Posted on 11/14/2004 8:33:07 AM PST by Vn_survivor_67-68
‘Anonymous’ resigns from CIA
* Says will now serve the national interest by talking publicly about Bin Laden and 9/11-Commission Report
WASHINGTON: A CIA analyst who wrote a book criticising the US war on terror resigned from the spy agency after it banned him from publicly discussing his views, his publicist said on Thursday.
Michael Scheuer wrote the book “Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror” under the pen name “anonymous” and formally resigned from the intelligence agency on Friday, after 22 years of service.
In a statement to the press, Scheuer said that he blamed senior US leadership for allowing intelligence officers working against Osama Bin Laden to be made scapegoats for pre-Sept intelligence failures. He went on to say that while the CIA did not force his resignation, he concluded that there had been no national debate over the nature of the threat posed by Bin Laden and his supporters and that the intelligence agency needed reforming to address that threat.
Scheuer was chief of the CIA Counterterrorist Centre unit which focused on Bin Laden from 1996 to 1999 and remained a CIA analyst after that.
The December issue of The Atlantic Monthly published an open letter by Scheuer to US congressional intelligence committees in which he said that the key pre-Sept 11 intelligence failures were mainly the result of bad decisions by senior officials.
He said that while the 9/11 attacks were probably unpreventable, decisions made by senior officials showing “arrogance, bad judgment, disdain for expertise, and bureaucratic cowardice” had meant that the intelligence community did not operate optimally to defend America.
In June, prior to his book’s publication, Scheuer appeared in a series of media interviews, appearing on TV in silhouette and identified in print as “Mike.”
In the first week of August, CIA officials told him that he had to ask for advance permission before engaging in interviews as well as providing them with summaries of what would be discussed, Scheuer’s editor and publicist Christina Davidson said. She added that the CIA rejected every request, effectively banning him from speaking on the subject.
Scheuer’s book claimed that the United States was losing the war against terrorism and that current policies would strengthen its enemies in the Islamic world. would only make its enemies in the Islamic world grow stronger.
A statement released by his publicist said that following a cordial meeting with senior CIA officials on Tuesday, Scheuer decided that it his resignation would serve the interest of the intelligence community and the nation by allowing him to continue speaking publicly about Bin Laden, Al Qaeda and the 9/11-Commission Report.
The CIA made no comment. Scheuer is scheduled to appear on the CBS show “60 Minutes” on Sunday. reuters
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_13-11-2004_pg7_41
also, here is the link to CBS' story re: 60 Minutes tonite:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/07/08/60minutes/main13502.shtml
He forgot "and sell books". There'll soon be enough CIA leakers on the street for the DNC to have their own shadow CIA (...wait...they already did.)
"Anonymous" wrote a book where he argued that we should abandon Israel and open negotiations with Islamofascists so they stop being mean to us. He's one of the old school blueblood anti-Semites, the same types who wanted to appease Hitler in the 30's.
It's very good that he's left the CIA; he's exactly the sort of person who has been undermining our country for decades. Lately many in the CIA have been undermining President Bush, frankly trying to derail his re-election. Good riddance. His 15 minutes will soon be over.
Don't people involved with national security take national security anymore? When I left the service with what little knowledge I had, I figured I'd be shot if I ever went on national TV and spilled my guts about Soviet missile systems. If he releases so much as one secret he should be taken in for treason. If he isn't, the message will be sent that secrets are not really serious. Sandy Burger should be doing hard time already. You deminish the secret keeping ability of our people when you let these clowns get away with this.
WASHINGTON: A CIA analyst who wrote a book criticising the US war on terror resigned from the spy agency after it banned him from publicly discussing his views, his publicist said on Thursday.
So this is another left winger blowing the lid off of the left wing screw up!! Is this all for the embarressment of Georg Bush to point out his MISMANAGEMENT of the gobernment??
The CIA needs cleand out of the liberals left over from all of the liberal administrations, Clinton, Carter whoever. Get them out and make sure that we have loyal Americans in these positions, no Socialists.
Here's all I can gey of the Atlantic piece:
The Atlantic Monthly | December 2004
The Agenda
Verbatim
How Not to Catch a Terrorist
A ten-step program, from the files of the U.S. intelligence community
by Anonymous
.....
uring the recent Senate confirmation hearings for Porter J. Goss, the new CIA director, Senator Dianne Feinstein read a provocative paragraph from a letter that had been sent to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. The gist of the letter was that key pre-9/11 intelligence failings were the result not primarily of budgetary, structural, or organizational problems (as suggested by the official 9/11 Commission Report) but, rather, of bad decisions by individuals—"unelected, unaccountable officials who made an art of outlasting their elected superiors." What made the letter particularly notable was its author: a twenty-two-year CIA veteran named Michael Scheuer—now better known as Anonymous, the author of the books Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror (2004) and Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America (2002)—who headed the Agency's bin Laden unit from 1996 to 1999.
The full text of the letter, which for the first time lays out ten crucial and specific failures by the intelligence community in the run-up to 9/11, has never appeared in print. The Atlantic has acquired a copy, key sections of which are reproduced below.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200412/anonymous
I hope he gets charged with something...
No surprise that CBS would give a platform to this extreme creep.
Of course his meeting with senior CIA officials was "cordial". They are the ones sending him forth to do their dirty work by trashing Bush. I hope Bush puts every one of their heads on a pike and lines them up along the drive into CIA headquarters.
I wouldn't trust much of anything coming out of the CIA or the State Department for that matter. Both are infested with leftists and arabists.
Expect to see several more threads such as this in the coming weeks as Goss tightens the screws. There are already a couple this morning.
Yeah, but they had to use "anonymous"; "unimpeachable source" was already taken.
Says will now serve the national interest by talking publicly about Bin Laden and 9/11-Commission Report
You mean we haven't? Could of fooled me.
If it's on 60 minutes, It'll probably make Bush look bad, and contain somewhat less than a grain of truth, if it contains any truth at all. All the story needs now is the Dan Rather seal of approval.
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In my memory, Bush is the first president to express the idea that America's loyalt to other counbtries should be base not solely on immediate self interest, but more on their commitment to liberty.
In the long run, Peace (and American interests) will best be served by the expansion of individual liberty.
I think he also forgot to add that he was told to resign...(by the new Goss team).
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