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Former NSA Chief Called CIA 'Out of Control'
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsThe CIA is "out of control" and often refuses to cooperate with other parts of the national security community, even undermining their efforts, said former National Security Agency head William Odom, according to a recently released record of a 9/11 Commission interview. "The CIA currently doesn't work for anyone. It thinks it works for the president, but it doesn't and it's out of control," says a report summarizing remarks made by Odom, a retired three-star general who served as director of the NSA from 1985 to 1988. Odom, who also served on the National Security Council staff during the ...
WikiLeaks Founder: I Don't Know Source of Afghan Leak
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (July 28) -- U.S. military investigators hunting for the inside source who passed more than 91,000 classifiied documents on the Afghan war to WikiLeaks needn't bother interviewing the site's founder. Julian Assange says that just like them, he doesn't have a clue about the leaker's identity. Speaking to a packed room at London's Frontline Club, an organization set up to promote independent journalism, Assange explained Tuesday night how WikiLeaks' computerized document submission process masked the source's name and location. "We never know the source of the leak, as our whole system ...
US Braces for Blowback Over Leaked Documents
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 27) -- Operatives inside Afghanistan and Pakistan who have worked for the U.S. against the Taliban or al-Qaida may be at risk following the disclosure of thousands of once-secret U.S. military documents, former and current officials said. As the Obama administration scrambles to repair any political damage to the war effort in Congress and among the American public by the WikiLeaks revelations, there are also growing concerns that some U.S. allies abroad may ask whether they can trust America to keep secrets, officials said. Speaking in the Rose Garden Tuesday, President ...
NY Times Outs CIA Interrogator
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyOn the heels of former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's testimony before a House committee investigating the Valerie Plame affair, the New York Times published an article yesterday that named a formerly covert CIA interrogator. There is some question about whether Mrs. Plame was covered by the federal statute that makes it a crime to identify secret employees of the government, the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, at the time her name was published. The New York Times said in an editor's note appended to the article that the subject had never worked covertly as ...
CIA Chief: 'Strategic Defeat' Near for al-Qaeda
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailySpeaking to the Washington Post, CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden said that the United States has made great strides in its battle against al-Qaeda in just the past year. Hayden said that the international terrorist group is facing "strategic defeat" across much of the Muslim world, most especially in Iraq and Saudi Arabia. And the situation is not simply a military one. Hayden said that al-Qaeda is facing "ideological push back" from many in the Islamic world who are rejecting the strict form of fundamentalist Islam preached by Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda hierarchy. Hayden credited a ...
U.S. Calls for Investigation of Syrian Nukes
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe Bush Administration has called on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to step up its investigation into a possible secret Syrian nuclear program. The United States provided the United Nations' nuclear watchdog with information about three sites that it suspects could be linked to a Syrian nuclear program and expressed concern that Syria's program could be restarted in the wake of the Israeli raid on a suspected nuclear reactor in the northeastern Syrian desert last September.CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden was uncharacteristically self-assured in public comments about the ...
Pakistan Rejects U.S. Intelligence Presence
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyPakistani military and intelligence leaders met secretly with the top two U.S. intelligence officials in Islamabad earlier this month. During that meeting, Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell and CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden pressed Pakistan for greater access to the country for U.S. intelligence assets and offered Pakistan help in its battle with Taliban remnants and al-Qaeda in its Northwest Frontier Provinces. The meeting came in the aftermath of the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, when it appeared that the country might be descending ...
Veto Threat for Waterboarding Ban
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe House of Representatives passed a bill barring the CIA from using waterboarding in its interrogations of terrorist detainees on a close vote yesterday. The measure passed 222-199, far short of the 2/3 majority needed to override a presidential veto. The White House quickly issued a veto threat on the bill, saying that it would "prevent the United States from conducting lawful interrogations of senior al Qaeda terrorists to obtain intelligence needed to protect Americans from attack."House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) called the bill a step toward exercising ...
CIA Lawyers Approved Tape Destruction
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyFormer intelligence officials revealed today that lawyers at the Central Intelligence Agency engaged in a two year long debate with government agencies including the White House and the Justice Department over what to do with videotapes of captured terrorist interrogations. The CIA eventually destroyed the tapes in 2005, leading to recent Congressional calls for a Justice Department inquiry. The tape destruction is sure to be a focus of closed door hearings in the Senate Intelligence Committee. CIA Director Michael Hayden is testifying in those hearings.The revelations may add new urgency to ...
Congress Summons Hayden Over Tapes
By Jay Allbritton - Politics DailyBoth houses of Congress want CIA Director Michael Hayden to explain his agency's destruction of videotaped interrogations of two terrorist suspects in 2002. On Tuesday Hayden will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee; on Wednesday he'll talk to the House Intelligence Committee. Last week, Hayden told reporters that members of Congress were informed of the tapes' destruction. Democratic Representative Silvestre Reyes of Texas said Hayden's claim "does not appear to be true." ...
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