Dude,
Tell me ONE GUY in the EVIL, IMPERIALISTIC AMERICAN GOVT including FBI,
CIA,
NSA and DoD who DOES NOT LIE.
Here is a quote from the HORSE'S MOUTH.
"Look, if you think any American official is going to tell you the truth,
then you're stupid. Did you hear that? - stupid."
Arthur Sylvester, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, 1965
http://thirdworldtraveler.com/Authors/QuotationsToMakeUSThink.html
"Ethic" <Ethic@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Hayden's kind of lying was enough to earn another
> spymaster a suspended sentence in the 1970s
>
> http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/26/hayden-broke-law
>
> 26 January 2006 By Morton H. Halperin and Michael ****hs
>
> Former NSA Director Hayden Lied To Congress
> And Broke The Law
>
> [Our guest blogger, Morton Halperin (1), was Director of Policy
> Planning Staff at the State Department and served on the National
> Security Council under President Clinton. He also served as Deputy
> Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Johnson.]
>
> The Bush administration has pulled out all the stops in attempting
> to defend the NSA's warrantless domestic spying program. After
> speeches by President Bush and Attorney General Gonzales, Deputy
> Director of National Intelligence and former NSA Director General
> Michael Hayden took another crack at the defense in a speech on
> Monday (2). He's not exactly the ideal choice to restore the
> administration's credibility.
>
> As Think Progress do***ented back in December (3), Hayden
> misled Congress. In his 17 Oct. 2002 testimony (4), he told a
> committee investigating the 9/11 attacks that any surveillance of
> persons in the United States was done consistent with FISA.
>
> At the time of his statements, Hayden was fully aware of the
> presidential order to conduct warrantless domestic spying issued
> the previous year. But Hayden didn't feel as though he needed
> to share that with Congress. Apparently, Hayden believed that
> he had been legally authorized to conduct the surveillance, but told
> Congress that he had no authority to do exactly what he was doing.
> The Fraud and False Statements (5) statute (18 U.S.C. 1001) make
> Hayden's misleading statements to Congress illegal.
>
> Hayden's fate lies with the tale of another spymaster, Nixon-era
> CIA Director Richard Helms.
>
> Testifying under oath before a hearing of the Senate Foreign
> Relations Committee in 1973, Richard Helms claimed that CIA
> was not involved in attempts to overthrow Salvador Allende of
> Chile :
>
> SEN. SYMINGTON : Did you try in the Central Intelligence
> agency to overthrow the government of Chile ?
>
> MR. HELMS : No, sir.
>
> SEN. SYMINGTON : Did you have any money passed to the
> opponents of Allende ?
>
> MR. HELMS : No, sir.
>
> By the time Helms was called to testify again, CIA activities in
> Chile had become public knowledge. In 1977, Richard Helms
> pleaded no contest to charges of lying to Congress and served
> a suspended sentence.
>
> Four years passed between Richard Helms' false testimony before
> Congress and his guilty plea. Hayden's congressional lying occurred
> in 2002. It's now four years later. Time to fess up, General.
>
> http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/26/hayden-broke-law/
>
> 1) Morton H. Halperin, Senior Fellow and Director of Security
> and Peace Initiative
>
http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?cid={E9245FE4-9A2B-43C7-A521-5D6
> FF2E06E03}&bin_id={F559DADC-612D-4E30-A32C-E1D2A5D74263}
>
> 2) http://www.dni.gov/release_letter_012306.html
>
> 3) FLASHBACK : Director of National Security Agency Misled Congress
> http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/19/nsa-director
>
> 4) Do***ents From Congress' Joint Inquiry into 9/11
> Transcript of hearing 17 Oct 2002
> http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/hearings/911hearing-trans-oct17.htm
>
> 5) http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/ts_search.pl?title=18&sec=1001
>
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>
> Quite an Understatement :
> "CIA exit leaves many questions."
> How About, What the Heck is Going on
> in Bush's Politburo and Shadow Government ?
>
>
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2006/05/cia_resignation.ht
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> 5 May 2006 By Frank James
>
> CIA exit leaves many questions
>
> The sudden resignation of CIA director ****ter Goss today
> left Wa****ngton re****ters wanting to know more, much more.
>
> In a brief Oval Office session with the White House press corps,
> neither President Bush or Goss, both Yalies, gave a reason for
> the CIA director's departure, which only served to raise journalistic
> suspicions.
>
> So the speculation began immediately that Goss may have been
> a victim of the White House shake-up triggered by new chief-of-
> staff Joshua Bolten.
>
> But Goss's name hadn't been mentioned as someone who'd be made
> to walk the plank by Bolten. So that added to the surprise.
>
> That led to other speculation that maybe it wasn't about Bolten at all.
> This being the world of spooks we're talking about, intrigue rules the
> day.
>
> Maybe it had to do with the third-highest ranked CIA official,
> someone Goss named to that post last year, Kyle Foggo.
>
> Foggo just happens to be under investigation as part of a federal
> probe connected to the Randy "Duke" Cunningham bribery scandal
> in which Cunnigham, a former California Republican congressman,
> was convicted.
>
> Given all the headaches he has faced, I wonder if Goss, once a
> CIA agent himself and now 67, regrets not leaving public service
> sooner. After all, after being named CIA director, the job he took
> was downgraded when the Bush administration, following the
> recommentations of the 9/11 commission, created the national
> intelligence director, a post filled by long-time diplomat John
> Negroponte.
>
> In 2002, I interviewed him for a short profile in the Chicago Tribune
> after Bush asked him to co-chair a joint investigation by the House
> and Senate intelligence committees on intelligence failures before 9/11.
>
> He had actually been planning on retiring then but the president asked
> him to stay on. As I wrote then, "his plan was to join his wife, Mariel,
> full time in growing organic produce and raising Piedmontese cattle,
> known for their low-fat meat, on their small Virginia farm."
>
> Since he became CIA director, there've been plenty of stories that
> Goss, a former Republican congressman who represented a wealthy
> district on Florida's Gulf Coast, has hurt the agency's morale in
> a number of ways.
>
> First, he brought with him some of his congressional staffers who
> were viewed as political types who put politics over pure intelligence
> work.
>
> A number of senior intelligence professionals at the agency left after
> Goss took over in September 2004, not even two years ago.
>
> In recent weeks, Goss announced a crackdown on leaks at the agency,
> driven by the revelation that secret CIA flights were used to ferry
terror
> suspects to equally secret CIA prisons in Europe.
>
> Dana Priest of the Wa****ngton Post recently won a Pulitzer Prize for
> breaking that story and suspicions within the Bush administration
> turned to a person or persons at the CIA as sources for the story.
> Mary McCarthy a CIA official was fired. She has denied being
> the source of the prison story.
>
> In any event, the weekend likely started early for a lot of people
> over at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. when they heard the news
> that the director was stepping down.
>
> The only damper on the good feelings would be the uncertainty
> over who comes next since the president hasn't named a replacement.
>
>
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