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2009-08-21 Terror Networks

CIA hired Blackwater to kill Qaeda figures: report

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Posted by Fred 2009-08-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda

#1 Whether you do it one-on-one, by drone-zap or MOAB them en masse, I really don't care. Just do it. And faster, please.

Posted by SteveS 2009-08-21 00:13|| 2009-08-21 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Testing--updating my computer gave me a new nym.

One report I heard was that bounty hunters were legally contracted to hunt down wanted terrorists. I assume putting out a reward to hunt them down was the intent of the State Department offering $$$ in the first place--don't know why the NYT's and Feinstein think this is an illegal and diabolical plot of CIA. Could this be the millions Blackwater was awarded, rightfully if so?

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091">Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-08-21 00:24|| 2009-08-21 00:24|| Front Page Top

#3 More detail from NYT

Posted by tipper 2009-08-21 07:04|| 2009-08-21 07:04|| Front Page Top

#4 In an Embassy overseas there will be a senior CIA Officer assigned to oversee and manage CIA operations within that particular country. He may have a Staff but it is likely he is simply a Liaison to the Ambassador to keep him informed at his discretion of CIA activities in that country.

In practice the CIA Officer will not be a Field Officer he will be primarily a politician and his job is to keep the Ambassador informed"just enough" to keep the Embassy "informed" and out of trouble.

Field Officers dont go near the Embassy. They have very quiet contact( and a plausible Cover which they maintain "plausibly") with the CIA Liaison Officer who handles the politicians and approves or disapproves of CIA ops in the country. Nobody knows any more than he "needs" to know to do his job. This is sometimes difficult, but necessary. Trust is not a good feature in a CIA personality. Smile a lot and dont trust anybody. You are not a gentleman you just act like you are.

You get results or you get lost. You get away with it and cover up the mess using your hat. You stick it to someone else, that's your job. And you move fast enough not to get any on your shirt.
And some people are expendable. The farther down the food chain you go the more expendable you are.
The trick is to go up the food chain.

There are never enough CIA to do all the work. You arrange for the work to be "outsourced" as much as possible. The locals or hired professionals with specialties get these jobs. You queer people as a matter of routine. You are always looking for fools.

Your job is looking for information and vulnerabilities are how you find the buttons to push. You have lots of "friends" who dont really know you ,but think they do. You use your friends, and get new ones when the old ones wear out.

You develop good acting skills and lie a lot. It doesnt bother you at all. You stay away from giving your real name and make a practice of being as un-noticed as the wallpaper in the toilet. It was him, not me. And stay away from anything with your pants down.

I know its asking a lot. Pay me.

Posted by Angleton9 2009-08-21 08:27|| 2009-08-21 08:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Wahahahaha. Did you lecture at the farm Angleton?

Posted by Besoeker 2009-08-21 10:00|| 2009-08-21 10:00|| Front Page Top

#6 The only appropriate question is how many did they get?

Posted by Ulolusing Poodle2849 2009-08-21 12:23|| 2009-08-21 12:23|| Front Page Top

#7 While not briefing Congress is a violation of law, so is revealing covert agents(like ACLU lawyers at Gitmo) and leaking secret locations of their bases(NYT's). Aiding the enemy is also treason.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091">Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-08-21 14:10|| 2009-08-21 14:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Makes sense. If you have utterly no expertise inhouse for what needs to be done, you have to hire out for it.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2009-08-21 20:30|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2009-08-21 20:30|| Front Page Top

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