Printable version Cheney 'ordered CIA to hide plan' | ||
Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney gave direct orders to the CIA to conceal an intelligence programme from Congress, US media reports say. The existence of the programme, set up after 9/11, was hidden for eight years and even now its nature is not known. CIA director Leon Panetta is said to have abandoned the project when he learnt of it last month. He has now told a House committee that Mr Cheney was behind the secrecy, the unnamed US sources say. There has been no comment from Mr Cheney. War of words The claims come amid an increasingly bitter row between the CIA and Congress over whether key information was withheld about other aspects of the agency's operations. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has claimed that the CIA misled her about interrogation methods including waterboarding, while other senior Democrats have quoted Mr Panetta as admitting that his agency regularly misled Congress before he took office.
Details of the newly-revealed secret programme have still not been divulged, but sources say it did not relate to the CIA's rendition programme, interrogation methods or a controversial domestic surveillance project. Officials quoted by the New York Times say the programme was launched by anti-terror operatives at the CIA soon after the 2001 attacks, and involved planning and training but never became fully operational. Another unnamed official told AP it was an embryonic intelligence-gathering effort, aimed at yielding intelligence that would be used to conduct covert operations abroad. Sources have told a number of US media outlets Mr Cheney personally instructed the CIA to withhold information about the programme from Congress. Mr Panetta - who took over directorship of the CIA under President Obama's administration - is said to have learnt about the programme only on 23 June. The next day he called an emergency meeting with congressional intelligence committees to tell them about its existence and to say that it was being cancelled, the reports say. Veto threat The allegations come as Democrats in Congress are trying to push through new rules that would increase the number of members of Congress who are told about covert operations. The White House is threatening to veto the bill, fearing that operational secrecy could be compromised. The CIA has not commented on the reports of Mr Cheney's role. "It's not agency practice to discuss what may or may not have been said in a classified briefing," said spokesman Paul Gimigliano. "When a CIA unit brought this matter to Director Panetta's attention, it was with the recommendation that it be shared appropriately with Congress. That was also his view, and he took swift, decisive action to put it into effect." A CIA spokesman insisted earlier this week that "it is not the policy or practice of the CIA to mislead Congress." | ||
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Comment: This confirms my suspicions and makes me realize that I was 'sensing and feeling'
more than actually knowing from proven facts about the evils emanating out of the Oval Office
during the reign of former President Fuhrer Bush and his Oval Office Cabal.
After all legal peaceful methods of resistance have been clearly exhausted then the social forces
of liberation have no other choice than to resort to selective targeted violence to sternly and
dramatically correct corporate-state-fascist wrongdoings. The 'foco' theory is put into practice.
I myself have taken a qualified vow of peace but I will still coontinue to advocate dramatic global
transformation of the present state of property relations between the 'haves' and the 'have-nots'.
Recall: after the legal coup-d-etat of Fuhrer Bush in 2000 there was a rising movement inside
the United States for his impeachment and a callng into question the whole legistimacy of the whole
corporate state, including the U.S. Supreme Court, then 911 saved his ass!
Radicals 'dumbed down' and then referred to themselves as 'progressives' so as not to be linked
up and connected with the bogeyman of Al Queda and Osama Bin Laden. People started getting
dressed up in the red-white-and-blue Amerikan flag and the fascist state machinery was able
to control public opinion, instill fear and paranoism into the general population.
The U.S. government is still fascist with a black face in the White House, the perfect fascist-
corporate puppet in the name of President Barack Obama. Compared to the bumbling fool
Fuhrer Bush, who is not going to look like a real progressive improvement?
Let us not go to sleep now gentlepeople! Fascism is still 'in power and secure' and we are
still wasting billions of dollars trying to police the world and fighting ghost wars!!!
We must speak the truth, our truth and when we agree there is harmony, when there is some
disagreement among humane liberated souls let us agree to disagree, so long as we agree
on helping to meet the basic survival needs of the people: food, clothing, shelter, medical
care and quality education. We must mobilize the masses around their basic survival needs.
From a long-term strategic viewpoint we require a true worldwide democratic socialist revooluton,
not mere reform of a corrupt decaying system! Social revolution would be a relevant quantum leap
in human evolution!
Beyond the days of Che Guevara, we can now utilize the Power of the Internet to reach out to others,
to raise cosmic consciousness and to neutralize the fanatical forces of reaction.
Let there be thousands of groups, parties and progressife organizations! Let us come togtether
as one unified humanity beyond flags, borders, artificial races and petty cultural nationalism.
We can do this in unity with all peoples who desire real social change and a dramatic improvement
in their personal lives. The future of our children is at stake in what we do or do not do in these
troubled times.
Education for Liberation!
Peter S. Lopez ~aka: Peta
Sacramento, California, Aztlan
Yahoo Email: peter.lopez51@yahoo.com
Wake Up! Join Up! Rise Up!
http://anhglobal.ning.com/group/humanerightsagenda
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Humane-Rights-Agenda/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NetworkAztlan_News/
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1 comment:
Is it time for jail yet for Cheney? there is a related post at http://iamsoannoyed.com/?page_id=588
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