Posted on 07/22/2003 4:42:53 PM PDT by Lando Lincoln
9/11: will Congress blame the FBI & CIA instead of itself and the IPS?
Gerard Jackson
BrookesNews.Com
Wednesday 23 July 2003
It very much looks like the congressional report on 9/11, to be released this week, will be a damning indictment of the FBI, or so says Newsweek. The report will reveal that the FBI failed to "aggressively investigate evidence of Al Qaeda's presence in the United States" and that the agency's laxity contributed to the success of the terrorist attack
After the World Trade Center atrocity people immediately wanted to know what the FBI had been doing. Why hadn't the agency forestalled the attack? It was argued that infiltrating these groups is impossible. This is not true. British intelligence has been successfully doing that sort of thing from way back.
So who is to blame? Who is the culprit? The guilty one is Congress itself. Or to be more specific, Democratic Congressmen who went out of their way to cripple America's intelligence agencies. In this endeavour they had the aid and encouragement of the Washington-based Institute of Policy Studies (IPS). A Marxist-Leninist organisation based in Washington that has not only supported every communist regime that ever existed but every leftwing terrorists organisation, particularly the PLO.
For years the IPS waged a successful campaign of vilification against America's intelligence agencies, even as it was cooperating with the KGB, Castro's DGI and other communist intelligence agencies. Thanks to the success of this campaign and their policy of exposing CIA operatives, one of whom was murdered, the CIA's international network of contacts was badly compromised with foreign contacts cutting off communications from fear of being exposed.
In 1975 the CNSS (Center for National Securities Studies) — an IPS front — produced Abuses of the Intelligence Agencies, a brazen piece of Soviet disinformation which influenced the Church and Pike committees that had been set up to investigate American intelligence agencies.
This was no surprise considering that not only were KGB agents Wilfred Burchett and Philip Agee mainly responsible for the contents of the publication but both committees, especially the Church committee, had a significant number of sympathisers and members of the IPS on their staffs.
When Carter became president in 1977 he appointed IPS sympathisers to the White House staff who were virtually given carte blanche to dismantle the America's intelligence structure, which is virtually what they did.
Without the activities of the IPS the 1974 Hughes-Ryan Act would never have come into existence. This pernicious piece of legislation crippled intelligence operations by guaranteeing they would be leaked to America's enemies. Which of course was what really lay behind the Act. There are two common threads here: a) those who took measures to cripple intelligence gathering were all Democrats; b) they were all connected by one means or another to the pro-Soviet IPS.
Opposition to the Intelligence Agents Identities Protection Act consisted entirely of hardcore Democrats like Pat Schroeder, Charles Schumer and the Bush-hating John Conyers. The Act had been designed to protect the lives of American agents by preventing anyone from revealing their identities. Needless to say, opponents of the Act were all associated with the IPS.
Because of the IPS and its congressional supporters American intelligence, including the FBI, was put in a straitjacket and denied the power to keep track of Islamic terrorist networks that were formed in the US. Federal agents could not without great difficulty even attend conferences that pro-terrorist speakers addressed! They could not even put these pro-terrorist groups under surveillance unless they provided the Attorney General with almost irrefutable proof that a crime, say the bombing of the World Trade Centre, was going to be committed. How this evidence was to be obtained without surveillance or infiltration is yet to be explained by the likes of Charles Schumer and John Conyers.
And who was the driving force behind this legislation? That's right, the IPS. This is what the pro-Soviet, pro-Castro, pro-PLO Richard Barnet, one of the founders of the IPS, had to say about American intelligence: "…[it's] a criminal enterprise which must be dismantled."
This is what General George Washington said in 1777 about the need for intelligence gathering:
"The necessity of procuring good intelligence is apparent & need not be further urged — all that remains for me to add is, that you keep the whole matter as Secret as possible. For upon secrecy, success depends in Most Enterprises of the Kind, and for want of it, they are generally defeated, however well planned and promising a favorable issue."
But then Washington was a patriot, unlike certain other so-called Americans. The situation under Clinton was no better. Under his stewardship the standard for the recruitment of foreign agents and informants was raised to a level so strict that John the Baptist wouldn't have passed muster. (This is why the British have been successful where the CIA has failed. MI6 is not at all fussy about who it uses to get the job done). These security-crippling restrictions had the intended effect of severely damaging the accumulation of foreign assets. I say intended because what other explanation could there be for a policy that obviously crippled foreign intelligence gathering?
Without sound intelligence the human cost of effectively dealing with terrorism would inevitably rise. What is needed is an investigation into the subversive activities of the IPS and its political stooges, whoever they maybe.
Gerard Jackson is also Brookes' Economics Editor
However, the real problem was and is the INS (or whatever the new name is). Open borders = an unsafe nation.
Thanks a million for this ping. Slowly but surely the leftists imbedded in our Government will be outed.
Point well taken and understood.
The below passage is from the recently approved H.R. 2673.
Provided further, That of the amount appropriated for rural utilities programs, not to exceed $25,000,000 shall be for water and waste disposal systems to benefit the Colonias along the United States/Mexico border, including grants pursuant to section 306C of such Act; not to exceed $17,465,000 shall be for technical assistance grants for rural water and waste systems pursuant to section 306(a)(14) of such Act, of which $5,513,000 shall be for Rural Community Assistance Programs and not to exceed $13,000,000 shall be for contracting with qualified national organizations for a circuit rider program to provide technical assistance for rural water systems:
What's that you say? You never heard of the term Colonias? I know, let's ask the government what Colonias means
www.hud.gov/groups/frmwrkcoln/whatcol.cfm
What do you say we all ask our congress people how long they have known what Colonias means? And why are we funding their existence?
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