David Barron Quotes

Two months later the attack of September 11 took place. CIA Director Tenant had been do alarmed by the information that the CIA had obtained that he immediately called the National Security Advisor to arrange a briefing at the White House. This was attended by Rich B, Tenant, and his deputy for counter-terrorism, Cofer Black. Black recommended that the United States immediately go on a “war footing.” It is not known what Rice discussed with President Bush but the nation did not go on a war footing and there was no alert even of the airports where the terrorists started their attack taking over planes. Tenant would later say that one of his biggest regrets was that he did not take the matter to the President personally when his meeting with Rice produced no action.

The latter phrase means bribe servants to spy and be agents. The State Department and the CIA were rolled into one in Ancient India. Manava Dharma Shastra. This text is a part of the Hindu Holy Texts. Hindus believe that Manu was a prophet whose text is revealed or inspired.

Chile under Pinochet was the center for Operation Condor, and in addition it included Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay. These countries all were committing wholesale murders and disappearances of, in Scherrer’s words, “leftists, communists and Marxists”. The Condor agents assassinated many abroad who just opposed their methods including a Chilean national in the Untied States and an American friend. Scherrer discovered the identity of some of the Condor terrorist criminals. The US government was very ambivalent as an innocent American had been murdered together with a visiting foreign visitor in Washington DC, by being blown up by a car bomb. At the same time the CIA and others in the government had been aiding the Condor governments but generally did not realize how far these right wing governments were going although some Americans knew, For example, the military through the School of the Americas {588838} taught the South Americans interrogation techniques including torture methods that were illegal in America. The desire to keep the extent of the atrocities secret and the extent of American support of the governments conflicted with the desire to find and punish the terrorists who were killing Americans and others on American soil.

36 days later, September 11, he did strike, and at the World Trade Center. The memo was kept secret by the Bush administration until public pressure as a result of the 9-11 Commission hearings forced the declassification and release. At that point it became clear that there was no reason that the memo could not have been released much earlier except that it was embarrassing.

He was one of the few people with knowledge about Iraq and their so called WMD program who casted doubt on the CIA and George W. Bush’s “intelligence” that Iraq was about to deploy a nuclear weapon. They anonymously tried to discredit Blix. It was Blix however who turned out to be rights.

See {637464} for the trigger for the FBI to write this report. It was the report that verified that the CIA had hired the Mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro which President Johnson had heard but the CIA never revealed it to Johnson or the Warren Commission investigations JFK’s assassination. The full document was kept secret and was not yet declassified in 2014 when this quotation was entered in the collection.

He was not referring to economic corruption but intellectual and moral corruption. Regan who appointed many excellent key officials picked a very unfortunate choice to lead the CIA. William J. Casey had many faults and weaknesses—See {637472}, {636743} and {637469}. But the worst of his damage was imposing his ideology on the agency and having the intelligence analysts shape their intellectual product to conform with a particular world, political, and religious view. See {634408}. This became acceptable and as future administrations took power their ideologies were considered by the CIA professionals and reports were edited and shaped accordingly. Reform was instituted by some of the future CIA directors but there were precedents from the Casey days for years. One particularly bad manifestation of this intellectual corruption occurred when Vice President Richard Cheney imposed a neocon world view on the agency with a pliant CIA director and the agency gave the President a totally inaccurate assessment of Iraq nuclear capability and intention which triggered the disastrous Iraq war, made all the worse when there were not only no nuclear weapons in Iraq as had been reported, but there was not even a single laboratory trying to develop nuclear weapons or even nuclear power.