Pentagon Operating Secret Spy Branch - Report

Reuters ^ | 1/23/05 | Reuters

[wagglebee]

McCain said the move was "a product of the frustration with the CIA of a failure to have decent human intelligence."

The CIA has screwed everything up over the past few years, if the Pentagon can do a better job then they should be given the opportunity.

[Pikamax]

wonderful, more McEgo grandstanding to come.

[Born to Conserve]

Shhhh!
It's a secret.

[Texas_Jarhead]

"The unit, which has been operating for two years, deploys teams of case officers, linguists, interrogators and technical specialists with special operations forces, The Post said."

Whoopty -freakin-do! Yea, that's all whole new and separate spy branch. Give me a @#$%&%)@ break.

[DTogo]

McCain is himself a prime example of "a failure to have decent human intelligence."

[xzins]

The unit, which has been operating for two years, deploys teams of case officers, linguists, interrogators and technical specialists with special operations forces, The Post said.

Yep. They're known as the "Green Berets."

Is there anything in that description that doesn't fit an SF mission?

Amazingly stupid McCain.

I will quit the Republican Party if that man is our nominee.

[ASA Vet]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1326543/posts

[DakotaGator]

Wow! So DoD is engaging in Military Intelligence activities?!

This is just so...outrageous! [/sarcasm]

[wagglebee]

Yeah, I missed it.

[weegee]

McCain's chances as a candidate are confined to his success in the primaries. In 2000 many liberal Democrat voters crossed party lines to push for McCain as the Republican candidate.

The primaries in 2008 will be important.

[Steel Wolf]

'Return of the OSS' ping

[El Gato]

John McCain, an Arizona Republican

RINO. Not this Same Old Shat, again.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" And I'm always sorry to read about things in The Washington Post when they affect a committee that I'm a member of."

He's sorry because he didn't get the chance to leak to his buddies and undermine the project.

[thoughtomator]

I guess it's been decided to abandon the CIA to political correctness and get the real work done under the defense department.

[thoughtomator]

I guess it's been decided to abandon the CIA to political correctness and get the real work done under the defense department.

[wagglebee]

The CIA was stripped of its ability during the 90's, they totally missed 9/11 and made Bush look like a fool on the Iraq WMDs (the WMDs were there, the CIA was just to incompetent to keep track of them). Rehnquist decided to "get the job done" and it seems to be working. I remember all of the media BS over Iran-Contra in the 80's, but I thought it was a masterstroke of brilliance. This is the same concept, if something MUST get done, you must find a way to do it.

[stevem]

I could be wrong, but, to me, "secret spy" is redundant.

[Ginifer]

It was so "secret" that the Washington Post and Reuters were able to write this piece of trash, and of course it all came about by undisclosed sources...

[TomGuy]

Pentagon...reinterpret U.S. law

Congress only passes laws, they don't read them to know what's in them.

lol