CIA agent publicly chides White House for terror war

[floda]

Defying protocol, analyst Mike Scheuer criticizes the administration for Iraq war and losing focus on Al Qaeda.

By Faye Bowers | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

WASHINGTON – It's a little like yelling an obscenity at a wedding. In the etiquette of Washington, it has always been an unwritten rule that members of the CIA don't publicly criticize the people they work for - namely the US government.
From the agency's inception some 50 years ago, the mantra of top officials in particular has been to provide "hard" information - estimates and analyses - not public opinions about their bosses' policies or veracity.


Now a senior CIA official is violating the trench-coat oath - and roiling already sensitive relations between the White House and the nation's top spy agency. It comes at a time of major reform of the nation's intelligence apparatus.

Mike Scheuer, a 22-year veteran who works in the CIA's Counterterrorist Center and is a former head of its Osama bin Laden unit, is criticizing the Bush administration for going to war in Iraq and for the way it has conducted the war on terror in general. And he's doing it very publicly.

more...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1112/p02s02-usfp.html

[takumi]

1. Go Mike Go!

[aquart]

2. Goss will have him disappeared or suicided.

But Bush might consider why Goss isn't keeping control. That is what he was put in for.

[Zhade]

3. Goss might do well to remember there are more spooks than him.

And they ALL know how to play The Game.

[skooooo]

4. hmmmmm

[alfredo]

5. Why didn't he say something before the election?

I guess he figured bush would have been "reelected" even if he had a 15% approval rating.

[Kenneth ken]

11. He did, sort of

He has published two books in the past 2-1/2 years, "Through Our Enemies Eyes," and "Imperial Hubris," under "Anonymous."

(snipped from the article)

:hi:

[H2O Man]

14. He did.

He had two best-selling books, and was on numerous talk shows. There is no excuse for voters not being aware of him.

[alfredo]

22. OK, I didn't recognize the last name.

Imperial Hubris is great.

[natrat]

6. ok buddy you know the drill

no small airplanes, doberman in your house etc., etc

[BeHereNow]

7. Could this be our very own AGENT MIKE?

I hope so! I hope reading here at DU
inspired Agent Mike to become THIS Agent Mike!
You never know...If so, WE LOVE YOU AGENT MIKE!
Please encourage your friends to join us.
BHN

[shance]

8. Its a miracle!!! Agent Mike has changed his ways!! He has seen the LIGHT!!

Praise the Laword!!!

This just brings tears to mah ahz......

Hi Mike.

Um....shouldn't we call you Michael now since you have seen the light?

[BeHereNow]

10. Ya nevah know!

Agent Mike was sent over to keep on eye and
Bev Harris and Us, her motley crew...
could be that after reading the TRUTH on DU
Agent Mike decided to speak out.
I can dream, can't I?
BHN

[catzies]

12. Agent Mike was FBI, (IIRC) and this guy is CIA

So, I dunno. :shrug:

[The Blue Flower]

9. Stay tuned

I have always believed that * would be brought down by the spooks he's worked so hard to piss off.

[Judi Lynn]

13. Kick!

[seemslikeadream]

15. CIA insider may face disciplinary action

Intelligence official says he broke rules on media contacts
From Pam Benson
CNN Washington Bureau

Tuesday, November 9, 2004 Posted: 2343 GMT (0743 HKT)


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The CIA is reviewing whether to take disciplinary action against a senior terrorism officer who it says violated the agency's regulations on contacts with the media, a U.S. intelligence official said.

Michael Scheuer, a 22-year veteran of the CIA who once headed the agency's Osama bin Laden unit, has criticized the CIA's handling of the war on terrorism in recent interviews with news organizations.

"Mike is not authorized to speak for the CIA," the intelligence official said. "He knows the procedures governing relations between the agency and contacts with the press," and he "decided not to follow them."

The official said the agency has several options it could take against Scheuer, including dismissal.
more
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/11/09/cia.critic/

[UpInArms]

16. related article: Veteran CIA terror hunter quits over gag (Moonie Times)

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041111-050116-4438r.htm

Washington, DC, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- A veteran CIA terror hunter has quit the agency, saying it gagged him for fear his exposure of intelligence failures would embarrass other U.S. agencies.

Michael Scheuer, a 22-year CIA veteran who headed its operations against terror mastermind Osama bin Laden, told United Press International that he was barred from publishing a critique he wrote in May "documenting management and leadership failures" in U.S. efforts to disrupt al-Qaida and capture or kill its leader, Bin Laden, before Sept. 11.

The CIA's then-number three senior official, Executive Director A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard "told me it would embarrass other agencies and might cause them to withdraw their support to our operations against al-Qaida," said Scheuer.

Effectively, Scheuer said, the other agencies were threatening to "take their toys out of the sandbox."

Critics say Scheuer's account -- not denied by CIA officials -- demonstrates the persistence of turf wars and bureaucratic friction in the nation's intelligence community, and the degree to which U.S. counter-terrorism is handicapped by the absence of a single leader for its sprawling and fractious collection of 15 spy agencies.

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[Kellis]

17. Its starting

People are going to start coming out of the woodwork against ShrubCo.

:kick: Hallellujah~Praise be to Jeeezus!

[annabanana]

18. Talk about getting the info all in one place..

From our message board
Now THIS is the way to get the news!!
04:53 PM : Mike Scheuer criticizes the administration
07:19 PM: CIA is reviewing whether to take disciplinary action against a senior terrorism officer
07:27 PM: A veteran CIA terror hunter has quit the agency

[OldLeftieLawyer]

19. Is it me?

Or is *'s House Of Smoke and Mirrors falling apart rather quickly?

And, will * notice?

[Dem2theMax]

20. He's too busy looking in those mirrors,

admiring himself. :puke:

[goforit]

21. Yep it is the White house that is the #1 terrorist in the world!!!