Re: Dulles Brothers(and a few others whose names are again in the news)

http://www.carlylegroup.net /

Historically speaking, we go back to 1947, we look at Clark Clifford, who wrote the National Security Act, in 1947. He was a Wall Street banker, and a lawyer from Wall Street. He was the chairman of First American Bancshares that brought BCCI onto US shores in the late 1980s. He was given the design for the CIA by John Foster and Allen Dulles, two brothers: John Foster becoming Secretary of State, Allen becoming director of Central Intelligence, who was fired by John Kennedy. They were partners in what is until this day the most powerful law firm on Wall Street: Sullivan Cromwell.

Bill Casey, the legendary CIA director from the Reagan/Iran Contra years, had been chairman of the Securities and Exchange commission under Ronald Reagan. He, in fact, was a Wall Street lawyer and a stockbroker. I’ve already mentioned Dave Doherty, the Vice President of NYSE who is the retired CIA general counsel. George Herbert Walker Bush is now a paid consultant to the Carlyle Group, the 11th largest defense contractor in the nation, very influential on Wall Street. “Buzzy” Krongard is there. John Deutsch, the former CIA director, who retired a couple of years ago, a few years ago, is now on the board of Citibanc or Citigroup. And his number three, Nora Slatkin, the Executive Director at CIA is also at Citigroup. And Maurice “Hank” Greenburg, who was the chairman of AIG insurance, which is the third largest investment pool of capital in the world, was up to be the CIA director in 1995 and Bill Clinton declined to nominate him. So there is an inextricable and unavoidable relationship between CIA and Wall Street.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~leveymg

The CIA lacked clear safeguards to prevent abuses

Given how many times Yoo/Bybee reviewed the protocols…the details they went into…and the insistence by CI officials that they get approval….

Yeah…the lack of safeguards was not an oversight…it was “a feature…not a bug”.

JasonLeopold @ 66 (show text)

…inadequate training and oversight,…

How much you wanna bet that was a design feature and not a mistake?

Bob in HI–>AZ

inadequate training and oversight,

The oldest and lamest excuse ever used, scapegoat always the lowest person in the pecking order. Who could have imagined? (/s)

The CIA lacked clear safeguards to prevent abuses in some instances in its network of secret prisons for terror suspects, and some interrogators early on had inadequate training and oversight, a long-withheld 2004 report found, according to current and former officials who have read the document.

Siun ,over at FDL, has just put a thread up about Ramadan and the escalating violence in Iraq.

Thank you for your kind words.

Saad Muttalibi, an adviser to Iraq’s ministry of national dialogue and reconciliation, said: “This is the continuation of the evil plans of people who cannot see a stable, free Iraq and people with the intention of keeping American forces in Iraq after the agreement that was signed for the Americans to leave.

“I think that this escalation of violence in Iraq is totally unacceptable as it is affecting the ordinary citizens,” he told Al Jazeera.

Are there any true journalists left in Iraq who could tell us what is really behind these recent violent events? Is it really the sects warring against each other, or are they being orchestrated by those who are determined that the US stay in Iraq?

You are evidently not familiar with Gorilla’s Guides, and
Juan Cole’s Informed Comment: Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion. Cole reads Arabic, and is tuned in to the best reports from the field.

Bob in HIAZ