Posted on 07/12/2004 12:17:48 AM PDT by doug from upland
CLINTON'S HUMAN RIGHTS POLICIES WRECKED INTELLIGENCE: CIA OFFICIAL CONFIRMS RUDDY TERROR EXCLUSIVE
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NewsMax.com
Wednesday Sept. 13, 2001; 12:02 a.m. EDT
A former CIA official said late Wednesday that U.S. spy recruitment had been decimated by strict Clinton administration rules that tied the agency's hands in its war against terrorism, a development first reported by NewsMax.com's Executive Editor Christopher Ruddy.
"We don't have enough people on the ground in the right places," former Iraqi bureau station chief Whitney Bruner told Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly.
"Partly it's because there's a culture that I think has developed in Washington concerning human operations over the last several years," Bruner said; a policy that limited the kind of people the agency could deal with.
"When you're dealing with a terrorist target you are dealing with what might charitably be called slimeballs - very, very unpleasant type people who probably have criminal records," the former station chief explained.
But the people in a position to know about terrorists' plans were off limits under Clinton-era CIA regulations.
"We're not allowed to deal with them ... if the person you are trying to recruit against a terrorist target has questions of human rights or other kinds of crime," Bruner revealed.
Nearly a day before the former CIA official spoke out, a CIA source identified only as "Roger" told NewsMax.com's Christopher Ruddy that the CIA's "Human Rights Scrub" policy, developed during the Clinton years, made the recruitment of intelligence assets nearly impossible.
"Previously, I wrote how Clinton effectively stopped the recruitment of Chinese nationals by demanding that only high-ranking embassy officials could be recruited knowing this is almost impossible. Roger told me that. Roger reminded me again of this today.
"He noted that Clinton policies reached their zenith under CIA Director John Deutch and his top assistant, Nora Slatkin. The pair ran Clinton's CIA in the mid-1990s and implemented a 'human rights scrub' policy.
"Here's how Roger described it in an e-mail Tuesday evening: 'Deutch and Nora, Clinton's anti-intelligence plants, implemented a universal human rights scrub of all assets, virtually shutting down operations for 6 months to a year. This was after something happened in Central America (there was an American woman involved who was the common law wife of a commie who went missing there) that got a lot of bad press for the agency.
"'After that, each asset had to be certified as being 'clean for human rights violations.'
"'What this did was to put off limits, in effect, terrorists, criminals, and anyone else who would have info on these kinds of people.'
"Roger says the CIA, even under new leadership, has never recovered from the 'Human Rights Scrub' policy."
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CLINTON'S HUMAN RIGHTS POLICIES WRECKED INTELLIGENCE
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bttt
human rights issues aside, why would you trust "scumbags" for good intelligence anyways. the people excluded have already proven themselves untrustworthy by their very nature. i doubt this had much effect of the gathering of relavent intelligence.
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(Hey! Where'd the btt go?)
bttt
Do you think commrade Clinton intentionally allowed weakness in our security apparatus in order to impose marshall law after a terrorist event? Unfortunately for his schemes, al queda and osama were just a bit late. The original attacks were supposd to be a year earlier. Just remember, the Klintons have no morals... i.e. campaign cash to the Chicoms in exchange for Loral missle technology.
Peace...D
...FROM the Chicoms...
Ooopps...D
This kind of conspiracy theorizing simply blinds people to the reality of matters. It's like people who claim Bush has is inherently a power-grabber and therefore let 9/11 happen.
For the same reason police use snitches, rate and weasels; they are on the inside or next to it and are the best source of information and intentions.
Regards,
I put out my opinion on the matter, but from the pedantic tone of your reply you obviously have more than simple opinions to offer, but actual knowledge. Are you going to stop there or actually teach me something?
ping
First, one doesn't "trust" them, one uses them, normally with the incentive of cold, hard cash.
Second, one uses them because they hang out with the bad guys, the other scumbags upon whom you want to gain intelligence.
As for this story, once again there appears to have been a great deal of Reno/Gorelick interference in CIA operations, mainly in an effort to provide CYA to the Clinton White House (don't believe for a second that "human rights" was their actual concern).
The CIA really needs to be unleashed from the political process, particularly congressional "oversight" (aka meddling). Barring that it's a useless organization that should be completely dismanteled.
The Clintons personally associated "with what might charitably be called slimeballs - very, very unpleasant type people who probably have criminal records,".
This was their fundraiser class, and putting a stop to CIA gathering "INTEL" was to protect themselves.
"In the lexicon of intelligence, "trust" doesn't exist."
I was trying to think of a response and alas, you've stated it perfectly!
In the world of spooks I suspect it's fair to say that nothing is to be accepted until proven otherwise?
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