Posted on 01/26/2012 11:08:56 AM PST by Hunton Peck
CIA operative's unusual assignment inside the New York Police Department is being cut short after an internal investigation that criticized how the agency established its unprecedented collaboration with city police, The Associated Press has learned.
In its investigation, the CIA's inspector general faulted the agency for sending an officer to New York with little oversight after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and then leaving him there too long, according to officials who have read or been briefed on the inquiry. They spoke only on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss the investigation. The CIA said last month that the inspector general cleared the agency of any wrongdoing.
The inspector general opened its investigation after a series of AP articles that revealed how the NYPD, working in close collaboration with the CIA, set up spying operations that put Muslim communities under scrutiny. Plainclothes officers known as "rakers" eavesdropped in businesses, and Muslims not suspected of any wrongdoing were put in intelligence databases.
The CIA officer cited by the inspector general for operating without sufficient supervision, Lawrence Sanchez, was the architect of spying programs that helped make the NYPD one of the nation's most aggressive domestic intelligence agencies. The programs have drawn criticism from Muslims as well as New York and Washington lawmakers. Muslim activists organized a news conference Thursday to urge Police Commissioner Ray Kelly to resign.
Sanchez, a CIA veteran who spent 15 years overseas in the former Soviet Union, South Asia and the Middle East, was sent to New York to help with information sharing following the 9/11 attacks. While on the CIA payroll from 2002 to 2004, he also helped create and direct police intelligence programs. He then formally joined the NYPD while on a leave of absence from the CIA.
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“I will not honor a religion that honors Honor Killing.”
Sounds like the guy was doing a good job, and that was embarrassing to the Muslim in the White House.
Better yet, “I will not honor a religion that blatantly persecutes other religions because by doing so the Constitution gives preferential treatment to Islam.”
What they could do is offer the CIA officer a good salary to stay with the NYPD and then he could resign from the CIA.
I wonder if some big terrorist stuff got blocked and thus the Muslims feel off schedule in their attempts to take down the US.
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