Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Who is it who really cares?

I do not want to always post other people's articles but doggone it - this one just has to be seen.  With Eric Holder investigating the CIA, somebody with real authority on the subject needs to be heard.

Monday, August 31, 2009 7:59 PM

By: Kent Clizbe

In the early days and weeks after Sept. 11, 2001, a small cadre of men (and a few women) with vast amounts of intelligence experience reported to the Langley, Va., headquarters of the CIA. These unsung heroes then were dispatched across the globe to run operations against the al-Qaida conspirators who leveled the World Trade Center and struck the nerve center of the U.S. military.

The FBI, a domestic law enforcement agency, did not have the ability or skills needed to track down and strike the attackers overseas. The Pentagon, with F22s, nuclear aircraft carriers, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and battalions of the best armor in the history of mankind, was like an elephant attacked by a mouse — mighty, but helpless in its mammoth rage.

Our best hope was in the hands of the gray-bearded intelligence professionals who fanned out across the world. Supplementing the skeleton crew of staff officers left in the wake of President Clinton's anti-intelligence scourging of the CIA, the volunteers went to the Middle East, Asia, Europe, Africa, South America, to the most remote and isolated outposts in the world. Sometimes they worked with friendly forces, and sometimes they worked alone. They focused like a laser beam on one thing: Stop the next attack.

Their mission: Seek and destroy the terrorist planners, facilitators, trainers, financiers, and their infrastructure wherever they were.

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, CIA officers, both the contractors and the overextended staff officers, launched dozens of initiatives. The CIA Counterterrorism Center’s motto, “Deny, Disrupt, Destroy,” became the reason for our living. We left our families for months on end and sacrificed personal and professional lives to fight the Global War on Terror (GWOT). Google “Jihadists in Paradise,” for an unauthorized account of one of my contributions (I have been advised that I can neither confirm nor deny).

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Credit to - Newsmax.com

3 comments:

RightKlik said...

Why is the O admin working so hard to make America less safe?

Anonymous said...

Excellent post!! Since oblama and his socialists have chosen this route we really have impacted our intelligence-gathering capability negatively. Even if the matter was dropped at this point IMHO intelligence ops will always be a bit guarded in fear of "going too far". Since the same administration has alienated Israel (the United States' only other halfway decent source of intelligence), he's pretty much cut us off completely.

Like RightKlik, I gotta ask ... why?

Does the CIA have to answer to some obamanoid code of ethics or morals that the abortion-on-demand group, among others, is exempt from? People ain't gonna buy that ... are they?

Janie Lynn said...

I wish I could even begin to understand this. It makes no sense to me what-so-ever, especially in light of September 11th. It's a slap in the face of all the brave men and women who have ever fought to keep us free.