Why I Resigned From the CIA / The agency did its job, but higher-ups endangered the nation.

Copyright 2004 Los Angeles Times ^ | December 5, 2004 | Michael Scheuer, Michael Scheuer, a 22-year veteran of the CIA, wrote "Imperial Hubris: Why the West

[Former Military Chick]

Perhaps instead of trash I should have said a dollar late a dollar short ... why take so long to make these remarks

[CyberAnt]

"should hve been gone many years ago"

Yes .. and it makes me wonder if he's whining because he was one of the Clinton's leakers.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

It is mystifying that the American public has not been outraged over these missed opportunities.

Would someone please ask the Clinton Administration why they never erred on the side of protecting Americans; why international opinion was ultimately more important than the Americans who leaped from the World Trade Center.

Someone? Anyone?

What?

Oh, that's right. To them and the fecal matter on journalism's clean shorts international opinion is more important.

Here's a good idea! Find out what role personal failure, bureaucratic warfare . . . and a lack of moral courage played in getting the United States to 9/11.

Start with Clinton's State Department and his ambassador to Yemen. Many believe that had the FBI's investigation of the USS Cole bombing not been hindered it could have led directly to the 9/11 plot.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

I am reminded that the FBI's John O'Neill resigned (though maybe he had enough time to retire early, don't know) with similar frustrations. Mr. O'Neill was in the WTC and was killed that day.

The left put out the big lie that the frustrations were due to the Bush Administration. Is the same thing going on here?

Few in the federal government resign. Most wait to retire then they speak out. I am reminded of the FBI agent and his book about access to the White House.

You could probably count on one or two fingers the number who gave it all up. I am thinking of an Army major general who walked away leaving behind everything. In civilian life he tried to alert Americans to what he perceived to be a threat from within. History has proven the threat existed in America.

I won't mention his name he's been so trashed that his name will only evoke the leftist / MSM lies about him. For his efforts he was taken off the street and ILLEGALLY confined briefly to a mental hospital by Attorney General Robert Kennedy. Later he was Lee Harrvey Oswald's first intended assassination victim. Oswald missed. Someone wanted the general dead. Was it just Oswald? When he was in his eighties the Congress recognized the general and he did get some retirement pay for his military service to America.

[WOSG]

"I do not profess a broad expertise in international affairs, but between January 1996 and June 1999 I was in charge of running operations against Al Qaeda from Washington."

A thought jumps out here ...

WHY WASNT HE FIRED ON SEPT 12 2001???

[sruleoflaw]

All agree. This CIA guy has been part of the rogue operation to undermine President Bush.

[piasa]

In the book, the author denounced the American invasion of Iraq as "an avaricious, premeditated unprovoked war against a foe who posed no immediate threat," and said it would fuel the anti-American sentiments on which Mr. bin Laden and his followers draw. "There is nothing that bin Laden could have hoped for more than the American invasion and occupation of Iraq," he writes. -----"Book by C.I.A. Officer Says U.S. Is Losing Fight Against Terror," by DOUGLAS JEHL, NY Times, June 23, 2004

Another snippet :

Anonymous, who published an analysis of al-Qaida last year called Through Our Enemies' Eyes, thinks it quite possible that another devastating strike against the US could come during the election campaign, not with the intention of changing the administration, as was the case in the Madrid bombing, but of keeping the same one in place.
"I'm very sure they can't have a better administration for them than the one they have now," he said.
"One way to keep the Republicans in power is to mount an attack that would rally the country around the president." ------ "Bush told he is playing into Bin Laden's hands ; Al-Qaida may 'reward' American president with strike aimed at keeping him in office, senior intelligence man says," by Julian Borger in Washington, The Guardian, Saturday June 19, 2004

Note that the nickname "Anonymous" often appears in association with Vincent Cannistraro