'Hank' Steps Out of Shadows to Take Over US Counter-Terrorism

[buzzsaw_23]

'Hank' steps out of the shadows to take over US counter-terrorism


By Andrew Buncombe in Washington

Published: 13 September 2005

For years, his efforts in fighting al-Qa'ida and the Taliban were largely anonymous.
While his identity was known to a small group of colleagues and officials, to the public he was known - if he was known at all - simply as "Hank" or "Henry".

Now, after decades undercover, Henry "Hank" Crumpton has stepped from the shadows to take the helm of the US State Department's counter-terrorism section. With the job comes the title of ambassador.

In the aftermath of the 11 September attacks, Mr Crumpton was appointed to head the US covert effort in Afghanistan. He was responsible for drafting a strategy that deployed intelligence officers and special forces to work in co-ordination with local Afghan groups to drive out the Taliban.

<snip>

"US power is usually measured in terms of kinetic strength but the power of empathy, honour, prestige, hope and material self-interest can complement raw strength and produce a more effective, more enduring victory," he writes in Transforming US Intelligence, edited by Jennifer Sims. Mr Crumpton, from Georgia, also advocates relying on local forces and noted the advice of Lawrence of Arabia in the First World War. "Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs to do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly ... Also under the very odd conditions of Arabia your practical work will not be as good, perhaps, as you think it is." In an interview with the Post, Mr Crumpton, who was sworn in as co-ordinator for counter-terrorism last month, revealed that he had wanted to be a CIA operative since he was a boy. As a child he wrote to the CIA and the agency wrote back. "They responded - on letterhead. In a rural community in Georgia, to get a letter from the CIA, that was pretty cool."

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article312207.ece

[leesa]

1. Oh well he did a swell job over there in Afghanistan! No OBL and the

Taliban alive and fighting with the warlords and coalition soldiers. Woo Hoo!! I feel safer, don't you?

[shadowknows69]

2. I'm still more confident with a Hank

than a Brownie. But not much.

[loudsue]

3. New World Order whore....just another neocon...

"but the power of empathy, honour, prestige, hope and material self-interest can complement raw strength and produce a more effective, more enduring victory"

He will be determined to install corporate governments everywhere. In the UCSA (United Corporate States of America), what they call "counter" terrorism specialists, are actually our OWN terrorists, who are given a promotion.

This guy "stepped out of the shadows". Darkness. That's all he prolly knows. That's all ANY of the neocons know.

:kick:

[wordout]

4. **Crumpton** Now theres a bogus name if i ever heard one.

Wonder who he had to kill to get that identity?

[truthisfreedom]

5. natty bumpo