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Pentagon weighs cutting most of its support to CIA's counterterrorism missions
ABC News ^ | Dec 10 3020 | Luis Martinez

Posted on 12/10/2020 7:27:13 PM PST by rintintin

In a surprising move, the Pentagon has told the Central Intelligence Agency that it is weighing an end to the majority of the military support it provides to the agency's counterterrorism missions, according to a former senior administration intelligence official.

It is unclear how the decision would impact the spy agency's worldwide counterterrorism missions that often rely on the U.S. military for logistical support and personnel.

Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller sent a letter to CIA Director Gina Haspel outlining the decision, according to the former official, who characterized the action as both surprising and unprecedented.

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1 posted on 12/10/2020 7:27:13 PM PST by rintintin
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Bump


3 posted on 12/10/2020 7:29:53 PM PST by Guenevere (No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you(Isaiah)
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To: rintintin

About. Damn. Time.

CIA should go back to being the National Clandestine Service for HUMINT, and get the hell out of military operations.


4 posted on 12/10/2020 7:33:37 PM PST by Salvavida
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To: rintintin

How about that!! A great and necessary move!


5 posted on 12/10/2020 7:35:46 PM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues th the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: ghannonf18

Heaven help us! Let the patriots prevail!


6 posted on 12/10/2020 7:38:57 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: rintintin

I hope this is true and gets done, six days to Sunday.


7 posted on 12/10/2020 7:39:52 PM PST by GreatRoad ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act' )
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To: rintintin

Wow. That’s a big deal.


8 posted on 12/10/2020 7:40:21 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: GreatRoad

Or whatever it was Schmoozer said.


9 posted on 12/10/2020 7:40:56 PM PST by GreatRoad ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act' )
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To: rintintin

Fire them all and send them to Gitmo to be waterboarded. They certainly have been working for enemy powers and the deep state. I wonder when Trump actually found out about their secret server in Germany?
Then clean out the FBI. The obviously haven’t been working for us either.
SOBs. Interrogation for the whole frickin’ lot of them!


10 posted on 12/10/2020 7:40:59 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: doc maverick

Sidney Powell on Lou Dobbs said tonight that there has been election rigging going on for YEARS. And she said she has lots of evidence that she can get to Dobbs.


11 posted on 12/10/2020 7:44:16 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: Salvavida

I knew several CIA types who were SF in MACVSOG. SGM Waugh was an original SF types plus he had so much respect from us. Now, a few others from SOG ended up as career types in CIA.

I recall one who was head of all of one Continent. He had really changed. He was medically discharged for an arm wound. I could not believe why he liked OBAMA.


12 posted on 12/10/2020 7:44:51 PM PST by Lumper20 (If one never served in war-He/she should never be a Gov. Department head.)
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To: rintintin

CIA undermines the constitutional republic.

Nuke em til they glow.


13 posted on 12/10/2020 7:47:32 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Biden: Senile, pedophile, grifter, extortionist, thief.)
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To: Salvavida

“ CIA should go back to being the National Clandestine Service for HUMINT, and get the hell out of military operations.”
************

Guess all the Air America boys will get the band back together again...


14 posted on 12/10/2020 7:48:27 PM PST by snoringbear (,W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp, )
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To: GreatRoad

6 ways to Sunday.

It is a biblical reference on 6 days and a 7th day of rest.

Schumer was mocking God.


15 posted on 12/10/2020 7:51:24 PM PST by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: rintintin

CIA is dirty on “we the people”?


16 posted on 12/10/2020 7:51:29 PM PST by existentially_kuffer
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To: eyedigress
"6 ways to Sunday"

It is a biblical reference on 6 days and a 7th day of rest

Interesting, didn't know that. So kind of like a "world of hurt". They'll create a whole world of ways to ruin your plans, as if they were God at the creation.

17 posted on 12/10/2020 7:57:45 PM PST by Tellurian (Evil's pride and joy is Fear. It's second child is Deception.)
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To: snoringbear

>>>Air America Boys & girls

Al Franken, Rachel Maddow, Cenk Uygur, Marc Maron, Chuck D, Lizz Winstead, Sam Seder, Randi Rhodes


18 posted on 12/10/2020 7:58:09 PM PST by existentially_kuffer
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To: eyedigress
Nahum

1. THE BURDEN of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

2. God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth; the Lord revengeth, and is furious; the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.

3. The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

4. He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

5. The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea,the world, and all that dwelleth therein.

6. Who can stand before his indignation? And who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.

7. The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.

8. But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

9. What do ye imagine against the Lord? He will make an utter end; affliction shall not rise up the second time.

10. For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

11. There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the Lord, a wicked counsellor.

12. Thus sayeth the Lord; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.

13. For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.

14. And the Lord hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.

15. Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.

19 posted on 12/10/2020 8:04:58 PM PST by MurrietaMadman (Keep in mind, the Gates of hell shall not prevail against you.)
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To: rintintin

ABC was left wondering if they should shit their pants or not, and were confounded in finding some sort of spin to put on the story that could bolster the socialist/commie cause. They promised to think about it, come back tomorrow.


20 posted on 12/10/2020 8:12:44 PM PST by Professional ( )
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