new book is "Delusional Democracy -- Fixing the Republic Without Overthrowing the Government""." He can be reached through www.delusionaldemocracy.com.