Tuesday, December 07, 2004

I Do Believe In Spooks, I Do Believe in Spooks,

Let's see. A classified CIA Station Chief's memorandum is leaked (provided) to the media portraying the dire straights of destabilization in Iraq. Hmmmm. I wonder where the Station Chief's "agency" political allegiances fall?Anyone get a whiff of partisan politics afoot and the finger prints of militant liberalism, especially after Director Goss has implemented new policies to reestablish the CIA as a viable intelligence organization as opposed to its former state of malaise and inefficiency? Surely not after he has implemented new agency policies and directives that have resulted in large scale resignations of the former gate keepers, of which many were the root cause of the agency's past failures?Surely no one would jeopardize the safety of our soldiers by spreading the feces of enemy propaganda in an obvious salacious attempt to embolden the "insurgents?" Don't think so? Think again. They did it in Vietnam and they are trying to do it again. © trickworm 2004

December 7, 2004INTELLIGENCE 2 C.I.A.
Reports Offer Warnings on Iraq's PathBy DOUGLAS JEHL WASHING TON, Dec. 6 - A classified cable sent by the Central Intelligence Agency's station chief in Baghdad has warned that the situation in Iraq is deteriorating and may not rebound any time soon, according to government officials.The cable, sent late last month as the officer ended a yearlong tour, presented a bleak assessment on matters of politics, economics and security, the officials said. They said its basic conclusions had been echoed in briefings presented by a senior C.I.A. official who recently visited Iraq.The officials described the two assessments as having been "mixed," saying that they did describe Iraq as having made important progress, particularly in terms of its political process, and credited Iraqis with being resilient. But over all, the officials described the station chief's cable in particular as an unvarnished assessment of the difficulties ahead in Iraq. They said it warned that the security situation was likely to get worse, including more violence and sectarian clashes, unless there were marked improvements soon on the part of the Iraqi government, in terms of its ability to assert authority and to build the economy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/07/international/middleeast/

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