"Former officials say morale has declined at CIA; Interrogation by Justice is causing stress" by Walter Pincus, Washington Post | August 31, 2009
Awwww, the POOR TORTURING WAR CRIMINALS! Awwwwww!!!!!!
Un-frikkin'-believable!!!!!!!!!!
WASHINGTON - Morale has sagged at the CIA after the release of additional portions of an inspector general’s review of the agency’s interrogation program and the announcement that the Justice Department would investigate possible abuses by interrogators, according to former intelligence officials, especially those associated with the program.
A. B. “Buzzy’’ Krongard, the third-ranking CIA official at the time of the use of harsh interrogation practices, said that although vigorous oversight is crucial, the public airing of once-classified internal assessments and the prospect of further investigation are damaging the agency. “Morale at the agency is down to minus 50,’’ he said....
Why does the name Buzzy Krongard ring a bell, readers?
He's a MSM source, huh?
Pffft!
Time to SHATTER that MURDEROUS AGENCY into a THOUSAND PIECES as someone's brother once said!!!!!!
Former inspector general John Helgerson.... said it would be “very difficult’’ to mount a successful prosecution of any of the individuals who participated in the program.
But we can try innocent patsies based on tortured confessi... actually, we don't even do that, do we? We let them rot in a hole.
The Bush-era Justice Department “approved the program orally and in writing; the agency’s chain of command was involved. There would be no jury appeal, and I do not believe there was any criminal intent among those involved,’’ Helgerson said....
Krongard, one of the few active or retired CIA officers with direct knowledge of the program willing to voice publicly what many officers are saying privately, said agency personnel may back away from controversial programs that could place them in personal legal jeopardy should their work be exposed....
Meaning NO TORTURE? GOOD!!!!!
One senior official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to discuss publicly the views of agency leaders. “The agency’s still doing cutting-edge stuff in all kinds of dangerous places,’’ he said....
Yes, the TORTURE CONTINUES in ways we DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT!
Related: Obama to Refine Bush-Era Torture Techniques
Another former top official said senior managers detect a double standard. He pointed out that Attorney General Eric Holder supported Obama’s decision not to release photos of military abuses of detainees in Afghanistan and Iraq because they would harm military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan....
Oh, I WANT THOSE RELEASED, too -- as do the REST of the AMERICAN PEOPLE!
We MAY NOT WANT TO KNOW but WE DO WANT TO KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!
We WANT the TRUTH, dammit!!!!
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Somehow, the GLOBE MISSED THIS:
"Blackwater tapped foreigners on secret CIA program
Related: Boston Sunday Globe Censorship: Covering Up Cheney's Crimes
The Boston Globe's Invisible Ink: Blackening Out Blackwater Assassins
I guess that's why the Globe 'missed it," huh?
WASHINGTON — When the CIA revived a plan to kill or capture terrorists in 2004, the agency turned to the well-connected security company then known as Blackwater USA.
Revived the plan? I heard it never really got off the ground!!!!
Oh what a deadly web we weave when we practice to deceive, 'eh, MSM?
With Blackwater's lucrative government security work and contacts arrayed in hot spots around the world, company officials offered the services of foreigners supposedly skilled at tracking terrorists in lawless regions and countries where the CIA had no working relationships with the government.
So did these GOVERNMENTS KNOW?
Blackwater told the CIA that it "could put people on the ground to provide the surveillance and support — all of the things you need to conduct an operation," a former senior CIA official familiar with the secret program told The Associated Press.
But the CIA's use of the private contractor as part of its now-abandoned plan to dispatch death squads skirted concerns now re-emerging with recent disclosures about Blackwater's role....
Do YOU BELIEVE they ABANDONED THEM? I DON'T!!!!!
Believe it because the AmeriKan MSM says it?
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!!!!!
All the more reason NOT TO BELIEVE IT!!!!
Charles Faddis, a former department chief at the CIA's Counterterrorism Center who retired in 2008 and was not involved in the secret program. "I remain mystified. This is quintessential CIA work. You wonder what it means that the CIA has to rely on Blackwater? Why are we still funding the CIA?"
So DEATH SQUADS and ASSASSINATIONS are CIA work, huh?
DESPITE the U.S. LAW FORBIDDING SUCH?
The former senior CIA official who had knowledge of the program explained that "you wouldn't want to have American fingerprints on it."
And the AmeriKan MSM would WIPE THEM CLEAN and COVER IT UP if you did!!!!
The former official and several other current and former officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because the information remains classified.....
The former senior CIA official said that close to a dozen Blackwater "surrogates" were recruited to join the death squad program.... The program reportedly cost millions of dollars over an eight-year span....
So then WHEN was it "deactivated," huh? NEVER!
Starts to make you wonder about these: Pakistan's SWAT Patrol
Blackwater's operatives had demonstrated the ability to conduct clandestine surveillance and maintain fictitious identities with credible-appearing faked documents.
EXCUSE ME? EXCUSE ME?!!
I see why the GLOBE IGNORED THIS ITEM like they IGNORE SO MUCH!!!
Their need to provide rock-solid cover stories was essential....
The trainees never got a chance to prove themselves. They were never provided a target and no operation was ever approved.....
BULLSHIT!
BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT!!!!!!
And the FUCKING LIES NEVER STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CIA spokesman George Little said the program yielded no successes....
Then IT IS TIME TO SHUT DOWN THE CIA because IT IS NOTHING but a WASTE OF MONEY!!! They CREATE TERRORISM! They ARE TERRORISTS!!!!!!
Another former senior intelligence official said the use of Blackwater was not the only plan considered to kill or capture terrorists. Blackwater long has had a close and intertwined relationship with the CIA. Several senior agency leaders have taken up positions with the company. Among them were J. Cofer Black, once the head of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, who would have had operational involvement with the secret plan in the early 2000s. Others included Robert Richer, a former deputy director for operations, and Alvin B. Krongard, a former CIA executive director.
AGAIN!
Another Blackwater hire was Enrique "Ric" Prado, a former operations chief at the Counterterrorism Center. Prado ran the death squad program when it was started up under Tenet, three former intelligence officials said.
And then he just HAPPENED to go to Blackwater!
According to one former official, Jose A. Rodriquez Jr., who ran the CIA's clandestine service and was instrumental in reviving the program, reached out to Prado, then working at Blackwater. The two men had previously worked together in Latin America and then at the Counterterrorism Center, the former officials said.
After joining Blackwater, according to The New York Times, Prado was involved in the 2004 negotiations between Blackwater officials and the CIA over its involvement in the death squad operation. According to the Times report, Prado, who at one point was Blackwater's vice president of special programs, worked with Erik Prince, Blackwater's founder, to sign agreements with the CIA to participate in the program.
Prado did not return messages left at his home or with his business partner, Joseph E. Fluet. The pair recently formed The Constellation Consulting Group, an international intelligence and security firm based in northern Virginia....
Yup, they's ALL MAKING $$$$$!!!
