CIA chief has ‘confrontational’ meeting with Pakistani spymaster

[kpete]

CIA chief has ‘confrontational’ meeting with Pakistani spymaster
November 24, 2009 ·
Ahmed Shuja Pasha

A.S. Pasha

By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org |
There is almost no coverage in the US media of CIA director Leon Panetta’s trip to Pakistan —in sharp contrast to the Pakistani and Indian press, where his visit made national headlines over the weekend. A scheduled meeting with Ahmed Shuja Pasha, director of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), was undoubtedly among Panetta’s most important engagements in Islamabad. According to Pakistani media accounts, the meeting between the two men —the second in less than two months— was confrontational and marred by serious differences between the ISI and the CIA —two agencies that rarely see eye-to-eye lately. Citing “well-placed sources”, Pakistani daily The Nation said that the ISI spymaster “expressed his disappointment” to Panetta about the CIA’s “dismal role in countering terrorism” in Pakistan and its “failure to provide concrete actionable information” to the Pakistani secret services. This will not surprise intelligence observers, who understand that sharing of actionable intelligence between the two agencies is currently almost non-existent. Another point of confrontation during the meeting was Washington’s apparent refusal to act on persistent Pakistani allegations that Indian spies are sabotaging US and Pakistani security efforts in Afghanistan, reportedly in order to further destabilize Pakistan. The Pakistani claims were last month echoed by Milt Bearden, former CIA station chief in Pakistan, who told the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Indian intelligence operatives were indeed active in Afghanistan, and that “the concerns of Pakistan’s Army are legitimate in this regard”.

http://intelligencenews.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/01-314/

[Turbineguy]

1. Apparently, Panetta

is not good at pretending we can trust these guys.

[lapfog_1]

2. There is a good reason not to share anything with the ISI.

And it's a lesson we SHOULD have learned over 11 years ago. The President Clinton launched a surprise attack on the compound where we had intelligence that bin Laden was located in Afghanistan. Two things went wrong, first, in direct violation of orders, the US sub commander surfaced before launching, there is a theory that he was spotted by the ISI (being offshore of Pakistan and the Pakistanis being nervous about sneak attacks by India and all. Second, we told the higher level officials of our intentions (the missiles flying over Pakistan) and someone (or ones) in the ISI warned bin Laden of the attack.

In fact, there is good reason to believe that the entire ISI is a conduit of information to the Taliban.

The ISI had a hand in establishing the Taliban style government in Afghanistan after the fall of the Russian backed moderate government.