Posted on 12/16/2007 9:34:16 AM PST by AliVeritas
“BLOWBACK” is an intelligence term for adverse, unintended consequences of secret operations. The CIA first used it in a report on the 1953 operation that overthrew the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran.
Some in the intelligence community have been working with liberal journalists and Democrats on Capitol Hill to embarrass President Bush and to stymie his foreign policy initiatives.
The most successful of these covert operations was the Valerie Plame affair, in which White House officials were falsely blamed for “outing” a CIA undercover officer who was not in fact undercover. (It was then Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage who inadvertently disclosed Ms. Plame’s identity.)
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Hey C.I.A., just to let you guys know, The soviets lost.
Bout time ya know.
Thanks...got to read this...
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I think thats something a lot of people have been trying to figure out. Add to those the instant pardon of friend Scooter Libby as opposed to the malicious prosecution and refusal to pardon Ramos and Compean and it starts to look like a lot more like corruption than simple ineptitude.
If 8 year term limit is good for a president then all house and senate need 8 year term limits [house members continue to run for office every 2 years and senators run for office 4 years]. This will prevent senators and congresscritters from building kingdoms unto themselves and will go out of office with nominal net worth. Now these bozos come to office with small net worth leave very wealthy bozos.
I suspect that part of the problem is that many or most of the young people who come into the CIA and the State Department have traditionally done so from the Ivy colleges.
When I was at Harvard, I knew several people planning to go into those bureaucracies. In fact, my rommmate’s tutor was Zbigniew Brzezinski.
And I have known several high-level CIA people who shall remain nameless. They also came from that sort of background, and were trained by liberal academics.
Ken Timmerman - SHADOW WARRIORS: Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender
View the SECRET email from Valerie Plame Wilson to her bosses at CIA that she was hoping would remain classified.
It shows beyond any doubt who sent Joe Wilson to Niger in Feburary 2002....
• Read my story about the Senate Intelligence committee's rebuke of Joe Wilson at Newsmax
• Sept. 17, 2007: Read my story about the return of the Rogue Weasels to the CIA at Newsmax
Timmerman: "Ultimately, Goss called Kappes’ bluff, and Kappes resigned in November 2004 – but never gave up. In the end, Kappes won, and his allies, who included Judge Lawrence Silberman and the incoming director of National Intelligence, John Negroponte, urged the president to get rid of Goss and bring Kappes back."
Timmerman: Valerie Plame has got some explaining to do. In March, she testified under oath before Congress and swore she had “nothing” to do with sending her husband, former ambassador Joe Wilson, to Niger to investigate claims that Saddam Hussein was seeking to buy uranium there.
In fact, Val sent an email to her bosses recommending that they send him on this mission because he “has good relationships with both the [Prime Minster] and the former Minister of Mines (not to mention lots of French contacts), both of whom could possibly shed light on this sort of activity.”
I guess she never realized anyone would check her emails, or ask the CIA to declassify them.Timmerman: I believe the single most catastrophic decision in the war was made by L. Paul (“Jerry”) Bremer just two days after he arrived in Baghdad in May 2003.
I comment everyone to read this particular chapter of Shadow Warriors. It is entitled, “The Viceroy Cometh,” and it describes how Bremer single-handedly overturned the long-standing strategic plan of the Bush administration to liberate Iraq and hand over power to the Iraqis, without even consulting with the White House. Bremer, who knew nothing about Iraq , decided upon arriving in Baghdad that the Iraqi Governing Council was “unrepresentative” and that he should replace them and rule Iraq directly.
Timmerman: Google the name Ahmed Chalabi and “fraud,” and you get more than 55,000 hits. Google his name plus the word “crook” and you will get more than 12,000 hits. This gives a measure of how successful the effort to smear Ahmad Chalabi’s reputation has been. As I reveal in Shadow Warriors, that effort was spear-headed by the CIA,
Why did the CIA hate Chalabi? It wasn’t because he was an Iranian “agent” (just one of many false accusations made against him). The hatred began in 1996, when Chalabi came to Washington to warn then CIA director John Deutch that a CIA-sponsored coup plot had been penetrated by Saddam Hussein. In short, he had intelligence the CIA did not, and they never forgave him for it. It’s the old story of exposing the Emperor with No Clothes.
What a thought provoking article AliVeritas and the discussion here was interesting, too.
Thank you for the ping.
Maybe they need to start using the term “backdraft” instead. Always keep in mind these are government employees...nuf said.
I believe there are openings at the DMV.
Classic.
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