THE CIA LEAK: ROGUE AGENCY?

New York Post ^ | 10/03/03 | PETER KING

[kattracks]

October 3, 2003 -- THE current furor over who, if anyone, in the White House leaked anything about Joe Wilson's wife and whether that leak, if it occurred, constitutes a crime is off the mark.

My concern is about something far more ominous. It is what I see to be a systematic pattern of conduct being carried out by elements within the Central Intelligence Agency constituting a virtual covert operation against the Bush White House - a covert operation designed to protect the spy agency's turf and deflect charges of incompetence.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the ping.

It is interesting that Peter King has seemed to come back around to our side.

[Miss Marple]

I agree that George Tenet should go. However, the underlings at the CIA would remain, because they are CIVIL SERVICE and cannot be fired. This is the real problem.

[Miss Marple]

When you get a chance, read reply #11. Interesting connectins to the CIA and the financial industry, all Clintonistas.

[Just mythoughts]

So then Congress do something, demand this bunch do what they are supposed to do.

[Grampa Dave]

jp thanks for this time line.

Liz some of our Clintoon Business Execs are involved here.

Thanks to Miss Marple for the ping and alert re this timeline.

[Liz]

Thanks for the ping Miss M. This cast of characters is worthy of a Tom Clancy novel, eh? Probably have their screenplays circulating among the crowd of Hollywarped lefties.

[Liz]

Nice find jp. Here's an interesting tidbit from the link:

EXCERPT Given the enormity of documentation on Citibank's direct involvement with drug and criminal money laundering and the extraordinarily detailed investigations by journalist Al Giordano at www.narconews.com, several questions become obvious.

Giordano's translation of Spanish language reports on the on again, off again relationship between Citibank and Peruvian CIA backed strongman Vladimiro Montesinos, suggest that CIA tells Citibank which criminal clients are acceptable for Private Banking money laundering activities.

Clearly, the timeline implies that Slatkin's hiring at Citibank was a quid pro quo for her services in stalling the Deutch investigation. But more so it raises the question as to whether Slatkin is the CIA liaison at Citigroup to open approved channels for money laundering.

Also, it must be asked whether or not there is a partisan flavor to Citigroup's activities. All of the players here were Democratic Party apparatchiks. Is the Democratic Party the sole beneficiary of Citigroup criminal money laundering? Much will be revealed when the Bush Administration weighs in on the Banamex acquisition.

JOHN DEUTCH AND WALL STREET
John M. Deutch is listed as a current director of the following corporations that are registered with the SEC:
Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Citigroup Inc.
CMS Energy Corp
Cummins Engine Co Inc
Raytheon Co
Schlumberger Ltd/NY/

Deutch is also involved with the following ventures (some offshoots of above corporations) as an investor and/or officer:
Allied Digital Technologies Corp
Analog Acquisition Corp
Buenos Aires Bottling Co Inc
Citicorp
Citicorp Mortgage Securities Inc
Citigroup Capital
CMS Energy Trust II
CMS Energy X Tras Pass Through Trust I
Consumers Energy Co
Cort Business Services Corp
Davco Restaurants Inc
Delco Remy International Inc
Galey & Lord Inc.
GNI Group Inc
Green I Acquisition Corp
Hudson Hotels Corp
Landmark Fixed Income Funds/MA/
Landmark Funds I
Landmark Funds II
Landmark Tax Free Income Funds
Palomar Medical Technologies Inc.
Sybron Chemicals Inc.
Tower Automotive Inc
Travelers Group Inc

[Grampa Dave]

Great stuff here Liz re our Citigroup friends.

[aristeides]

I wonder why all those firms would be so interested in hiring a former chemistry professor from MIT (isn't that Deutch's background?).

[mewzilla]

And if anyone wants more on Tenet, I can heartily recommend Richard Miniter's new book, Losing Bin Laden. Tenet's got some 'splainin' to do...

[Liz]

Washington Post
Saturday, February 17, 2001

Clinton Ignored CIA in Pardoning Intelligence Analyst
Clemency for Only Official Convicted of Leaking
Classified Information to Media Draws Criticism
By Vernon Loeb / Washington Post Staff Writer

Copyright 2001 The Washington Post

President Bill Clinton ignored a recommendation from the CIA last month when he pardoned former Navy intelligence analyst Samuel L. Morison, the only government official ever convicted of leaking classified information to the media.

While Clinton's pardon of former CIA director John M. Deutch caught CIA officials by surprise, the president solicited advance comment from the agency on the possibility of pardoning Morison, who leaked three secret spy satellite photographs to Jane's Defence Weekly in 1984. But Clinton ultimately disregarded the agency's position and approved a pardon application Morison submitted to the Justice Department more than two years ago.

"We said we were obviously opposed -- it was a vigorous 'Hell, no'," said one senior intelligence official. "We think giving classified information to people who are unauthorized to receive it is a bad thing to do and giving pardons to people who are convicted of doing that sends the wrong signal to people who are currently entrusted with classified information."


SNIP -- read article here


http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:K18Xw04eOgkJ:www.fas.org/sgp/news/2001/02/wp021701.html

[OXENinFLA]

BUMP!!!

[Liz]

Yep, a treasure trove.

[Reb Raider]

I cannot think of any former president that would start making political appointees career federal employees except the Clintons. Does anyone know if there are any restrictions to this or how many had their status changed? This has Hillary stench all over it--covering her bases prior to the election. Bush people didn't have to be fired if I remember correctly,they knew it was time for the new administration. I don't see the mess in the CIA being cleaned out and replaced with honorable people for years and the problem with that is it could spell disaster for our country's security. Kudos to Peter King and all his points have been made here by freepers. The question I still don't know that I fully understand is if Novak was not given her name,and his further statements back this up if you look carefully--the "leaker" said Wilson's wife(not her name),who worked at the CIA, helped get him the assignment. Novak said her name and where she worked was common knowledge. If her name nor her position in the CIA was used in the conversation--is that exposing a CIA undercover operative on purpose? A law professor on Fox today said even if everyone knew it didn't matter. But it doesn't seem anyone did know her undercover work (if that part is true) except liberal publications that plastered it everywhere. There is a chance the person talking to Novak didn't know and didn't use her name. Just a thought.

[Iowa Granny]

Thanks for linking me here.

It's about time.

[Just mythoughts]

So is the Republican controlled Congress still in control, they should be demanding accountability from the CIA for sending a political hack like Wilson to gather intel.

They need to haul his "frog-marching" behind into a hearing and put the man under "oath", about what he knew and when he knew it.

Just who at the CIA has turned that Agency into the intel arm of the DNC?

[Miss Marple]

PhiKapMom might have an idea of the numbers. I think they went into strategic areas of certain agencies. Yes, it is a typical Clintonian maneuver.

[Liz]

Who is John Deutch? (MIT answers)

John Deutch was born in Belgium in 1938, to a very privileged
family. They moved to the US, where he attended Sidwell Friends, one
of Washington's most prominent private schools, then Amherst College
and MIT. By then Deutch was already in demand at the Pentagon. "I had
to fight to keep him at MIT," declared his Ph.D. thesis adviser,
Irving Oppenheimer.


Since his graduation Deutch has been continuously involved
with the Pentagon. He worked at the Department of Defense (DOD) Office
of Systems Analysis from 1961 to 1965. He then returned to academia,
first to Princeton, then to MIT, where his research has centered on
military applications of technology like fuel-air bombs, one of the
most devastating non-nuclear weapons in existence.


In 1975 he became a member of the DOD's Defense Science Board
(DSB). He has been a member of half a dozen more such committees
since, including the DSB summer study on Chemical Warfare in 1980, the
DOD-University Forum in 1983, the Midgetman Missile panel in 1986, and
President Bush's Foreign Intelligence Board.


Deutch served as MIT Provost from 1985 to 1990. During his
term he angered many at the Institute because of his authoritarian
style of leadership. Especially controversial was his decision to
close the MIT Department of Applied Biological Sciences, which was
made precipitously after little more than a month of discussion. His
ties to the Pentagon and conflicts of interest with the corporations
on whose boards he served also came to the spotlight.

Although he was the obvious candidate for the MIT presidency after Paul Gray retired,
both of the above-mentioned controversies prevented that from
occurring.

In 1993 he returned to the Pentagon as the so-called
"acquisition czar," in charge of buying tens of billions of dollars in
weaponry. In 1994 he was promoted to the post of Deputy Secretary of
Defense (the number 2 position at the Pentagon). This post gave him
some authority over most of the intelligence budget, which comes from
the Pentagon. Finally, in May 1995, he was appointed as Director of
the Central Intelligence Agency.

He has also sat on many corporate boards of directors,
including those of Perkin-Elmer, Schlumberger, Citicorp, and Science
Applications and Instruments Corporation. In the fiscal year 1987-88
his income from those companies exceeded his MIT salary, which was one
of the highest at the Institute.

Deutch is considered a conservative in defense-intelligence
issues, and has been a long-term advocate of US nuclear weapons
build-up. He is also a strong supporter of biological weapons, and of
using chemical and biological weapons together in order to increase
their killing efficiency.

[mewzilla]

According to Wilson's own statement, he talked to a few people at the CIA about his trip, and some others as well. Sounds to me like Wilson ought to be subpoenaed for the names. And then a few more supoenae ought to be handed out.

[Just mythoughts]

Keep asking those questions and maybe you might find out why so many were in bed with the Clintons ---- follow the money. How they make it, and what purposes they use it for?