Posted on 11/20/2004 12:47:45 PM PST by Matchett-PI
INC News Release
BAGHDAD (20 November): The Iraqi National Congress today announced that the US Central Intelligence Agency led raids on four INC facilities recently.
Three INC offices in Baghdad were attacked on Thursday and the INC office in Najaf was attacked last week by heavily armed US civilians accompanied by masked Iraqis.
The offices were vandalized, a number of staff were assaulted, and equipment and documents were stolen. Staff members who requested to see search warrants were beaten and abused and no warrants were produced.
CIA operatives in Iraq are out of control and are operating outside the bounds of American and Iraqi law.
The CIA is failing in its duty to protect US forces and the Iraqi people from terrorists and is attacking groups and individuals who point out its failures.
The INC will take action in the Iraqi legal system to force the CIA and its Iraqi agents to act within the law.
The INC appeals to the US government to stop the CIA from engaging in political vendettas and rededicate itself to fighting America's true enemies.
Contact: Entifadh Qanbar incbaghdad@yahoo.com telephone +1-914-360-3875
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Reminds me of the movie The Untouchables. "Hey buddy, you got a warrant?" "Sure, here's your warrant!" (Slams rifle but into his stomach and head.)
this could be the cia working over the bad guys trying to let them know the must be in line by the elections. the cia does dirty work, that is their function.
"Warrants? You want to see our warrants?? We don't need no stinkin' warrants!"
"Reminds me of the movie The Untouchables. "Hey buddy, you got a warrant?" "Sure, here's your warrant!" (Slams rifle but into his stomach and head.)" ~ Zack Nguyen
Exactly.
Excerpt from item below: 'The reaction from the old boys confirms those harsh adjectives of "dysfunctional" and "rogue."'
CIA: 'Dysfunctional' and 'rogue'
Robert Novak Townhall.com November 18, 2004
WASHINGTON -- After President Bush nominated him to be Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), Rep. Porter Goss walked across the Capitol to meet with a senator he hardly knew and who had criticized him: John McCain.
There he received advice confirming his determination to take a course that soon became the talk of Washington.
McCain told Goss the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is "a dysfunctional organization. It has to be cleaned out." That is, the CIA does not perform its missions.
McCain told Goss that as DCI, he must get rid of the old boys and bring in a new team at Langley.
Moreover, McCain told me this week, "with CIA leaks intended to harm the re-election campaign of the president of the United States, it is not only dysfunctional but a rogue organization."
Following a mandate from the president for what McCain advised, Goss is cleaning house.
The reaction from the old boys confirms those harsh adjectives of "dysfunctional" and "rogue."
The nation's capital has become an echo chamber of anti-Goss invective with CIA officials painting a picture for selected reporters of a lightweight House member from Florida, a mere case officer at the CIA long ago, provoking high-level resignations and dismantling a great intelligence service.
Veteran CIA-watchers such as McCain regard the Agency as anything but great and commend Goss for taking courageous steps that previous DCIs avoided. George Friedman, head of the Stratfor private intelligence service, refers to Goss's housecleaning as "long overdue."
That cleansing process has been inhibited by the CIA's fear factor as an extraordinary leak machine. Its efficiency was attested to when Goss appointed Michael V. Kostiw, recently staff director of the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Terrorism, as the CIA's executive director. Before Kostiw could check in at Langley, the old boys leaked information that Kostiw was caught shoplifting in 1981 after 10 years as a CIA case officer.
Kostiw then resigned the Agency's third-ranking post, though Goss retained him as a special assistant. Kostiw's treatment has enraged people who have known him during a long, successful career in Washington -- including John McCain. The senator called Kostiw "one of the finest, most decent men I have ever met."
The story fed by Goss's enemies in the Agency is that dedicated career intelligence officers have been replaced by Capitol Hill hacks. Their real fear is that Goss will put an end to the CIA running its own national security policy, which in the last campaign resulted in an overt attempt to defeat Bush for re-election (intensifying after George Tenet left as DCI ).
I reported on Sept. 27 that Paul R. Pillar, the CIA's national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia, told a private dinner on the West Coast of secret, unheeded warnings to Bush about going to war. I learned of this because of leaks from people who attended, but many other senior Agency officials were covertly but effectively campaigning for Sen. John Kerry.
That effort seemed to include "Imperial Hubris," an anonymously published attack on Iraq War policy by CIA analyst Michael Scheuer. He has since left the Agency, but he was still on the payroll when the CIA allowed the book to be published. The Washington Post on Election Day quoted Scheuer as saying CIA officials muzzled him in July only after they realized that he was really criticizing them, not the president. "As long as the book was being used to bash the president," he said, "they gave me carte blanche to talk to the media."
Traditional bipartisanship in intelligence has been the victim, with Democrats cheering the CIA Bush-bashing. Rep. Jane Harman, ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, abandoned pretense of bipartisanship, and Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the Senate committee's vice chairman, never pretended. Both are attacking their former colleague who is now DCI.
McCain's use of the word "rogue" carries historical implications. A long, debilitating time of troubles began for the CIA in 1975 after Sen. Frank Church called it "a rogue elephant" that is out of control causing trouble around the world. The current use of the word refers to the intelligence agency playing domestic politics, which is an even more disturbing aberration. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20041118.shtml
Could be, but it's not. The CIA has been repeatedly embarrassed by shoddy, unprofessional, and incorrect work by the INC. This is payback. The CIA is, above all else, a disgrace.
Sounds like democrat union and welfare thugs working over various GOP HQs during the past election.
i would wonder if these are sunni members of the inc, looks like they are acting up. either way the cia is being cleaned as we speak.
I think it was 1957, William F. Buckley, Jr., in National Review, said something like this, "The plot to assassinate Sukarno had all the markings of a CIA operation - Everyone was killed but the appointed victim."
Apparently, the "Agency's" problems go back a long way.
Yeah --- the problem is that many of them think G.W.Bush is the "bad guy".
See post #6 above and click HERE for lots more.
Goss has his work cut out for him - it wouldn't surprise me if he met an untimely death the way that outfit is behaving.
Exactly.
Exactly, except, as you correctly illustrate via the Novak column, this isn't Eliot Ness and the good guys bending the law to get around the corrupt Chicago infrastructure of the 1920's, but once again the CIA injecting itself into a pre-election political situation where it doesn't belong. The CIA is beholden to the Iraqi Sunni minority (which constitute the backbone of their double-dealing sources throughout the Middle East), and is anxious to crush the largely secular Shiite INC in advance of the January elections. In particular, they're desperate to turn up evidence discrediting Ahmed Chalibi, especially in light of their previous disastrous--and preposterous--charges of "counterfeiting" against him.
More crap, from the gang who couldn't analyze straight.
See #13.
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Sounds like it may be some of the old Democratic elitist left wingers with Skimasks looking for Blacks who are learning how to read. Too much education can lead to positions of power and influence, which the Socialist Dummocrates want to prohibit.
Hey, that can't be true - the CIA under Clinton was made PC!
No more calndestine stuff or hits for the world's good. CIA folks only have coffee with extremists now, not kill them!
Excellent insight to the battle going on in the CIA.
If this is from Laurie Mylroie, as it appears to be, then she is usually a reliable source. I would guess it is more work by rogue CIA agents. The CIA has frequently worked at loggerheads with the military in Iraq, and as a rule the military has done a far better job, including intelligence gathering on the terrorists.
If this is what I think it is, we'd better pull these people out of there quick before they do irreversible damage.
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