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May 6, 2006
WB: Rumsfeld Uber Alles
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What a coincidence that on this very same day, Bush the Decider decides to declare World War III.
Sure Billmon, I’m feeling snug as a bug in a rug.
After all, bugs may be the only things left after these maniacs are through.
All the calls for Rummy to resign, and instead Porter, Scotty, etc are out. Which begs the question: what’s Rummy got on Cheney?
Posted by: gylangirl | May 7 2006 0:23 utc | 3
More in Washington Post:
Hayden Faces Senate and CIA Hurdles if Named
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/06/AR2006050601069.html
And more here:
NYT Sun: Goss firing just first step in overhaul of CIA
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/NYT_Sun_Goss_firing_just_first_0506.html
Gee, will the CIA eventually become as helpless as FEMA? Or is this a real step in the right direction?
Lawmakers Want More Data on Contracting Out Intelligence
Last year, contractors were “a significant majority” of analysts working at the new National Counterterroism Center (NCTC), which has primary responsibility for providing the White House and others with analysis based on foreign and domestic information, Gannon said. The proportion is even greater at CIFA, the Pentagon’s new agency coordinating “force protection” at Defense Department facilities. CIFA officials have told The Washington Post that 70 percent of their workers are contractors.
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, asked whether “the Department of Defense . . . moving into these fields with widespread expansion of powers” is “consistent with having a Director of National Intelligence?”
“What is bothersome,” Gannon replied, “is that that movement that you’re talking about is taking place without any supervision beyond the Department of Defense, and I think it is needed from the DNI, but also from the White House.”
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Growth in the military areas, however, continues. Even Athena Innovative Solutions Inc., the successor organization to MZM Inc., whose president was caught giving bribes in the criminal investigation that led to conviction of former representative Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-Calif.), has been successful in maintaining and expanding its Pentagon contracts.
According to an internal document made available to The Post, Athena reported in January it has maintained two CIFA contracts that could add 43 jobs to its payroll. Calls to Athena’s press spokesman for comment were not returned. The Pentagon’s U.S. Central Command (Centcom) is advertising for contract employees to work on intelligence, including some jobs in Iraq.
An online ad by Lockheed Martin Information Technology-Professional Services seeks a counterintelligence analyst to work in Iraq doing research on intelligence capabilities of countries in areas of operations under the Central Command. Additional work, according to the ad, would be “on substantive intelligence matters involving terrorist groups and networks . . . Centcom experience is a plus,” the ad notes.
Wait a minute… didn’t Rumsfeld say just the other day, “I’m not in the intelligence business.”
Posted by: garyb | May 7 2006 10:28 utc | 7
NeoZ–nism’s Final Solution
Donald Rumsfeld is just Facilitator and Chief Bean Counter
for the Neo-Z–nist’s Tenth Crusade, their 100 Year’s War
on the working proletariat of the world.
[from a BBC post today]
“Spoke with a former Talibani and Arab businessman awhile ago. He said something revealing in simplicity, right out:
“I love your Jesus … but I hate your Christ.”
Now we’re reduced to Crusade by redaction.”
Pope George Bush II will do what he does, (and Rumsfeld will do what he does, Cheney will do what he does, Rice will do what she does), they will all profit handsomely, and then Pope John McCain I will do what he does.
Follow the money. F–k BushCo. They’re all just ComInform Anti-Prol’s, working for Anti-Christ and His Armageddon’s
Final Solution: $4.20 a day wages, with no benefits, work
6-12’s, living in barracks, and Sunday at the Parthenon.
(further research reading: http://www.prol-position.net/)
Posted by: Derek Uttermeyer | May 7 2006 16:58 utc | 8
Colbert srikes again!
Colbert shakes up Bill Kristol over PNAC ties
Posted by: Uncle $cam | May 7 2006 17:43 utc | 10
The pending appointment of General Michael Hayden as director of the Central Intelligence Agency will pave the way for the agency’s emasculation and for the Pentagon to assume full authority over paramilitary operations.
A senior intelligence community official yesterday said the director of national intelligence, John Negroponte, has indicated “he is willing to give up covert operations to the Pentagon.”
The source also pointed out that the Pentagon has requested increased budget authority to prepare for the acquisition of the CIA’s targeted military operations. The intelligence overhaul of 2004 envisioned that they would remain under the purview of the CIA.
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the Congressional authors of the 2004 intelligence reform fought the Pentagon to keep oversight and authority over covert military operations in the directorate of national intelligence and CIA.
But the senior intelligence community official yesterday said he expected almost everything except for the human intelligence collection role of the CIA to be removed from the agency. This source said that Mr. Negroponte “is going to strip analysis, strip out covert operation, science, and technology.”