CBC- The CIA shows its fangs at home

[Ichingcarpenter]

The Central Intelligence Agency is a fearsome shield.

It has kidnapped, tortured, hatched assassinations, stolen, eavesdropped, carried out experiments on human beings, even brought down governments, all in the name of protecting America.

Its powers are amplified by its professional expertise at stealth, misdirection, and coverups. Proof is often legally unobtainable.

So, it operates under two absolute prohibitions.

Just as the Roman army was forbidden to enter Rome, the CIA must restrict itself to foreign operations. And it must submit to Washington’s civilian authority and oversight. It is required to use its fangs abroad, and show its throat here at home.

The logic is obvious: to allow covert employees of America’s deep state to turn inward would risk transforming this country into something more like the nations where the words “secret police” inspire fear.

Slipping its legal leashes

In recent years, though, it appears the agency has chosen to slip both of its legal leashes.............more


http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/the-cia-shows-its-fangs-at-home-neil-macdonald-1.2570398

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Color me paranoid, but

I don't think any of this stuff is a recent development. I think they've been doing it since about 1948.

[deutsey]

3. I think so , too, with the curtain being lifted momentarily

in the '70s with the Church Committee.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. This summary is stark:

The CIA proceeded to obstruct, stall, and generally stonewall, then turned around and tried to drown Feinstein’s staff with millions of unindexed documents — “a true document dump,” in her words.

When researchers did find interesting documents, the CIA took them back, electronically deleting nearly a thousand from the database provided the committee.

It would be so marvelous if Congress would really follow thru on this. both sides are concerned about the issue, which is good.

[Octafish]

4. Would CIA kill a President to defend America?

Not as an organization, but some rogue plutocrat with plausible deniability just might.

JFK Conference: David Talbot named Allen Dulles as 'the Chairman of the Board of the Assassination'

Thank you for an outstanding read and your usual outstanind post, Ichingcarpenter. Must-reads, both.

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. I think the CBC showed its fangs against the CIA

This guy is like Walter Cronkite in Canada.

I was amazed how he immediately went for the throat on the CIA.

I'm getting sick of these post that obstinate the whole fricking torture issue into a petty squabble between Congress and the White House and call it just

MURKY with blue links.

[Octafish]

6. It's a battle between Secret Government and the People.

From the CBC:

Just as the Roman army was forbidden to enter Rome, the CIA must restrict itself to foreign operations. And it must submit to Washington’s civilian authority and oversight. It is required to use its fangs abroad, and show its throat here at home.

It's like the Internet got infiltrated by the acolytes of Philip Zelikow and Cass Sunstein.

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. Zelikow Appointed to Obama's Intelligence Advisory Board

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
ROB SEAL
September 7, 2011 — President Obama appointed Philip Zelikow, associate dean for graduate academic programs in the University of Virginia's Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, to serve on the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, the White House announced Tuesday.

Zelikow, White Burkett Miller Professor of History, will remain with the University while serving on the board, which serves as an independent source of advice to the president on the intelligence community's effectiveness in meeting the nation's intelligence needs, and on the vigor and insight with which the community plans for the future.


http://news.virginia.edu/node/15988?id=15988

Now the real meat



Cheney and his Bush puppet picked Zelikow to write the 9/11 Commission Report, it was a strong indication that they were turning to the original author of the event – the specialist in the “creation and maintenance of public myths” who had created the official myth of 9/11 by authoring the script of the event.

In late 2000 and early 2001, Zelikow served on President Bush's transition team. After George W. Bush took office, Zelikow was named to a position on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory

Dr. Rice, the national security advisor, "ordered that the document be completely rewritten. She thought the Bush administration needed something bolder, something that would represent a more dramatic break with the ideas of the past. Rice turned the writing over to her old colleague, University of Virginia Professor Philip Zelikow." This document, issued on September 17, 2002, is recognized as a significant document in the Bush administration doctrine of preemptive war


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_D._Zelikow#George_W._Bush_administration

[Octafish]

11. Says a lot. Did you hear the good Doctor Professor Sunstein's latest has been published?

Phil Zelikow is not as famous as the Vulgar Pigboy, yet also has done immeasurable damage to the nation.



He's somehow chums with other, em, leading lights of darkness.

Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas

The nation’s most-cited legal scholar who for decades has been at the forefront of applied behavioral economics, and the bestselling author of Nudge and Simpler, Cass Sunstein is one of the world’s most innovative thinkers in the academy and the world of practical politics. In the years leading up to his confirmation as the administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Sunstein published hundreds of articles on everything from same-sex marriage to cost-benefit analysis. Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas is a collection of his most famous, insightful, relevant, and inflammatory pieces. Within these pages you will learn:

• Why perfectly rational people sometimes believe crazy conspiracy theories
• What wealthy countries should and should not do about climate change
• Why governments should allow same-sex marriage, and what the “right to marry” is all about
• Why animals have rights (and what that means)
• Why we “misfear,” meaning get scared when we should be unconcerned and are unconcerned when we should get scared
• What kinds of losses make us miserable, and what kinds of losses are absolutely fine
• How to find the balance between religious freedom and gender equality
• And much more . . .

Cass Sunstein is a unique, controversial, and exciting voice in the political world. A man who cuts through the fog of left vs. right arguments and offers logical, evidence-based, and often surprising solutions to today’s most challenging questions.

Makes me want to get up and scream, it does.

[laundry_queen]

7. Neil MacDonald is a gem

he never holds back with regards to the US. And he's usually spot on.

[africanadian]

13. Plus, he's the brother of this guy:

I shit you not!

[laundry_queen]

14. Okay that was something I totally didn't know, LOL. Interesting. nt

[Solly Mack]

9. Lack of accountability emboldens people.

Years of no accountability, other than token hand slaps with promises to do better, creates monsters.

This outcome is neither shocking nor surprising.

Sadly, it is such a predictable outcome that one wonders if the repetition of bad acts/hand slaps/move forward/rinse/repeat in a few years isn't by design.

[Jefferson23]

10. K&R..they're more a poison than anything else.

[woo me with science]

12. K&R