Harpers:There's People Who Fear Indictments&Subpoenas Could Be Coming Down

[kpete]

The CIA “Wehrmacht”

Posted on Wednesday, April 19, 2006. By Ken Silverstein.

SourcesWith the war in Iraq an utter debacle and public opinion turned against the White House, anger within the armed forces towards Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the Administration is growing, and the Pentagon is fighting back (see “Pentagon Memo Aims to Counter Rumsfeld Critics” in the April 16 New York Times). But what's been little noted thus far is what looks to be a similar revolt brewing at the CIA. An ex-senior agency officer who keeps in contact with his former peers told me that there is a “a big swing” in anti-Bush sentiment at Langley. “I've been stunned by what I'm hearing,” he said. “There are people who fear that indictments and subpoenas could be coming down, and they don't want to get caught up in it.”

This former senior officer said there “seems to be a quiet conspiracy by rational people” at the agency to avoid involvement in some of the particularly nasty tactics being employed by the administration, especially “renditions”—the practice whereby the CIA sends terrorist suspects abroad to be questioned in Egypt, Syria, Uzbekistan, and other nations where the regimes are not squeamish about torturing detainees. My source, hardly a softie on the topic of terrorism, said of the split at the CIA: “There's an SS group within the agency that's willing to do anything and there's a Wehrmacht group that is saying, 'I'm not gonna touch this stuff'.”

http://www.harpers.org/sb-cia-wehrmacht.html

[Dhalgren]

1. Jesus! The CIA even has the sense of comparison between

NAZI Germany and Republican America. This thing is going to get ugly, real ugly. What is about to come down, by comparison, is going to make the last six years look like Donna Reed's 1950s...

[wakeme2008]

2. IMHO this is going on over at the NSA too

People used to be proud to work at NSA, and IMHO they know some of the "wiretaps" they are doing are NOT against "terrorist" but IMHO politically motivated.