Are US intelligence agencies trying to influence the US elections?

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AmericaBlog: Are US intelligence agencies trying to influence the US election?
by John in DC - 6/22/2006 08:55:00 PM

You remember yesterday when Rick Santorum and another House member were trying to con the country into believing we found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and we didn't. Well, now we know that the report Santorum and the House member based their lie on came from the George Bush's top spy, National Intelligence Director John Negroponte.


Why Bush's top intelligence guy chose this week, right in the middle of a congressional Iraq debate intended to help the Republicans in this fall's elections, to release this "news" that we supposedly found WMD in Iraq, is anyone's guess. But it sure smacks of an attempt by the US intelligence community to influence the US domestic elections in favor of the Republcans, and that is an incredible breach of trust and law.


At what point does George Bush stop treating America like some kind of personal banana republic?

Link:

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/06/are-us-intelligence-agencies-trying-to.html

TC

[Avalux]

1. We really only have one agency -

controlled by the Pentagon, and the Duo of Cheney and Rumsfeld. So I'd say yes - they'll take their orders and do whatever is necessary to keep the evil bastards in power.

[htuttle]

2. The entire Executive Branch is being used to influence US elections

Everything from the Cabinet on down through the FBI, CIA, DoD -- even the the Agriculture Department is supposed to mention how well things are going in Iraq right now every time they speak.

Bush treats the entire government bureaucracy as his political tool.

[yurbud]

3. Pentagon knocking it down and some other intel activities show

pretty strong dissident element working for a different outcome.

The various prosecutions of GOP pols and hacks for public and private sins couldn't be happening without someone having the back of those local prosecutors too.

[bobthedrummer]

4. The corruption of our former voting rights involves some of the

intelligence community, it's a key to the growing fascism.

[BenDavid]

5. Folks, I would not

put anything past these folks. Even the Pentagon got into the act the other day during the hearings when they sent out talking points for the republicans...Yep, more alerts on the way....Let's call it what it really will be...THE SUMMER OF FEAR.....by the right to scare the chit out of folks and so the right can get their faces on all the news shows and convince the sheeple they are protecting america from americans..Would not surprise me that close to either the fourth of July or Labor day a terrorist alert will be shown...Yes, I am skepitcal about all this...Is it kind of strange that whenever microsoft puts out their critical security updates for XP around the same time the bush folks make news by something they did to prevent a terrorists attack....

[donco6]

6. No, no they're not.

And I'm reporting you for saying so.

[sutz12]

7. Given that they fired all the Dems at CIA, I would say YES! nt

[Beausoleil]

8. This has been happening all along with this admin

"The Defense Department’s Information Operations Task Force, created shortly after September 11, was to focus on “developing, coordinating, deconflicting, and monitoring the delivery of timely, relevant, and effective messages to targeted international audiences.”

The Office of Global Communications, under Tucker Eskew, a deputy assistant to the president and a longtime Republican communications consultant, touted a similar mission. A government organizational chart, dated July 2003, places this office at the nexus of the government’s strategic communications apparatus. But Daniel Kuehl, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who directs the Information Strategies Concentration Program at the National Defense University, believes the global communications office never lived up to its mandate.

Nor, perhaps, did it ever intend to. “In my opinion, the global issue wasn’t the reason why they were created,” he told me. “They clearly had a completely domestic focus. They were part of the effort to re-elect the president . . . . I’m going to be real pejorative here: Their goal was psychological operations on the American voting public. That was part of the political arm doing that.” He added, “You’ll notice that not long after the election, the Office of Global Communications no longer existed.” (Technically, it still exists, though it has been without a director for more than a year. No new content has been posted on its Web site, once updated regularly, since March 2005.)"

Great article from CJR on US military Information Operations and Psyops vs Public Affairs:

http://www.cjr.org/issues/2006/3/schulman.asp
Mind Games
By Daniel Schulman

[LUHiWY]

9. CIA studies..............

All that practice overthrowing elections and so forth in Central/South America has now been put to good use?

Though the term "good" might be questioned. A lot.


Bush said he felt sympatico with Putin. Wonder why? Both have "backgrounds" in intelligence?

Well, maybe Georges background is WAY back there somewhere....


Both either think they are cops or are?

[leveymg]

10. Most of the phony terra propaganda is still private sector

produced spin channelled from the GOP and allied "think tanks" and PR firms to their many allies strategically placed in the MSM.

Much of the stuff broadcast directly from the executive agencies is, of course, complete bullshit, too.

When you have both channels of the RW noise machine going, it is truly deafening and mind-numbing.

[Supersedeas]

11. if ya want Intelligence Agencies to focus more on security and less on

politics, then it will take an impeachment.

[iconoclastNYC]

12. Yes and DHS too

Who has that quote from Tom Ridge re: Orange alerts and 2004?