CIA ceremony for ex-spymasters sparks puzzlement

[struggle4progress]

14.08.05


WASHINGTON - The CIA will honour nine former spymasters who served in the now-defunct position of director of central intelligence at a closed-door ceremony that has sparked puzzlement and surprise among some ex-spies.

The agency, which has been rocked by sweeping intelligence reform this year, has invited all of its employees to attend the closed presentation that will be hosted on Tuesday by CIA Director Porter Goss.

Nine former directors of central intelligence including former President George Bush are scheduled to attend the private event in the cafeteria of the agency's Langley, Virginia, headquarters. <snip>

Added a former senior CIA clandestine officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity: "What are they thinking? It sounds like the dance of the dodos. The DCI post is extinct."

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[glitch]

1. Dance of the dodos. I like.

Boy could that be applied all over DC these days.

[pfitz59]

2. Circle jerk......

"Mine's bigger!"

[tanyev]

3. Bring your own food taster.

[cyberpj]

4. sounds like getting everyone's stories straight for any trouble to come...

wouldn't doubt it for a minute.

[Trillo]

5. This was my first impression.

Perhaps 'warnings' will be issued to 'tow the line,' whatever the current 'line' is.

[formercia]

25. YUP!

Ok 'boys' here's the score and we all sing off the same sheet of music. Omerta will be enforced.

[Frederik]

27. Bingo

[cyberpj]

29. I get tired of being called a conspiracy nut

by people who still don't believe the Bush family influence could be as far and wide and deadly as it is. The proof is out there - and if you haven't taken the time to read it then don't claim that "it couldn't be" happening that way.

No meeting of this group of people held behind closed doors could be innocent in any way, shape, or form. This is a planning meeting of some sort, no doubt about it.

[MADem]

36. Sure smells like it, but hey, what a handy dandy excuse n/t

[goforit]

37. LOL!!!

[Uncle Joe]

30. Exactly what I was thinking. n/t

[goforit]

31. A little subliminal brainwashing just to keep the Bushbot policy in line

[bearfan454]

32. That is exactly what they are doing.

I can hear it now - Keep your fucking mouths shut or you will commit suicide.

[Roland99]

35. Give that man a ceegar!

[teryang]

6. Massive reorganization of the police and intelligence functions

...of the central government are what one would expect to see in the consolidation of power by a totalitarian party.

911
Anthrax Attacks on Congress and the press
Patriot Act
Ethnic roundups
Afghan war
Guantanamo Gulag
Homeland Security reorganization of numerous federal agencies
renditions
Iraq war
Abu Ghraid
Patriot Act II
CIA purge
Director of National Intelligence
All FBI counterintelligence functions consolidated as the National Securty Service and placed under the DNI

Centralization of the police state is virtually complete.

[radio4progressives]

17. Add ONE more item to this list...implementing the IIPA

and that's the The Intel Identities Protection Act

which is a law that will directly impact the first amendment - and permenently destroying any possibility of ever again having anything resembling a bonafide Free Press, ever again in this country. {i know the editorial boards on the papers of record are already CIA operatives/assets)

The IIPA is a component of Bush Sr's effort to stop people like Phil Agee, Victor Marchetti, John Marks, Ralph McGehee, etc., and reverse the effect that the Church Committee hearings and the exposure of illegal and immoral activities by the CIA had on the ability of the Executive Branch to continue its longstanding tradition of corruption and unfettered wet, black and gray covert operations.

Some say, that is what the Valerie Plame leak is actually about. Some are saying that the Plame leak was a deception, a ruse in order to set the stage to get this law into place in this administration.

In other words, that Joe Wilson's job was to set up a sting op against the Bush Co, so that this would be the ultimate outcome, but it is the goal.

Personally, I think this is a stretch - and i have a hard time buying it. But on the other hand, I have heard Wilson advocate for this, which is telling.

In any event, it appears the fascist police state is firmly in place - our consitution has vaporised, and our real history is now the stuff of legend and lore.

And this is what Bushies and the brain dead freeptoids were hoping for.

god i hate these people.

[wli]

20. it's really getting time to run

Whatever's going on in this country is getting way too hot. The death squads can't be far off.

[Kagemusha]

7. They're saying goodbye to an era. That's what they're thinking.

I think people are surprised that these ex CIA heads are actual human beings.

[MGKrebs]

10. I agree with you.

It may be a milestone type event that is like a formal indication that they will no longer receive certain priveledges, current employees are not to discuss certain material with them, loss of clearance. In other words, go home, shut up, tend your garden.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

11. Yeah, and don't go canoeing without a life jacket

in the middle of the night, or there would have been 10 of them up there.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

8. Getting them all together into one place.

Makes the "accident" changing of the guard easier.

[Lerkfish]

12. reminds me of the untouchables scene...

where deniro takes a baseball bat to the head of all his gathered enemies.

I think it was that movie.

at any rate, I'd be very very wary to attend.

[nosmokes]

9. Ann Coulter jumps out of a cake just before themedals

are awarded...

[havocmom]

13. Night of long knives?

This is a bit disconcerting

[htuttle]

14. Will they all be riding together on a helicopter to get to Langley?

:o

[Solly Mack]

15. Will they give sacrifices to the reanimated corpse of Bill Casey?

[lostnfound]

16. Any connection to the August 17th nuke terror drill?

Crazy thought. Of course not. This is only a test.

[goforit]

33. good question

[Ouabache]

18. Maybe the cover for a Star Chamber

thing ?

[Ouabache]

19. And look what is going down on WEDNESDAY

here >>

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=125&topic_id=51477&mesg_id=52107

Terror exercises at the facility where General Byrnes was relieved from his command.

Just a coincidence?

[Nothing Without Hope]

21. Very scary for a coincidence - good catch! n/t

[goforit]

38. Kick

[ngGale]

22. JHC ...

:scared:

[loudsue]

23. There are a whole helluva lot of things that are getting "tied together"

all of a sudden. I'm REALLY not comfortable with this.

When a population does not trust their government, AT ALL, then it is usually a foreshadowing of serious things to come. We're obviously NOT all pulling in the same direction. They have divided the people, one against the other, and have gotten people who are paying attention riled up.

That is FOOLISH for a sober government to do that.

The scariest thing is, we absolutely DO NOT HAVE a sober government.

:kick:

[Shipwack]

24. Maybe they'll wake up the next morning...

and have this conversation:

Ex-Director: Where am I?
Number 2: In the Village.
Ex-Director: What do you want?
Number 2: We want information.
Ex-Director: Whose side are you on?
Number 2: That would be telling. We want information... information... information.
Ex-Director: You won't get it.
Number 2: By hook or by crook, we will.
Ex-Director: Who are you?
Number 2: The new Number 2.
Ex-Director: Who is Number 1?
Number 2: You are Number 6.
Ex-Director: I am not a number, I am a free man.

I need to get those DVDs some day...

[Frederik]

28. LOL

[halobeam]

26. This is just plain f***** up.

[goforit]

34. Is this where they drink the blood of their victim in celebration?