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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Friday, August 21, 2009

The CIA is supposed to be invisible/Porter Goss starts dodging

A fuller version of the 2004 CIA IG's report on detainee treatment is due out on Monday. The rumblings I've seen seem to indicate that it may have some bombshells.

Meanwhile, Porter Goss is dodging on the Blackwater "assassinations" program. He lists four different excuses in just five paragraphs.1) He didn't know what was going on. 2) He was just following orders. 3) He only did it to protect the country. 4) Could you have done any better?
Goss said he had not been fully briefed on the details of the CIA activities in question...

Goss alluded to that effort, stating that "my standing orders were 'field-forward' mission."

"We wanted to catch the people who brought down the trade centers and killed innocent people and wanted to kill more," he said....

"Suppose you got a high-value guy, a terrorist, part of al-Qaeda, a radical fundamentalist trained to kill innocent people, who you cannot talk down from the tree. What happens when you actually find that guy? Do you send the FBI? That's probably not the best option for the tribal areas" in Afghanistan and Pakistan.


Later: A NYTimes story fingers Porter Goss as the one who brought Blackwater into the "assassinations program."
In interviews on Thursday, current and former government officials provided new details about Blackwater’s association with the assassination program, which began in 2004 not long after Porter J. Goss took over at the C.I.A.


Thought
: When the CIA is repeatedly in the news for operations, the recent past directors failed at their jobs.

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