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| Goss knows "a lot" about bin Laden, Zarqawi sanctuaries |
| 2005-12-01 |
| CIA Director Porter Goss, saying his agency struggles to penetrate terrorist sanctuaries overseas, insists that âwe know more than weâre able to say publiclyâ about Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. In a rare television interview, Goss defended the CIAâs track record, which has been tarnished by allegations ranging from erroneous or hyped intelligence leading to the war in Iraq to reports the agency runs secret prisons abroad for terrorism suspects and uses harsh interrogation techniques amounting to torture. âWhat we do does not come close to torture,â Goss said, though he declined to elaborate on the agencyâs interrogation techniques. Al Qaida leaders Bin Laden and al-Zarqawi havenât been found âprimarily because they donât want us to find them and theyâre going to great lengths to make sure we donât find them,â Goss said in the interview broadcast Tuesday on ABCâs âGood Morning America.â âWeâre applying a lot of efforts to find out where they are.â He insisted the CIA knows âa good deal moreâ about the men âthan weâre able to say publicly.â Goss said one of the hardest parts of the CIAâs mission is to âpenetrate into some of the sanctuary areasâ â whether harsh terrain or âat the heart of a city, in a ghetto or slum area where people donât regularly go.â âKnowing how to find those places and getting to penetrate them is going to be the hardest part of this business,â he said. Even with the CIAâs mistakes, Goss said, the agency is âthe gold standard by any measureâ in terms of human intelligence. âWe donât get it right every time,â he said, âbut I donât think thereâs anybody who could even come close.â Reports have surfaced recently that the CIA runs secret prisons in Europe for detaining and interrogating suspects. The U.S. has not confirmed those reports, and Goss did not address them directly. âWeâre fighting a war on terror,â he said in response to a question about the prisons. âWeâre doing quite well. Inevitably, weâre going to have to capture some terrorists and inevitably theyâre going to have to have some due process. Itâs going to be done lawfully.â The interview was taped inside the operations room at the agencyâs headquarters in suburban Langley, Va. A red light flashed throughout the interview, indicating there was someone in the room who did not have a security clearance â the interviewer, ABCâs Charles Gibson. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #5 Things always get up front and personal when it happens at home, or at the office. The Klingons didn't know anything about Mir Aimal Kasi before he gunned down a couple of agency employees with his AK at their front gate in 1993. Kasi a Pakistani national, described his actions, as "retaliation against the US Gov't" for policies, etc, etc, the standard muzzie line. Had they not done so already, after the Kasi attack they should have really gotten serious about the muzzie terror threat, maybe started some heavy trend and predictive analysis, etc. Instead, nearly 15 years later their director says they "struggle to penetrate." Allowing Secretary Powell to go before the UN with "WMD trailers" that were NOT! ..well, that was just stupid. Appears they also "struggle" to completely verify. Changing leadership and implementing new security measures and high-tech system at the front gate hasn't helped the rest of us. I suspect it's time for a major house cleaning. Let them golf, smoke pipes, and do navel studies in the comfort of their homes. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2005-12-01 16:53 |
| #4 Goss needs to uncover every individual in his organization that's even remotely connected with any sort of effort to discredit the President, shove them out the front door and then kick them down the stairs. The sooner this happens, the better. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-12-01 14:43 |
| #3 If he knows the area they are in put SmartDust and Cams - with motion sensors, voice recog. for Biney etc, and an IUD attached. Also consider attaching one of those electric fired mine replacement guns. Binny is in voice sensing range - automatic BOOM with no override. Binny is visual recog range (where recog is by computer to 90% accuracy) - automatic BANG as he is shot. Mine the whole area with these intelligent killers. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2005-12-01 14:17 |
| #2 And yet, thier best efforts to crash the Bush administration have been none too good. You'd think they'd set their sights lower and bask in the glow of some kind of success. Nah. Makes too much sense... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2005-12-01 09:55 |
| #1 The CIA has been too worried about trying to take down a US president to worry about petty things like Al Qaeda. |
| Posted by: BillH 2005-12-01 06:38 |