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| CIA About To Attack DOD Using NYT |
| 2010-04-14 |
| I have just received word that the New York Times is preparing to go public with a list of names of Americans covertly working in Afghanistan providing force protection for our troops, as well as the rest of our Coalition Forces. If the Times actually sees this through, the red ink they are drowning in will be nothing compared to the blood their entire organization will be covered with. Make no mistake, the Times is about to cause casualty rates in Afghanistan to skyrocket. Each and every American should be outraged. The Central Intelligence Agency via the New York Times has been waging a nasty proxy war against the Department of Defense over its use of former military and intelligence personnel to do what the CIA is both incapable and unwilling to do: gather the much needed intelligence that keeps our troops safe. According to Washington Post columnist, David Ignatius, "[T]he U.S. military has long been unhappy about the quality of CIA intelligence in Afghanistan," and the senior military intelligence officer in Afghanistan, Maj Gen Michael T. Flynn went so far as to publish a stunning report calling for "sweeping changes to the way the intelligence community thinks about itself." The report goes on to quote General Stanley McChrystal, who stated that "our senior leaders -- the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secretary of Defense, Congress, the President of the United States -- are not getting the right information to make decisions with ... The media is driving the issues." Through its use of the New York Times, the Central Intelligence Agency has tried to embarrass the Defense Department into shutting down what, by all accounts, has been an amazingly successful program, which has dramatically saved American and Coalition lives and continues to do so on a daily basis. But thanks to the beating the folks on the 7th floor at Langley and the New York Times have taken in the blogosphere, they are about to go for broke and to do so in a fashion so grotesque that every American should be moved to action. These morbidly conjoined twins have entered dangerous territory. They are not only putting at risk the lives of the brave men and women working day and night to keep our troops safe (who, along with their families, will surely be targeted for retribution by al Qaeda and the Taliban), but they are also calling down a host of legal woes via the Intelligence Identities Protection Act (made famous in the Valerie Plame affair under the George W. Bush Administration) as the intelligence gathered and reported on by the Defense Department operatives in question is most definitely classified. So while the New York Times stands ready to once again put American lives at grave risk in order to sell a few more papers, the Central Intelligence Agency appears committed to its misguided "Kappes Doctrine", (so named for Leon Panetta's number-two man, who many in the intel game blame for being the "hidden hand in many of the nation's intelligence failures"). Per the Kappes Doctrine, which was so disastrously tied to the F.O.B. Chapman attack, the Agency is happy to pay foreign intel services to take the risks as long as the CIA can take the credit (and in this case, continue to claim that what the Department of Defense is doing every day on the ground in Afghanistan can't be done). But fortunately for our troops, it is being done, it has saved countless lives, and it will continue to do so, unless the Times publishes its list. (The FOB Chapman attack was the suicide bombing of the CIA outpost.) From The Corner CIA No. 2 to Retire [Daniel Foster] Steve Kappes, second-in-command at the CIA, is retiring. Kappes left the CIA once already, in 2004 after a spat with then-director Porter Goss. He returned in 2006 to much internal fanfare, and when President Obama asked him to stay on as Leon Panetta's deputy (even though Kappes had in his official capacity supported and overseen everything from rendition to enhanced interrogation), it was viewed as a morale booster inside the agency. As likely as not, Kappes' retirement is a personal choice. But there have been some recent grumblings about his stewardship of covert operations, especially in Afghanistan. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #9 It would seem that the folks that the NYT are allegedly about to turn are not the kind of guys you want mad at you. Especially if they know where you work. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-04-14 23:13 |
| #8 I wonder how the intel ident protection act works for the DOD ops? Are they covered or just the OGA guys. This really sucks and I bet there are a lot of really great American holding their breath tonight. The next step will be for the left to file war crime or human right violations on them. "They took part in or gave information that got innocent civs killed" Down that lethal finding road they will go. OS is right. Tear down the headquarters, flush out the rats an start over. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2010-04-14 22:45 |
| #7 congress don't care about treason too the US |
| Posted by: chris 2010-04-14 21:52 |
| #6 How many years have I been telling folks here at the Burg that the CIA is dysfunctional and needs to be torn apart and rebuilt from the ground up? Empire builders and Silo kingdoms under the command of ass covering blanket-folders have rotted the CIA. DoD is the effective Ops arm anymore, which is why the careerists at Langley are doing stupid treasonous stuff like this. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2010-04-14 20:40 |
| #5 Not a great deal new here. There has been a long standing turf conflict btwn the Agency and DoD Clandestine Intelligence. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-04-14 18:32 |
| #4 IF the NY Times does this, next years Congress should keep the following words in mind: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. The Congress shall have power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2010-04-14 18:26 |
| #3 CIA Deputy Director Stephen R. Kappes, who has had a role in overseeing most of the agency's counter-terrorism efforts since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, is scheduled to retire in May and will be replaced by Michael Morell, a career analyst, CIA officials said Wednesday Washington Post |
| Posted by: Willy 2010-04-14 18:23 |
| #2 Wasn't Kappes also mixed up with Yellowcake and Cheesecake? Frankly, I'd love to see Obumble & Co give the company the Chicago tgreatment as long as not real ops are revealed and the agency is in tatters after he and deadfish are done. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-04-14 18:06 |
| #1 Let's keep a weather eye out for more on this story, but in the meantime the 48-hour rule holds. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-04-14 17:52 |