[Kzyxtalk] CIA Restructuring -- at KMEC Radio, Monday, March 23 at 1 p.m., Pacific Time

[Joel Waldman]

Yeah, I'm still listening to your Palestinian propaganda jive.

I don't get it.  You and Coate are so much alike, it heightens the  
mystery of personality conflicts.

So much for the canard that AIPAC controls the media!

This ain't your daddy's CIA.


On Mar 23, 2015, at 11:58 AM, sako4 at comcast.net wrote:

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> **** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ****
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> On Monday, March 23, at 1 p.m., Pacific Time, KMEC Radio is pleased  
> to bring you Elizabeth Murray, former Deputy National Intelligence  
> Officer for the Middle East at the National Intelligence Council.  
> We'll talk about CIA Director John Brennan's new plan to restructure  
> the CIA.
>
> Ms. Murray retired after a distinguished 27-year career in national  
> security and intelligence. She specialized in Middle East political  
> and media analysis. Murray is a member of Veteran Intelligence  
> Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). See: http://warisacrime.org/vips
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> HOW CIA DIRECTOR BRENNAN'S PLAN FACILITATES FUTURE WARS BASED ON LIES
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>     Last Friday afternoon -- when stories on Fridays are typically  
> put out to avoid scrutiny by mainstream media -- a plan by CIA head  
> John Brennan to restructure the agency was made public. Much of the  
> major media portrayed it as a reform to make Americans safer: The  
> New York Times headline read: "CIA to Be Overhauled to Fight Modern  
> Threats." However, many CIA veterans argue that it is a step toward  
> further politicization of intelligence.
>
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> ELIZABETH MURRAY
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>     Murray served as deputy national intelligence officer for the  
> Near East in the National Intelligence Council before retiring after  
> a 27-year career in the U.S. government, where she specialized in  
> Middle Eastern political and media analysis.
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> WHAT MURRAY HAS TO SAY ABOUT BRENNAN'S PLAN
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>    Murray is among the signers to a just released, posted at  
> ConsortiumNews.com: "U.S. Intel Vets Oppose Brennan’s Plan to  
> Restructure CIA," which takes the form of a memo to the President:  
> "Mr. President, The CIA reorganization plan announced by Director  
> John Brennan on Friday is a potentially deadly blow to the  
> objective, fact-based intelligence needed to support fully informed  
> decisions on foreign policy. We suggest turning this danger into an  
> opportunity to create an independent entity for CIA intelligence  
> analysis immune from the operational demands of the 'war on terror.'
>
>     "On Feb. 5, 2003, immediately after Colin Powell’s address to  
> the UN, members of VIPS sent our first VIPS memorandum, urging  
> President George W. Bush to widen the policy debate 'beyond the  
> circle of those advisers clearly bent on a war for which we see no  
> compelling reason and from which we believe the unintended  
> consequences are likely to be catastrophic.'
>
>     "The 'former senior officers' whom Brennan asked for input on  
> the restructuring plan are a similar closed, blinkered circle, as is  
> the 'outstanding group of officers from across the Agency' picked by  
> Brennan to look at the Agency’s mission and future. He did not  
> include any of the intelligence community dissidents and alumni who  
> fought against the disastrous politicization of intelligence before  
> the attack on Iraq. Nor does Brennan’s plan reflect the lessons  
> learned from that debacle. ...
>
>     "President Harry Truman wanted an agency structure able to meet  
> a president’s need for 'the most accurate ... information on what’s  
> going on everywhere in the world, and particularly of the trends and  
> developments in all the danger spots.' In an op-ed appearing in the  
> Washington Post exactly one month after the assassination of  
> President John F. Kennedy, Truman added, 'I have been disturbed  
> by ... the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment …  
> and has become an operational and at times policy-making arm of the  
> Government.' ...
>
>     "You are fully aware, we trust, that our analysts’ vaunted ethos  
> of speaking unvarnished truth to power was corrupted by Director  
> George Tenet and Deputy Director John McLaughlin, who outdid  
> themselves in carrying out the instructions of President Bush and  
> Vice President Dick Cheney. The new ethos boiled down to this: If  
> the President wants to paint Iraq as a strategic threat, it is our  
> job to come up with the 'evidence' -- even if it needs to be  
> manufactured out of whole cloth (or forged, as in 'yellowcake  
> uranium from Africa' caper). ...
>
>     "There is hope to be drawn from those occasions where senior  
> intelligence officials with integrity can step in, show courageous  
> example, and -- despite multiple indignities and pitfalls in the  
> system -- can force the truth to the surface. We hope that you have  
> been made aware that, after the no-WMD-anywhere debacle on Iraq,  
> Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence Thomas Fingar did  
> precisely that during 2007, supervising a watershed National  
> Intelligence Estimate on Iran that concluded unanimously, 'with high  
> confidence,' that Iran had stopped working on a nuclear weapon in  
> 2003.
>
>     "President Bush concedes in his memoir that this put the kibosh  
> on his and Dick Cheney’s earlier plan to attack Iran during their  
> last year in office. So, character (as in Fingar) counts, and people  
> of integrity can make a difference -- and even help thwart plans for  
> war -- even in the most politicized of circumstances."
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