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CIA ‘Anonymous’ on 60 Minutes tonite (no longer "anonymous" will expose CIA flap)
Daily Times (Pakistan) ^ | 11-13-04 | Daily Times

Posted on 11/14/2004 8:33:07 AM PST by Vn_survivor_67-68

‘Anonymous’ resigns from CIA

* Says will now serve the national interest by talking publicly about Bin Laden and 9/11-Commission Report

WASHINGTON: A CIA analyst who wrote a book criticising the US war on terror resigned from the spy agency after it banned him from publicly discussing his views, his publicist said on Thursday.

Michael Scheuer wrote the book “Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror” under the pen name “anonymous” and formally resigned from the intelligence agency on Friday, after 22 years of service.

In a statement to the press, Scheuer said that he blamed senior US leadership for allowing intelligence officers working against Osama Bin Laden to be made scapegoats for pre-Sept intelligence failures. He went on to say that while the CIA did not force his resignation, he concluded that there had been no national debate over the nature of the threat posed by Bin Laden and his supporters and that the intelligence agency needed reforming to address that threat.

Scheuer was chief of the CIA Counterterrorist Centre unit which focused on Bin Laden from 1996 to 1999 and remained a CIA analyst after that.

The December issue of The Atlantic Monthly published an open letter by Scheuer to US congressional intelligence committees in which he said that the key pre-Sept 11 intelligence failures were mainly the result of bad decisions by senior officials.

He said that while the 9/11 attacks were probably unpreventable, decisions made by senior officials showing “arrogance, bad judgment, disdain for expertise, and bureaucratic cowardice” had meant that the intelligence community did not operate optimally to defend America.

In June, prior to his book’s publication, Scheuer appeared in a series of media interviews, appearing on TV in silhouette and identified in print as “Mike.”

In the first week of August, CIA officials told him that he had to ask for advance permission before engaging in interviews as well as providing them with summaries of what would be discussed, Scheuer’s editor and publicist Christina Davidson said. She added that the CIA rejected every request, effectively banning him from speaking on the subject.

Scheuer’s book claimed that the United States was losing the war against terrorism and that current policies would strengthen its enemies in the Islamic world. would only make its enemies in the Islamic world grow stronger.

A statement released by his publicist said that following a cordial meeting with senior CIA officials on Tuesday, Scheuer decided that it his resignation would serve the interest of the intelligence community and the nation by allowing him to continue speaking publicly about Bin Laden, Al Qaeda and the 9/11-Commission Report.

The CIA made no comment. Scheuer is scheduled to appear on the CBS show “60 Minutes” on Sunday. reuters

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_13-11-2004_pg7_41


TOPICS: Anthrax Scare; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Unclassified; War on Terror
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To: combat_boots

Oops. Scrooge. Sorry.


61 posted on 11/14/2004 11:28:23 AM PST by combat_boots (Dug in and not budging an inch. PJihadists of the World United)
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68

Let me choose, football or 60 minutes....hmmm this is easy....football!


62 posted on 11/14/2004 3:11:33 PM PST by razorback-bert
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68
I don't think anyone should miss watching it on 60 Minutes tonight.)

I think I'll pass on CBS and 60 Minutes, but I would like to make a prediction: It's all Bush's fault, but if it isn't his fault, he still made it much worse then it should have been.

Let me know how I did.

63 posted on 11/14/2004 3:16:36 PM PST by RJL
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To: conservativecorner

Your post: "Get rid of all the lifers who see their very important work as nothing more than a civil service job and a cushy career. We needs folks who have a WWII/Early Cold War mentality in dealing with terrorism, and not jackasses who write a book and jump on the 60 Minute bandwagon. How many hit pieces does this make for 60 Minutes on the Bush Admin.?"

Great job.
Funny how these people never have any "shame" or embarrassment for their failures - why is that?


64 posted on 11/14/2004 3:21:39 PM PST by highflight
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To: highflight

I'm watching the segment now.


65 posted on 11/14/2004 4:12:36 PM PST by Callahan
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68

Actually I ALWAYS miss 60 Minutes. Having personally seen how they operate, and the many other examples which have been documented, I don't believe a single thing they air.


66 posted on 11/14/2004 4:16:49 PM PST by CWOJackson
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To: Callahan

Scheur is blaming Tenet and media darling Richard Clark for 9/11. H


67 posted on 11/14/2004 4:17:18 PM PST by Callahan
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68

I'd trust Art Bell more than 60 Minutes.


68 posted on 11/14/2004 4:18:16 PM PST by Tribune7
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68

Tenet was Bush's weakest link....my guess Mikey wil be in his corner.


69 posted on 11/14/2004 4:18:49 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: jrfaug06

It looks like Porter Goss means business! I have a feeling he will take care of the house cleaning that should have been done 4 years ago. Hopefully President Bush has learned a lesson in Washington partisanship, and will give these left-wing Judas bureaucrats the same treatment that the Whitehouse Travel Office got in 92.


70 posted on 11/14/2004 4:34:24 PM PST by Ntv.Texun
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To: Callahan

Scheur is blaming Tenet and media darling Richard Clark for 9/11. H
Hmmm, I am detecting a pattern here. Before the election, Scheur was pointing the finger at Bush. Now, he's trying to broaden his appeal to sell more books, by blaming Clarke and Tenet. This Yankee has no shame, sir.


71 posted on 11/14/2004 5:06:28 PM PST by Ntv.Texun
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68

Despite the caveat of CBS's heavy editing, it looked to me like this fellow is interested in telling the truth. He slammed Tenet and Richard Clarke pretty well, and also defined the real extent of reasons justifying the WOT like no MSM has allowed thus far.

He will surely be appearing on other media after this, and we will see.....I can't wait till Rush has him on. For now, I am not convinced that he is about bashing the Prez.....what I saw and heard indicates otherwise......and as for his earlier activities, well, he was still in the employ of the CIA, which has not performed well for President Bush thus far.

I will wait to judge this man.


72 posted on 11/14/2004 5:41:13 PM PST by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68
Michael Scheuer wrote the book ?Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror? under the pen name ?anonymous? and formally resigned from the intelligence agency on Friday, after 22 years of service.

Well,.....this 'is' the real story?

/'anon'......?

(The 'Iceberg' is NOT the 'tip'.....)

73 posted on 11/14/2004 5:50:33 PM PST by maestro
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68
Do we have real of fake documents?
74 posted on 11/14/2004 5:51:53 PM PST by NeoCaveman ("I expressed myself rather forcefully, felt better after I had done it," -- VP Cheney)
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68

Like I said, I will wait to judge this man.

I didn't read his book......Does someone who did want to critique it briefly? I'd be foolish to judge the book by its title.


75 posted on 11/14/2004 6:02:36 PM PST by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68

here is a Newsmax report of the interview:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1280002/posts


76 posted on 11/14/2004 6:24:16 PM PST by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: Mo1; MJY1288

Have you seen this one?

If not, read the first two paragraphs.


77 posted on 11/16/2004 9:03:49 PM PST by Howlin (I love the smell of mandate in the morning.)
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To: Howlin

Something isn't passing the smell test

http://slate.msn.com/id/2105149

Who Is Anonymous?
He's Michael Scheuer. But why won't the Times and the Post say so?
By Jack Shafer
Posted Friday, Aug. 13, 2004, at 3:44 PM PT


AND .. check this out



http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/12/60minutes/main655407.shtml
CBS) One of the Central Intelligence Agency's foremost experts on Osama bin Laden has stepped out of the shadows and joined the public debate over past mistakes and future strategy in the war on terror.

Michael Scheuer is the senior intelligence analyst who created and advised a secret CIA unit for tracking and eliminating bin Laden since 1996. He's also been at the center of a battle between the CIA and the White House over Mideast policy and the war on terror.


78 posted on 11/16/2004 9:39:56 PM PST by Mo1 (I'm back to hating Democrats .)
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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-uscia1114,0,4055608,print.story?coll=ny-top-headlines

Some of the most damaging leaks came from Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA's Bin Laden unit


79 posted on 11/16/2004 11:01:34 PM PST by Mo1 (I'm back to hating Democrats .)
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