CIA analyst John Nixon who interrogated Iraq’s erstwhile dictator Saddam Hussein has said the United States was wrong about Iraq and the dictator.
In a recent interview, the official of the US spying agency said CIA’s stance on Saddam having chemical weapons and attitude for using it was wrong.
The analyst said he asked Saddam if he had ever thought of using chemical weapons against the US.
'US was wrong about him', says CIA agent who interrogated Saddam - The Express Tribune
The CIA's decision that there were no WMD was based on a lot more than just that interview.
I don't know if you know that the job of the intels is bring their own assessment to the President. But then the President is the one to decide on what to do about what has been reported. But it is not the Intels decision to make the decision over the president's rulings. They has step out of line when they are giving orders. The President is the decision maker, not the Intels.
The Carter efforts to shake up and "moralize" foreign policy (and the State Department) were paralleled by efforts to clean up the CIA. Responsibility for the latter task fell largely to a fellow navy man, Admiral Stansfield Turner. President Ford had already made a step toward requiring greater CIA accountability in February 1976, by limiting the function of intelligence in Executive Order (EO) 11905. Ford's order was best known for its ban on assassinations—a direct response to the Senate's hearings on the subject.26 An August 1976 CIA briefing for candidate and then-Governor Carter stressed that EO 11905 spelled out guidelines for "the conduct of intelligence operations within Constitutional limits," while creating the "Operations Advisory Group" to replace "the NSC subcommittee known under various
MJ12 Research: Halloween Massacre & the CIA
Yes, everybody knows the president makes his own decisions, no matter how stupid, as evidenced by our orange fool in chief. Do you, like our goofy president, take the word of Putin over our own security agencies? That's a YES/NO question.
I certainly do..
How unpatriotic of you.
It will be Un-American to trust them. But you and the rest of the Hillary's people do not trust our law enforcement, but want us to trust Hillary's enforcers.
In his NSA Constitution Day
speech, and in a follow-up
post last week with Ashley Deeks, Ben offered this “tentative hypothesis” for why the intelligence community, and NSA in particular, engenders so much distrust among “reasonable” Americans: whereas most of our laws (theoretically) apply to people irrespective of race, class or gender, the intelligence community does not operate under even facially neutral principles.
Why Americans Don’t Trust the Intelligence Community
New Jersey governor and Donald Trump surrogate Chris Christie called Hillary Clinton "a disgrace" after she connected recent police shootings to "systematic racism"
Chris Christie calls Hillary Clinton a 'disgrace' after comments on police shootings - CNNPolitics
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that she was briefed before the release of a controversial intelligence assessment and that she stands by the report, which lists returning veterans among terrorist risks to the U.S.
Napolitano stands by controversial report
COINTELPRO (an acronym for
COunter INTELligence PROgram) was a series of
covert, and at times illegal,
[1][2] projects conducted by the United States
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveying, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic
political organizations.
[3] National Security Agency operation
Project MINARET targeted the personal communications of leading Americans who criticized the
Vietnam War, including Senators (e.g.,
Frank Church and
Howard Baker), civil rights leaders (e.g.,
Dr. Martin Luther King), journalists, and athletes.
[4][5] FBI records show that COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed
subversive,
[6] including anti-
Vietnam War organizers, activists of the
Civil Rights Movement or
Black Power movement (e.g.,
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the
Black Panther Party),
feminist organizations, independence movements (such as
Puerto Rican independence groups like the
Young Lords), and a variety of organizations that were part of the broader
New Left.
COINTELPRO - Wikipedia
