"... it is no longer clear that the power of the Congress of the United States, which represents the power
of the people, is sufficient to compel full cooperation from the Central Intelligence Agency, which set onerous
conditions for Congressional review and oversight." William W. Keller, Democracy Betrayed, the Rise of the Surveillance Security State pg 163
(2017)
The CIA's growth was 'likened to a malignancy' which the 'very high official was not even sure the White House could control ... any longer.' 'If the United States ever experiences [an attempted coup to overthrow the Government] it will come from the CIA and not the Pentagon.
The agency 'represents a tremendous power and total unaccountability to anyone.'
Arthur Krock (October 3, 1963).
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any
significance in the major media." --Former CIA
Director William Colby
"As our Knowledge of the Cold War grows, the list of drug traffickers who served the CIA lengthens to include
Corsican syndicates, Chinese Nationalist Party irregulars, Lao generals, Haitian colonels,
Honduran smugglers, and Afghan warlords." Alfred W. McCoy, In the Shadows of the American Century.
“The torture was far more brutal than we thought, and the
CIA lied about that. It didn't work, and they lied about that too. It produced
so much bad intel that it most likely impaired our national security,
and of course they lied about that as well. They lied to Congress, they
lied to the president, and they lied to the media. Despite this, they
are still defending their actions.” Mother
Jones quoted at Telesur
...when you look back through history, you can see that even
where the CIA, I’m going to use the word in quotation marks, “successfully”
influenced foreign elections, almost uniformly, those have turned out
to be disasters over the long term. We still had never recovered. At
least our policy has never recovered from the Mossadegh overthrow in
the Iran in the 1950s. Look at Latin America, it’s still a mess,
largely because what the CIA has done there over the years, even in
Greece where the CIA, it wasn’t an election, but the CIA supported the
overthrow of the Greek government in 1967 by a military junta. Even in
Greece, people still hate and distrust the United States because of
that. It’s like the CIA does these kinds of things, they carry out
these kinds of covert action operations without any thought to
long-term policy, and like I said, uniformly, the policy has turned out
to be a disaster. John
Kiriakou
Historically, the CIA and society’s elite have been one
and the same people. This means that their interests and goals are
one and the same as well. Perhaps the most frequent description of
the intelligence community is the "old boy network," where members
socialize, talk shop, conduct business and tap each other for
favors well outside the formal halls of government. Steve
Kangas
Just as one should reject the idea of a "rogue CIA",
perverting or betraying the intentions of an honorable government, so
one should banish illusions of a "rogue press" fulfilling its watchdog
role by barking furiously at the crimes of government. Loyal and
obedient in its function, just as the CIA has been, the US
corporate papers behave, in the main and with a few exceptions,
like most well-fed and prosperous watchdogs, fast asleep in their
kennels, eyes firmly closed. Whiteout by Alexander Cockburn and
Jeffrey St. Clair. pg 279.
"...concerns about an ever-growing and increasingly
politicized national security sector have all but
disappeared from the Senate discussion in both parties.
Indeed, the CIA's headquarters has been renamed the 'George Bush Center
for Intelligence,' and is far from the vision President Truman had of
an expert resource without partisan taint and without
military capabilities uncontrolled by civilian authority." Presidential Puppetry:
Andrew Kreig Pg 93
CIA operations follow the same recurring script. First,
American business interests abroad are threatened by a popular or
democratically elected leader. The people support their leader
because he intends to conduct land reform, strengthen unions,
redistribute wealth, nationalize foreign-owned industry, and
regulate business to protect workers, consumers and the
environment. So, on behalf of American business, and often with
their help, the CIA mobilizes the opposition. First it identifies
right-wing groups within the country (usually the military), and
offers them a deal: “We’ll put you in power if you
maintain a favorable business climate for us.” The Agency
then hires, trains and works with them to overthrow the existing
government (usually a democracy). It uses every trick in the book:
propaganda, stuffed ballot boxes, purchased elections, extortion,
blackmail, sexual intrigue, false stories about opponents in the
local media, infiltration and disruption of opposing political
parties, kidnapping, beating, torture, intimidation, economic
sabotage, death squads and even assassination. These efforts
culminate in a military coup, which installs a right-wing dictator.
The CIA trains the dictator’s security apparatus to crack
down on the traditional enemies of big business, using
interrogation, torture and murder. The victims are said to be
“communists,” but almost always they are just peasants,
liberals, moderates, labor union leaders, political opponents and
advocates of free speech and democracy. Widespread human rights
abuses follow. Steve
Kangas
"The CIA admitted in 1998 that guerrilla armies it actively
supported in Nicaragua were smuggling illegal drugs into the United States - drugs that
were making their way onto the streets of inner-city black
neighborhoods in the form of crack cocaine. The CIA also admitted
that, in the midst of the War on Drugs, it blocked law enforcement
efforts to investigate illegal drug networks that were helping to
fund its covert war in Nicaragua." Michelle Alexander in The New Jim
Crow pg 6
Down the decades the CIA has approached perfection in one
particular art, which we might term the "uncover-up." This is a
process whereby, with all due delay, the Agency first denies with
passion, then concedes in profoundly muffled tones, charges levelled
against it. Such charges have included the Agency's recruitment of
Nazi scientists and SS officers; experiments on unwitting American
citizens; efforts to assassinate Fidel Castro; alliances with opium
lords in Burma, Thailand and Laos; an assassination program in
Vietnam; complicity in the toppling of Salvador Allende in Chile;
the arming of opium traffickers and religious fanatics in
Afghanistan; the training of murderous police in Guatemala and El
Salvador; and involvement in drugs-and-arms shuttles between Latin
America and the US. Whiteout
by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St.
Clair. pg 385.
"We talked about how the CIA knew - and was preparing for
the fact - that the world was heading to a place of not just inter-country war but
of intra-country war in which mass surveillance would be necessary to
control populations. And about how armies were being turned into police
forces to administer countries they have invaded and occupied, while
the police, even in places like India and Pakistan and Ferguson,
Missouri, in the United States - were being trained to behave like
armies to quell internal insurrections." Conversation with Edward Snowden
"It is the function of the CIA to keep the
world unstable, and to propagandize and teach the American people to hate, so we will let the
Establishment spend any amount of money on arms." - John
Stockwell, former CIA official and author
Note: Gina Haspel participated in a torture program that involved beating an (innocent) pregnant woman's stomach,
anally raping a man with meals he tried to refuse, and freezing a shackled prisoner until he died.
She personally wrote the order to destroy 92 tapes of CIA torture.
Trump congratulated her on her confirmation as CIA director.
--
So, if you believe the government should:
✅ break the law;
✅ commit immoral acts;
✅ waste time & resources on something with no benefit;
✅ help the country's enemies;
Then torture has it all.
Andrew Stroehlein
5:54 AM - 18 May 2018
Finally, Pompeo is a major backer of an increased
surveillance state, pushing for Congress to roll back reforms limiting
the mass collection of metadata. “Legal and bureaucratic impediments to
surveillance should be removed,” he has argued in the Wall Street
Journal.
On top of that, Pompeo called for the death penalty for Edward Snowden, accusing him of
treason and of handing over information to foreign powers that put
American lives at risk. "He should be brought back from Russia and
given due process, and I think the proper outcome would be that he
would be given a death sentence," he said.
One month before he was killed, John F. Kennedy,
through Arthur Krock, publicly expressed concern that the CIA was plotting a coup to take
over the US government. Video: http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/26327.html
Secrecy is one of many enemies of democracy and the Constitution.
If we want the kind of government the framers intended, there should be no black budget., no CIA, and more transparency in
government.
The CIA and other black agencies, over the years, have not had effective
oversight, and have repeatedly betrayed the public trust by engaging in
activities that would not be approved by anyone of good will. It is closely
connected to the vast
right-wing conspiracy. See this timeline of CIA
atrocities.
It trained Central Americans to torture
at the "School of the Americas",
funded right-wing death squads, engaged in 'regime change' that put
strong-man dictatorships
in place, and precipitated wars
in almost every part of the world. See Lou Wolf
Testimony.
Covert agencies are secret,
unaccountable and should be considered unconstitutional. They not
only have budgets that are large and hidden,
they have been
responsible for all US wars since WWII (every
one unsuccessful) and
many illegal activities. We know that the CIA has run drugs into
Los Angeles, that Afghanistan under the
Taliban produced almost no narcotics but now produces a large
part of the world's drugs, the agency has engaged in renditions, torture, assassinations,
regime
changes...and it has supported dictatorships in many parts of the world.
The U.S. now has extreme concentration of media.
According to William Colby, former Director, the CIA controls everyone
of importance in media. Control of the media is an essential
part of election rigging and it is
necessary to sell war. The CIA has
experience rigging elections worldwide, we should have expected it
sooner or later here at home. Elections have been rigged without
causing public outcry.
Considering the universal
surveillance by 'intelligence' agencies, and their control of media, it is time to ask the question:
Who really runs things ? Andrew
Kreig's book, Presidential
Puppetry,
makes the case that "secretive elites" guide our
government leaders. Kreig was formerly a journalist for the Hartford
Courant, so you would think his book might be in a Connecticut
library...but it is not.
If good US citizens were fully
informed, there would be massive change of our political structures and
a high priority would be controlling or eliminating the black
budget. It seems we have created a National Security State which
is no longer responsive to the people. The U.S. is no longer a democracy.
We are ripe for a fascist takeover. Trump appears to be bringing it to full fruition.
"Do you remember the right-wing execution squads in El
Salvador?' the former high-level intelligence official asked me,
referring to the military-led gangs that committed atrocities in
the early nineteen-eighties. 'We founded them and we financed
them.'" (Seymour Hersh, January 2005 New Yorker.)
Death squad leader 'was top CIA agent' 23
Mar 2009 The late President Milosevic's secret police chief and
organizer of Serb death squads during the genocidal ethnic
cleansing of disintegrating Yugoslavia was the United States' top
CIA agent in Belgrade, according to the independent Belgrade Radio
B92. The claim that from 1992 until the end of the decade, Jovica
Stanisic, head of Serbia's murderous DB Secret Police, was
regularly informing his CIA handlers of the thinking in Milosevic's
inner circle has shocked the region. Stanisic is said to have
loyally served his two masters for eight years. He is facing war
crimes charges at the International Criminal Court at The
Hague.
Gary
Webb reported on CIA complicit drug smuggling into Los Angeles
and he was for all practical purposes fired from the San Jose
Mercury News for doing it. Not only was this a branch of the
Iran-Contra illegal war, but it had the effect of making a large
number of (mostly democratic voting) minorities ineligible to vote.
A win-wing for the vast
right-wing conspiracy.
Former governor Jesse Ventura's recent episode on mind
control, though somewhat sensational, is actually quite well researched.
Watch it at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVGt-JC8a-A.
"Anyhow, one part has E. Howard
Hunt drooling over this wonderful coup, and he says that the JESUITS were great help.
I think he says that the Archbishop in NYC or Italy contacted the
Jesuit top guy in Guatemala, and they provided both Intelligence
and Propaganda against the government of Jacobo Arbenz --- who was
only trying to get the dirt farmers a little more bling -- or
food."
Catholics in the CIA
The CIA was also closely in league with the Vatican, itself
still embroiled in its wartime alliance with the Nazis. The Vatican
was smuggling to the West war criminals such as Father Andrija
Artukovic, the Franciscan who had helped exterminate hundreds of
thousands of Serbs in Croatia. Hiding in the Vatican was one Walter
Rauff, a German Nazi who had spent the last months of the war
leading an extermination unit of SS men across Italy, gassing to
death some 250,000 victims, mainly Jewish women and children.
Rauff's protector was Allen Dulles's old friend Monsignor Don
Giusseppe Bicchierai, who assembled a terror gang charged with the
task of beating up left-wing candidates, smashing political
gatherings and intimidating voters. Their money, guns, and jeeps
were furnished by the CIA.
Whiteout: Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair pg 138
The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies, Michael Hayden
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate by John Marks
The MInd Manipulators Alan W. Scheflin and Edward M.d Opton Jr.
The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence by by Victor Marchetti, a former special assistant to the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and John D. Marks, a former officer of the United States Department of State.[1]
The Invisible Government: David Wise and Thomas B.Ross