THE SCHIZOPHRENIC CIA

WE DON'T HAVE ONE BAD CIA - WHICH UNDERMINES OUR NATION'S DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED ADMINISTRATION'S FOREIGN POLICY AND NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY.

WE HAVE A SCHIZOPHRENIC CIA:

• TWO CIA'S WITHIN ONE:

• ONE WHICH WORKS COURAGEOUSLY HARD TO DEFEND THE FREE WORLD,

• AND ONE WHICH FIGHTS EQUALLY HARD TO ENACT IT'S OWN FOREIGN POLICY BY WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY.

POWER LINE: About those videos the CIA destroyed, Part Two

Jose Rodriguez, Jr. is the CIA official who is said to have ordered the destruction of the video tapes that memorialized the interrogation of two leading al Qaeda terrorists. At the time, Rodriguez was the CIA’s Director of Clandestine Operations.

That title reminds us that much of what the CIA does is supposed to be clandestine.

In essence, the CIA was conceived as an organization that would do secret things to obtain information, and then analyze that information.

It was always understood that some of the secret things would be unsavory.

It was never understood that the CIA would keep recordings of these actions just in case a court, a congressional committee, or a newspaper might want to take a look. The idea was to win the Cold War, not to create an album.

The image of the Cold War CIA is captured, albeit over-dramatically, in the old Mission Impossible show, when the clandestine operative is informed that, if he or any member of his team is caught or captured, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of their actions.

Five seconds later, the tape self-destructs.

Jose Rodriguez may be wondering where that manufacturer of self-destructing tape was when he needed him.

Times have changed, to be sure.

Nowadays the CIA’s main functions seem to be leaking to the press and producing guesses (called assessments), hoping against hope that a few of them will prove to be correct.

Rodriguez did the right thing: he protected the USA from the possibility that these tapes would fall into enemy hands - LIKE THE NYTIMES! - and be used for propaganda by the enemy - (as they did with the Abu Ghraib images).

But this episodes proves one thing more: we have a schizophrenic CIA:

• THE ERASED INTERROGATION TAPES - AND THE INTERCEPT PROGRAM, THE SWIFT PROGRAM, THE RENDITION PROGRAM - ALL PROVE THAT THERE ARE INDEED PARTS OF THE CIA WHICH DO FUNCTION.

• SADLY, THERE ARE ALSO PARTS OF THE CIA WHICH ARE FIGHTING JUST AS HARD TO UNDERMINE THOSE ELEMENTS WITHIN THE CIA WHICH DO WORK, AND THAT IS THE PROBLEM.
• THEY WILL LEAK WHATEVER THEY CAN DO UNDERMINE ANY POLICY THEY DISAGREE WITH - EVEN IF IT HELPS THE ENEMY.
  

• I DON'T GET THE SENSE THAT PUTIN'S KGB HAS A SIMILAR PROBLEM.

• I THINK THIS IS BECAUSE THE KGB IS COMPRISED OF PEOPLE WHO ARE ALL OF ONE PARTY, AND THAT THEY ASSASSINATE ANY WHO DON'T FOLLOW PARTY ORDERS - AND THEY HANDSOMELY REWARD THOSE WHO DO.

WE NEED TO TAKE THE ANALYTIC FUNCTION OUT OF THE CIA COMPLETELY, AND FIRE THE WOULD BE POLICY-MAKERS SO THAT THE HEROIC CLANDESTINE PEOPLE AND COVERT COUNTER-ESPIONAGE AND COUNTER-TERROR AGENTS OF THE CIA DON'T HAVE TO BE CONSTANTLY BE LOOKING OVER THEIR SHOULDERS.

*******UPDATE: DER SPIEGEL/REUTERS: Bolton calls report on Iran quasi-putsch

'POLITICS': "This is politics disguised as intelligence," said John Bolton, the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, in an article appearing in this week's Der Spiegel magazine.

The former ambassador to the U.N. says the the latest intelligence estimate is meant not to inform but to influence policy.

U.S. intelligence services attempted to influence political policy by releasing their assessment that concludes Iran halted its nuclear arms program in 2003, said John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Der Spiegel magazine quoted Bolton on Saturday as alleging that the aim of the National Intelligence Estimate, which contradicts his and President Bush's position, was not to provide the latest intelligence on Iran.

"This is politics disguised as intelligence," Bolton was quoted as saying in an article appearing in this week's edition.

Bolton described the report, released Monday, as a "quasi-putsch" by the intelligence agencies, Der Spiegel said.

I AGREE.

"IRAN IS A BLACK HOLE"

TIME/ROBERT BAER:

... how far is Iran from a nuke? The new NIE says 10 to 15 years, maybe. But that's a wild guess. Iran is a black hole, and it's entirely conceivable Iran could build a bomb and we wouldn't know until they tested it.

REPEAT:

... how far is Iran from a nuke?

The new NIE says 10 to 15 years,

maybe.

But that's a wild guess.

Iran is a black hole,
and it's entirely conceivable
Iran could build a bomb
and we wouldn't know
until they tested it.

PONDER THAT.

THAT WOULD BE TOO LATE.

• THE ONLY WAY TO BE SURE IS TO ATTACK THEIR NUCLEAR ASSETS AND DEMOLISH THEIR MILITARY ASSETS - LAND AND SEA.

• OR DO YOU WANT TO TRUST IRAN - DESPITE THE FACT THAT EVERYONE AGREES - THAT THEY'VE LIED FOR 20 YEARS ABOUT THEIR CIVILIAN PROGRAM!?

• AND DESPITE THE FACT THAT PAKISTAN AND INDIA AND LIBYA ALL HAD PROGRAMS WHICH THE CIA KNEW NOTHING ABOUT!?

• DESPITE THE FACT THAT EVEN SADDAM HAD ONE WE KNEW NOTHING ABOUT, TOO. ONE WE ONLY DISCOVERED AFTER THE GULF WAR.

• BOTTOM-LINE: OUT INTEL STILL SUCKS.

• THE NIE ON IRAN WENT FROM NEAR CERTAINTY THAT THEY HAD A WEAPONS PROGRAM TO NEAR CERTAINTY THEY DO NOT AND HAVEN'T FOR 4 YEARS. THAT'S IDIOTIC.

THAT'S WHY I WOULDN'T BASE OUR NATIONAL SECURITY ON ANY OF ITS ESTIMATES OR GUESSES.

[ASIDE: I NOW FEEL THAT GEORGE W. "RELIGION OF PEACE" BUSH MIGHT JUST FEEL LIKE THIS LATEST NIE IS HIS "OUT", AND THAT HE CAN KICK THIS CAN UP THE ROAD, AND LETTI THE NEXT PRESIDENT DEAL WITH IT.

THAT DISGUSTS ME.

BUSH'S HAWKISHNESS WITH THE TALIBAN AND SADDAM PAID OFF VIS A VIS LIBYA, NORTH KOREA AND IRAN - UP TO NOW... THAT'S WHY I THINK WE SHOULD STAY HAWKISH.]

IS THE LEFTIST SHADOW GOVERNMENT FINALLY GOING TO BE EXPOSED TO THE LIGHT?

There's a cadre of comrades within the CIA which has been undermining the policies set by the ELECTED government of the USA; they're the ones who have leaked information about policies they don't like - such as: rendition/secret prisons; the SWIFT bank monitoring program; the NSA intercept program; the yellowcake/uranium Niger/Africa controversy; and so on.

These leaks damaged our national security and aided the enemy. And fueled the BDS propaganda wars here, and the anti-American propaganda wars abroad.

Well now it seems as if the Bush Administration is finally going to do something about it.

Read all about what seems like an impending indictment (of a former CIA operative/analysts - who presently works for... GEORGE SOROS) - HERE and HERE and HERE.

I wouldn't be surprised if a leading senior Democrat Senator is indicted too!

For a complete look at this problem READ THIS BOOK.

For quick backgrpound read these posts from POWER LINE: here, here, and here.

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TRAITOROUS LEFT IS OUT THERE: 2 MUST READ BOOKS

1 - War Crimes: The Left's Campaign to Destroy Our Military and Lose the War on Terror

Book Description

In War Crimes, Lieutenant Colonel Robert “Buzz” Patterson (USAF, Ret.) lays bare the Left’s campaign against their own nation’s armed forces—in the media, on campuses, in popular culture, in Washington, and elsewhere, revealing:

• The roots of liberal enmity toward our military
• The five liberal lies about the war on terror
• How the mainstream media, Hollywood, and academia perpetuate these myths
• How liberal politicians engage in seditious acts for political gain, and what the costs of these acts are
• How America can and must defeat the liberal assault on America’s ability to defend itself against its enemies

Interviews with hundreds of soldiers, sailors, and airmen—including many on the ground in Iraq—reveal the alarming degree to which their burden is increased by second-guessing, pessimism, and outright revulsion for their mission on the part of the people they are fighting for. Studded with shocking quotations and astonishing actions from members of the Left, War Crimes is an eye-opening indictment of the true motivations and agenda of the American Left.

About the Author

A former military aide to President Clinton, Lt. Col. ROBERT “BUZZ” PATTERSON, U.S. Air Force (Ret.) lives near Atlanta.

2 - Sabotage: America's Enemies Within the CIA - by Rowan Scarborough

Book Description

Using his first-rate sources in all levels of national security-from field officers to high-ranking analysts to former intelligence heads-bestselling author Rowan Scarborough reveals how CIA bureaucrats are undermining President Bush and the War on Terror through disinformation, incompetence, and outright sabotage.

From the Inside Flap

How Bush-hating CIA Bureaucrats Are Sabotaging the War on Terror

Since the attacks on September 11, 2001, intelligence collection has become the number-one weapon in the effort to defeat al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. A plot penetrated is an attack stopped. And to the outside observer, the CIA has performed well as a key partner in the Bush administration's War on Terror. But as Rowan Scarborough reveals in this groundbreaking new book, significant elements within the CIA are undermining both the president and national security through leaks, false allegations, and outright sabotage.

Using his first-rate sources in all levels of national security--from field officers to high-ranking analysts to former intelligence heads--Scarborough paints a disturbing picture of partisan politics endangering the success of our campaigns abroad and the very lives of our soldiers and agents.

In Sabotage, you'll learn:

* How CIA analysts repeatedly leak details about classified intelligence programs with the dual intent of ending them and damaging the president

* How, on at least eight occasions, intelligence officials have made serious allegations of wrongdoing against the president's men--which turned out to be false

* Why, contrary to popular belief, the CIA has become predominantly liberal

* How a CIA turf battle prevented special operators from pursuing and capturing a notorious Taliban leader

* How current and former CIA officers fueled conspiracy theories that President Bush orchestrated the 9/11 attacks on America

* How a CIA leak to the New York Times deprived the U.S. of critical information in the War on Terror

* How press leaks by the CIA have damaged relations with our foreign allies in the War on Terror

* How a CIA analyst worked with Democrats to sabotage the nomination of John Bolton to the UN

* How Clinton's downsizing of the CIA led to the closing of stations in scores of jihadist breeding grounds--including Hamburg, Germany, where the 9/11 plot was hatched

The CIA's job is to collect facts and let the White House, the Pentagon, and the State Department make national security policy.

But, as Scarborough conclusively demonstrates, an agency that is supposed to be scrupulously nonpartisan has become increasingly political--during a time of war--against America's elected commander in chief.

BUY THEM. READ THEM. SPREAD THE WORD.

RENEGADE CIA "DISSENTERS" LEAKED RENDITION INFO AND COMMITED TREASON

NYTIMES:

Dissident U.S. intelligence officers angry at former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld helped a European probe uncover details of secret CIA prisons in Europe, the top investigator said on Tuesday.

Swiss Senator Dick Marty, author of a Council of Europe report on the jails, said senior CIA officials disapproved of Rumsfeld's methods in hunting down terrorist suspects, and had agreed to talk to him on condition of anonymity.

"There were huge conflicts between the CIA and Rumsfeld. Many leading figures in the CIA did not accept these methods at all," Marty told European Parliament committees, defending his work against complaints it was based on unnamed sources.

The report issued last month said the Central Intelligence Agency ran secret jails in Poland and Romania, with the complicity of those governments, and transported terrorist suspects across Europe in secret flights.

Poland and Romania have repeatedly denied hosting CIA prisons on their soil.

"People in the CIA felt these things were not consonant with the sort of intelligence work they normally do," Marty said.

He said he had based his findings largely on conversations with "high officials of the CIA (and) highly placed European office-holders, who for different reasons, often honorable reasons, were ready to explain what had happened."

I THINK THIS IS FREAKIN' HUGE.

Essentially, the lead EU investigator is alleging that UNELECTED BUREAUCRATS - whose SWORN duty is to gather intel' and provide it to ELECTED decision-makers WHO IN TURN MAKE POLICY - took it upon themselves TOP BREAK THE LAW AND LEAK CLASSIFIED INTEL' AND OPERATIONAL INFO.

THIS IS HIGH TREASON.

The US Attorney General should subpoena this Marty fella and find out who these traitors are and charge them, convict them and have them EXECUTED FOR COMMITTING TREASON IN A TIME OF WAR.

Need I remind you that MICHAEL SCHEUER - no friend of Bush and an opponent of the Iraq War - has repeatedly called rendition the "SINGLE MOST EFFECTIVCE TOOL" in our anti-terror arsenal:

the rendition program has been a tremendous success. Dozens of senior Qaeda fighters are today behind bars, no longer able to plot or participate in attacks. Detainee operations also netted an untold number of computers and documents that increased our knowledge of Al Qaeda's makeup and plans.

AND GEORGE TENET CONCURRED.

But even if it was an ineffective tool it would still not excuse the acts of treason by the CIA agents who leaked this info. IN A DEMOCRACY ELECTED OFFICIAL MAKE POLICY, NOT BUREAUCRATS IN A CLANDESTINE AND SELF-CONTAINED SHADOW GOVERNMENT.

Folks like Valerie Plame have NO RIGHT to make policy.

Folks like her - AND THE TREASONOUS PEOPLE WHO LEAKED THE SECRET PRISON PROGRAM TO THE MSM - are traitorous scum. They are mot dissidents as the NYTIMES calls them; they are traitors - like Daniel Ellsberg and the Rosenbergs and Ames and Hannsen.

If Bush was as strong a hawk as we really need right now, then he'd make sure these traitors were charged. But he probably won't - Dubya does stand for WIMP, after all.

SENATOR ROCKEFELLER: APPEASER; TRAITOR; POSTMODERNIST

NYTIMES:

The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee is questioning whether the CIA's secret prison program -- which he fears has become a black eye to the United States -- should continue. ... Rockefeller says there is no doubt that intelligence from detainees has been valuable. Yet he says he wonders whether the CIA needed to create a system outside of long-standing FBI and military interrogation programs.

Rockefeller's spokeswoman, Wendy Morigi, said he has not been convinced that the CIA prisons produce better intelligence than the FBI and military systems.

''The real question is whether the administration's decision to pursue an alternate system (at the CIA) was the right approach,'' Rockefeller said in a statement Friday.

President Bush said he emptied the CIA's secret prisons in September and sent its last 14 high-value detainees to the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. But he left open the possibility that the program could be used again. ... Rockefeller has promised to conduct more vigorous oversight of the spy agencies than did his Republican predecessor. He is asking whether having a separate CIA detention and interrogation system is necessary and worth the toll on the U.S. image abroad.

''The widespread reports about secret prisons and torture, whether accurate or not, have damaged the United States' reputation around the world and hindered counterterrorism efforts with our allies,'' he said.

Human rights groups have argued for years that the CIA's detention and interrogation techniques amount to torture. The International Committee of the Red Cross is the only independent watchdog to interview the 14 detainees who were held by the CIA.

In a confidential report that has not been publicly distributed, the Red Cross said the 14 prisoners described highly abusive interrogation methods, especially when techniques such sleep deprivation and forced standing were used in combination. None of the detainees' accounts has been verified. ...

U.S. officials long have said the CIA program is for the most dangerous detainees and the CIA says its officers do not torture. ''The agency's terrorist interrogation program has been conducted lawfully, with great care and close review, producing vital information that has helped disrupt plots and save lives,'' CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield said.

MICHAEL SCHEUER - FORMER CHIEF OF THE BINLADEN DESK AT THE CIA, AND A VOCIFEROUS CRITIC OF THE IRAQ WAR, WHO SUBSCRIBES TO0 THE ANTI-SEMITIC "ISRAEL LOBBY" CONSPIRACY THEORY - HAS CALLED RENDITION THE SINGLE BEST TOOL IN THE GWOT, AND LAMENTS THAT APPEASERS LIKE ROCKEFELLER AND MCCAIN AND GRAHAM HAVE DEMOLISHED IT. SCHEUER SAYS IT HAS MADE US MUCH LESS SAFE.

NEVERTHELESS. APPEASERS LIKE ROCKEFELLER CARRY ON, PANDERING TO THEIR LOONIE-LEFTIES BASE, AND MAKING IT EASIER FOR THE ENEMY TO ATTACK US.

THEY HAVE OUTED THE NSA INTERCEPT PROGRAM, THE SWIFT PROGRAM, DEMOLISHED THE RENDITION SYSTEM, AND ARE NOW TRYING TO ELIMINATE THE CIA SECRET PRISONS.

WHO ARE THEY WORKING FOR!?!? THE ENEMIES OF THE USA AND OUR CIVILIAZATON. WHY!? BECAUSE AS POSTMODERNISTS THEY HATE MODERNITY AND THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN WEST AS MUCH AS THE ENEMY.

OVERSIGHT SHOULD NEVER MEAN MAIING US FIGHT THE MOST RUTHLESS ENEMY OF ALL TIME WITH BOTH HANDS TIED BEHIND OUR BACKS.

I CALL ROCKEFELLER A POSTMODERNIST BECAUSE OF THIS QUOTE: ''The widespread reports about secret prisons and torture, whether accurate or not, have damaged the United States' reputation around the world and hindered counterterrorism efforts with our allies," ...

ROCKEFELLER DOESN'T CARE IF THEY ARE TRUE OR NOT BECAUSE AS A POSTMODERN LEFTIST HE DOESN'T BELIEVE IN OBJECTIVE TRUTH, JUST COMPETING NARRATIVES.

SO INSTEAD OF CORRECTING THE LIES AND DISTORTIONS ABOUT OUR CLANDESTINE EFFORTS, HE SEEKS TO MOLLIFY THESE WHO ARE PEEVED BY THE LIES AND DISTORTIONS - THE ENEMY AND HIS PARTY'S LOONIE-LEFTIE BASE.

AND THIS ASSHOLE IS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE INTEL COMMITTEE - DESPITE THE FACT THAT HE HAS - IN THE PAST - LEAKED SECRETS FROM THE FLOOR OF THE SENATE.

WE WILL NOT WIN IF WE KEEP FIGHTING THIS WAY.... THE DEMS KNOW IT; THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT!

I MEAN, HEY FOLKS: WHAT'S THE SOURCE OF THE CONTROVERSY HERE!?!? THE ENEMY CLAIMING WE'VE BEEN "HIGHLY ABUSIVE" OF THEM WHILE THEY'RE IN CUSTODY.

WELL, SO WHAT?! "HIGHLY ABUSIVE" IS NOT TORTURE. IN SIDING WITH THE ENEMY, THE LEFT COMMITS A LOGICAL FALLACY: CONFLATION; THEY CONFLATE ABUSIVENESS (LIKE SLEEP DEPRIVATION) WITH TORTURE.

WHY DO THEY DO THIS!? BECAUSE IT MAKES THE USA LOOK BAD, AND THAT'S THEIR FAVORITE THING IN LIFE - THAT AND BLAMING IT ON BUSHITLERHALLIBURTON-ISRAELI-ZIONIST-LIKUDNIK-EVANGELICAL-NASCAR-NEOCONS (TM).

THE SCOOTER LIBBY VERDICT: JUSTICE HAS NOT BEEN SERVED

THE ULTIMATE POLITICAL WITCH-HUNT

"There should have been no referral, no special counsel, no indictments, and no trial. The “CIA-leak case” has been a travesty. A good man has paid a very heavy price for the Left’s fevers, the media’s scandal-mongering, and President Bush’s failure to unify his own administration. Justice demands that Bush issue a pardon and lower the curtain on an embarrassing drama that shouldn’t have lasted beyond its opening act."--

National Review

Reliapundit said it well but I am so livid about this verdict I had to have my say also. To read my rant go here.

Reliapundit adds: The WASH POST summed it up best:

The fall of this skilled and long-respected public servant is particularly sobering because it arose from a Washington scandal remarkable for its lack of substance. It was propelled not by actual wrongdoing but by inflated and frequently false claims, and by the aggressive and occasionally reckless response of senior Bush administration officials -- culminating in Mr. Libby's perjury. ...

Mr. Wilson was embraced by many because he was early in publicly charging that the Bush administration had "twisted," if not invented, facts in making the case for war against Iraq. In conversations with journalists or in a July 6, 2003, op-ed, he claimed to have debunked evidence that Iraq was seeking uranium from Niger; suggested that he had been dispatched by Mr. Cheney to look into the matter; and alleged that his report had circulated at the highest levels of the administration.

A bipartisan investigation by the Senate intelligence committee subsequently established that all of these claims were false -- and that Mr. Wilson was recommended for the Niger trip by Ms. Plame, his wife. When this fact, along with Ms. Plame's name, was disclosed in a column by Robert D. Novak, Mr. Wilson advanced yet another sensational charge: that his wife was a covert CIA operative and that senior White House officials had orchestrated the leak of her name to destroy her career and thus punish Mr. Wilson.

The partisan furor over this allegation led to the appointment of special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald. Yet after two years of investigation, Mr. Fitzgerald charged no one with a crime for leaking Ms. Plame's name. In fact, he learned early on that Mr. Novak's primary source was former deputy secretary of state Richard L. Armitage, an unlikely tool of the White House. The trial has provided convincing evidence that there was no conspiracy to punish Mr. Wilson by leaking Ms. Plame's identity -- and no evidence that she was, in fact, covert. [UMPH ADDED.]

It would have been sensible for Mr. Fitzgerald to end his investigation after learning about Mr. Armitage. Instead, like many Washington special prosecutors before him, he pressed on, pursuing every tangent in the case. In so doing he unnecessarily subjected numerous journalists to the ordeal of having to disclose confidential sources or face imprisonment. One, Judith Miller of the New York Times, lost several court appeals and spent 85 days in jail before agreeing to testify. The damage done to journalists' ability to obtain information from confidential government sources has yet to be measured.

Mr. Wilson's case has besmirched nearly everyone it touched. The former ambassador will be remembered as a blowhard. Mr. Cheney and Mr. Libby were overbearing in their zeal to rebut Mr. Wilson and careless in their handling of classified information. Mr. Libby's subsequent false statements were reprehensible. And Mr. Fitzgerald has shown again why handing a Washington political case to a federal special prosecutor is a prescription for excess.

MEANWHILE, THAT DICKHEAD SANDY BERGLER IS A FREE MAN, AND THE NYTIMES - WHICH HAS PUBLISHED NUMEROUS CLASSIFIED SECRETS WHICH HAVE EACH WEAKENED OUR NATIONAL SECURITY - HAS NOT EVEN BEEN SUBPOENAED . GO FIGGER. THE INJUSTICE WOULD BE SIMPLY ABSURD WERE IT NOT SO DEEPLY TROUBLING.