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Possible Homeland Intelligence Chief Has Strong Clintonista Ties [John Gannon]
NewsMax.com ^ | Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2002 | Phil Brennan

Posted on 10/08/2002 11:26:52 PM PDT by HAL9000

The man being touted to become the proposed Department of Homeland Security's intelligence czar is deeply involved with many of the Clinton administration officials who share much of the blame for the massive intelligence failures that led up to 9/11 - a blame he must share as a former top official of the CIA in the Clinton years.

According to the Washington Times, John Gannon, a former top CIA official, is believed to be in line to become the intelligence chief of Homeland Security when it becomes a reality.

During the Clinton administration, Gannon served as deputy director for Intelligence (DDI) at CIA, July 1995 to July 1997; chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC), July 1997 to June 2001, and assistant director of central intelligence for analysis and production, July 1998-June 2001.

Were he to become the intelligence chief at the proposed department, Gannon would hold the key job in the entire intelligence community.

"The homeland intelligence czar must become the top intelligence officer of the land; he must be the chief coordinator, conduit, and collector of intelligence regarding the safety of Americans at home," the Times wrote.

And the man who fills this vital post, the Times continued, should be authorized to be a coordinator who must join together the information from 22 federal agencies.

His second role is to become the conduit of information to the people who will need it most urgently in a crisis: fire departments, police stations, public-safety officials, emergency medical personnel, the first responders who are the earliest to arrive at the scene of a terrorist attack. He would become a single, authoritative source in the federal government. The homeland intelligence czar must fill that void, the Times wrote.

His most controversial role will be that of collector of information. He will need "the power to reach deep into multi-layered bureaucracies like the FBI or the INS, so that he can receive information unfiltered by headquarters staff - whose competence has been rightly called into question by recent disclosures - circumventing recalcitrant supervisors and managers whenever necessary."

In short, the man should be given enormous powers overshadowing the heads of the FBI, the CIA and all the other intelligence-gathering agencies within the federal government and the armed forces. He would replace the FBI and CIA heads as President Bush's principle source of intelligence information through whom all data from the intelligence community would filter.

Time for a Background Check

If the Times is correct in predicting John Gannon will be named to assume that formidable post, the top intelligence honcho will be a man whose background is anything but reassuring.

Gannon, whose last job in the government was chairman of the National Intelligence Council at the CIA, is vice chairman of Intellibridge, a company whose Internet site states that the company "is a strategic knowledge tool providing a total information and intelligence solution for the international corporation."

In this position, the No. 2 job at the company, Gannon is the operational head of many of Intellibridge's activities. He also makes numerous public appearances, speaking mainly as an expert on domestic security.

Many of his associates at Intellibridge served in top posts in the Clinton administration. The chairman and founder of Intellibridge, and Gannon's immediate superior, is Anthony Lake, who once served as Clinton's national security adviser, and was at one time slated to head the CIA before he withdrew from consideration in March 1997 after serious flaws in his background were publicly aired, including his shameful role in supporting the Khmer Rouge takeover in Cambodia, where they promptly set about butchering the Cambodian people.

Lake has an atrocious background:



TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anthonylake; cambodia; cia; homelandsecurity; intellibridge; intelligence; johngannon; khmerrouge; nic

1 posted on 10/08/2002 11:26:52 PM PDT by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000; kattracks; Travis McGee; Patriot7; Alamo-Girl
Anthony Lake and Strobe Talbott were and are now clearly seen as Reds, and flaming ones, and a natural (and insufficiently discussed) suspicion is that they were in fact ACTIVELY in the service of a foreign enemy. Most likely the Russian's FSB, or even China, or some set of these powers. The safest step would be to do a complete and expeditious expungement of any and all Clinton 'security' related appointments from governmental security organizations.

Termination with prejudice if they won't go peacefully. In any event they should all be put on an NSA watchlist, and be tapped, and bugged, and surveilled. It would likely prove informative.

2 posted on 10/09/2002 8:48:24 AM PDT by Paul Ross
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To: Paul Ross
I'm hoping they have been under scrutiny for a very long time already! Thanks for the heads up!
3 posted on 10/09/2002 9:07:06 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: HAL9000
I can't believe it!
5 posted on 10/10/2002 1:25:32 PM PDT by icantbleaveit
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To: HAL9000
We have no proof of this but just in case, I emailed the President at President@whitehouse.gov
6 posted on 10/10/2002 1:37:11 PM PDT by Wait4Truth
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bttt
7 posted on 10/10/2002 3:56:16 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe
bump
8 posted on 10/10/2002 6:52:07 PM PDT by USA21
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