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It’s Getting Better: CIA Director Panetta Admits Complete Video Blackout During The Raid On ‘Bin Laden’ Compound

January 8, 2016May 6, 2011 by Infinite

They burned the compound down, …

– Burning The Evidence: New Footage Of Osama Bin Laden’s Compound On Fire (VIDEO)

… buried Osama as soon as possible at sea, …

– Officials: Osama Bin Laden Body To Be ‘Buried At Sea’ (No Autopsy, No DNA Tests, No Forensics?)

… we will see no death photos, …

– President Obama Will Not Release Osama Bin Laden Death Photos

… and now a complete blackout during the raid:

CIA director Panetta said:

“Once those teams went into the compound I can tell you that there was a time period of almost 20 or 25 minutes where we really didn’t know just exactly what was going on.

What a bloody coincidence!

BS we can take a bath in!

They saw nothing!

Leon Panetta, director of the CIA, revealed there was a 25 minute blackout during which the live feed from cameras mounted on the helmets of the US special forces was cut off.

A photograph released by the White House appeared to show President Barack Obama and his aides in the situation room watching the action as it unfolded. In fact they had little knowledge of what was happening in the compound.

In an interview with PBS, Mr Panetta said: “Once those teams went into the compound I can tell you that there was a time period of almost 20 or 25 minutes where we really didn’t know just exactly what was going on. And there were some very tense moments as we were waiting for information.

CIA Officers Make Grave Mistakes, Get Promoted

February 10, 2011 by Infinite

Since 9/11, many whose errors left people wrongly imprisoned or dead have received only minor admonishments or no punishment at all

German national of Lebanese origin Khaled el-Masri sitting at the start of his trial at court in Memmingen, southern Germany, where he was accused of beating the mayor of Neu-Ulm, southern Germany in September 2009.

Feb. 09, 2011 WASHINGTON — In December 2003, security forces boarded a bus in Macedonia and snatched a German citizen named Khaled el-Masri. For the next five months, el-Masri was a ghost. Only a select group of CIA officers knew he had been whisked to a secret prison for interrogation in Afghanistan.

But he was the wrong guy.

A hard-charging CIA analyst had pushed the agency into one of the biggest diplomatic embarrassments of the U.S. war on terrorism. Yet despite recommendations by an internal review, the analyst was never punished. In fact, she has risen to one of the premier jobs in the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, helping lead President Barack Obama’s efforts to disrupt al-Qaida.

In the years since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, officers who committed serious mistakes that left people wrongly imprisoned or even dead have received only minor admonishments or no punishment at all, an Associated Press investigation has revealed. The botched el-Masri case is but one example of a CIA accountability process that even some within the agency say is unpredictable and inconsistent.

CIA director: US has not had good intelligence on Osama bin Laden since ‘the early 2000s’

June 28, 2010 by Infinite

The CIA had no (reliable) intel on Bin Laden since ‘the early 2000s’, .….

….. BUT: “He’s in an area of the tribal areas of Pakistan.’

More complete BS we can take a bath in.

The United States has not had good intelligence on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader, in years, Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, admitted on Sunday.

Leon Panetta, the CIA director Photo: GETTY

He also gave a sobering account of the war in Afghanistan, saying the Taliban seemed to be strengthening with a stepped-up campaign of violence, even as US-led forces undermine the Islamist movement with attacks on its leadership.

Of greatest concern, he said, was al-Qaeda’s reliance on operatives without previous records or those living in the US.

“We are engaged in the most aggressive operations in the history of the CIA in that part of the world, and the result is that we are disrupting their leadership,” Mr Panetta told ABC television’s “This Week”.

The rare assessment from the US spy chief comes as President Barack Obama builds up US forces in Afghanistan to prop up the government and prevent al-Qaeda from returning. Mr Panetta said only 50 to 100 militants were believed to be operating inside Afghanistan.

Mr Panetta said the al-Qaeda leadership was at its weakest point since the Sept 11, 2001 attacks, but admitted that he had not had reliable intelligence on the location of the group’s leader since “the early 2000s”.

“Since then, it’s been very difficult to get any intelligence on his exact location,” he said. “He is, as is obvious, in very deep hiding … He’s in an area of the tribal areas of Pakistan.”

Law Prof. David Glazier: CIA Drone Pilots Could Be Tried for ‘War Crimes’

May 3, 2010April 30, 2010 by Infinite

“The U.S. government has since defended the strikes as legitimate self-defense.”

“Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.”

– Dwight D. Eisenhower

The pilots waging America’s undeclared drone war in Pakistan could be liable to criminal prosecution for “war crimes,” a prominent law professor told a Congressional panel Wednesday.

Harold Koh, the State Department’s top legal adviser, outlined the administration’s legal case for the robotic attacks last month. Now, some legal experts are taking turns to punch holes in Koh’s argument.

It’s part of an ongoing legal debate about the CIA and U.S. military’s lethal drone operations, which have escalated in recent months – and which have received some technological upgrades. Critics of the program, including the American Civil Liberties Union, have argued that the campaign amounts to a program of targeted killing that may violate the laws of war.

In a hearing Wednesday before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s national security and foreign affairs panel, several professors of national security law seemed open to that argument. But there are still plenty of caveats, and the risks to U.S. drone operators are at this point theoretical: Unless a judge in, say, Pakistan, wanted to issue a warrant, it doesn’t seem likely. But that’s just one of the possible legal hazards of robotic warfare.

Loyola Law School professor David Glazier, a former Navy surface warfare officer, said the pilots operating the drones from afar could – in theory – be hauled into court in the countries where the attacks occur. That’s because the CIA’s drone pilots aren’t combatants in a legal sense. “It is my opinion, as well as that of most other law-of-war scholars I know, that those who participate in hostilities without the combatant’s privilege do not violate the law of war by doing so, they simply gain no immunity from domestic laws,” he said.

“Under this view CIA drone pilots are liable to prosecution under the law of any jurisdiction where attacks occur for any injuries, deaths or property damage they cause,” Glazier continued. “But under the legal theories adopted by our government in prosecuting Guantánamo detainees, these CIA officers as well as any higher-level government officials who have authorized or directed their attacks are committing war crimes.”

CIA to Spend Millions on Improving ‘Spying Techniques’

April 29, 2010 by Infinite

The CIA will spend millions of dollars over the next five years to improve intelligence gathering, upgrade technologies and enable analysts to work more closely with spies in the field.

The plan renews the agency’s year-old goal to increase the number of analysts and overseas operatives fluent in other languages.

The lack of bilingual agents has been a problem that has plagued military and civilian intelligence officers throughout much of the last decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq.

CIA Director Leon Panetta said the changes will help the agency battle emerging national security dangers better, including terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and cyberthreats. US intelligence agencies have come under fire in recent months for perceived lapses that let a suicide bomber infiltrate a CIA base in Afghanistan and an alleged would-be bomber to board a US-bound flight on Christmas.

CIA Director Reveals Spec Ops Report: US Needs Hit Squads, ‘Manhunting Agency’

November 5, 2009November 5, 2009 by Infinite

Commentary:

Maybe those guys just watched ‘The Bourne Trilogy’ too often.

Oh, wait a minute:

1. The US has a nice CIA rendition and torture program:

– ACLU hits Obama administration hard over torture controversies:

“The Obama administration has now fully embraced the Bush administration’s shameful effort to immunize torturers and their enablers from any legal consequences for their actions,” said Ben Wizner, an ACLU lawyer representing the five men, in a press release. “The CIA’s rendition and torture program is not a ’state secret;’ it’s an international scandal.

If the Obama administration has its way, no torture victim will ever have his day in court, and future administrations will be free to pursue torture policies without any fear of liability.”

2. The US has contractor concentration camps or gulags all over the world and floating prison ships on the sea:

– Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to Uzbekistan for extreme torture, to be ‘raped with broken bottles,’ ‘boiled alive’ and ‘having their children tortured in front of them’

– Afghanistan’s ‘Guantanamo’ poses new prison problem for Barack Obama

– Another Gitmo Grows in Afghanistan

– US accused of holding terror suspects on prison ships

– Ghost Ships

3. The US is fighting illegal wars.

4. The US has a exploding deficit because of stimulus programs like in Hitler’s Germany. The US will not be able to finance the deficit without destroying the dollar and the economy.

5. The US is deploying military combat units within the US in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act:

– Pentagon Wants Authority to Post Almost 400,000 Military Personnel in the US

– Northcom Combat Team Conducts “Humanitarian Support” Exercise in Maryland

– US Military To Work With FEMA During Swine Flu Pandemic

– Pentagon: 20,000 Troops to Bolster Domestic Security

– Army combat unit to deploy within U.S.

6. The US government tried to use the swine flu scare to impose mandatory vaccinations and although swine flu is no threat at all President Obama declared it a ‘national emergency’:

– H1N1 Swine Flu A National Emergency? Take A Close Look At This Chart

– CDC drafts ‘ISOLATION ORDER’ for swine flu (H1N1)

– US: Military to get mandatory swine flu shots soon

– New York judge puts hold on mandatory swine flu vaccinations

– Forced Swine Flu Vaccination Refused By Nurses In New York

– Long Island nurses to rally against mandatory swine flu vaccines

– Yes, you will! FORCED vaccinations, isolation & quarantine, health care interrogations and mandatory ‘decontaminations’

– Massachusetts ’swine flu’ legislation: A $1000 fine per day or up to 30 days in prison for each day that you do not follow the emergency declaration rules

And the swine flu vaccine is designed to destroy your health:

– Dr. Gary Null Speaking Out at the NYS Assembly Hearing on Vaccinations, Fraud, Junk Science, Crimes Against Humanity and Profit

– Doctor, cited on FOX News as expert on infectious diseases, would not give highly toxic swine flu vaccine to his children

– Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – Shocking Vaccine Cover Up

– Junk Science And The Flu Vaccine Scam Revealed

– Dr. Leonard Horowitz: The CDC’s Vaccination Genocide

– Autism Explodes As Childhood Vaccines Increase

– First wave of vaccine will be mostly nasal spray, a LIVE FLU VIRUS

– Nanoparticles used in untested swine flu vaccines

– Study: Causal Connection Between Thimerosal and Autism Established

– Historical facts exposing the dangers and ineffectiveness of vaccines

– German health expert’s swine flu warning; Does virus vaccine increase the risk of cancer?

– D r. Russell Blaylock: Harmful Effects of Swine Flu Vaccine

– Leaked Government letter to neurologists reveals concern about swine flu vaccine

– Untested swine flu vaccine could be given to your children

– Squalene: The Swine Flu Vaccine’s Dirty Little Secret Exposed

– Former Assistant Secretary of Housing: ‘I believe one of the goals of the swine flu vaccine is depopulation’

– US: 12,000 Children To Be Swine Flu Vaccine Guinea Pigs

– Baxter Filed Swine Flu Vaccine Patent a Year Ahead of Outbreak

– Swine flu vaccine to be cleared after five-day trial !!!

– Baxter sent out 72 kilos of live bird flu material destined for vaccines confirmed by Austrian Health Minister Alois Stöger

– Baxter: Product contaminated with live H5N1 avian flu virus

– New Zealand orders 300,000 doses of untested and unapproved swine flu vaccine

– Journalist Files Charges against WHO and UN for Bioterrorism and Intent to Commit Mass Murder

7. The US will have a Civilian National Security Force and the Obama Youth:

– US wants to enlist Girl Scouts to combat pandemics, terror attacks and other disasters

– Boy Scouts Train to Become Homeland Gestapo

– Children taught to praise Obama at school

– Obama calls for Civilian National Security Force:

“We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set,” he said Wednesday. “We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”

8. The US elite has everything in place so that their elite puppet of choice can become the absolute dictator that has to answer to no one:

– Obama leaves Bush’s NSPD 51 intact

– G. W. Bush and Adolf Hitler signed a Directive 51

– Do the Secret Bush Memos Amount to Treason? Top Constitutional Scholar Says Yes

– Ter·ror·ist (noun): Anyone Who Disagrees with the Government

– Bush Given Authority To Sexually Torture American Children

For more information on Obama:

– Fall Of The Republic – The Presidency Of Barack H. Obama (The Full Movie HQ)

– President Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize and hell freezes over!

– The Obama Deception

9. Now who would have something against a nice, uncomplicated SS hit squad to hunt down and kill terrorists!

What could possibly go wrong?!!!

CIA director Leon Panetta got into hot water with Congress, after he revealed an agency program to hunt down and kill terrorists. A recent report from the U.S. military’s Joint Special Operations University argues that the CIA didn’t go far enough (.pdf). Instead, it suggests the American government should set up something like a “National Manhunting Agency” to go after jihadists, drug dealers, pirates and other enemies of the state.

America’s military, intelligence and law-enforcement agencies already devote thousands of people and billions of dollars to tracking down top terrorists and insurgents. But even the most successful of these efforts – like going after Iraqi militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi – have been “ad hoc” efforts, with units cobbled together from different corners of the government. Report author and retired Lt. Col. George Crawford instead would like to see a permanent group with clear authority, training, doctrine and technology to go after these dangerous individuals. These “manhunting teams would be standing formations, trained to pursue their designated quarry relentlessly for as long as required to accomplish the mission,” he writes.

Sometimes, that will mean operating “in uncooperative countries.” In those cases, the teams must be prepared “to act unilaterally, with no support or coordination with local authorities, in a manner similar to that employed by Israel’s Avner team in response to the Munich Olympics massacre.” (That was the controversial unit, fictionalized in Steven Spielberg’s movie, that allegedly roamed the world, assassinating Palestinian militants in response to the 1972 Olympic attack.)

The hit squads would only be one part of the manhunting agency, according to the Joint Special Operations University monograph, uncovered by Inside Defense. “Dedicated teams must be assembled, able to respond ‘on-call’ in the event of a raid on a suspect site or to conduct independent ‘break-in and search’ operations without leaving evidence of their intrusion,” Crawford notes.

Manhunting will also “require personnel who are experts at conducting surveillance of particular facilities, personnel, or activities without arousing suspicion or being detected,” he adds. “Picture in your mind a typical city street scene, with a little old lady walking her dog, the phone repair crew descending into a manhole, two little old men playing an innocent game of checkers, or the homeless person sleeping on the park bench, and you are on the right track.”