http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/cia/ en-us Mon, 4 Jan 2010 12:54:28 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420494/posts WASHINGTON: As names of the seven CIA operatives who died in the Taliban suicide bombing in Afghanistan last week trickle out into public domain espite official silence in Washington, there is another casualty from the episode - trust, never a reliable commodity in the first place in the espionage business. Intelligence circles are now slowly piecing together what really happened in Forward Operating Base Chapman near the Pakistan border last Wednesday when a Taliban suicide bomber detonated a suicide vest killing eight people, including an Afghan security director and an American perimeter security guard who had escorted him inside –... Times of India http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420494/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 12:54:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420383/posts Cindy Sheehan said Facebook deleted an invitation to the CIA Drone Protest in Langley, Virginia, scheduled for Jan. 16, 2010. Sheehan said "the CIA is becoming overly involved in terrorizing populations." Sheehan joins a powerhouse of women activists to lead the CIA Drone Protest, including Cynthia McKinney, Ann Wright, Kathy Kelly and Debra Sweet. "We had an event with over 250 confirmed guests and it was deleted by Facebook," Sheehan said. "We are going to the source of one of the big problems in the US Empire -- the CIA -- to protest its extra-judicial killings of people in Pakistan.... Narcosphere http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420383/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 05:22:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420354/posts After the single most deadly day for the CIA since eight officers were killed in Beirut in 1983, an official tells the Daily Mail he's tired of the double standard: One day the President is pointing the finger and blaming the intelligence services, saying there is a systemic failure,’ said one agency official. ‘Now we are heroes. The fact is that we are doing everything humanly possible to stay on top of the security situation. The deaths of our operatives shows just how involved we are on the ground.’ But CIA bosses claim they were unfairly blamed at a time... Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420354/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 03:37:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420170/posts Spy chiefs turn on President Obama after seven CIA agents are slaughtered in Afghanistan By David Gardner excerpt: Barack Obama was accused of double standards yesterday in his treatment of the CIA. The President paid tribute to secret agents after seven of them were killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan. In a statement, he said the CIA had been ‘tested as never before’ and that agents had ‘served on the front lines in directly confronting the dangers of the 21st century’. He lauded the victims as ‘part of a long line of patriots who have made great sacrifices for... Mail Online (Daily Mail UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420170/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 20:50:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419823/posts Here is a video report on the suicide bomber attack that killed seven CIA agents in Afghanistan earlier this week. The report reveals that the bomber was a well-known informant for the CIA in Afghanistan who apparently was a double-agent. The Taliban in Pakistan claim he was a double-agent for them. He reportedly came from the Pakistan side of the border. He was driven onto the base in Afghanistan and was reportedly not subjected to a search because he was known to people there. He blew himself up in the gymnasium of the base, killing the agents. The CIA is... Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419823/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 04:07:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419756/posts WASHINGTON -- The attack that killed seven Central Intelligence Agency officers on a U.S. base in Afghanistan appears to stem from a strategy of calculated risk in running the spy agency's informant network, posing a sharp challenge as operations ramp up for the Obama troop surge. U.S. intelligence and military officials said Friday that Wednesday's attacker had been recruited as a possible informant and brought onto Forward Operating Base Chapman, passing through at least one checkpoint. He detonated his charge shortly before being searched, blowing himself up, killing seven and wounding six. It was a "high-level asset meeting gone bad,"... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419756/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 00:49:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419728/posts KABUL -- A senior commander connected to the Afghan Taliban and involved with the attack against the CIA that left eight people dead said Saturday that the bombing was retaliation for U.S. drone strikes in the Afghan-Pakistan border region. "We attacked this base because the team there was organizing drone strikes in Loya Paktia and surrounding area," the commander said, referring to the area around Khost, the city where the U.S. facility was attacked. The commander, a prominent member of the Afghan insurgency, spoke on the condition of anonymity. The suicide attack, which dealt the biggest loss to the agency... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419728/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 23:51:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419697/posts While the painstaking process of unearthing the "systematic failures" of intelligence on the "underwear bomber" continues, Obama again performs on script. Just as he's done with virtually every past crises - and always while armed with only the bare essentials of information - the now infamous POTUS finger of blame moves away from anyone remotely connected with Obama, his decisions or performance of his appointees, and falls once again on his favorite scapegoat, the CIA. And the CIA spy chiefs are none to happy about the accusations. It seemed especially harsh when, in an apparent moment of political expedience, Obama... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419697/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 22:07:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419651/posts I have no grand insights to offer but this is too awful and too … astounding, really, to be relegated to Headlines. These people were the tip of the American spear against jihadist kingpins in the Afghan/Pakistani border region, the innermost circle in a big Venn diagram that starts with the CIA, proceeds to the units tasked with finding intel on AQ, and ends with the elite charged with building the target list for drone operators. In one split second, that last circle was practically erased. If you thought the biggest security breach of the past week was Flight 253,... Hotair http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419651/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 20:09:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419429/posts HONOLULU (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday it appeared the man suspected of trying to bomb a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas was a member of al Qaeda and had been trained and equipped by the Islamic militant network. Defending his administration's counterterrorism efforts amid scathing Republican criticism, Obama said he received preliminary results of the reviews he ordered into air travel screening procedures and a "terrorist watchlist system" and expected final results in the days to come. Obama, who is on vacation in Hawaii, had called for an immediate study of what he termed "human and systemic... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419429/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 13:07:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2419546/posts Barack Obama was accused of double standards yesterday in his treatment of the CIA. The President paid tribute to secret agents after seven of them were killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan. In a statement, he said the CIA had been ‘tested as never before’ and that agents had ‘served on the front lines in directly confronting the dangers of the 21st century’. He lauded the victims as ‘part of a long line of patriots who have made great sacrifices for their fellow citizens and for our way of life’. Yet the previous day he had blasted ‘systemic failures’... dailymail UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2419546/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 16:51:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419531/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Last week's failed plot to bomb a U.S. passenger jet has exposed lingering fissures within the U.S. intelligence community, which had information from interviews and clandestine intercepts but did not put the pieces together, officials said.Turf wars between U.S. spy and law enforcement agencies are nothing new. But lapses that allowed a Nigerian suspect to board a Detroit-bound plane with a bomb on Christmas Day, and the finger-pointing that followed, have raised questions about sweeping changes made to improve security and intelligence- sharing after the September 11, 2001, attacks.President Barack Obama has ordered preliminary findings by Thursday... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419531/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 16:30:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419289/posts KAILUA, HAWAII -- Before heading to a luau on Wednesday, President Obama did something much more somber, his aides said: He called CIA Director Leon Panetta to discuss the deaths of seven agency officers in a suicide attack in Afghanistan. Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419289/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 02:13:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419004/posts WASHINGTON — The deaths of seven Central Intelligence Agency operatives at a remote base in the mountains of Afghanistan are a pointed example of the civilian spy agency’s transformation in recent years into a paramilitary organization at the vanguard of America’s far-flung wars. The C.I.A. operatives stationed at Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost Province, where Wednesday’s suicide bombing occurred, were responsible for collecting information about militant networks in Afghanistan and Pakistan and plotting missions to kill the networks’ top leaders. In recent months, American officials said, C.I.A. officers at the base had begun an aggressive campaign against a radical... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419004/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 16:54:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418927/posts KABUL--The suicide bomber who killed eight Americans, including seven CIA officers, this week might have been able to get through multiple layers of security at the U.S. compound aided by an Afghan informant with the agency, a Western official said Friday. If this is true, it suggests insurgents had turned the tables on the CIA and been able to place their own agents close to the facility the CIA used to cultivate informants.On Wednesday, CIA officials had invited the attacker onto the base with the hopes of recruiting him as an informant. They used an Afghan intermediary to arrange the... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418927/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 14:21:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418831/posts The bombing, just as President Barack Obama's surge is gathering pace, represented the biggest loss of life suffered by the US intelligence agency since an attack in Beirut in 1983. The CIA said on Thursday a further six agents had been injured in the attack. Claiming credit for the attack, a Taliban spokesman said the bomber was "an Afghan national army officer wearing a suicide vest". UK Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418831/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 06:05:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418573/posts WASHINGTON (AP) - The Associated Press has learned that the suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees at a remote outpost in southeastern Afghanistan had been invited onto the base and was not searched. A former senior intelligence official says the man was being courted as an informant and that it was the first time he had been brought inside the camp. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418573/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:18:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418555/posts The dead include a mother of three who was the head of the CIA's base in Khost Province, near Pakistan, the Associated Press news agency reports. The attack was the worst against US intelligence officials since the US embassy in Beirut was bombed in 1983. BBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418555/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:39:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418494/posts AP Sources: CIA Base Chief Killed In Attack By PAMELA HESS and ADAM GOLDMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON – The CIA said Thursday that seven of its employees were killed and six others wounded in a suicide bombing at a base in Afghanistan. The Associated Press has learned that one of them was the chief of the CIA's post in Afghanistan's southeastern Khost Province. CIA Director Leon Panetta said in a message to agency staff that the casualties sustained in Wednesday's strike at Forward Operating Base Chapman were the result of a terrorist attack. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing.... AP Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418494/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:26:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418498/posts WASHINGTON – The CIA said Thursday that seven of its employees were killed and six others wounded in a suicide bombing at a base in Afghanistan. The Associated Press has learned that one of them was the chief of the CIA's post in Afghanistan's southeastern Khost Province. CIA Director Leon Panetta said in a message to agency staff that the casualties sustained in Wednesday's strike at Forward Operating Base Chapman were the result of a terrorist attack. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing. Initial reports indicated that eight American civilians had been killed. There was no explanation for... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418498/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:32:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418409/posts Following up on a visit from FBI officials about an eyewitness account first described to MLive.com, Michigan attorney Kurt Haskell described the visit in comment sections across MLive on Wednesday. Haskell and his wife, Lori, were aboard Flight 253 when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly tried to destroy the plane. They say another man tried to help Abdulmutallab board the plane in Amsterdam. "Today is the second worst day of my life after 12-25-09. Today is the day that I realized that my own country is lying to me and all of my fellow Americans. Let me explain. Ever since I... Mlive.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418409/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:45:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418288/posts A suicide bomber penetrated a foreign army base in Afghanistan to kill eight U.S. CIA employees on Wednesday, one of the spy agency's largest death tolls, and a separate attack killed four Canadian troops and a journalist. WTAM Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418288/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:35:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418170/posts KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest killed at least eight American civilians, most of them C.I.A. officers, at a remote base in southeastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, according to NATO officials and former American intelligence officials. The attack at the C.I.A. base, Forward Operating Base Chapman, in Khost Province appeared to be the single deadliest episode for the spy agency in the eight years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. It also dealt a significant blow to the often insular, tight-knit organization, which has lost only 90 officers in the line of duty since its founding in... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418170/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:27:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418085/posts Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A senior U.S. official tells CNN that the attack at a military base in eastern Afghanistan by a suicide bomber Wednesday killed eight Americans believed to be CIA employees. CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418085/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:21:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417753/posts The CIA on Wednesday rejected accusations that it failed to share vital information with other US intelligence agencies that might have helped prevent last week's attempted plane bomb attack. The intelligence agency rejected charges that it possessed, but failed to disseminate, information about Nigerian suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab that might have led to his being placed on a no-fly list. "We learned of Abdulmutallab in November, when his father came to the US embassy in Nigeria and sought help in finding him. We did not have his name before then," said CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano. "Also in November, we worked... Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417753/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:39:01 GMT