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Ties to KGB-Friendly Think Tank Should Disqualify Panetta for CIA
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by BMCWrites | January 12, 2009 at 06:58 am
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Members of the mainstream news media seem to have no interest in Leon Panetta’s past open involvement with the Institute for Policy Studies, an anti-CIA think tank closely linked to the former Soviet Union’s KGB spy agency. But they should.
Such disinterest is evident in the results of a Google News Search of “Panetta” and the exact phrase “Institute for Policy Studies.” I ran that search this morning and turned up one result. An identical Google Blogs Search yielded less than three-dozen results, while a Google Advanced Search produced more than 12,200 results...
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at 09:49 on January 12th, 2009
Anyone that does not subscribe to giving a blank check to the CIA to do as it chooses, without any oversight or control, would seem to be exactly the person one would want to prevent any repeat of the many actions now coming to light, decades down the road out of the CIA's 'skeleton closet'.
For example, from ABC's CIA Reveals 'Skeletons in the Closet':
In 1973 CIA director James Schlesinger sent a memo to all agency employees, directing them to report on "all activities undertaken that may have fallen outside the CIA's charter."
The files were released voluntarily by the CIA, albeit after numerous Freedom of Information Act requests. In announcing the release, current CIA Director Michael Hayden said last week that the documents "provide a glimpse of a very different time and a very different agency."
This information was provided through FOIA, voluntarily by the CIA, however, how long may it take before all is known of activities that were sanctioned and approved or how deeply entrenched this mindset may be, encouraging a continued approach that may not be so different an agency, re-creating the same actions in the past, now, in the future?
An ever morphing, always changing, always can be added to the list, cast of enemies in a War on Terror would exactly fit a shift into allowing the 'attack dogs' to be 'set loose' as a necessity for U.S. security.
at 09:51 on January 12th, 2009
Karen,
You're missing the point by a liberal mile! Putting a communist sympathizer in charge of the CIA is akin to putting a fox in charge of guarding the hen house!
at 10:15 on January 12th, 2009
Is it your contention that somehow, with the aid of a 'Communist sympathizing' CIA director, Russia and its former federated states will be able to reconstitute as the Soviet Union, again posing a 'Red Threat'?
Or is there some expected new incarnated threat envisioned that will have a U.S. CIA director commiting treasonous acts, as an undercover Communist, helping to rebuild Communism around the world?
at 10:22 on January 12th, 2009
One look at the recent actions of Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev and their lackeys in Russia makes the answer to both of your questions obvious: "YES!"
at 14:34 on January 12th, 2009
Seems there may be some credence to the 'Right Wing' Conspiracy :
.... The phrase has been bandied about for decades. The basic premise is there are 'those others', Right Wingers, that are accused of using everything, the much alluded to 'kitchen sink' as well as whatever 'else' is lying around, to throw at any candidate that tends to disagree with their vision of the stewardship of the United States of America.
at 11:38 on January 13th, 2009
And, all this time, I thought the "Mad Hatter" was just a storybook character. How wrong I was.
at 07:03 on January 18th, 2009
Please review NowPublic's Code of Conduct and refrain from attempts to malign the character of others.
at 11:01 on January 17th, 2009
It just keeps getting madder and madder.