Cloak and Dagger! C.I.A. in hot water again!

The C.I.A. is supposed to be a cloak and dagger type of organization so I am surprised at how much it has been in the news lately.

First they put the Ice on George Bush's flights of fancy and paranoia by reveling that Iran dropped their nuclear ambitions back in 2003, and now they are in hot water for destroying torture tapes so that no one can accuse them of any wrongdoing!

According to the intelligence agency, the tapes were destroyed to protect the identity of CIA agents and because they no longer had intelligence value.

Bullshit!

This C.I.A. is no different than any other law enforcement or security organization in that it will close ranks to protect itself and any information we get will be after the fact!

The New York Times, which broke the story, quotes current and former government officials as saying the CIA destroyed the tapes in 2005 as it faced Congressional and legal scrutiny about its secret detention programme.

Officials feared the tapes could have raised doubts about the legality of the CIA's techniques, the newspaper says.

The tapes are thought to have shown the interrogation in 2002 of a number of terror suspects, including Abu Zubaydah, who had been a chief recruiter for the al-Qaeda network.

The Associated Press news agency on Thursday obtained a letter sent to all CIA employees by the agency's current director, Michael Hayden, explaining why the footage was destroyed.

In the internal memo, Mr Hayden told staff that the CIA had begun taping interrogations as an internal check in 2002 and decided to delete the videos because they lacked any "legal or internal reason" to keep them.

Once again, with gusto, Bullshit!

The CIA acknowledges that these early interrogations were harsh, but Mr Hayden says that the CIA's internal watchdogs saw the tapes in 2003 and verified that the techniques used were legal.

"The destruction of these tapes appears to be a part of an extensive, long-term pattern of misusing executive authority to insulate individuals from criminal prosecution for torture and abuse," an ACLU statement said.

After the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the US, President George W Bush authorised the use of "harsh techniques" in the interrogation of suspected terrorists.

According to one correspondent, those techniques are alleged to have included water-boarding, a method in which a suspect is held down and gagged while water is poured into his mouth in order to simulate drowning.

Human rights groups say that water-boarding - and other techniques allegedly used by the CIA - can be defined as torture under various international treaties to which the US is a signatory.

The Bush administration has always maintained that it does not allow the use of torture but the BBC's Jonathan Beale in Washington says the news is likely to trigger more questions about the interrogation techniques used by the CIA.

There are also questions over whether CIA agents withheld information from the courts and a presidential commission.

These questions seem to be rather silly since we know that, for example, police departments will hide evidence, change facts, whitewash information and outright lie to protect themselves and the C.I.A. makes them look like amateurs.

Allan W Janssen is the author of The Plain Truth About God at www.God-101.com and the blog "Perspective" at http://God-101.blogspot.com

Saturday Morning Confusion!

When you look at the government and say to yourself; "What are they going to do next?" it doesn't take long to come up with an answer.

The latest technology being used to keep us in a constant state of confusion and apprehension just might be the "Stink-Bomb" and "The Gay Bomb."

From deep within the files of the C.I.A., your fearless investigative reporter has come up with a startling piece of news.

Under a hush, hush, top secret contract with N.S.A. and other defense organizations, the U.S. army is attempting to develop a chemical weapon that will give different ethnic and ideological groups a distinct "smell".

For example, it could genetically produce a certain "smell" that would be secreted from ethnic Chinese, or Blacks or East Indians or even people from Iowa.

There would also be certain odors that can be chemically introduced through food or by aerosols into other groups such as foreign religious organizations or ideological groups.

The Army proposal specifically calls for the "preparation of an 'odor index' to match known disagreeable odors to a specific culture, political/religious group or geographical region."

(If these smells are produced in such a way as to be "unpleasant" to us then this would be one of the easiest ways to promote differences between disparate groups and produce an "Us vs Them" mentality ..)

This "unpleasant smell" plus a certain amount of propaganda, would then be more than enough to cause a population to rise-up against a targeted group and make the militariese job so much easier!

On top of the "Stink-Bomb," the army is also testing a "Gay-Bomb" that would chemically attack foot soldiers and turn them "Gay."

They would immediately lose all desire to fight a be easy pickings for our troops. (The only hazard is having some of "our" guys going over to the "enemy," but I'm sure that this problem can be addressed.)

The idea for the "Gay-Bomb was first discussed after it was announced the Kim Jong-ill and his North Korean scientists had developed a "Nude_Bomb" for use in any regional conflicts in the Far East. (The thinking behind this being that naked soldiers would lose the will to fight!)

Kim Jong-ill, seen relaxing after a recent successful test of North Korea's "Nude Bomb!"

Your "hush, hush and on the Q.T." scribe;
Allan W Janssen