DC’s spy establishment in panic mode over Washington Post expose

[unhappycamper]

DC’s spy establishment in panic mode over Washington Post expose
By Daniel Tencer
Friday, July 16th, 2010 -- 5:59 pm

Washington's intelligence establishment appears to be in panic mode over an upcoming Washington Post series about runaway growth in defense and intelligence spending.

A State Department email has accused the Post of planning to make public "top secret" information about defense and intelligence contractors working for the US, despite an admission in the same email that the Post's information came from "open sources."

The series, by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Dana Priest, will include a TV partnership with PBS's Frontline and is expected to consist of three articles and an online database of military and intelligence contractors and their projects.

It's that database of contractors that seems to be worrying Washington the most. Josh Rogin at Foreign Policy reports that the State Department sent out an email Thursday warning all 14,574 Washington-area employees of the upcoming reports.

"On Monday July 19, the Washington Post plans to publish a website listing all agencies and contractors believed to conduct Top Secret work on behalf of the US Government," the email stated. "The website provides a graphic representation pinpointing the location of firms conducting Top Secret work, describing the type of work they perform, and identifying many facilities where such work is done."



unhappycamper comment: I guess I should read the Post the next few days.......

[gratuitous]

1. Yes, God forbid taxpayers know what their money is paying for

There is far too much money being spent on activities that are hidden away from the people footing the bill for them. I don't think the CIA should be completely dismantled (although I don't rule it out prospectively), but a serious re-tooling of how the nation conducts its affairs is due and overdue.

[unhappycamper]

2. Since 1947, the CIA has gotton EXACTLY one thing correct.

One thing. They called the Six Day War ahead of it actually happening.

Stellar record, eh?

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. I think they also knew that the USSR was crumbling.

But Reagan took credit for it.

[another saigon]

8. pretty impressive!

I thought it was ZERO.

[Recursion]

10. No. CIA is very, very good at what it's actually supposed to do

Namely, gather intelligence on other countries. The problem is various presidents keep trying to mission creep it.

[another saigon]

13. they are very very good at over throwing governments

I believe that is the true mission of the CIA. Not for defense of country at all, but empire building by stealth. Which isn't so stealthy anymore.

[Recursion]

14. Well, not really. They've had some successes and several failures

Chile and Iran they got "right" (in the tactical, not moral sense), but most of the other overthrows they tried just managed to completely destabilize the country without getting the rightwing strongman in power.

[another saigon]

15. I disagree

as far as spreading the US "footprint" around the world they have done extremely well. Most often requiring regime change. Have you read this book?



If you flip over the rock of American foreign policy of the past century, this is what crawls out…

invasions … bombings … overthrowing governments …
occupations … suppressing movements for social change …
assassinating political leaders … perverting elections …
manipulating labor unions … manufacturing "news" …
economic and political sanctions ... death squads …
torture … biological warfare … depleted uranium …
drug trafficking … mercenaries …


"Far and away the best book on the topic."
Noam Chomsky

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Gore Vidal

"I bought several more copies to circulate to
friends with the hope of shedding new light
and understanding on their political outlooks."
Oliver Stone

"A very valuable book. The research and organization
are extremely impressive."
A. J. Langguth, author, former New York Times Bureau Chief

"A very useful piece of work, daunting in scope,
important."
Thomas Powers, author, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

"Each chapter I read made me more and more angry."
Dr. Helen Caldicott, international leader of
the anti-nuclear and environmental movements



Table of Contents
Introduction
1. China - 1945 to 1960s: Was Mao Tse-tung just paranoid?
2. Italy - 1947-1948: Free elections, Hollywood style
3. Greece - 1947 to early 1950s: From cradle of democracy to client state
4. The Philippines - 1940s and 1950s: America's oldest colony
5. Korea - 1945-1953: Was it all that it appeared to be?
6. Albania - 1949-1953: The proper English spy
7. Eastern Europe - 1948-1956: Operation Splinter Factor
8. Germany - 1950s: Everything from juvenile delinquency to terrorism
9. Iran - 1953: Making it safe for the King of Kings
10. Guatemala - 1953-1954: While the world watched
11. Costa Rica - Mid-1950s: Trying to topple an ally - Part 1
12. Syria - 1956-1957: Purchasing a new government
13. Middle East - 1957-1958: The Eisenhower Doctrine claims another backyard for America
14. Indonesia - 1957-1958: War and pornography
15. Western Europe - 1950s and 1960s: Fronts within fronts within fronts
16. British Guiana - 1953-1964: The CIA's international labor mafia
17. Soviet Union - Late 1940s to 1960s: From spy planes to book publishing
18. Italy - 1950s to 1970s: Supporting the Cardinal's orphans and techno-fascism
19. Vietnam - 1950-1973: The Hearts and Minds Circus
20. Cambodia - 1955-1973: Prince Sihanouk walks the high-wire of neutralism
21. Laos - 1957-1973: L'Armée Clandestine
22. Haiti - 1959-1963: The Marines land, again
23. Guatemala - 1960: One good coup deserves another
24. France/Algeria - 1960s: L'état, c'est la CIA
25. Ecuador - 1960-1963: A text book of dirty tricks
26. The Congo - 1960-1964: The assassination of Patrice Lumumba
27. Brazil - 1961-1964: Introducing the marvelous new world of death squads
28. Peru - 1960-1965: Fort Bragg moves to the jungle
29. Dominican Republic - 1960-1966: Saving democracy from communism by getting rid of democracy
30. Cuba - 1959 to 1980s: The unforgivable revolution
31. Indonesia - 1965: Liquidating President Sukarno … and 500,000 others
East Timor - 1975: And 200,000 more
32. Ghana - 1966: Kwame Nkrumah steps out of line
33. Uruguay - 1964-1970: Torture -- as American as apple pie
34. Chile - 1964-1973: A hammer and sickle stamped on your child's forehead
35. Greece - 1964-1974: "Fuck your Parliament and your Constitution," said
the President of the United States
36. Bolivia - 1964-1975: Tracking down Che Guevara in the land of coup d'etat
37. Guatemala - 1962 to 1980s: A less publicized "final solution"
38. Costa Rica - 1970-1971: Trying to topple an ally -- Part 2
39. Iraq - 1972-1975: Covert action should not be confused with missionary work
40. Australia - 1973-1975: Another free election bites the dust
41. Angola - 1975 to 1980s: The Great Powers Poker Game
42. Zaire - 1975-1978: Mobutu and the CIA, a marriage made in heaven
43. Jamaica - 1976-1980: Kissinger's ultimatum
44. Seychelles - 1979-1981: Yet another area of great strategic importance
45. Grenada - 1979-1984: Lying -- one of the few growth industries in Washington
46. Morocco - 1983: A video nasty
47. Suriname - 1982-1984: Once again, the Cuban bogeyman
48. Libya - 1981-1989: Ronald Reagan meets his match
49. Nicaragua - 1981-1990: Destabilization in slow motion
50. Panama - 1969-1991: Double-crossing our drug supplier
51. Bulgaria 1990/Albania 1991: Teaching communists what democracy is all about
52. Iraq - 1990-1991: Desert holocaust
53. Afghanistan - 1979-1992: America's Jihad
54. El Salvador - 1980-1994: Human rights, Washington style
55. Haiti - 1986-1994: Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?
56. The American Empire - 1992 to present
Notes

http://killinghope.org/

[Hydra]

17. Well, ya!

They were helping plan it, I would wager.

[puzzlingpond]

3. Let's hope the WP has the courage to go forward with this.

[rzemanfl]

4. But outing Valerie Plame was okay? n/t

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[marylanddem]

5. Good for the Washington Post & Dana Priest

this government is drowning in military-industrial sludge.

[EFerrari]

11. The WaHo will never challenge the State Department or the CIA

unless they're having an internal power struggle. And that's not really a challenge, that's just picking a side.

[Mimosa]

12. Great info and link, unhappycamper. n/t

[TrogL]

16. K&R

:kick:

[defendandprotect]

18. K&R --