Posted on 04/21/2006 12:01:43 PM PDT by Howlin
Edited on 04/21/2006 12:47:23 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Just breaking on Fox...
No details, but the agent was caught dead to rights leaking....
Update: CIA Officer Fired for Leaking Classified Info to Media
WASHINGTON — A CIA officer has been relieved of his duty after being caught leaking classified information to the media.
CIA officials will not reveal the officer's name, assignment, or the information that was leaked. The firing is a highly unusual move, although there has been an ongoing investigation into leaks in the CIA.
One official called this a "damaging leak" that deals with operational information and said the fired officer "knowingly and willfully" leaked the information to the media and "was caught."
Seeing as how they don't mind putting folks at risk, I'd rather see them strapped to a suicide bomb.
I think it's okay to be anti-war, but it's wrong to be anti-war in a way which endangers your fellow countrymen. It seems that too many pacifists end up, in effect, helping our enemies.
Aw go ahead, try anyway. lol
Pinz
"Does Marc Rich do any trading in gold unranium or yellowcake? His business is comodities, yes? "
Good question. I'm also wondering about Soros - -I don't trust him farther than I can throw him. And, while, as you said, Rich owes a lot to the Clintonistas, Kerry and others in the Dims circle owe a lot to Soros and the $$$$s he gave to those who bashed Bush, including himself. As does Mary McCarthy, he also had some connections to Weasley Clark and Maddie Allbright. And, according to the article below, apparently had at least a 1-time connection to Rich and some other shady investors in Europe:
George Soros and the Rothschilds Connection
By Jan Von Helsing ("Secret Societies and their Power in the 20th Century")
The now 64 year old Hungarian with a U.S. passport is the superstar amidst the great speculators. When the last "Forbes" list of the best paid managers and financiers was published, Soros was in the lead by a huge margin. In the last year he earned 550 million US$, twenty times as much as the Disney Boss. When Soros opens the hunt, the international money markets get moving and the reserve banks start worrying.
>snip
He himself likes to be openly known as the man who wants to influence the big money markets of the world. This is a very unusual stance for an investor to take, who should rather be interested in using situations unobservantly that the competitors have not yet discovered. In March 1993, Soros' activities became known when he predicted a rise in the price of gold. It is assumed --since this started a buying spree in precious metals --that this drove the price up 20% over the highest price since the Gulf War. In the beginning of June 1993, he wrote an open letter to the business editor of the London Times, Anatole Kaletsky, announcing that he intented to urge the money markets to sell large amounts of German
government bonds in favor of French stocks. Which means: Down with the German mark and attack on the Bundesbank!
>snip
From this fund the "Quantum Group" evolved, a family of investment funds operating from the Dutch West Indies. Quantum is one of the most impressive "investment machines" in the world. In 8 of the last 24 years it made an "official" profit of over 50%, in 2 of those years even over 100%. In the meantime Soros handed business over to a group of managers and limits himself to designing he "great campaigns". He put down his princples in the book, "The Alchemy of Finance", where he says what "financial speculators think more important than real economic facts".
But this is but the picture the media -- and we know who owns them --paint of him. Who is he in reality?
William Engdahl knows this to say about him:
"Soros speculates on the world's financial markets via his secret off-shore company, "Quantum Fund NV", a private "investment fund" that handles a portfolio of 4 to 7 Billion US$ for several "clients".
The Quantum Fund is registered in the tax haven of the Netherland Antilles in the Caribbean. In order to evade control of his financial activities by the U.S. administration not a single U.S. citizen sits on the board of Quantum. It's directors are a curious mixture of Swiss and Italian financiers...
Soros has been identified as a front man of the Anglo-French Rothschild banking group.
Understandably neither he nor the Rothschilds want this important fact to be public, so the tight links to his friends in the London "City", in the British foreign ministry, in the state of Israel and to his mighty friends in the American establishment would stay concealed."
Among the members of the board of the Quantum Fund is one Richard Katz. He is, at the same time, head of the "Rothschild Italia S.p.A." in Milan and is also on the board of the commercial bank "N.M. Rothschild and Sons" in London. Another member of the board is Nils O. Taube. He is a partner in the London investment group "St. James Place Capital" which counts Lord Rothschild among it's main partners. A frequent partner of Soros in several of his speculations --especially in the driving up of the gold quotation-- is Sir James Goldsmith, a relative of the Rothschilds dynasty.
On the board of Quantum we also find some heads of some highly "discreet" Swiss private banks (who help the syndicates of organized crime--weapons and drugs--to launder their money). Then there is Edgar D. de Picciotto, head of the Geneva private bank "CBITDB Union Bancaire Privee", a main player on the gold and investment markets, Isidoro Albertini, head of the Milan stockbroking
company "Albertini and Co.", Beat Notz of the private bank "Banque Worms" at Geneva, Alberto Foglia, head of the Banca del Ceresio" at Lugano. In the course of the recent political corruption scandals in Italy it was found that several Italian politicians kept their money at the "Banca del Ceresio". Apparently Soros had more than just insider knowledge about the weal points in Italian politics when he attacked the lira in Sept. 1994.
William Engdahl explains : "Soros' connection to the ultra-secret international finance circles of the Rothschilds is not just an ordinary or accidental banking connection. The extraordinary success Soros has on the high-risk financial markets cannot simply be explained with "gambler's luck".
Soros has access to the "insider track" of the world's most imporatnt information channels, both government and private.
Not a single Western newspaper has so far uncovered the fact that the Rothschilds group linked with George Soros was at the hub of the vast illegal network of the BCCI. The key person in these activities was Dr. Alfred Hartmann, the managing director of the Swiss branch of the BCCI (Banque
de Commerce et de Placement SA), head of the Zurich Rothschild bank AG and member of the board of N.M. Rothschild & Sons in London. He was also on the board of the Swiss branch of the Italian BNL and was vice-chairman of the "N.Y. Intermaritime Bank" in Geneva. A friendly secret service man who had worked on the "Soros" case disclosed that in Sept. 1993 Soros had amassed along with a group of "silent partners", a firtune in excess of 10 Billion dollars to use as a lever to unhinge the European currencies.
Among the partners apparently were the little known metal and oil dealer Marc Rich and the Israeli arms dealer Shaul Eisenberg. For decades Eisenberg has beenworking for the Israeli secret service and has important arms deals in all of Asia and in the Near East.
A third partner of Soros is Rafi Eytan who before was the Mossad connection to the British secret service in London.
http://www.freedomdomain.com/soros01.html
Soros invested in gold and other mineral mines in Kosovo:
“Soros has made money in every country he has helped to prise ‘open’. In Kosovo, for example, he has invested $50 million in an attempt to gain control of the Trepca mine complex, where there are vast reserves of gold, silver, lead and other minerals estimated to be worth in the region of $5 billion. He thus copied a pattern he has deployed to great effect over the whole of eastern Europe of advocating ‘shocking therapy’ and ‘economic reform’, then swooping in with his associate to buy valuable state assets at knock-down prices,” according to Clark.*
http://www.mindfully.org/WTO/2003/George-Soros-Statesman2jun03.htm
I didn't read most of the article as I need to run, but found this wrt the correlation of gold and oil prices:
Crude oil has astonished analysts and consumers alike in the last 18 months, rocketing up an incredible 200%. Even folks not interested in studying the markets are seeing the effects of higher crude oil in their pocketbooks, as gas prices continue to rise at the pump and more and more companies tack on fuel surcharges. In addition to heralding inflation, oil has historically had a very high positive correlation with the undisputed king of assets, gold. In this essay, we will explore the historical relationship between gold and crude oil."
http://www.zealllc.com/commentary/goldinoil.htm
"On the one hand, you can't help but like the troops, in the sense that they are trying hard, with the wrong tools, to do something they weren't trained for in a culture they don't know," she says. "They don't want to be doing it, and yet they have this very American can-do spirit about them so they're not going to sit around and do nothing."
I'm not going to comment...it would be pulled.
Given the two sides of the road that the Priest/Goodfellow team are working, they have probalby have connections in shadowy places all over the world!
From here: http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?show=hardcover:new:0393010244:26.95
The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military
by Dana Priest
ISBN:0393010244 (More details...)
Available at:Quimby Warehouse
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
Walk with America's generals, grunts, and Green Berets through the maze of unconventional wars and unsettled peace. Four-star generals who lead the military during wartime reign like proconsuls abroad in peacetime. Secretive Green Berets trained to hunt down terrorists are assigned to seduce ruthless authoritarian regimes. Pimply young soldiers taught to seize airstrips instead play mayor, detective, and social worker in a gung-ho but ill-fated attempt to rebuild a nation after the fighting stops. The Mission is a boots-on-the-ground account of America's growing dependence on our military to manage world affairs, describing a clash of culture and purpose through the eyes of soldiers and officers themselves. With unparalleled access to all levels of the military, Dana Priest traveled to eighteen countries—including Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Colombia, Kosovo, Indonesia, and Nigeria—talking to generals, admirals, Special Forces A-teams, and infantry troops. Blending Ernie Pyle's worm's-eye view with David Halberstam's altitude, this book documents a historic and thought-provoking trend, one made even more significant in the aftermath of September 11 as the country turns to its warriors to solve the complex international challenges ahead. 16 pages of b/w photographs.
Review:
Dana Priest's revealing, close-up look...is especially timely as we view the challenges of the post-9/11 world. (Richard Holbrooke)
Review:
A book that is just in time for the great new debate between the hawks and the doves. (Benjamin C. Bradlee)
Review:
Anyone trying to understand the interplay between US military and foreign policy must read The Mission. (Jody Williams, Nobel Laureate for Peace, 1997)
Review:
An important, frequently troubling, portrayal...raises questions that urgently need answers. (Jessica T. Matthews, president, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
Review:
[S]uperbly written....should be required reading for anyone hoping to understand the goals and objectives of contemporary US foreign policy. (Lawrence J. Korb, Director of Studies, Council on Foreign Relations)
Review:
[A] fascinating set of answers to...important questions about America's role in today's world . (Joseph Nye, Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs)
I can't read through the over 1500 posts at the moment, but I found a couple of articles, which may or may have already been posted to this thread, but they contain good info about Mary O'Neill McCarthy:
TEXT: BERGER APPOINTS MCCARTHY SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR INTELLIGENCE, 17 June 1998
http://www.fas.org/irp/news/1998/06/98061701_tpo.html
Mary McCarthy had been Director of Intelligence Programs on the
National Security Council Staff since July 1996. Previously, said the
White House, Mrs. McCarthy served as the National Intelligence Officer
for Warning from 1994-1996 and as the Deputy National Intelligence
Officer for Warning from 1991-1994. She began government service in
1984 as an analyst in the Directorate of Intelligence of the Central
Intelligence Agency.
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Mary O'Neil McCarthy: Fired CIA Leaker, Clinton Spec. Assistant (This one lists her duties)
http://colombia.indymedia.org/news/2006/04/40988.php
i. To oversee analysis of intelligence from all sources which might provide warning. In particular, he should be alert to alternate interpretations within the community and assess these with a view to the need for issuance of warning. He should encourage consultation and substantive discussion at all levels in the Community.
ii. To recommend to the Director or Deputy Director of Central Intelligerce the issuance of warning to the President and National Security Council, and to ensure the dissemination of such warning within and by the organizations of the Intelligence Community. When time is of the essence, the National Intelligence Officer may issue such warning directly to the President and the National Security Council, with concurrent dissemination to the Director and Deputy Director of Central Intelligence and senior officers of the Intelligence Community.
.... and more ( see link above)
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She clearly had access to highly classified information, the release of which endangers national security and she released it for political purposes. This IS a crime. I hope they will prosecute her to the full extent of the law.
Time Magazine had an article, where they mentioned that other investigations are on-going about other leaks.
How a CIA Leaker Got Axed
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1186406,00.html
"Several other investigations into leaks to reporters are currently underway in Washington, including one to discover who told New York Times reporters about the Presidentially ordered National Security Agency secret program to tap domestic calls to suspected terrorists without obtaining warrants beforehand."
more wow...WHO CAN FIND A COPY OF THIS HEARING..
William Goodfellow (Indochina Resource Center, Center for International Policy, etc). who denied, before Congress, that the Khmer Rouge were practicing genocide in Cambodia, and at the very time that it was happening. Even liberal Rep. Stephen Solarz (D-NY), 1976 hearings, literally called them liars and psychopaths. (Probably House Foreign Affairs or International Affairs Committee, subcommittee on Asia, hearings, 1976-77. Might be entitled "Human Rights in Cambodia".
http://www.frontpagemag.com/GoPostal/CommentsOverview.asp?ID=11282
I am just going to have to mark off some time and sit down and READ everything you have posted.
It's simply amazing.
Someone put a thread up ... linking to this thread
Rockefeller, Durbin To Take Polygraphs! [The REAL "Culture of Corruption"...!]
Strata-Sphere.com ^ | 4/22/2006 | A.J. Strata
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1619579/posts
Check out post 1508. Her hubby looks like a communist to me.
But first I want stockades on the Mall; right near The Washington Monument would be fine with me.
Things which were classified then are routinely talked about openly now on the news.
Never even HEARD of a "leak" then. Now it's common and makes me feel real frightened for my country!
Skip town. Go to Israel. Where's the accountability and the punishment?
Too many sloppy people with security clearances. We are becoming less and less secure.
-Anyone that has Sy Hersh on speedial.
All stories completely buried by the MSM. We pretty much knew Berger would skate. The ones at the very top tend to get a pass... I think his 10K fine got bumped up to 50K. He still skated.
He made that money back on the Lecture Circuit and w/ his consulting gig in three Mos.
-Did we ever even find out if he actually crammed docs in his socks? -It's like it never happened. You know they all have one other thing in common. Not only are they long-kniving the Bush Administration, -they are ringing the register while they do it, Books, Speaking Engagements, pandering, lying, leaking, scheming. Who does it hurt? -Everyone-.
Where is the outrage?
I don't think it's too much of a stretch to call this "treasonous" behavior.
Too many 60's leftover who tried to destroy this country back then and are here to finish her off.
9/10 Mindsets
HON. BUD SHUSTER- in the House of Representatives
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1992
Mr. SHUSTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to praise the accomplishments of Richard J. Kerr, who retired last week as the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Dick Kerr was a superb intelligence officer who personified the best traditions of the CIA.
He was truly a Central Intelligence officer: The breadth of his experience made him the best example I know, of an all-around officer. His expertise showed best in the last few years, when he was the Deputy Director, and then Acting Director for a long period pending the confirmation of Mr. Gates.
As Director of Central Intelligence [DCI] Gates noted in Kerr's retirement ceremony at CIA headquarters last week. `The issues in which Dick has played a role over these years read like a history of our time and span the globe.' Dick spent 32 years with the CIA. Rising through the directorate of intelligence to be senior analyst, then representative to the Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command, then head of a task force planning the use of new collection sytems, and then executive officer of the intelligence community staff.
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John C. Gannon was appointed ADCI/AP in June 1998. He continues to serve as Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, a position he has held since July 1997.
Previously he served as Deputy Director for Intelligence. Prior to that position, Mr. Gannon served as Director in the Office of European Analysis beginning March 1992.
Mr. Gannon began his government career as a political analyst on Latin America. He also had a brief tour in the Office of Economic Research, worked on the staff of The President's Daily Brief, and held various management positions in the Office of European Analysis before becoming Deputy Director of the Office in May 1989.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 14 May 2001 Statement by George J. Tenet - Director of Central Intelligence on the Departure of John C. Gannon, Chairman of the National Intelligence Council
For nearly a quarter of a century, John Gannon has excelled in the toughest analytical jobs the U.S. Intelligence Community has to offer. His forthcoming departure to join the private sector, therefore, is a loss to all of us who have benefited from his ability to produce clear, crisp, well-reasoned and insightful analysis on some of the most critical issues facing our nation.
The National Intelligence Council (NIC), under John’s leadership during the past four years, has broken new ground in reaching out to the finest minds–in and out of government–to produce for policymakers the most authoritative written judgments on key national security issues. The highly acclaimed “Global Trends 2015” report is just one example of the remarkable work that the NIC has produced under his tenure.
A tireless advocate for the role of intelligence and an enthusiastic proponent for greater public policy debate, John has been a powerful voice on behalf of the Intelligence Community.
We will miss his sharp analysis, strong leadership, infectious good humor and most of all his friendship. We wish him all the best in his new endeavors.
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Gannon's bio:
Current Position (March 2003-)
House of Representatives, Staff Director of the House Select Committee on Homeland Security. Formed arid managed staff for fifty-member committee with responsibility for oversight of the new Department of Homeland Security. (Reference: Committee Chairman Christopher Cox, 202.225.5611.)
Previous Positions
Department of Homeland Security Transition Planning Office, August 2001-January 2002. Headed team standing up the Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Directorate. Proposed organization and budget priorities for FY 03 and FY 04. (Reference: Secretary Tom Ridge, 202.456.1621)
Vice-Chairman of the Intellibridge Corporation, Washington (Georgetown), D.C. Provided web-based analysis to corporate and government clients; supervised all analytical and client services for the company. (Reference: Former National Security Adviser Anthony Lake, 202-687-9151)
Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, July 1997-June 2001. Produced Community-coordinated estimates for President's national security team on top-priority regional and global issues. Published Global Trends 2015, a strategic look at the world in the next generation, in collaboration with outside experts (see www.odci.gov/CIA/Publications/pubs.html for the document). (Reference: DCI George Tenet, 703-482-6363)
Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production, July 1998-June 2001. Coordinated analytic programs of eleven intelligence agencies represented in National Intelligence Producers Board. Initiated first baseline assessment of Intelligence Community analytical resources and the first Strategic Investment Plan for Intelligence Community (Reference: John McLaughlin, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, 703-482-6464)
Deputy Director for Intelligence at CIA, July 1995-July 1997 Supervised all CIA analysts and oversaw preparation of the President's Daily Brief. Inaugurated the first Strategic Plan for the Directorate of Intelligence, and its first major reorganization since 1981, flattening management and promoting technology. (Reference: Former DCI John Deutch, 617-253-1479)
Military
Naval Officer in South East Asia (Engineer Officer on an amphibious landing ship) on active duty from 1967-70 and later in the Naval Reserve as an instructor of navigation at Navy OCS in Newport, Rhode Island; retired from the Naval Reserve (commanded two units) as a Captain in 1990.
Civic Activities
Elected to the Falls Church, Virginia, City Council (1980-82) and subsequently appointed to the city's Planning Commission (1984-88), on which he served as Vice Chairman and Chairman. Later served on the City's Economic Development Commission and Charter Review Commission. (Reference: Former Falls Church Mayor Carol DeLong, 703-534-0981; Tony Griffin, Fairfax County Executive, 703-324-2531 or -2536)
Education
BA in psychology from Holy Cross College in 1966, MA in history from Washington University in St. Louis in 1972, and Ph.D. in history there in 1976. Graduate studies focused on Latin American. Taught social studies and science in a secondary school in Jamaica as a member of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps (1966-67), and later taught high school for a year while completing graduate studies in St. Louis.
Awards
CIA's Distinguished Intelligence Medal, Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal, and the CIA Director's Medal; the Defense Intelligence Agency Director's Award (three citations); the National Imagery and Mapping Agency Medal; the National Security Agency Distinguished Service Medal; and the State Department's Superior Honor Award. Holy Cross: Ignatius Award, 1996; Sanctae Crucis Award for professional accomplishment, 2002.
Publications
"Intelligence Community Reform: Let Form Follow Function," Intelligencer: Journal of U.S. Intelligence Studies, Volume 13, number 1, Spring/Summer 2002.
Recent Memberships
Currently Active - Board of Directors, Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University; Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Washington World Affairs Council. Until August 2002 - Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction (Gilmore Commission); National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) Advisory Panel for Analysis and Production (PNAP); ANSER Institute for Homeland Security Advisory Board; Board of Directors, Viisage (Biometrics) Corporation.
Yeah, we miss you too, George.
Mac at macmind has an interesting post.
He has MELVIN A. GOODMAN as a co-signer to a letter to Sen McCain. Other co-signers are VERY interesting:
LARRY C. JOHNSON
RAY MCGOVERN
RICHARD CLARKE
ROBERT DAVID STEELE VIVAS
STANSFIELD TURNER
Read the whole post!
http://macsmind.blogspot.com/2006/04/rockefeller-did-you-teller-xi-mary-is.html
"There are rumors that they (Zinni and some other generals)are urging Powell to run for President in 2008"
I came across a blog and posted it to the Sunday a.m. Talk Show Thread a few weeks back. It's a group that are 'progressive dems' and are trying to show they are 'security-minded' by getting dems who have served in the military or security services in various elected positions (we need to watch and counter these).
They want to draft Zinni for Pres.
Here's a link to their web site: http://blueforceblog.com/
Here's a link to the Dims running for various positions: http://blueforceblog.com/securitydems
Here's a link to the Draft Zinni site (also has a list of Dims who are veterans running for office:
http://www.draftzinni.com/
Too late...
The Victim/Whistleblower mantra is already starting....
I've seen it on 3 different boards already........
"Too many 60's leftover who tried to destroy this country back then and are here to finish her off."
They're nothing if not persistent. That's what happens to people who believe their on a mission.
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