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The Central Intelligence agency is tasked to provide national security intelligence to senior US policymakers. It is our first line of defense, its job is to accomplish what others cannot and go where others dare not.
From the days of William "Wild Bill" Donovan and the early days of the OSS, to the official creation of the Central Intelligence agency in 1947 with signing of the National Security Act by President Harry Truman, the CIA has been correlating, evaluating and disseminating intelligence that affect national security. We will never know all the good that the CIA has done for our nation and around the world, because they don't do it for the medals or the TV time. Its agents do not get large ceremonies celebrating a job well done; they do the job and silently get back to doing the nations business.
There are threats to this nation and our allies every day, and everyday our CIA and the rest of our government agencies go to work to protect us without any fanfare. The CIA has to get its job right every hour of everyday. There are thousands of bits and pieces of information that comes across their desk every day, and it must be disseminated, and categorized so that it can be dissected and used in order to help the analysts, operators, and station chiefs to do their jobs.
Does the CIA get it right all the time? No. Have there been mistakes made along the way? Of course. But the Unites States of America is 232 years old, have we gotten it right all the time? No. Have there been mistakes made along the way and throughout our history? Of course, and many more to come. But every day we strive to be better than we were the last day, and the next day we will strive to be better than we were the last.
We cannot be proud of our entire history, as Americans, as we cannot be proud of the entire history of the CIA, through times of human experimenting with LSD, and other mind altering drugs and methods, there were hundreds of American citizens killed as a result of these tests. The CIA has had a history of going outside the box to perform its mission. The Agency has broken the law many times, and they have paid the price for those mistakes. I cannot tell you that if it was not for the CIA specific events in history would or would not have happened, because in most instances we will never know.
There have been many failures, from security failures when Mir Kansi killed two CIA officers in Maryland in 1993, to counter intelligence failures of many career CIA officers falling under career-ending suspicion during the Angleton mole hunt, and the largest failure in the agency's history, the Aldrich Ames spy case.
The CIA has done outstanding work in the analysis of issues like emerging diseases, and the detection of WMD's. Again when we wake up in the morning, and we wake up to see the sun, it is not only because of the sacrifices our men and women of the armed forces make every day, but the selfless sacrifices that our men and women of the CIA make in the world of intelligence. We have to get it right every time, the bad guys only need to get it right once.
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The Central Intelligence Agency, is responsible for the spread of Clintonism and Black Operations to every small Town in America.The Central Intelligence Agency employs over 300,000 Intelligence officers World-Wide.
The Agency's consistent POLICY STANDARDS in which they absolutely refuse to "operate" within the Official Borders of the United States ,has directly caused the Professioanl Field of Clandestined Operations ,directly.. within the United States to fall on the shoulder's rank Amateurs- -most recently the Clinton "Shadow Team" made up of thug Private Investigators ,and the rank and file members of local Chapters of the M.A.F.I.A.
The situation is so severe that the; Solicitor Generals wife ,( a Former congressional investigator- - Barbara Olson, who was killed Sept. 11, 2001, wrote that), said: "In the political life of the Clinton's, it was she [Hillary] who pioneered the use of private detectives to carry out high crimes,and misdemeanor's.
During two terms of the Clinton administration, Pellicano was one of several private investigators used by the White House to conduct "shadow" operations. Others included Terry Lenzner, founder and chairman of the powerful Washington detective firm Investigative Group International, and San Francisco private eye Jack Palladino and his wife Sandra Sutherland.
But it was Hillary Clinton who hired the "Shadow Team" some believe to do work that employees of the federal government could not do.
Hillary's detectives engaged in "a systematic campaign to intimidate, frighten, threaten, discredit and punish innocent Americans whose only misdeed is their desire to tell the truth in public," former Clinton adviser Dick Morris charged in the New York Post of Oct. 1, 1998.
In his book, "Hillary's Secret War," author Richard Poe explains that Pellicano's violent career as a private investigator reveals much about the sorts of qualifications Hillary sought in her "Shadow Team."
Pellicano was released Friday from a federal prison after completing a 2 1/2-year sentence for possessing illegal weapons. He was transferred to San Bernardino County Jail, which is sometimes used by the federal prisoners. He was booked on charges that were at that time under seal.
Before he went to prison, Pellicano said he wouldn't cooperate in the wiretapping probe and would protect the confidentiality of his clients.
Pellicano first gained notoriety in 1977 after locating the remains of Taylor's third husband after they were stolen from an Illinois cemetery.
He also helped automaker John DeLorean win acquittal on cocaine trafficking charges in the early 1980s. He was hired by Jackson to refute child molestation claims in 1993.
Pellicano's legal troubles began in 2002 when prosecutors claim he hired Alexander Proctor to threaten Anita Busch, then a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, who was working on a story about actor Steven Seagal and possible links to the Mafia.
Proctor allegedly went to Busch's home, placed a dead fish with a rose in its mouth on the windshield of her car and made a bullet-sized hole in her windshield. He also placed a sign with the word "stop" on the windshield, court documents show. The FBI later raided Pellicano's office, found illegal explosives and seized documents and computers.
Pellicano and Proctor each face one count of making criminal threats and one count of conspiracy but neither have yet entered a plea. Proctor is serving a 10-year prison term in Illinois on unrelated drug charges.
During two terms of the Clinton administration, Pellicano was one of several private investigators used by the White House to conduct "shadow" operations. Others included Terry Lenzner, founder and chairman of the powerful Washington detective firm Investigative Group International, and San Francisco private eye Jack Palladino and his wife Sandra Sutherland.
In the January 1992 issue of GQ magazine, Pellicano boasted of the dirty work he had performed for his clients, including blackmail and physical assault. He claimed to have beaten one of his client's enemies with a baseball bat.
"I'm an expert with a knife," said Pellicano. "I can shred your face with a knife."
FBI agents raided Pellicano's West Hollywood office on Nov. 22, 2002, and arrested him on federal weapons charges. In his office, they found gold, jewelry, and about $200,000 in cash most of it bundled in $10,000 wrappers thousands of pages of transcripts of illegal wiretaps; two handguns; and various explosive devices stored in safes, including two live hand grenades and a pile of C4 plastic explosive, complete with blasting cap and detonation cord.
"The explosive could easily be used to blow up a car, and was in fact strong enough to bring down an airplane," noted Special Agent Stanley Ornellas in a sworn affidavit.
The FBI raided Pellicano's office after an accomplice ratted him out. Ex-convict Alexander Proctor told the FBI that Pellicano had hired him to threaten and intimidate Busch, who had been poking her nose a little too deeply into a feud between Mafia kingpins and actor Seagal. It seems that Seagal's former friend and production partner, Julius R. Nasso, was tied to the Gambino crime family. When Seagal and Nasso quarreled, the dispute got ugly.
On the morning of June 20, 2002, reporter Busch approached her car, which was parked near her home. To her horror, she saw a bullet-hole in her windshield. A cardboard sign taped to the glass bore one word: "Stop." A dead fish with a long-stemmed rose in its mouth lay on the hood.
Busch took the hint. She immediately went into hiding, staying in a series of hotels at her paper's expense, while the FBI and the Los Angeles Police Deprtment's organized-crime division investigated.
A break in the case seemed to come when ex-convict Proctor spilled the beans to an undercover FBI informant. Proctor reportedly told the informant, on tape, that it was not the Mafia harassing Busch it was Steven Seagal. Proctor said Seagal hired detective Anthony Pellicano to intimidate the woman into silence. Pellicano, in turn, had subcontracted Proctor to do the dirty work.
"He wanted to make it look like the Italians were putting the hit on her, so it wouldn't reflect on Seagal," Proctor told the informant. Proctor accused Pellicano of ordering him to "blow up" or set fire to Busch's car to frighten her. However, Proctor said he got cold feet and merely damaged the car, leaving the dead fish and "Stop" sign as calling cards.
A federal judge sentenced Pellicano to 30 months in prison for possession of the hand grenades and C4 explosives. Later, on June 17, 2005, Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley charged him with conspiracy and making threats against Busch.
Despite the sensational coverage of the Hollywood scandals, few news organizations have included the name of Pellicano's most famous client Hillary Rodham Clinton.
A detailed, 1,680-word round-up of the Pellicano case published in the New York Times on Nov. 11, 2003 a full year after his arrest made no mention of Hillary's name, nor even hinted at Pellicano's White House connection.
Pellicano was deeply involved in Clinton damage-control operations including efforts to discredit former Clinton lovers Gennifer Flowers and Monica Lewinsky.
THE COMPLETE AND FACTUAL LIST:
JAMES MCDOUGAL. Clinton's convicted Whitewater partner died of an apparent heart attack, while in solitary confinement. McDougal was a key witness in Kenneth Starr's investigation.
MARY MAHONEY- A former White House intern was murdered July 6, 1997 at a Starbucks Coffee Shop in Georgetown. The murder happened during the pre-trial publicity surrounding the Paula Jones lawsuit. days after Newsweek's Mike Isakoff dropped hints that a former White House staffer was about to go public with her story of sexual harassment in the White House.
VINCENT FOSTER- Former White House counselor, and former colleague of Hillarv Clinton at Little Rock's Rose law firm. Foster was found dead July 20, 1993 of a gunshot to the head ruled a suicide.
RON BROWN-Secretary of Commerce and former DNC Chairman. Reported to have died by impact in a plane crash. A pathologist close to the investigation reported to the Bob Grant Radio Show a "hole" in top of Brown's skull resembling a gunshot wound. At the time of his death Brown was being investigated and spoke publicly of his willingness to cut a deal with prosecutors.
C. VICTOR RAISER II -Former National finance Go-Chairman, Clinton for President Campaign and son MONTGOMERY RAISER died in a private plane crash in Alaska, July30th,1992. Raiser was described as a "major player" in the Clinton organization by Dee Dee Meyers.
PAUL TULLEY. Democrat National Committee Political Director found dead in a hotel room in Little Rock, Arkansas September 24, 1992, Described by Clinton as a "Dear friend and trusted advisor".
ED WILLEY-Clinton fund raiser-found dead November 30, 1993 deep in the woods in Virginia of a gunshot wound to the head. Ruled a suicide, Willey died on the same day his wife Kathleen Willey claimed that Bill Clinton groped her in the oval office in the White House. Ed Willey was involved in several Clinton fund raising events.
JERRY PARKS-Head of Clinton's gubernatorial security team in Little Rock. Gunned down in his car at a deserted intersection outside Little Rock. Park's son said his father was building a dossier on Clinton. He allegedly threatened to reveal this information. After he died the files were mysteriously removed from his house
JAMES BUNCH-Died from a gunshot suicide. Reported to have a "black book" of people containing names of influential people who visited prostitutes in Texas and Arkansas.
JAMES WILSON-Was found dead May 18, 1993 from an apparent hanging suicide. Was reported to have ties to Whitewater.
KATHY FERGUSON- Ex-wife of Arkansas Trooper Danny Ferguson died in May,1994 was found dead in her living room with a gunshot wound to her head. It was ruled a suicide even though there were several packed suitcases, as if she was going somewhere. Danny Ferguson was a co-defendant along with Bill Clinton in the Paula Corbin Jones lawsuit. She was reported a possible corroborating witness for Paula Jones case.
BILL SHELTON. Arkansas state Trooper and Fiancee of Kathy Ferguson. Critical of the suicide ruling of his fiancee, he was found dead in June, 1994 of a gunshot wound also ruled a suicide at the gravesite of his fiancee.
GANDY BAUGH -Attorney for Clinton friend Dan Lassater died by jumping out a window of a tall building January , 1991. His client was a convicted drug distributor.
FLORENCE MARTIN-Accountant subcontractor for the CIA related to the Barry Seal Mena Airport drug smuggling case. Dead of three gunshot wounds.
SUZANNE COLEMAN. Reportedly has an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General, Died of a gunshot wound to hack of head, ruled a suicide, was pregnant at the time her death.
PAULA GROBER - Clinton's speech interpreter for the deaf from 1978 until her death December 9, 1992. She died in a one car accident.
DANNY CASOLARO. Investigative reporter. Investigating Mena airport and Arkansas Development Finance Authority. He slit his wrists, apparent suicide in the middle of his investigation.
PAUL WILCHER-Attorney investigating corruption at Mena Airport with Casolaro and the 1980 "October Surprise" was found dead on a toilet June 22, 1993 in his Washington DC Apartment. Had delivered report to Janet Reno 3 weeks before his death.
JON PARNELL WALKER-Whitewater Investigator for Resolution Trust Corporation. Jumped to his death from his Arlington, Virginia apartment balcony August 15, 1993. Was investigating Morgan Guarantee scandal.
BARBARA WISE-Commerce Department Staffer-worked closely with Ron Brown and John Huang. Cause of death unknown. Died November 29, 1996. Her bruised nude body was found locked in her office at the Department of Commerce.
CHARLES MEISSNER-Assistant Secretary of Commerce who gave John Huang special security clearance, died shortly thereafter in a small plane crash.
DR. STANLEY HEARD. Chair National Chiropractic Heath Care Advisory committee died with his attorney .
STEVE DICKSON in a small plane crash. Heard, in addition to serving on Clinton's advisory council personally treated Clinton's mother, stepfather and brother.
BARRY SEAL. drug running pilot out of Mena, Arkansas, Death was no accident.
JOHNNY LAWHON Jr.- Mechanic, found a check made out to Clinton in the trunk of a car left in his repair shop. Died when his car hit a utility pole.
STANLEY MUGGINS-Suicide. Investigated Madison Guarantee.
His report was never released.
HERSHELL FRIDAY-Attorney & Clinton fund raiser died March 1, 1994 when his plane exploded.
KEVIN IVES & DON HENRY-Known as "The boys on the track" case. Reports say the boys may have stumbled upon the Mena Arkansas Airport Drug operation. Controversial case where initial report of death was due to falling asleep on railroad track. Later reports claim the two had been slain before being placed on the tracks. Many people linked to the case died before their testimony could come before a Grand Jury.
THE FOLLOWING SIX PERSONS HAD INFORMATION ON THE IVES/HENRY CASE:
KEITH CONEY. Died when his motorcycle slammed into the back of a truck in July, 1988:
KEITH McMASKLE. Died, stabbed 113 times, November 1988.
GREGORY COLLINS-Died from a gunshot wound, January 1989. JEFF RHODES-He was shot, mutilated and found burned in a trash dump in April 1989.
JAMES MILAN. Found decapitated-Coroner ruled death due to natural causes.
JORDAN KETTLESON-Was found shot to death in the front seat of his pickup truck in June 1990.
RICHARD WINTERS . Winters was a suspect in the Ives/Henry deaths.
Was killed in set-up robbery in July 1989.
THE FOLLOWING FORMER CLINTON BODYGUARDS ARE DEAD:
MAJOR WILLIAM S. BARKLEY JR.
CAPTAIN SCOTT J.REYNOLDS
SGT. BRIAN HANEY
SGT. TIM SABEL
MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM ROBERTSON
COL. WILLIAM DENSBERGER
COL. ROBERT KELLY
SPEC. GARY RHODES
STEVE WILLIS
ROBERT WILLIAMS
CONWAY LeBLEU
TODD McKEEHAN
When you look at the type of people that Hillary Clinton hired to intimidate those who would dare speak out about her and Bill, such as Pellicano, you have to question if some of those deaths in the previous blog post were just coincidental. Why would a private investigator have in his possession hand grenades and enough C-4 plastic explosives to bring down an airliner? Why would Hillary Clinton knowingly hire a thug as a private investigator unless her real reason was not to investigate her and Bill's adversaries, but to intimidate into silence.
It's interesting that in 1996 Hillary Clinton would hire Pellicano to investigate Monica Lewinsky when just 4 years earlier he boasted in GQ magazine that he had beaten one of his client's enemies with a baseball bat. Makes you wonder what the real intent for Hillary's employment of Pellicano may have been. After all, Kathleen Wiley who spoke about being sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton in the oval office said she was approached by a man in the middle of the night while getting into her car and told to keep in mouth shut. And while Hillary Clinton was outraged that Bush authorized the eavesdropping on known al Qaeda members calling the United States, she has no problem hiring a person who illegally wiretapped ordinary Americans.
Hillary Clinton will allow nothing to come between her and her quest for power. Still think she's not having Barak Obama investigated and leaking the finding to the press?
I ask your brave souls who have muddled throught this Article ....to please Contact the Justice Department ,and the President to put an end "to this hideous growth of Wanna Be" James Bond types ......and lets bring in the real mcCoy to clean up this Harmful mess. < The FBI , is just begining to recover from the tirades of Janet Reno>
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