Posted on 05/06/2005 3:34:07 PM PDT by SmithL
I don't think we have to look very far to see who the "leakers" at the State Department were, do you?
Cuba?
Explain please, this is new to me.
"I don't think we have to look very far to see who the "leakers" at the State Department were, do you?"
All of 'em.
"Janice O'Connell"
Got to admit, never heard of her.
Look, Reich is a Cuban-American!!!
Mr. Dodd knows that Mr. Reich would be confirmed if he got to the Senate floor, which is why he wants to block even a hearing. He and Latin America aide Janice O'Connell bear a grudge against the Cuban-American going back to their days on opposite sides of the battle over Central America. But rather than face that difference squarely, Mr. Dodd's strategy has been to smear Mr. Reich's reputation, accusing him in a letter to this paper of, among other things, being soft on terrorism. U.S. officials say the public record refutes those charges, which may be why Mr. Dodd doesn't want Mr. Reich to get his chance to make his case in the Senate.
http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:n9z4FDKGgskJ:www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.jsp%3Fsection%3Dpapers%26code%3D01-F_86+Janice+O%27Connell+Chris+dodd&hl=en
Dodd's real problems with Bolton go beyond the U.N. While Democrats temporarily controlled the Senate in 2001, Dodd helped delay for two months Bolton's confirmation as under secretary for arms control. Bolton was finally confirmed, 57 to 43, with Dodd voting no.
A year later on May 6, 2002, Dodd exploded when Bolton's address to the Heritage Foundation reported "at least a limited offensive biological warfare research and development effort" in Cuba, sending technology "to other rogue states."
This revelation, Bolton has said, was long delayed by the presence at the Pentagon of a Castro spy, Ana Belen Montes, as senior Cuban intelligence analyst.
Bolton's disclosure threatened efforts by Dodd and his longtime Foreign Relations Committee staffer, Janice O'Connell, to normalize relations with Cuba. Dodd demanded a hearing with Bolton in
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/14/bolton/
I've just posted some links.
Better to overestimate a potential enemy (within reason)than to underestimate him.
Thanks. I had just chalked the obstructionism up to partisanship.
"If I saw him in the breakfast bar, he would make a beeline for me."
Well ... did he ever catch up with you? And ... what happened when he did? Did he steal the bacon from your tray? This testimony is absurd.
This was what FOX was talking about.
Maybe if the Clinton admin had taken Bolton's hard line, Pakistan would still be a weak, conventional power.
It's amazing what people can find with you have a few names, isn't it?
Speaking of Cuba- did the Dems have any problem with DIA's Anna Belen Montes's downplaying of Cuban capabilities in her reports before she was arrested for spying for Cuba just after 911 or did they just think the reports were peachy-keen?
MARCH 19, 2002 : (MONTES PLEADS GUILTY) Bolton said the country's potential terrorist threat may have been overlooked because it was not labeled a military threat during the Clinton administration though it was known to conduct widespread and aggressive intelligence operations in the United States. The most notable activity was its recruitment of the Defense Intelligence Agency's senior Cuba analyst, Ana Belen Montes, to spy for Cuba. Montes drafted a 1998 report that said Cuba is not a threat. "Montes not only had a hand in drafting the 1998 Cuba report but also passed some of our most sensitive information about Cuba back to Havana," he said. Montes was arrested last fall and pleaded guilty to espionage on March 19. --The Associated Press contributed to this report
1998 : (CUBAN SPY/DIA ANALYST ANA BELEN MONTES DRAFTS A REPORT THAT CUBA'S MILITARY POSED NO THREAT TO THE US; THE REPORT IS VERY POPULAR AMONG THOSE WHO WANT TO DROP THE EMBARGO) In 1998, she played an important role in drafting a widely cited analysis that found that Cuba's much diminished military posed no strategic threat to the United States. - "Analyst at Pentagon arrested on charges of spying for Havana / FBI says espionage goes back 5 years ," By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS , New York Times , Sept. 29, 2001, 11:53PM
1990s late - JANUARY 23, 2003 : (CUBA SHARED INTELLIGENCE INFO ON US WITH SADDAM HUSSEIN'S IRAQ AS PART OF COVERT OIL DEAL ) A senior Defense Department official tells us one of the alarming after-action intelligence reports that reached the Pentagon is that the communist government of Cuba shared intelligence on the United States with Saddam Hussein's regime. The reports stated that Cuban intelligence, which is known to have extensive "coverage" of U.S. military bases, supplied information to Saddam's intelligence service on the movement of troops and other military activities. The intelligence ties are believed to be an offshoot of Cuba's covert oil-purchasing arrangement with Iraq under Saddam. Those deals have been under way since the late 1990s and involve oil tankers that were sent to Mexico. The oil then was pumped from the tankers to smaller boats for delivery to Cuba. The intelligence sharing also comes amid reports from Cuban exiles that Cuba became a safe haven for fleeing Iraqi government officials following the U.S.-led invasion.Asked about the Cuba-Iraq intelligence-sharing, a second U.S. official said the CIA had no information about it.- "Iraq-Cuba axis (Gertz News!)," by Bill Gertz, The Washington Times, 01.23.04
1994 : (MONTES FIRST COMES UNDER SUSPICION OF BEING A CUBAN MOLE; ODD LEAKS; SHE SHOWS UP UNINVITED TO INTERAGENCY INTELLIGENCE MEETING) DIA senior intelligence analyst Ana Belen Montes originally came under suspicion of being a spy for Cuba's communist government in 1994....She came under suspicion after counterspies detected "anomalies" in intelligence reports from overseas indicating U.S. intelligence information had been leaking out. ...One unusual incident that led U.S. counterspies to Montes was her uninvited appearance at an interagency intelligence meeting. " Her presence there seemed unusual," the senior official said. ------ "DIA fears Cuban mole aided Russia, China," by Bill Gertz, washtimes, 2/1/2003 *** Note that there's another person of interest more recently who is known for trying to get into meetings uninvited- Greg Thielmann. In this case he'd tried to get into meetings Bolton was holding. He is now a former government employee...
Back to Montes, who was scheduled to be planted on Tenet's staff at one point [* Side note- Montes is of Puerto Rican descent and would probably get along fabulously with some of the terrorists Clinton pardoned]:
1999 late : (EVIDENCE ESTABLISHES MONTES TO BE A CUBAN MOLE : DIA BLOCKS MONTES' SELECTION TO MOVE TO CIA DIRECTOR TENET'S NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL) DIA senior intelligence analyst Ana Belen Montes originally came under suspicion of being a spy for Cuba's communist government in 1994. However, DIA and FBI counterspies could not prove she was engaging in espionage and Montes continued passing secrets to Havana until she was discovered in late 1999. ... Montes was placed under surveillance in late 1999 and at one point was selected to work for CIA Director George J. Tenet's National Intelligence Council. The DIA blocked Montes' move by freezing all transfers. ------ "DIA fears Cuban mole aided Russia, China," by Bill Gertz, washtimes, 2/1/2003
19?? [probably somewhere between 1979 and 1985]: (MONTES TRAVELS TO CUBA AS AN EMPLOYEE OF THE US DOJ)Montes traveled to Cuba twice, once as an employee of the Justice Department and once unofficially for the DIA.----- "DIA fears Cuban mole aided Russia, China," by Bill Gertz, washtimes, 2/1/2003
DOJ? This was probably during this interval :
1979 - 1985 : (CUBAN SPY ANA BELEN MONTES MAY HAVE BEEN RECRUITED BY CUBA WHILE WORKING AT FREEDOM OF INFORMATION OFFICE) Montes, who is of Puerto Rican descent, was believed to have been recruited by Cuban intelligence when she worked in the Freedom of Information office at the Justice Department between 1979 and 1985. She later moved to the Defense Intelligence Agency where by 1992 she was among the DIA's top analysts on Cuba's military. - "Defiant U.S. intelligence analyst sentenced to 25 Years for spying," by TED BRIDIS, AP, via yahoo.com , October 16, 2002
She had also been planted on a certain southern GOP Senator's staff and I have to wonder who picked her for that job.
OCTOBER 2003 midmonth : (NORWAY : EUROPEAN SOCIALISTS MEET WITH TOP US DEMOCRATS, INCLUDING HILLARY CLINTON, JOSEPH BIDEN [See Kerry], RON KLAIN [see Wesley Clark] AND STAN GREENBERG, FORMER CLINTON CAMPAIGN STRATEGIST) Norway's Labour Party is joining other European social democrats in linking up with the Democrats in the US. The goal is to be prepared with common strategies if a majority of them on both sides of the Atlantic come back to power. A group of European social democrats, led by former British Foreign Minister Robin Cook, met last week with several top Democratic politicians and party officials. They included US senators Hilary Clinton and Joseph Biden. They also had meetings with Ron Klain of presidential candidate Wesley Clark's campaign, and Stan Greenberg, former US President Bill Clinton's campaign strategist in 1992. On the agenda was European concern over current US foreign policy and the effects of globalization. Espen Barth Eide, who led the Norwegian delegation, said the group met "understanding" that "economic globalization must be accompanied by political globalization." There remain wide differences between the European social democrats and their counterparts in the US, who tend to be far more conservative. Barth Eide called it "natural" however, "to begin with those (in the US) who are closest to us (in ideology), even though the Democrats of course aren't social democrats."--- "Norwegian Labour Party Forges Ties With US Democrats," Norway Aftenposten, October 23, 2003 To: Shermy So, this clinches it. The Democrats are making arrangements to host the Fourth Internationale. 19 posted on 10/23/2003 9:16:05 PM PDT by okie01
Excellent find- I posted before I saw you onto the Montes angle.
*** Note that there's another person [besides the Cuban spy Anna Belen Montes] who is known for trying to get into meetings uninvited- Greg Thielmann. In this case he'd try to get into meetings Bolton was holding. He is now a former government employee...
See this snippet from a Seymour hersh article :
* (GREG THIELMANN)
A few months after George Bush took office, Greg Thielmann, an expert on disarmament with the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, or INR, was assigned to be the daily intelligence liaison to John Bolton, the Under-Secretary of State for Arms Control, who is a prominent conservative. Thielmann understood that his posting had been mandated by Secretary of State Colin Powell, who thought that every important State Department bureau should be assigned a daily intelligence officer. “Bolton was the guy with whom I had to do business,” Thielmann said. “We were going to provide him with all the information he was entitled to see. That’s what being a professional intelligence officer is all about.” ...
...Thielmann soon found himself shut out of Bolton’s early-morning staff meetings. “I was intercepted at the door of his office and told, ‘The Under-Secretary doesn’t need you to attend this meeting anymore.’” When Thielmann protested that he was there to provide intelligence input, the aide said, “The Under-Secretary wants to keep this in the family.” ----------from "How conflicts between the Administration and the CIA marred the reporting on Iraq’s weapons.," by Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker, 10/20/03
and:
Eventually, Thielmann said, Bolton demanded that he and his staff have direct electronic access to sensitive intelligence, such as foreign-agent reports and electronic intercepts. In previous Administrations, such data had been made available to under-secretaries only after it was analyzed, usually in the specially secured offices of INR.
The whole point of the intelligence system in place, according to Thielmann, was “to prevent raw intelligence from getting to people who would be misled.”
Bolton, however, wanted his aides to receive and assign intelligence analyses and assessments using the raw data. In essence, the under-secretary would be running his own intelligence operation, without any guidance or support. “He surrounded himself with a hand-chosen group of loyalists, and found a way to get C.I.A. information directly,” Thielmann said.
In a subsequent interview, Bolton acknowledged that he had changed the procedures for handling intelligence, in an effort to extend the scope of the classified materials available to his office. “I found that there was lots of stuff that I wasn’t getting and that the INR analysts weren’t including,” he told me. “I didn’t want it filtered. I wanted to see everything—to be fully informed. If that puts someone’s nose out of joint, sorry about that.” Bolton told me that he wanted to reach out to the intelligence community but that Thielmann had “invited himself” to his daily staff meetings. “This was my meeting with the four assistant secretaries who report to me, in preparation for the Secretary’s 8:30 a.m. staff meeting,” Bolton said. “This was within my family of bureaus. There was no place for INR or anyone else—the Human Resources Bureau or the Office of Foreign Buildings.” ...
----------from "How conflicts between the Administration and the CIA marred the reporting on Iraq’s weapons.," by Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker, 10/20/03
ping
Tehran, Jan 24 [2004] - Senior US senator Joseph Biden criticized the American government's policies on Iran during a meeting with Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi on the fringes of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, foreign ministry said on Saturday. The ranking Democrat on the senate Foreign Relations Committee from Delaware, "stressed the importance of Iran and the role which it can play in the sensitive and volatile region" in the Middle East. Joseph Biden told the Iranian foreign minister that he hoped the existing problems between the Islamic Republic of Iran and America would be removed someday.
Kharrazi had a 90-minute meeting with Biden in a rare high-level contact between Tehran and Washington, which have held no official relations since the 1979 Islamic revolution, in full view of reporters in a lounge at the World Economic Forum. ------- "US senator slams anti-Iran policies," IRIB News, 2004/01/24
Ambassador Robert Hutchings was appointed Chairman of the National Intelligence Council in December 2002. Previously, he served as Assistant Dean of Graduate Professional Education at the Woodrow Wilson School, where he also taught international politics.
Earlier, Ambassador Hutchings was Fellow and Director of International Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. His combined academic and diplomatic career has included service as Director for European Affairs with the National Security Council, 1989-92, and Special Adviser to the Secretary of State in 1992 and 1993, with the rank of Ambassador.
He also served two tours in the NIC -- as Director of its Analytic Group and earlier as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Europe. He also served as Deputy Director of Radio Free Europe and on the faculty of the University of Virginia. He has held adjunct appointments at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
Ambassador Hutchings is a director of the Atlantic Council of the United States and of the Foundation for a Civil Society, serves on the editorial board of the Journal of International Politics, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1998, the President of Poland awarded him the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for his contributions to Polish freedom.
Ambassador Hutchings has written numerous books including his most recent one, At the End of the American Century (1998), and American Diplomacy and the End of the Cold War (1997), which was published in a German language edition as Als der Kalte Krieg zu Ende War (1999).
Ambassador Hutchings graduated from the United States Naval Academy, and received an M.A. from the College of William and Mary and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.
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X + 9/11
By Robert L. Hutchings
July/August 2004
Everything I needed to know about fighting terrorism I learned from George F. Kennan.
George F. Kennan celebrated his 100th birthday earlier this year. The dean of U.S. diplomats is best known for his strategy of containment, which he first articulated in the so-called long telegram that he sent from Moscow in 1946—and soon thereafter unveiled in his 1947 article, “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” published under the pseudonym “X.” Several conferences honoring Kennan have praised his enormous contribution to U.S. Cold War strategy, yet the most fitting tribute would be to apply his seminal theories to our present era—to examine the sources of terrorist conduct.
http://foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=2584
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