Democrats subvert war intelligence(threatened national security?)

http://worldnetdaily.com/ ^ | December 23, 2003 | J. Michael Waller Insight

[Judith Anne]

Thank you very much for posting this excellent article. I'm glad to see NewsMax carried it.

[Judith Anne]

Duh, WorldNetDaily. Sheesh! Getting late...

[ladyinred]

Even before the memo was written, Rockefeller's staff already was off on its own, well outside the traditional bipartisan channels. According to the memo, the "FBI Niger investigation" of reports that Saddam Hussein's regime had tried to buy uranium from West Africa "was done solely at the request of the vice chairman."

This is a keeper, and a must read!

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the ping.

This whole intel scam by the rats from the Yellowcake Scam up to the present has been well planned and coordinated.

[CyberAnt]

"tolerated, ignored or excused"

And .. why is it being tolerated, ignored and/or excused" ..??

[okie01]

Even before the memo was written, Rockefeller's staff already was off on its own, well outside the traditional bipartisan channels. According to the memo, the "FBI Niger investigation" of reports that Saddam Hussein's regime had tried to buy uranium from West Africa "was done solely at the request of the vice chairman."

So, it was Jay Rockefeller (and not Dick Cheney) who sent Joseph C. Wilson IV on his mission to Niamey? Was this, indeed, a partisan set-up from the very outset?

Would explain a lot...

[Diddle E. Squat]

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[Grampa Dave]

He was planted deep in the Pentagon by the Clintoon in a very strategic place:

http://www.gcn.com/archives/gcn/1998/june1/hill_wants_to_give_defense_it_sh.htm

GOVERNMENT NEWS
GCN June 1, 1998


Hill wants to give Defense IT shop new name
By Gregory Slabodkin
GCN Staff
Congress wants to change the name of the Defense Department’s top systems shop to reflect the office’s new duties and oversight responsibilities.

DOD last month announced a major reorganization of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence as part of DOD’s Defense Reform Initiative. Under the restructuring, the office has been broadened to include oversight in such areas as surveillance, reconnaissance and space.

In its fiscal 1999 Defense authorization bill, the Senate Armed Services Committee raised concerns that the title ASD(C3I) no longer describes the office’s responsibilities and priorities. Consequently, the committee is endorsing a new title: the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space and Information Superiority.

"The committee had been concerned that the term ‘space’ would not appear in the revised title," the committee said in the report accompanying the bill. "As the single focal point for space in [DOD], this would have been a serious omission that would have sent a negative and misleading message."

The new assistant secretary of Defense for space and information superiority would be responsible for space policy, information assurance, information operations, intelligence policy, command and control, communications, surveillance, reconnaissance, year 2000 work and electromagnetic spectrum issues, the Senate report said.

The House passed its $270 billion Defense authorization bill last month. The Senate this month is scheduled to vote on its version, including the provision renaming the ASD(C3I) office.

Room for space
"Although there are significant areas of overlap between information superiority and space, the two areas also have many unique aspects that deserve significant focused attention," the committee report said.

Congress in 1985 created the position of ASD(C3I) at DOD’s re quest to oversee, among other things, the acquisition of computers and to establish program structures, interoperability requirements and architectures.

But Defense spokeswoman Susan Hansen said that despite the reorganization of ASD(C3I), the department did not seek to change the name of the office.

"The department hasn’t taken a position on the proposed name change," she said. "That’s certainly the Senate’s idea. The department has made no comment on it. At the moment, the office is still called ASD(C3I)."

Arthur Money, the Air Force’s former chief information officer and assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, has been tapped by DOD to become the next ASD(C3I). Money is currently the senior civilian official for the office and acting CIO until the Senate confirms his nomination.

Marvin Langston, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s director of information systems, will leave DARPA to serve as acting deputy CIO and deputy assistant secretary of Defense for CIO policy and implementation.

As part of the Defense Reform Initiative, Defense Secretary William Cohen had directed that the Office of the ASD(C3I) be separa ted into components for intelligence and C3 and that the undersecretary of Defense for ac quisition and technology take over CIO duties.

Cohen reversed that decision earlier this year and decided to keep the office intact and maintain its CIO responsibilities. He added the new oversight areas including space-related matters and the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Program.

The office will oversee six DOD agencies: the Defense Information Systems Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, Defense Security Service, National Imagery and Mapping Agency, National Reconnaissance Office and National Security Agency.

To staff the revamped office, DOD is reassigning some officials to acting posts:

Air Force Maj. Gen. Kenneth Israel, director of the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office, will be acting deputy assistant secretary of Defense for command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and space systems. DARO will cease to exist as a separate De fense agency.

Linton Wells II, deputy undersecretary of Defense for policy support, will be acting principal deputy assistant secretary of Defense for C3I.

Cheryl Roby will still be acting deputy assistant secretary of Defense for intelligence.

Christopher Mellon, assistant to the secretary of Defense for intelligence oversight, will be acting deputy assistant secretary of Defense for security and information operations.

[hosepipe]

I'm sure this is the ONLY bit sedition going on.. To think that other committes have been compromised by this veritable 5th column on naieve republicans is ridiculous... and absolutely tin foil hat stuff.. And when judged by the high minded and patriotic way the democrat contenders for president have executed their campaigns theres nothing to worry about...

UNLESS YOU'RE NOT STUPID...

[Fledermaus]

Borders on treason.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the ping!

Bush needs to purge the Pentagon of some of these Clinton moles !

[Prime Choice]

I think this pic kinda sums it all up. : )

[lowbridge]

bump

[Stultis]

Is Mellon the real Alpha Kook?

Try asking him. I think he posts to FR as "John Galt".

[gaspar]

Grampa: It seems that Mr. Linton Wells II and Ms. Cheryl Roby are still in DOD and both are Deputy Asst Secretaries of Defense, apparently in the C3I.
It has been said time and again, Republicans do NOT know who their enemies are and often refuse to believe they have any in the bureaucracy.

[holden]

From a previous FR reply of mine, behind which I stand, of course:

W. Va. Senator John D. Rockefeller, Democratic Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, someone who is absolutely in a position to know the truth about the matter, when asked on Fox News Sunday June 22, 2003, whether he'd heard any evidence to suggest President Bush lied regarding Iraqi WMD intelligence reports said, "No, I have not."

When asked why John Kerry was intimating Bush had lied, Rockefeller basically said, "Kerry is running for president. His agenda is not the same as mine."

This might suggest that Jay was stupid for letting himself appear to change his views so dramatically later.

It's my impression that his response at that time on FNS was genuine, but Democrats came down hard on him quickly thereafter for being so out of sync with their leaders' plans. I think, therefore, Jay doesn't really run that show.

I wouldn't be at all surprised that it's been a Mellon-via-BillyJeff/McAwful run show.

The salient point is probably that Rockefeller's signature alone has been doing a lot of requesting in the recent past, where before that, requests of the executive branch came under the signatures of both Chairman and Vice-Chairman.

"Aides to Rockefeller" as instigators/authors doesn't pass my smell test. He's allowed his office and seat to become the nexus of the partisanship and treason, and that's why the real kids in charge probably love the diversion.

HF

[Shermy]

Even before the memo was written, Rockefeller's staff already was off on its own, well outside the traditional bipartisan channels. According to the memo, the "FBI Niger investigation" of reports that Saddam Hussein's regime had tried to buy uranium from West Africa "was done solely at the request of the vice chairman."

Interesting, but I'd like to see the full text, not split up.

If Rockerfeller pushed it...I'm still wondering whether Wilson was soliciting gold mining business from the Niger government at the same time he was exonerating it about uranium.