*Subject: The undoing of military intelligence by political ignorance. *
Was it "ignorance" or was it "TREASON?"
*Yet another indication that our Nation's "Muslim-in-Chief", Barack Hussein
O'Bama, doesn't want to be confused with any facts, because his alleged
mind is made up, and he follows at least one of the primary principles of
the Quran and Islamic Sharia - a Muslim will not say or do anything that
goes against the beliefs and practices of another Muslim! Fourteen hundred
years under Islam, totally unimpeded by any sense of social advancement! *
As President George W. Bush's top speech writer, Marc Thiessen was
provided unique access to the CIA program used in interrogating top Al
Qaeda terrorists, including the mastermind of the 9/11 attack, Khalid
Sheikh Mohammad (KSM).
Now, his riveting new book, "Courting Disaster", How the CIA Kept America
Safe (Regnery), has been published. Here is an
excerpt from "Courting Disaster":
"Just before dawn on March 1, 2003, two dozen heavily armed Pakistani
tactical assault forces move in and surround a safe house in Rawalpindi.
A few hours earlier they had received a text
message from an informant inside the house.
It read: "I am with KSM."
Bursting in, they find the disheveled mastermind of the 9/11
attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in his bedroom. He is
taken into custody. In the safe house, they find a treasure trove of
computers, documents, cell phones and other valuable "pocket litter."
Once in custody, KSM is defiant. He refuses to answer
questions, informing his captors that he will tell them everything when he
gets to America and sees his lawyer. But KSM is not taken to America to
see a lawyer. Instead, he is taken to a secret CIA "black site" in
an undisclosed location.
Upon arrival, KSM finds himself in the complete control of Americans. He
does not know where he is, how long he will be
there, or what his fate will be.
Despite his circumstances, KSM still refuses to talk. He spews contempt
at his interrogators, telling them Americans are weak, lack resilience, and
are unable to do what is necessary to prevent the terrorists from
succeeding in their goals. He has trained to resist interrogation. When
he is asked for information about future attacks, he tells his
questioners scornfully: "Soon, you will know."
It becomes clear he will not reveal the information using
traditional interrogation techniques. So he undergoes a series of
"enhanced interrogation techniques" approved for use only on the most
high-value detainees. The techniques include waterboarding.
His resistance is described by one senior American official
as "superhuman." Eventually, however, the techniques work, and KSM
becomes cooperative-for reasons that are described later in this book. He
begins telling his CIA de-briefers about active al Qaeda plots to launch
attacks against the United States and other Western targets. He holds
classes for CIA officials, using a chalkboard to draw a picture of al
Qaeda's operating
structure, financing, communications, and logistics. He identifies al
Qaeda travel routes and safe havens, and helps intelligence officers make
sense of documents and computer records seized in terrorist raids. He
identifies voices in intercepted telephone calls, and helps
officials understand the meaning of coded terrorist communications. He
provides information that helps our intelligence community capture other
high-ranking terrorists, KSM's questioning, and that of other
captured terrorists, produces more than 6,000 intelligence reports, which
are shared across the intelligence community, as well as with our
allies across the world.
In one of these reports, KSM describes in detail the revisions he made to
his failed 1994-1995 plan known as the "Bojinka plot" to blow up a dozen
airplanes carrying some 4,000 passengers over the Pacific Ocean.
Years later, an observant CIA officer notices the activities of a cell
being followed by British authorities appear to match KSM's description of
his plans for a Bojinka-style attack. In an operation that involves
unprecedented intelligence cooperation between our countries, British
officials proceed to unravel the plot.
On the night of Aug. 9, 2006 they launch a series of raids in a northeast
London suburb that lead to the arrest of two dozen al Qaeda terrorist
suspects. They find a USB thumb-drive in
the pocket of one of the men with security details for Heathrow airport,
and information on seven Trans-Atlantic flights that were scheduled to take
off within hours of each other:
* United Airlines Flight 931 to San Francisco departing at
2:15 p. M.;
* Air Canada Flight 849 to Toronto departing at 3:00 p. M.;
* Air Canada Flight 865 to Montreal departing at 3:15 p. M.;
* United Airlines Flight 959 to Chicago departing at 3:40 p. M.;
* United Airlines Flight 925 to Washington departing at 4:20 p. M.;
* American Airlines Flight 131 to New York departing at 4:35 p. M.;
* American Airlines Flight 91 to Chicago departing at 4:50 p. m.
They seize bomb-making equipment and hydrogen peroxide to
make liquid explosives. And they find the chilling martyrdom videos the
suicide bombers had prepared.
Today, if you asked an average person on the street what they know about
the 2006 airlines plot, most would not be able to tell you much.
Few Americans are aware of the fact al Qaeda had planned to
mark the fifth anniversary of 9/11 with an attack of similar scope and
magnitude. And still fewer realize the terrorists' true intentions in
this plot were uncovered thanks to critical information obtained through
the interrogation of the man who conceived it: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
This is only one of the many attacks stopped with the help of the CIA
interrogation program established by the Bush Administration in the wake of
the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
In addition to helping break up these specific terrorist cells and plots,
CIA questioning provided our intelligence community with an unparalleled
body of information about al Qaeda. Until the program was temporarily
suspended in 2006, intelligence officials say, well over half of
the information our government had about al Qaeda - how it operates, how it
moves money, how it communicates, how it recruits operatives, how it picks
targets, how it plans and carries out attacks - came from the
interrogation of terrorists in CIA custody.
Former CIA Director George Tenet has declared: "I know this program has
saved lives. I know we've disrupted plots. I know this program alone is
worth more than what the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency, and
the National Security Agency put together have been able to tell us."
Former CIA Director
Mike Hayden has said: "The facts of the case are that the use of
these techniques against these terrorists made us safer. It really
did work." Even Barack Obama's Director of National Intelligence,
Dennis Blair, has acknowledged: "High-value information came from
interrogations in which those methods were used and
provided a deeper understanding of the al Qaeda organization
that was attacking this country." Leon Panetta, Obama's CIA Director, has
said: "Important information was gathered from these detainees.
It provided information that was acted upon. John Brennan, Obama's Homeland
Security Advisor, when asked in an interview if enhanced-interrogation
techniques were necessary to keep America safe, replied: "Would the U. S.
be handicapped if the CIA was not, in fact, able to carry out these types
of detention and debriefing activities? I would say yes."
On Jan. 22, 2009, President Obama issued Executive Order
13491, closing the CIA program and directing that, henceforth, all
interrogations by U. S. personnel must follow the techniques contained in
the Army Field Manual.
The morning of the announcement, Mike Hayden was still in his post as CIA
Director, He called White House Counsel Greg Craig and told him bluntly:
"You didn't ask, but this is the CIA officially non-concurring".
The president went ahead anyway, over ruling the objections of the agency.
A few months later, on April 16, 2009, President Obama ordered the release
of four Justice Department memos that described in detail the techniques
used to interrogate KSM and other high-value terrorists. This time, not
just Hayden (who was now retired) but five CIA directors -
including Obama's own director, Leon Panetta, objected. George Tenet
called to urge against the memos' release. So did Porter Goss. So did
John Deutch.
Hayden says: "You had CIA directors in a continuous unbroken stream to
1995 calling saying, 'Don't do this.'" In addition to
objections from the men who led the agency for a collective 14 years, the
President also heard objections from the agency's covert field operatives.
A few weeks earlier, Panetta had arranged for the eight top officials of
the Clandestine Service to meet with the President. It was highly unusual
for these clandestine officers to visit the Oval Office, and they used the
opportunity to warn the President that releasing the memos would put agency
operatives at risk. The President reportedly listened respectfully - and
then ignored their advice.
With these actions, Barack Obama arguably did more damage to
America's national security in his first 100 days of office than any
President in American history. But how many people know this?... only the
few that read this email from beginning to end!
Can you look anyone in the eye and deny that Mr Obama has not spent 7 years
demolishing all our efforts to protect our country in
an attempt to bring it to its knees.
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