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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Friday, July 29, 2005

Bush v CIA

Here we go again. See the last post to get the real context, but the key point out of this is that with Presidential freedom medal winner Tenet out of the way, it seems that the neocon propaganda may not go unchallenged. (How far off the path have we gone that I am rooting for the CIA to be the one's to tell the truth?)

What with the White house passing off their Iraq lies onto the CIA, the attempt to pin the original torture allegations on the CIA rather than Defense, the turf war over spy budgets, the de facto demotion of the head of the CIA to operate under Negroponte's two man shop, the whole plame thing, and now the Italian magistrate issuing arrest warrants for CIA operatives off information that most certainly came from someone in the know(remember that the Niger forgeries were passed through Italian intelligence,) I would be guessing that Porter Goss will not be getting that invitation to brief the president anytime soon.

I wonder what Bush the elder, a former CIA chief who used the CIA with great frequency would make of this spat. It's so hard when your child falls in with the wrong crowd and all you can do is wait and hope in the end he does the right thing.

Anyhow, the state dept. comes out with a story today demanding that Ahmadinejad prove a negative, and the CIA comes out hours later with the best proof of that negative they have.

I can't believe I'm rooting for the CIA.

Reuters

Ahmadinejad not man in Tehran embassy photo - CIA

Fri Jul 29, 5:44 PM ET

A CIA analysis has concluded a hostage-taker pictured in an old photo at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran is not Iranian President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a U.S. official said on Friday.

The analysis compared photos of Ahmadinejad and an embassy hostage-taker whom former U.S. hostages identified as the newly elected Iranian leader. It found discrepancies serious enough to suggest the two are different men.

"If there's a case to made that Ahmadinejad was one of the hostage-takers, it will not be made on the basis of those photographs," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of sensitive nature of the subject matter.

2 Comments:

  • The CIA is a Union and Bush just doubled the number of employees. They have no interest in liability for what they've done and now the excuse is that they are Union. The answer is they have gotten too involved in domestic politics using their unique situation to out Presidents. CIA is not supposed to be involved in domestic politics. They will scream Union and Democrats when you get in their way. They
    are very highly paid public employees who want to do more than take the money Bush has given them.

    Congress has already called for CIA to be dissolved. This is impossible, supposedly because its a Union, but the real answer is that they have worked their way into Congressman's back pockets and policy.

    The CIA has gone way beyond its job and has already become a waste of time and money. They are bureucrats and nothing more; getting paychecks from Americans.

    Bush's non foreign policy or WMD policy was Rice Policy (WAR) and CIA policy. The US will laways pay right here and so can CIA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:26 AM  

  • By Blogger samaher, at 6:37 PM  

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