Taxpayer Funded Arms Sold on Middle East Black Market Meant For Syrian Rebels

The funeral in Rimoun, Jordan, for Anwar Abu Zaid, a police captain who was killed after he attacked a police training center in November. American and Jordanian officials said they believed that the weapons he used had been meant for a program to train Syrian rebels. 

Credit Nasser Nasser/Associated Press

The White House chapter of the Spending Other People's Money Society, uses taxpayer funds to supply criminals in the Middle East. It is what the previous Attorney General, Eric "White people are cowards" Holder did, sending taxpayer purchased automatic weapons to Mexican drug cartels, who used them to kill Americans. Does anyone suspect an enemy spy is running the White House? 

[From article]
Weapons shipped into Jordan by the Central Intelligence Agency and Saudi Arabia intended for Syrian rebels have been systematically stolen by Jordanian intelligence operatives and sold to arms merchants on the black market, according to American and Jordanian officials.
Some of the stolen weapons were used in a shooting in November that killed two Americans and three others at a police training facility in Amman, F.B.I. officials believe after months of investigating the attack, according to people familiar with the investigation.
The existence of the weapons theft, which ended only months ago after complaints by the American and Saudi governments, is being reported for the first time after a joint investigation by The New York Times and Al Jazeera. The theft, involving millions of dollars of weapons, highlights the messy, unplanned consequences of programs to arm and train rebels — the kind of program the C.I.A. and Pentagon have conducted for decades — even after the Obama administration had hoped to keep the training program in Jordan under tight control.
The Jordanian officers who were part of the scheme reaped a windfall from the weapons sales, using the money to buy expensive SUVs, iPhones and other luxury items, Jordanian officials said.
The theft and resale of the arms — including Kalashnikov assault rifles, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades — have led to a flood of new weapons available on the black arms market. Investigators do not know what became of most of them, but a disparate collection of groups, including criminal networks and rural Jordanian tribes, use the arms bazaars to build their arsenals. Weapons smugglers also buy weapons in the arms bazaars to ship outside the country.
The F.B.I. investigation into the Amman shooting, run by the bureau’s Washington field office, is continuing. But American and Jordanian officials said the investigators believed that the weapons a Jordanian police captain, Anwar Abu Zaid, used to gun down two American contractors, two Jordanians and one South African had originally arrived in Jordan intended for the Syrian rebel-training program.
The officials said this finding had come from tracing the serial numbers of the weapons.
Mohammad H. al-Momani, Jordan’s minister of state for media affairs, said allegations that Jordanian intelligence officers had been involved in any weapons thefts were “absolutely incorrect.”
“Weapons of our security institutions are concretely tracked, with the highest discipline,” he said. He called the powerful Jordanian intelligence service, known as the General Intelligence Directorate, or G.I.D., “a world-class, reputable institution known for its professional conduct and high degree of cooperation among security agencies.” In Jordan, the head of the G.I.D. is considered the second most important man after the king.
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The training program, which in 2013 began directly arming the rebels under the code name Timber Sycamore, is run by the C.I.A. and several Arab intelligence services and aimed at building up forces opposing PresidentBashar al-Assad of Syria. The United States and Saudi Arabia are the biggest contributors, with the Saudis contributing both weapons and large sums of money, and with C.I.A. paramilitary operatives taking the lead in training the rebels to use Kalashnikovs, mortars, antitank guided missiles and other weapons.
The existence of the program is classified, as are all details about its budget. American officials say that the C.I.A. has trained thousands of rebels in the past three years, and that the fighters made substantial advances on the battlefield against Syrian government forces until Russian military forces — launched last year in support of Mr. Assad — compelled them to retreat.
The training program is based in Jordan because of the country’s proximity to the Syrian battlefields. From the beginning, the C.I.A. and the Arab intelligence agencies relied on Jordanian security services to transport the weapons, many bought in bulk in the Balkans and elsewhere around Eastern Europe.
The program is separate from one that the Pentagon set up to train rebels to combat Islamic State fighters, rather than the Syrian military. That program was shut down after it managed to train only a handful of Syrian rebels.
Jordanian and American officials described the weapons theft and subsequent investigation on the condition of anonymity because the Syrian rebel training is classified in the United States and is a government secret in Jordan.
[. . .]
Jordanian officials who described the operation said it had been run by a group of G.I.D. logistics officers with direct access to the weapons once they reached Jordan. The officers regularly siphoned truckloads of the weapons from the stocks, before delivering the rest of the weapons to designated drop-off points.
Then the officers sold the weapons at several large arms markets in Jordan. The main arms bazaars in Jordan are in Ma’an, in the southern part of the country; in Sahab, outside Amman; and in the Jordan Valley.Continue reading the main story
It is unclear whether the current head of the G.I.D., Gen. Faisal al-Shoubaki, had knowledge of the theft of the C.I.A. and Saudi weapons. But several Jordanian intelligence officials said senior officers inside the service had knowledge of the weapons scheme and provided cover for the lower-ranking officers.

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Word that the weapons intended for the rebels were being bought and sold on the black market leaked into Jordan government circles last year, when arms dealers began bragging to their customers that they had large stocks of American- and Saudi-provided weapons.
Jordanian intelligence operatives monitoring the arms market — operatives not involved in the weapons-diversion scheme — began sending reports to headquarters about a proliferation of weapons in the market and of the boasts of the arms dealers.
After the Americans and Saudis complained about the theft, investigators at the G.I.D. arrested several dozen officers involved in the scheme, among them a lieutenant colonel running the operation. They were ultimately released from detention and fired from the service, but were allowed to keep their pensions and money they gained from the scheme, according to Jordanian officials.
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In 2009, a Jordanian doctor — brought to the C.I.A. by a G.I.D. officer after the doctor said he had penetrated Al Qaeda’s leadership — turned out to be a double agent and blew himself up at a remote base in Afghanistan. Seven C.I.A. employees, as well as the G.I.D. officer, were killed in the attack.
Two recent heads of the service, also known as the Mukhabarat, have been sent to prison on charges including embezzlement, money laundering and bank fraud. One of them, Gen. Samih Battikhi, ran the G.I.D. from 1995 to 2000 and was convicted of being part of a scheme to obtain bank loans of around $600 million for fake government contracts and pocketing about $25 million. He was sentenced to eight years in prison, but the sentence was eventually reduced to four years that were served in his villa in the seaside town of Aqaba.
Gen. Mohammad al-Dahabi, who ran the service from 2005 to 2008, was later convicted of stealing millions of dollars that G.I.D. officers had seized from Iraqi citizens crossing into Jordan in the years after the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. His trial showed that he had also arranged for money to be smuggled in private cars from Iraq into Jordan and had been involved in sellingJordanian citizenship to Iraqi businessmen. He was sentenced to 13 years in prison and fined tens of millions of dollars.
[. . .]
By late 2013, the C.I.A. was working directly with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other nations to arm and train small groups of rebels and send them across the border into Syria.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/27/world/middleeast/cia-arms-for-syrian-rebels-supplied-black-market-officials-say.html?_r=0

C.I.A. Arms for Syrian Rebels Supplied Black Market, Officials Say
By MARK MAZZETTI and ALI YOUNES

JUNE 26, 2016

Bay of Pigs Disaster Remembered

[From article]
Fifty-five years ago, my parents and lots of other Cubans woke up to "la invasion," or the invasion that most of us expected and were ready for. There were groups in Cuba who had been fighting Castro, from sabotage to confronting the regime block by block.
This is about The Bay of Pigs, an event that most people have forgotten unless you're a Cuban of my parents' generation or someone like them who was impacted by it.
The plans for the invasion were passed on to new president Kennedy by the outgoing Eisenhower administration.
[. . .]



The veterans of the brigade have a museum in Miami, a reminder to the young about the men who were willing to fight and remove communism from the island.
The politically correct explanation is that the invasion failed because Cubans did not rise up against Castro. Actually, it failed because the total plan was never carried out, and the men were left stranded, as Michael Sullivan wrote:
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President John F. Kennedy

President Kennedy, anxious to cover up America's role, inexplicably called off all American air support, leaving the rebels stranded on the beach.
Cuban army and militia units, organized by Castro himself, swarmed the invasion site to block the rebels from gaining the interior of the island.
The Cuban Air Force rallied to strafe the landing site and the supply ships moored in the bay.
One ship sank and the remaining three barely made it out to sea.
Without resupply or air support, the men of 2506 Assault Brigade managed to hold out for two days, until nearly all were either killed or captured by pro-Castro forces. When the smoke cleared, 114 died and 1,189 languished in Cuban prisons.
There they remained for 22 months, until the Kennedy administration paid more than $50 million in food, medicine and cash for their release.
[. . .]



Over the years, I have personally spoken to many of the veterans of Brigade 2506. Like my parents, they started their new lives in the U.S., and many served in the U.S. military. Every one of them tells me the mission would have succeeded if the plan had been carried out.
The lesson of The Bay of Pigs is simple. Presidential weakness, and confusion, has consequences way beyond the event in question.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/04/the_other_bay_of_pigs_story.html

April 17, 2016
The other Bay of Pigs story
By Silvio Canto, Jr.

Book By Ex-CIA Director Reveals White House Policy on Guantanamo Is Misguided

[From article]
Michael Hayden's recent book, Playing To The Edge, describes the strategies of America's spy agencies and explains why certain programs needed to be implemented.
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One of the most powerful parts of the book is when Hayden reminds Americans that those working for him are human beings who have dealt with great burdens, many times feeling unappreciated by the public, media, Congress, and the current administration. Hayden explained to American Thinker that many of those deployed in the military have some kind of support, but that emotional support was nearly non-existent at the CIA. Because of this, his wife Jeanine tirelessly worked with the families, instrumental in setting up a class that explained to spouses how to live with and manage "cover." Even more important, at case officers' graduations, their parents were not present, so she filled in with that responsibility, becoming a surrogate.
Support was not forthcoming for those in the intelligence community. The book discusses how the Obama administration, which includes but is not limited to people such as John Brennan, attempted to change the legal and political landscape.
[. . .]
But more importantly, what Hayden wants to focus upon is that America should be "capturing terrorists and detaining them for interrogation. How we get to that point is to elect another president.
[. . .]
Where does Guantanamo Bay fall in this equation? Hayden believes that "it is a geographic location. I think we should have the right to detain people under the laws of armed conflict without the requirement of a criminal trial. I am indifferent where we do that, but there will almost certainly be legal issues if terrorists are brought to the U.S. Once that happens, the 'Guantanamo Bar lawyers' will begin filing all sorts of suits that they cannot file now because prisoners are not on U.S. soil. We would be inviting decades of litigation."
Congress and this administration have shown a betrayal of trust where the CIA is concerned, yet they have done nothing regarding Hillary Clinton's emails. Hayden noted, "I have not seen the emails. But once you set up a private server, it can't go to a happy place, because it is unprotected. As a former director of the NSA, if a potential adversary of the U.S. had done this, I would have moved Heaven and Earth to see the information. It was imprudent, and I cannot understand why the folks at the State Department did not say to her she could not do it. The explanation she gives is incoherent for anyone who was in government."
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The book explains the Hayden Doctrine. [. . .] Because too much information is classified, this breeds carelessness in protecting what is really secret. But we have to be open internally as well.
Since members of Congress appear to have the attitude that "if I hear nothing, I can say I know nothing," are they and this administration a bunch of hypocrites?
[. . .]
The administration's release of the interrogation memos was a betrayal of trust and fundamental dishonesty. This was pushing good people, doing what they did out of duty rather than enthusiasm, into the bus lane. People will close up when they think no one is covering their back. The president pushed those memos out to protect himself politically since he accepted so many of the Bush administration policies. I write in the book about a scene where the president got prickly with a case officer because she wanted to go back and tell people that the CIA interrogations saved lives. Regarding Congress, I wanted them to be a part of the consensus. That required a serious discussion with them. That discussion never happened. The members were too busy yelling at us."
Anyone who reads Playing to the Edge will get an understanding of the intelligence community and the work they have accomplished. Michael Hayden has spent the majority of his career in intelligence. Americans should thank him for his service and consider him a true American hero who stepped up to the plate to defend the homeland.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/03/former_cia_director_obama_threw_us_under_the_bus.html

March 3, 2016
Former CIA Director: Obama Threw Us under the Bus
By Elise Cooper

Employees Sue Married Energy Executive, Say He Used CIA Fantasies To Get Sex

Adam Victor and Eve Khatskevich.
Photo: Ashleih Walsh

[From article]
A Manhattan energy magnate claimed to be a CIA and FBI asset, code-named Rambo, in a twisted scheme to pressure his pretty Kazakh employees into being his sexual playthings, according to their lawsuits.
Married TransGas Energy founder Adam Victor, 62, hired 30-something Kazak natives Eve Khatskevich and Nazym Toktassynova in 2013 as administrative assistants.
Victor brought Khatskevich to parties with North Korean diplomats and told her “that he was planning a mission to North Korea under the guise of developing either a cogeneration or coal-to-gas facility,” the suit says.

http://nypost.com/2015/10/31/energy-titan-posed-as-cia-spy-to-pressure-women-into-sex-suit/

Energy titan posed as CIA spy to pressure women into sex: suit
By Julia Marsh and Josh Saul
New York Post
October 31, 2015 | 1:21am

PBS Feature on CIA Torture

What is humorous is two politicians suggesting that the CIA report is false and misleading. Isn't that what politicians do all the time? But also what film is accurate as history? And more, what history is accurate? Politicians write propaganda books as well and promote propaganda films. 



[From article]
Years later, the film is still controversial — especially given the 6,000-page senate report detailing the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation techniques” during the War on Terror that took place during the Bush administration from 2001 to 2006. That report, which revealed many disturbing facts about the extensive use of torture on CIA detainees, also indicates that none of the information received through torture led the CIA to the capture of Osama bin Laden.
Last night, six months after the Senate committee released a truncated, 525-page excerpt of the complete report (much of which remains classified), PBS’Frontline devoted an hour to how the CIA managed to legally clear the EIT program, how many of its architects still defend the torture practices, and how the organization influenced the depiction of its practices in Zero Dark Thirty.
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Zero Dark Thirty, on the other hand, was billed as non-fiction — an act of cinematic journalism. It’s a film that the Frontline report argues is representative of the CIA’s version of events, especially considering that the source material was a collection of CIA-provided documents. Senator Feinstein admits in the Frontline report that she walked out of the film after twenty minutes, calling it “so false.” Former senator Udall openly calls it propaganda, especially since he and other senators had access to CIA documents that provided alternate realities.
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Michael Isikoff, co-author of Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War, criticizes Bigelow’s film in the Frontline report, saying, “Movies like Zero Dark Thirty have a huge impact. More people see them and more people get their impressions about what happened from a movie like that than they do from countless news stories or TV spots.” And that’s entirely true, and the crux of the debate surrounding the film. Its filmmakers may argue that Zero Dark Thirty is a piece of journalism, but that’s dubious considering their limited sources (and the basic fact that people do not go to a multiplex for solid journalism). It’s a piece of art, and art is subjective; Zero Dark Thirty, then, is as morally ambiguous as the torture it displays on screen.
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The subject of this debate is not whether torture is bad, but rather if the torture committed by CIA operatives was worth the immorality that comes along with it. History proves it wasn’t justified, and Zero Dark Thirty gives the impression that it was. If Zero Dark Thirty, then, offers the CIA’s version of the facts to a large audience, the accounts of recent history are uncomfortably misleading — which only proves worrisome for future generations who deserve an unmuddled understanding of the truth.

http://decider.com/2015/05/20/frontlines-episode-on-torture-makes-a-case-that-zero-dark-thirty-was-government-propaganda/?_ga=1.1142456.866968644.1432153635

‘FRONTLINE’S’ EPISODE ON TORTURE MAKES A CASE THAT ‘ZERO DARK THIRTY’ WAS GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA
By Tyler Coates
May 20, 2015 11:45 AM

Black Woman, Former FBI Agent Sent For Psychological Evaluation After Threats

Tunisia Davis

[From article]
Tunisia Davis — an Alexandria woman who was a FBI agent from 2004 to 2010, according to court records and friends — is accused of traveling from the National Security Agency to the Central Intelligence Agency last week and threatening to kill federal police.
[. . .]
The judge says Davis was acting inappropriately and was uncooperative. The judge added that force would have been needed to get her from U.S. Marshall’s custody in Alexandria into the court room.
After some arguments from attorneys, the judge ordered Davis undergo a psychological evaluation, which will likely happen in the next day or two, NBC Washington reports. She is being charged with assaulting a police officer.
Davis is accused of driving to the Northern Virginia campus of the CIA on April 30 and driving past an officer. Another officer had to stand in her path to stop her. While she was being handcuffed by officers, she reached out with a free arm for the officer’s gun but was thwarted, according to court documents, which were obtained and reported by NBC Washington on Monday.
Davis allegedly told the officers that if she had gotten the gun, she would have killed everyone in sight and bombed the CIA. She has denied reaching for the gun.
[. . .]
The judge says Davis was acting inappropriately and was uncooperative. The judge added that force would have been needed to get her from U.S. Marshall’s custody in Alexandria into the court room.
After some arguments from attorneys, the judge ordered Davis undergo a psychological evaluation, which will likely happen in the next day or two, NBC Washington reports. She is being charged with assaulting a police officer.
Davis is accused of driving to the Northern Virginia campus of the CIA on April 30 and driving past an officer. Another officer had to stand in her path to stop her. While she was being handcuffed by officers, she reached out with a free arm for the officer’s gun but was thwarted, according to court documents, which were obtained and reported by NBC Washington on Monday.
Davis allegedly told the officers that if she had gotten the gun, she would have killed everyone in sight and bombed the CIA. She has denied reaching for the gun.

http://wtop.com/local/2015/05/former-fbi-agent-accused-of-issuing-violent-threats-at-cia/

Former FBI agent accused of ‘violent threats’ at CIA to get psychological exam

By WTOP Staff

May 5, 2015 3:50 pm

Ex-CIA Officer Guilty of Leaking Classified Information To Journalist

New York Times reporter James Risen (center) leaves federal court in Alexandria, Va., on Jan. 5, 2015.

Photo: AP
[From article]
A former CIA officer was convicted Monday of leaking classified details of an operation to thwart Iran’s nuclear ambitions to a New York Times reporter.
Jurors convicted 47-year-old Jeffrey Sterling, of O’Fallon, Missouri, of all nine counts he faced in federal court. On the third day of deliberations, the jurors had told the judge that they could not reach a unanimous verdict. But they delivered guilty verdicts later in the afternoon after the judge urged them to keep talking.
At issue in the two-week trial: Who told journalist James Risen about the secret mission, one that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice testified was one of the government’s most closely held secrets as well as one of its best chances to thwart Iran’s nuclear-weapons ambitions?

http://nypost.com/2015/01/26/ex-cia-agent-guilty-of-leaking-state-secrets-to-journalist/

Ex-CIA agent guilty of leaking state secrets to journalist
By Associated Press
New York Post
January 26, 2015 | 4:08pm

Transforming The CIA

The White House did not say when the CIA will begin taking orders from the KGB. 

[From article]

As a practice, the CIA doesn’t identify the head of the clandestine service by name. But Frank Archibald was outed in a Twitter post in 2013, and details of his biography were known to some journalists. Archibald, who was 57 when he took the job that year, reportedly served tours in Pakistan and Africa and also headed the CIA’s Latin America division. The Associated Press reported that Archibald "once ran the covert action that helped remove Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic from power."
Archibald’s retirement comes at a transitional moment for the CIA. The agency’s director, John Brennan, is considering major changes to the agency’s structure, including the possible creation of new intelligence centers and doing away with the traditional division of CIA into its analysis group and the clandestine service.

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The CIA has also seen some shakeups in the senior ranks of late. Earlier this month, President Obama tapped David Cohen to be the CIA’s new deputy director. Cohen, a senior Treasury Department official, has been the chief architect of the administration’s sanctions regime against Iran.
Also this month, Lt. Gen. John F. Mulholland Jr., who previously was deputy commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, became the CIA’s new associate director for military affairs. In recent years, the CIA and special operators have worked more closely together than ever, most famously in the successful raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan 2011.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/23/exclusive-cia-s-top-spy-steps-down.html

01.23.15
Exclusive: CIA’s Top Spy Steps Down

Shane Harris

German Intelligence Compromised by CIA Double Agent

A double agent working for the US may have put the security of thousands of German spies at risk Photo: ALAMY

[From article]
Thousands of German spies posted around the world could be at risk after it emerged that a double agent unmasked last summer stole a list of their real identities and may have sold it.
The double agent, who has been identified only as Markus R under strict German privacy laws, obtained a top secret list of the real names, aliases and locations of 3,500 German intelligence officers posted abroad, according to a report in Bild newspaper.
But German intelligence sources sought to downplay the incident, briefing that the list in question was out of date and contained far fewer than 3,500 names, the DPA news agency reported.
The arrest of Markus R last summer caused a major diplomatic rift between Germany and the US, after it emerged he had acted as a double agent for the CIA.
[. . .]
Markus R has reportedly confessed to passing the CIA more than 200 secret documents over a period of two years, in return for payments of €25,000 (£16,500).
[. . .]
He was discovered after an email he sent the Russian Embassy in Berlin offering to sell secrets in exchange for cash was intercepted, and German investigators were stunned when he confessed he had been spying for the Americans.
They had even asked the CIA for help unmasking their own mole, convinced the man they were hunting was a Russian double agent, and had been surprised when there was no reply from the Americans.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/11345324/Thousands-of-German-spies-at-risk-after-double-agent-stole-list-of-identities.html

Thousands of German spies at risk after double-agent stole list of identities
Double agent working for US, identified only as Markus R, may have sold top-secret details of 3,500 German intelligence officers posted abroad, according to Bild newspaper
By Justin Huggler, Berlin
2:21PM GMT 14 Jan 2015

Alleged Torture of Enemy Combatants, Only Part of The Larger Problem

This is a greater problem than a few years of abusing suspects by the CIA. Neither the FBI or the CIA are mentioned in the Constitution. They are creatures of statute. Yet they ignore the constitution regularly as if it were an entitlement. It demonstrates that the FBI and the CIA anticipated the Obama-Holder Doctrine where inconvenient laws may be ignored. Elected officials, few of who have spines, seldom if ever scrutinize these agencies with enormous unchecked power. They kill law abiding civilians using employees (informants). They destroy evidence of their malfeasance. There is no accountability for destroying lives of individual civilians. And if by chance an injured civilian goes to court and obtains a damage award, it is the taxpayer who pays for the criminal conduct of the out of control government agent.

[From article]
President George W. Bush was never briefed by the Central Intelligence Agency on the details of harsh interrogation techniques and secret detention of terror suspects for the first four years of its controversial program, and when he did find out the details, he was “uncomfortable” with some of the practices, according to a long-awaited report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
The 500-page declassified executive summary of the majority staff’s 6,700-page investigation into CIA rendition, detention and interrogation practices after Sept. 11 states that despite agency efforts to keep the Bush administration informed about the program, top White House officials repeatedly resisted having the CIA brief cabinet-level figures about the details, and CIA officials were not permitted to brief Bush directly until mid-2006, more than four years after the president signed a broad executive order authorizing the program, according to Senate Democratic aides who briefed reporters ahead of today’s release.
[. . .]
Based on CIA’s internal correspondence, the committee’s investigation will also state that CIA Directors George Tenet and Porter Goss admitted they had never briefed Bush directly on the techniques, despite that in 2004, the CIA Inspector General recommended they do so:

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-12-09/cia-torture-report-bush-was-kept-in-the-dark

CIA Torture Report: Bush Was Kept in the Dark for Years
DEC 9, 2014 11:13 AM EST
By Josh Rogin & Eli Lake

CIA Plan To Erase Emails

[From article]
A CIA plan to erase tens of thousands of its internal emails — including those sent by virtually all covert and counterterrorism officers after they leave the agency — is drawing fire from Senate Intelligence Committee members concerned that it would wipe out key records of some of the agency's most controversial operations.
The agency proposal, which has been tentatively approved by the National Archives, "could allow for the destruction of crucial documentary evidence regarding the CIA's activities," Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein and ranking minority member Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga.,
[. . .]
And its proposal to destroy internal emails comes amid mounting tensions between the CIA and its Senate oversight panel, stoked by continued bickering over an upcoming committee report — relying heavily on years-old internal CIA emails — that is sharply critical of the agency's use of waterboarding and other aggressive interrogation techniques against al-Qaida suspects in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks.

http://news.yahoo.com/the-cia-wants-to-destroy-thousand-of-internal-emails-covering-spy-operations-and-other-activities-144303528.html

The CIA wants to destroy thousands of internal emails covering spy operations and other activities
Proposal draws bipartisan fire from Congress, but agency officials say the criticism is overblown
By Michael Isikoff
November 20, 2014
Yahoo News

Destroying The Nation From Within

[From article]
The Islamic enemy is completely unified in their stated objectives, yet the entire U.S. Government leadership from the President, to his National Security Advisor, to the heads of the CIA, FBI, DHS, and Military, and the Cabinet Secretaries all march in unison stating none of this has to do with Islam. From this grotesque lack of intellectual and factual honesty come strategic blunders that leave a person speechless.
The President states ISIS is “not Islamic” yet continues to support the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas, Al Qaeda forces and others in places like Syria and Libya. Secretary of State Kerry stated before Congress recently that “(ISIS is) the enemy of Islam. That’s what they are. There’s nothing in Islam that condones or suggests people should go out and rape women and sell off young girls or give them as gifts to jihadists and, you know, cut people’s heads off.” Apparently, neither has read Islamic Law which explicitly calls for these things. As a matter of fact, beheadings and crucifixion are part of the Hadud Laws which are specifically articulated in the Quran.
The President and his Chief of Staff (former Deputy National Security Advisor), FBI Director, Director of Central Intelligence, Secretary of Homeland Security, and others continue to look to Muslim Brotherhood leaders in America to give them their info on Islam and Sharia, as well as allowing these jihadis to write doctrine for domestic counterterrorism strategy and foreign policy – which is why our leaders are clueless. This cluelessness allows our enemies to extract the very outcome they are gunning for – complete strategic incoherence. When the FBI fails in these duties, state and local law enforcement officials are left out to dry.

http://blog.understandingthethreat.com/2014/10/15/total-strategic-incoherence/

Total Strategic Incoherence
By JG
October 15, 2014

CIA Remains Unaccountable

[From article]
Americans are waiting for the public release of an extensive, carefully validated four-year report from the Senate Intelligence Committee on the history of CIA torture and its other crimes against our rule of law and the international rule of law.
But I was not surprised to see that the release of this report had been delayed indefinitely.
[. . .]
"Senate Democrats engaged in a tug-of-war with the White House over heavy redactions to its long-delayed torture report remain furious that President Obama allowed the CIA to censor the document"
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"We tortured some folks," the president said in an Aug. 1 White House press conference.
[. . .]
"Obscured" is a euphemism for censored.
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"CIA went beyond legal memo. In 2002, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel drafted a report authorizing CIA torture, saying that the use of waterboarding, sleep deprivation and stress positions were perfectly legal. It was written by Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo" (who is still a University of California law school professor and frequent writer-lecturer)
[. . .]
"'It literally demolishes any rationale that Obama and (Attorney General Eric) Holder had for not investigating, for not bringing criminal charges, or even launching a criminal inquiry against people who were responsible for implementing this,'
[. . .]
How about bringing an impeachment inquiry of commander in chief Barack Obama? He was -- and is -- deeply involved in hiding these crimes against our rule of law and our disintegrating Constitution.

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff081314.php3

Where in constitution is CIA absolved of its multitude of crimes?

By Nat Hentoff
Published August 13, 2014

New Book: CIA Tried To Kill Nixon Twice; George Will: Watergate Began Long Before Nixon Was Elected

Richard Nixon, Anna Chennault, Henry Kissinger

[From article]
June 17, 1971, was four days after The New York Times began publishing the leaked “Pentagon Papers,” the classified Defense Department history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Nixon worried that further leaks, including documents supposedly in a Brookings safe, would reveal his role in sabotaging negotiations that might have shortened the war. This fear caused Nixon to create the Special Investigations Unit — aka “the plumbers” — and to direct an aide to devise other proposals such as the one concerning Brookings. This aide suggested using the IRS against political adversaries, but added:
“The truth is we don’t have any reliable political friends at IRS. ... We won’t be ... in a position of effective leverage until such time as we have complete and total control of the top three slots at IRS.” Forty years later, the IRS has punished conservative groups, and evidence that might prove its criminality has been destroyed. Happy anniversary.

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/opinion/op_ed/2014/08/will_illegal_diplomacy_seen_as_spark_for_watergate

Will: Illegal diplomacy seen as spark for Watergate
Thursday, August 7, 2014
By: George F. Will
Boston Herald

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Richard Nixon

[From article]
The CIA plotted twice to assassinate President Richard Nixon during the years before the Watergate scandal because the agency was angered when 'Tricky Dick' turned dovish and began to withdraw troops from Vietnam, according to an explosive book from a longtime Nixon confidant due for release on Monday.
One hit was planned to occur at Nixon's Key Biscayne, Florida vacation house. A second plot to kill him was to culminate during a Miami speech in 1972.
When both plots failed, writes best-selling author Roger Stone in 'Nixon's Secrets: The Rise, Fall and Untold Truth about the President, Watergate, and the Pardon,' the CIA settled for driving Nixon out of office by sabotaging the Watergate break-in.
[. . .]



Their bumbling, which Stone claims as intentional, turned a professional surveillance operation of the Democratic National Committee headquarters into what history would regard as a 'third-rate burglary.'
'When they tried twice to get him killed, that doesn't work,' Stone told MailOnline.
'Then they infiltrate the Watergate break-in, and they sabotage it.'
Liebengood, the Watergate committee lawyer who first told Stone about the assassination plots, had been a longtime aide to Sen. Howard Baker, a moderate Republican who assembled his own dossier on CIA involvement in the Watergate affair.
Baker tried in vain for months to use that information to spark new committee investigations – which Democrats blocked at every turn.
'Baker’s incredible report was in the back of a 600-page book gathering dust at the Library of Congress, missed by the media and largely unknown until today,' Stone claims in his book.
When the senator later looked into the relationship between the president and his CIA director, Richard Helms, he summed it up by remarking that 'Nixon and Helms have so much on each other, neither of them can breathe.'
'Nixon also aggravated the CIA,' Stone told MailOnline, by demanding their records of of the JFK assassination, which he wanted as leverage over the agency.'
The president 'was furious when CIA Director Richard Helms refused to hand over the files,' Stone said.
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Yeoman Charles E. Radford

In 1969, he writes in his book, top military brass were even running a spy ring inside the White House because they were 'desperate to know what Nixon and [his national security chief Henry] Kissinger were up to.
'In December 1971, Charles E. Radford, a twenty-seven-year-old navy stenographer assigned to the National Security Council, working closely with both Kissinger
and [his deputy Al] Haig, confessed to sifting through burn bags of top-secret White House documents and delivering these documents to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Thomas H. Moorer,' Stone writes.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2719226/CIA-hatched-two-plots-assassinate-Nixon-sabotaged-Watergate-break-didnt-want-Vietnam-war-end-says-explosive-new-book.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

The CIA hatched two plots to assassinate Nixon and sabotaged the Watergate break-in because they didn't want the Vietnam war to end, claims explosive new book
CIA and military Joint Chiefs infiltrated the White House and spied on Nixon, the late former president's longtime confidant Roger Stone writes
The agencies wanted room to run in Vietnam but Nixon turned dovish and began a troop withdrawal after his stunning White House victory in 1968
Two separate plans were drawn up to kill him
One, quickly dismissed, was a plot to fire a missile at Nixon's vacation compound in Key Biscayne, Florida
The other involved a staged gunfight at an anti-Vietnam War convention where Nixon was to speak, with an assassin shooting him in the chaos
The CIA obtained a gun and hired an assassin, but he refused to proceed when he found out who his target was
By DAVID MARTOKSO, U.S POLITICAL EDITOR, MAILONLINE
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 15:25 EST, 7 August 2014 | UPDATED: 17:03 EST, 7 August 2014

Is CIA Interfering With Whistleblowers, Thwarting Congressional Investigations?

[From article]
The CIA got hold of the legally protected email and other unspecified communications between whistleblower officials and lawmakers this spring, people familiar with the matter told McClatchy. It’s unclear how the agency obtained the material.
At the time, the CIA was embroiled in a furious behind-the-scenes battle with the Senate Intelligence Committee over the panel’s investigation of the agency’s interrogation program, including accusations that the CIA illegally monitored computers used in the five-year probe. The CIA has denied the charges.
The email controversy points to holes in the intelligence community’s whistleblower protection systems and raises fresh questions about the extent to which intelligence agencies can elude congressional oversight.

http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/07/25/4040370/after-cia-gets-secret-whistleblower.html?sp=/99/217/&ihp=1

After CIA gets secret whistleblower email, Congress worries about more spying
BY MARISA TAYLOR AND JONATHAN S. LANDAY
McClatchy Washington Bureau

July 25, 2014

Man Betrayed by His CIA Handlers, Book Review

With totally different details, the pattern of betrayal by government agencies sounds a lot like what the FBI did to me. After government psychiatrists drugged me for more than two months, they scared me and the FBI used me to fight organized crime for 15 years and did not pay me. Then they abandoned me and coordinated a 25 year campaign by the same crime families allowing them to retaliate. This is an ongoing activity led by a graduate student lesbian in psychology at Harvard University Medical School and the Harvard University building superintendent. They are under the protection of the Harvard University campus police who operate in Cambridge with no oversight. Two crime families take turns as current primary harassers: the California Syndicate and the Midwestern Outfit. State law enforcement authorities stand by and watch. The human services industry gets $2 billion in Massachusetts taxpayer funds. Their missions include but are not limited to protecting vulnerable persons. Nonetheless these professional caregivers are often partners with crime families and their associates in government to conduct criminal abuses each day. That includes but is not limited to disturbing my sleep every one or two hours, causing my computer to crash 30 to 40 times per hour, ridicule, humiliation, insults, threats, provocations, and relentless character assassination.   

[From article]
I could tell my wife, Fadia, nothing and had to deceive her constantly. She was left believing I was still the fanatical jihadist I had been when we met and married. It was a necessary deceit — to protect us both.
If she knew about my real work and let it slip, her life could be in danger, as could her family back in Yemen.
The same went for my children, Osama and Sarah. I longed to tell them that my Islamic robes, my beard, my prayers were all a sham, and I was secretly working for the good guys against terrorists. But I never could. Such knowledge would only have put them in danger.
[. . .]
it was a business in which increasingly I learned never to totally trust my handlers.
[. . .]
For my handlers, the first, ruthless rule was that ends always justify means.
[. . .]
the Americans denied my part in finding him, claiming that another source had been the crucial one. I didn’t believe them. A senior Western intelligence official had briefed the media that a messenger boy had led them to Awlaki.
[. . .]
Yet they refused to give me the credit or the $5 million they had promised me for this operation. As one of my British intelligence contacts had warned me might happen,
[. . .]
I brooded incessantly over the behaviour of the Americans, who were now writing me off as damaged goods and a loose cannon.
[. . .]
They’ll kill you, too, and tell the world you were a terrorist like the others,’ I was told. It seems I had become expendable and could well be heading into a trap.
[. . .]
This edited extract is from Agent Storm by Morten Storm with Paul Cruickshank and Tim Lister, published by Viking on July 3 at £16.99. © Morten Storm, Paul Cruickshank and Tim Lister.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2666543/My-CIA-handlers-cheated-5million-set-trap-murder-He-spy-whod-risked-bring-terrorists-His-reward-target-himself.html

My CIA handlers cheated me out of $5million... then set a trap to murder me: He was the spy who'd risked everything to bring down top terrorists. His reward? to become a target himself
By MORTEN STORM
Daily Mail (UK)

PUBLISHED: 19:50 EST, 23 June 2014 | UPDATED: 02:46 EST, 24 June 2014

EPA Employee Used Fake CIA Employment To Avoid Work While Getting Paid

[From article]
“With the help of his therapist,” wrote attorney John Kern, “Mr. Beale has come to recognize that, beyond the motive of greed, his theft and deception were animated by a highly self-destructive and dysfunctional need to engage in excessively reckless, risky behavior.” Kern also said Beale was driven “to manipulate those around him through the fabrication of grandiose narratives … that are fueled by his insecurities.”

Here another example of using psychiatry to avoid accountability. At then same time government uses allegations of mental illness to deprive citizens of Second Amendment rights. If anyone with a nexus to psychiatry is arrested, police and prosecutors use the phrase, "a history of mental illness" to describe their suspects. Isn't psychiatry grand? It is the social sciences equivalent of baking soda. It is used for cleaning, for baking, for brushing teeth and to remove rust. The all purpose personal opinion discipline masquerading as science.

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/16/21911592-climate-change-experts-fraud-was-crime-of-massive-proportion-say-feds?lite

Climate change expert's fraud was 'crime of massive proportion,' say feds
By Michael Isikoff
NBC News National Investigative Correspondent

EPA Official Collected Two Salaries

[From article]
The Environmental Protection Agency was warned as early as July 2010 that a senior executive who claimed to be a CIA agent was collecting pay and bonuses not allowed by law but took no action for years, according to a new report from the agency’s inspector general.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/epa-warned-of-ex-officials-illegal-salary-bonuses-in-2010-watchdog-report-says/2013/12/10/8027e570-61f2-11e3-bf45-61f69f54fc5f_story.html?hpid=z4

EPA warned of ex-official’s illegal salary, bonuses in 2010, watchdog report says
By Lenny Bernstein
Published: December 10, 2013

Washington Post

Delusions Are Dependent on Who Is Delusional

[From article]
When Aaron Alexis called the Rhode Island police a month ago to tell them that enemies were harassing him with a microwave machine, it was clear that he was suffering paranoid delusions and needed help. But the authorities let him go his merry way, evidently to sink deeper into the madness he mistook for reality.
Liberals blame shooting deaths on guns. Conservatives including the NRA blame shooting deaths on mental illness. Both are nonsensical. In addition Lowry accepts the FBI denial that microwave, electromagnetic radiation weapons exist. If that is so the North Koreans have exceeded the development of the United States in new technology. Perhaps the North Koreans were attacking Alexis. It certainly was not the CIA who huffed and puffed, tried and tried for 60 years spending millions if not billions on developing electromagnetic radiation weapons, but failed to do so.  

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0913/lowry092613.php3#.UlEERN00i6Y

Jewish World Review
Sept. 26, 2013/ 22 Tishrei, 5774
The impossibility of gun control
By Rich Lowry

VA Man Posing As CIA Agent Married To Two Women

http://wtop.com/120/3423484/Authorities-Va-man-married-2-women-posed-as-CIA-agent

Authorities: Va. man married 2 women, posed as CIA agent
Friday - 8/16/2013, 1:26pm ET