WP: CIA Director Cuts Meetings On Terrorism

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A61558-2005Jan9?language=printer

The daily 5 o'clock meeting at CIA headquarters that for the past three years has coordinated tactical counterterrorism operations involving senior CIA, FBI, Pentagon and Homeland Security Department officials has been cut back by new CIA Director Porter J. Goss to three a week, according to current and former administration and intelligence officials.

The sessions were initiated by former CIA director George J. Tenet because of the failures of coordination among intelligence agencies before Sept. 11, 2001. He used the sessions to push the agencies to carry out specific activities, whether at home or abroad. The meetings were continued by Tenet's former deputy, John E. McLaughlin, while he was acting director and initially by Goss.

Recently, however, Goss, a former House member and onetime CIA case officer, created "a different format," according to an administration official familiar with the program. Goss instead chairs a somewhat similar meeting with a smaller group of senior officials from the agencies, who brief him three mornings a week, the official said.

"They are still very much focused on terrorist issues," the official said. "If something exploded, would get briefed right away."

[sakabatou]

1. "However

before it does explode, we will ignore it all together."

[genius]

2. Of course. He doesn't want to arrest the Terrorist in Chief.

[daleo]

3. A fresh LIHOP being planned?

If you want to let something happen on purpose, you have make sure you aren't trying too hard to prevent it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. WTF? "If something exploded," top CIA guys "would get briefed right away"?

I thought the whole idea was that they were supposed to get briefed BEFORE stuff exploded, so it DIDN'T explode. Am I missing something?

[chelaque liberal]

6. I take that as sarcasm. Maybe a little discord at the CIA?

[kuozzman]

5. WTF?

:wtf:

[anarchy1999]

7. Why am I not surprised? Porter Goss? Just one last nail in our coffin.

The Journalist Who Exposed the Crimes of Luis Posada Carriles
By JEAN-GUY ALLARD

Like few journalists before him, Gary Webb exposed the CIA's evil schemes in the drug world and revealed to the US public how the country's black neighborhoods were inundated with crack as part of drug trafficking designed to supply the Nicaraguan Contras with money and weapons.

He exposeded narco-terrorist Luis Posada Carriles and his accomplices who were involved in that criminal transaction. And he ended up being shot in his home with two bullets in his face. A suicide, reported the judicial authorities.

US reporters are in mourning. Gary Webb, who was discovered dead on Friday, December 10, in his Carmichael home in California, was for many a model of professionalism and integrity. He was 49 years of age.

snip to the end:

Webb's series in the San José Mercury News explains in detail how the CIA network sold tons of cocaine to criminal gangs and demonstrates how the White House's anti-communist fanaticism was so fervent that it was willing to engage in the propagation of the most hideous drug epidemic of modern times.

The African-American community in the United States was shocked by the news disseminated by Webb's articles.

His role in disclosing the CIA's sinister plot made Webb a very famous figure in the black community.

When the House of Representatives finally agreed to take up the issue, after a report was issued by the CIA inspector general concerning drug trafficking by the agency, Porter Goss, who had directed the Intelligence Committee since the previous year, decided at a preliminary hearing that the allegations were "false."

Goss, a former CIA agent who in 1972 participated in operations at the JM/WAVE base in Miami, including terrorist operations against Cuba, ended up being named director of the CIA by George W. Bush.

http://www.counterpunch.org/allard01052005.html

for the rest of the long ugly story go to the above link.

Why are "we the people" letting all the criminals run amok, again? Jesus Christ, I have a comic book from this era in time detailing them all. Did we all forget? Is it okay now, they served time for their crimes? As in treason? I'm lost and confused. We have all lost our collective minds.

America, What went Wrong
Bartlett and Steele
Recommended reading for all, published in '92
and then there is always:

None Dare Call it Conspiracy, by Gary Allen.

[anarchy1999]

9. kick to the indecent top.

n/t

[LynnTheDem]

8. Suuuuuuure they're "focused". Like BUSH was "focused" before 911.

Uh huh.

Riiiight.

Whatever.

Same ol same ol.

[Moderator]

10. duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1121940