CIA Chief Investigating IG (Inspector General)

[LeighAnn]

Source: Post-Star (Glen Falls, New York)

WASHINGTON - CIA Director Michael Hayden has ordered an internal review of his inspector general, who has issued a series of highly critical reports on the agency's conduct before and after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to published reports.

The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times said the highly unusual move has raised concerns that Hayden is trying to squelch the work of Inspector General John Helgerson, who has criticized senior figures including former Director George Tenet and officers involved in the agency's detention of terrorist suspects. The newspapers cited unidentified anonymous officials.

The CIA sought to play down the newspapers' characterizations of the review. In a statement Thursday night, a CIA spokesman said Hayden firmly believes in the work of the Office of the Inspector General.

"Director Hayden ... has, since taking the helm at CIA, accepted the vast majority of its findings. His only goal is to help this office, like any office at the agency, do its vital work even better," CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano said. "That's why he asked a seasoned observer like Bob Deitz to take a look at the Office of Inspector General and, if need be, suggest specific improvements for consideration by the unit itself."


Read more: http://www.poststar.com/articles/2007/10/12/ap/washington/d8s7et3o0.txt

[liberalla]

1. Hayden is going after the Medal of Freedom!

but seriously, this stinks.

"If the New York Times is correct, John Negroponte and Michael Hayden are hell bent on shifting critical analytical functions from the CIA to some other part of government (perhaps a stand-alone entity). If true, the death knell for the CIA is sounding, and an important national security capability will disappear if they are permitted to institute this madness. While right-wing crazies, convinced that the CIA is part of an elaborate plot to undermine the Bush administration, will celebrate this pyrrhic victory, sane Americans should hit the panic button."

Larry C Johnson
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/60/19633

The right-wing crazies are pressing on.

[Roland99]

2. uhhhhhhh

:wow:

[ixion]

3. speak ill of Boosh and find yourself under investigation

that's pretty typical these days. Amazing how the MSM never seems to make the connection.

[gateley]

4. CIA head ordered probe of inspector general

Source: msnbc.com

Reports: Move raises concerns director trying to squelch investigations

WASHINGTON - The work of the CIA’s in-house investigator who found fault with the agency’s handling of the Sept. 11 attacks is being subjected to an internal review, published reports say.

The move, which is highly unusual, has raised concerns that CIA Director Michael Hayden is trying to squelch the investigations of Inspector General John Helgerson, The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times reported Friday, citing anonymous officials.

Helgerson has been aggressive in his investigations of the CIA, criticizing senior figures including former Director George Tenet and officers involved in the agency’s detention of terrorist suspects.

The CIA rarely comments on media reports but on Thursday night the agency sought to play down the newspapers’ characterizations of the review. A CIA spokesman said in a statement that Hayden firmly believes in the work of the Office of the Inspector General.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21262180/

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Suppression. Ugly.

[PSPS]

5. Everything is politics and spin with these "loyal bushies"

Sadly, this will again amount to nothing except, perhaps, more pathetic politial theater by the democrats with perhaps another "strongly worded letter."

[habitual]

6. k+r n/t

[lovuian]

7. they use investigating to intimidate

yet when they get investigated they don't even come to subpoena's or get pardoned by Bush

[Peace Patriot]

8. They must have been getting close to some dangerous truths.

Considering the big holes in the official 9/11 story--for instance (the one that really sticks in my craw), the NORAD standdown--it is quite plausible that there was an inside Bushite conspiracy to let 9/11 happen. Another craw-sticker (for me): Where was Donald Rumsfeld during the critical hour, after the WTC towers were hit, when the remaining planes were headed to DC? He said he was "in a meeting," oblivious to the attack, but he had, six months before, pulled all NORAD decision-making powers into his own hands. And he was AWOL, while NORAD fell into confusion about what was going on? Not believable.

My interest in Rumsfeld's tale about where he was on 9/11 was piqued by Rumsfeld's curious resignation, days after the '06 elections, but with no change of policy on Iraq. I don't see Rumsfeld resigning out of concern for public opinion. Neither he nor any Bushite gives a fuck about public opinion. Fear of a 'Democratic' Congress? Right. Pelosi's announcement took care of that. ("Impeachment is off the table.") Failure in Iraq? Why would he care about that either? In his view, it is not a failure. They got the U.S. military permanently ensconced in the Middle East, and looted us of billions and billions of dollars. And his deliberate chaos and "divide and conquer" policy has worked beautifully. So why did he resign?

My theory: Somebody on the inside finally got the goods on him, on 9/11--or possibly on some other grave matter, such as torture for fun and profit, or masterminding the plan to take WMDs into Iraq, after the invasion (to be "found" by the U.S. troops who were "hunting" for them)--a plan that went awry, and may be connected to the outing of Valerie Plame and her entire WMD counter-proliferation network. (The mysterious death of the Brits WMD expert, David Kelly, four days after Plame was outed, makes this theory all the more intriguing.) There are several possibilities, but this fracas inside Bushdom about the CIA Inspector General investigating CIA failures connected to 9/11, and the attempt to bully or suppress him, makes 9/11 a good candidate for the real reason that Rumsfeld resigned. Remember, he was running his own intel shop--the Office of Special Plans--UNDERMINING and circumventing the honest professionals at the CIA, and likely was doing so back BEFORE the Iraq WMD lies and invasion. Could the original purpose of the OSP have been to run the insider network that let 9/11 happen? If so, he likely would have needed some moles in the CIA, to spy on, and attempt to head off, anyone who got leads on the 9/11 attack.

I wonder, too, about John O'Neil--the FBI agent who was following the Yemen money trail, and died in the WTC on 9/11; the Moussaoui computer that Colleen Rowley wanted to get into, that summer (and was denied a FISA warrant for), and its odd connection to Nick Berg (who was later beheaded on video in Iraq, supposedly by Al Qaeda)--and a number of other evidences that investigation of Al Qaeda was squelched by the Bushites. WHY ELSE would the Bushites be so nervous about the CIA IG investigating this matter? You'd think they would WANT to know what went wrong? And I also think we need to ask: Why now? (The IG didn't do this five years ago???) And: Why this leak about the investigation, and the attempt to suppress it?

There are other evidences that SOMETHING has happened, within our political/government establishment to curtail the Bush Junta. Rumsfeld is out. Rove is out. Gonzales is out. Three major MAJOR players. And now--this theory would have it--these inside investigators are getting close to some central crime, and Bush/Cheney and others who are still in place, but with curtailed power, may be getting very nervous that, although they have weathered the outcry for impeachment (which I think Pelosi may have traded for no attack on Iran), they could still be "gotten"--exposed, even prosecuted--for major hidden crimes, such as conspiracy on LIHOP.

[Judi Lynn]

9. C.I.A. Internal Inquiry Troubling, Lawmaker Says

C.I.A. Internal Inquiry Troubling, Lawmaker Says

By MARK MAZZETTI and SCOTT SHANE
Published: October 12, 2007

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12- — The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said today he was troubled by reports that the director of the Central Intelligence Agency has ordered an unusual internal inquiry into the work of the agency’s inspector general, whose aggressive investigations of the C.I.A.’s detention and interrogation programs and other matters have created resentment among agency operatives.

Representative Silvestre Reyes, Democrat of Texas, noted in a statement that the law guarantees the independence of the inspector general. “It is this independence that Congress established and will very aggressively preserve,” Mr. Reyes said. “The initiation of this investigation, if accurately reported, is troubling.”

Mr. Reyes was reacting to reports that a small team working for the C.I.A. director, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, was looking into the conduct of the agency’s watchdog office, which is led by Inspector General John L. Helgerson. Current and former government officials said the review had caused anxiety and anger in Mr. Helgerson’s office and aroused concern on Capitol Hill that it posed a conflict of interest.

The review is particularly focused on complaints that Mr. Helgerson’s office has not acted as a fair and impartial judge of agency operations but instead has begun a crusade against those who have participated in controversial detention programs.

More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/washington/12cnd-cia.html?hp