Does the CIA perform well as of today ?
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
May 20, 2011
Remarks by the President, CIA Director Leon Panetta, and DNI Director James
Clapper to the Intelligence Community at CIA Headquarters
CIA Headquarters, Langley, Virginia
2:55 P.M. EDT
DIRECTOR CLAPPER: Mr. President, Director Panetta, and members of the
intelligence community, both those who are here and those connected
electronically: Recently, I received an email from a former student of mine at
Georgetown who lost his wife at the World Trade Center. He wanted to thank
those responsible for the takedown of Osama bin Laden. It represented closure
for him.
And in a sense, this dramatic event represents a measure of closure as
well for the intelligence community. It was an historic milestone in a
relentless campaign which continues on.
Those heartfelt thanks of my student deservedly go to many. To the men
and women in the intelligence community who contributed directly -- notably,
from CIA, NSA, NGA, NRO, and NCTC -- and many others from intelligence
organizations who contributed indirectly, taken together a magnificent example
of teamwork and intelligence integration.
But most assuredly, thanks must go to the President, our
Commander-in-Chief -- (applause) -- for making perhaps the most courageous
decision I’ve witnessed in almost 48 years in intelligence. He made this
decision based on very compelling, but largely circumstantial intelligence.
And, sir, we are all grateful to you for your faith and trust in us.
We’re honored by your visit and by your speaking to the intelligence community.
And I think it most appropriate that you do so here at the heart of American
intelligence, in the presence of the stars on the wall. We remember as well,
across the community, those who sacrificed their lives on and since 9/11.
It’s now my great honor and privilege and pleasure to introduce Leon
Panetta, who himself played a crucial role in this operation. (Applause.)
Leon, you’ve been a superb Director of CIA, a great partner and a
wonderful friend. My thanks to you and the men and women of this magnificent
agency.
Leon. (Applause.)
DIRECTOR PANETTA: Thank you. Thank you, Jim. For all of us here at the
CIA, it is a privilege and a pleasure to have our intelligence community family
here with us, to have all of our military partners with us, and I also want to
thank the White House staff, particularly those involved in the national
security element, to be with us today. We welcome all of you.
And I think it’s fair to say that we’ve never had a closer, more effective
working relationship, both within our community and across the national
security sector of our government. We thank all of you -- all of you -- for
the team effort that was involved in the operation to go after bin Laden. It
would not have happened without your full cooperation.
Jim Clapper deserves a lot of credit for his leadership in bringing the
intelligence community together. And I want to thank you, Jim, for everything
you’ve done. (Applause.)
Mr. President, on behalf of everyone here at the CIA, we are truly honored
and very proud to have you here. I can’t tell you how much it means to all of
us to have you here, to mark one of the greatest intelligence operations in our
history. And it’s one that had so many of our officers working day and night
for so many years.
Throughout that time, some of our officers made the ultimate sacrifice.
Last year we lost seven men and women to a terrorist suicide bomber at Khost
Base in Afghanistan. Their stars are now on this wall behind me -- along with
those who gave their lives in this fight. Their devotion, their skill, and the
inspiration that we take from their sacrifice helped make this day possible.
Tracking down the most infamous terrorist of our time required the very
best tradecraft and the very best technology. But it also demanded the very
best of our people -- the highest level of creativity, dedication, teamwork,
analysis, and just sheer, dogged determination to never give up when the trail
went cold. Those are basic American qualities and they are reflected in our
country’s intelligence officers and in our war fighters -- the team that really
carried out this mission.
But it also required one other essential American quality -- the courage
to take risks, the kind of risks that you have to take on if you want to
succeed. And Mr. President, joining with Jim, all of us in the intelligence
community deeply thank you for the gutsy decision you made to follow the
intelligence, to conduct this operation, and to bring bin Laden to justice.
(Applause.)
We are grateful to have a Commander-in-Chief who was willing to put great
trust in our work. And in return, as we approach the tenth anniversary of
9/11, we commit to you that we will continue to do everything in our power to
fulfill your mission of defeating al Qaeda and their militant allies. We will
do whatever it takes to protect this country and to keep it safe.
This has been a long and tough fight, and it’s not over. But as we have
just proven, it’s a fight that we’re going to win -- for you, Mr. President,
and for the American people.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is my great honor to introduce the President of
the United States. (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you very much. Thank you
all. (Applause.) Thank you so much. Thank you very much, everybody. Well,
thank you, Leon, and thank you, Jim.
When I chose Leon Panetta as Director of the CIA, I said he was going to
be a strong advocate for this agency and would strengthen your capabilities to
meet the threats of our time. And when I chose Jim Clapper as Director of
National Intelligence, I charged him with making sure that our intelligence
community works as one integrated team. That’s exactly what these two leaders
have done, along with all of you.
So, Jim and Leon, thank you for your remarkable leadership, not just in
recent weeks, but during the entirety of your tenure. You have done a great
job. (Applause.)
This is my third visit here to Langley as President, and each of these
visits has marked another milestone in our mission to protect the American
people and keep our country safe.
On my first visit, just months after taking office, I stood here and I
said that this agency and our entire intelligence community is fundamental to
America’s national security. I said that I believed that your best days were
still to come and I pledged that you would have my full support to carry out
your critical work.
Soon after that visit, I called Leon into the Oval Office and I directed
him to make the killing or capture of Osama bin Laden the top priority in our
war to defeat al Qaeda. And he came back here, and you guys, who had already
been working so hard on this issue, redoubled your efforts. And that was true
all across the intelligence community.
My second visit, a year later, came under more somber circumstances. We
gathered to pay tribute to seven American patriots who gave their lives in this
fight at a remote post in Afghanistan. As has already been mentioned, their
stars now grace this memorial wall. And through our grief and our tears, we
resolved that their sacrifice would be our summons to carry on their work, to
complete this mission, to win this war.
Today I’ve returned just to say thank you, on behalf of all Americans and
people around the world, because you carried on. You stayed focused on your
mission. You honored the memory of your fallen colleagues. And in helping to
locate and take down Osama bin Laden, you made it possible for us to achieve
the most significant victory yet in our war to defeat al Qaeda.
I just met with some of the outstanding leaders and teams from across the
community who worked so long and so hard to make that raid a success. And I’m
pleased today that we’re joined by representatives from all of our intelligence
agencies, and that folks are watching this live back at all of those agencies,
because this truly was a team effort. That’s not always the case in
Washington. (Laughter.) But all of you work together every single day.
This is one of the few times when all these leaders and organizations have
the occasion to appear together publicly. And so I thank all of you for coming
-- because I think it’s so important for the American people to see all of you
here today.
Part of the challenge of intelligence work is, by necessity, your work has
to remain secret. I know that carries a heavy burden. You’re often the first
ones to get the blame when things go wrong, and you’re always the last ones to
get the credit when things go right. So when things do go right -- and they do
more often than the world will ever know -- we ought to celebrate your success.
That’s why I came here. I wanted every single one of you to know, whether
you work at the CIA or across the community, at every step of our effort to
take out bin Laden, the work you did and the quality of the intelligence that
you provided made the critical difference -- to me, to our team on those
helicopters, to our nation.
After I directed that getting bin Laden be the priority, you hunkered down
even more, building on years of painstaking work; pulling together, in some
cases, the slenderest of intelligence streams, running those threads to ground
until you found that courier and you tracked him to that compound. And when I
was briefed last summer, you had built the strongest intelligence case against
-- in terms of where bin Laden was since Tora Bora.
In the months that followed, including all those meetings in the Situation
Room, we did what sound intelligence demands: We pushed for more collection.
We pushed for more evidence. We questioned our assumptions. You strengthened
your analysis. You didn’t bite your tongue and try to spin the ball, but you
gave it to me straight each and every time.
And we did something really remarkable in Washington -- we kept it a
secret. (Laughter and applause.) That’s how it should be.
Of course, when the time came to actually make the decision, we didn’t
know for sure that bin Laden was there. The evidence was circumstantial and
the risks, especially to the lives of our special operations forces, were huge.
And I knew that the consequences of failure could be enormous. But I made the
decision that I did because I had absolute confidence in the skill of our
military personnel and I had confidence in you. I put my bet on you. And now
the whole world knows that that faith in you was justified.
So just as impressive as what you did was how you did it. It was a
tribute to your perseverance, your relentless focus and determination over many
years. For the fight against al Qaeda did not begin on 9/11. Among you are
veterans who’ve been pursuing these murderers for many years, even before they
attacked our embassies in Africa and struck the Cole in Yemen. Among you are
young men and women for whom 9/11 was a call to service. This fight has
defined your generation. And on this wall are stars honoring all your
colleagues and friends, more than a dozen who have given their lives in the
fight against al Qaeda and its violent allies.
As the years wore on, others began to think that this terrorist might
never be brought to justice. But you never quit. You never gave up. You
pulled together across this agency and across the community.
No one piece of information and no one agency made this possible. You did
it together -- CIA, National Security Agency, National Reconnaissance Office,
the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, everyone at ODNI and the National
Counterterrorism Center. Folks across the country, civilian and military, so
many of you here today.
And that’s exactly how our intelligence community is supposed to work,
using every capability -- human, technical -- collecting, analyzing, sharing,
integrating intelligence, and then acting on it.
That’s what made this one of the greatest intelligence successes in
American history, and that’s why intelligence professionals are going to study
and be inspired by your achievement for generations to come.
Now, make no mistake -- this is not over. Because we not only took out
the symbol and operational leader of al Qaeda, we walked off with his files --
(laughter) -- the largest treasure trove of intelligence ever seized from a
terrorist leader. Many of you now are working around the clock; you didn’t
have much time to celebrate. We’ve got to analyze and evaluate and exploit
this mountain of intelligence.
So today, every terrorist in the al Qaeda network should be watching their
back, because we’re going to review every video, we are going to examine every
photo, we’re going to read every one of those millions of pages, we’re going to
pursue every lead. We are going to go wherever it takes us. We’re going to
finish the job. We are going to defeat al Qaeda.
Even as we stay focused on this mission, we need you to stay nimble and
flexible to meet the full range of threats to our security, from plots against
our homeland to nations seeking weapons of mass destruction to transnational
threats such as cyber criminals and narcotraffickers.
So I’m going to keep relying on you -- for your intelligence, the analysis
that comes across my desk every single day. And 300-plus Americans are
counting on you to stay a step ahead of our adversaries and to keep our country
safe.
I have never been more proud or more confident in you than I am today --
not just because this extraordinary success, but because it reminds us of who
we are as a people and as a nation. You reminded us that when we Americans set
our mind to something, when we are focused and when we are working together,
when we’re not worried about who’s getting the credit and when we stay true to
our values, even if it takes years, there is nothing we cannot do.
That’s why I still believe in what I said my first visit here two years
ago: Your greatest days are still to come. And if any of you doubt what this
means, I wish I could have taken some of you on the trip I made to New York
City, where we laid a wreath at Ground Zero, and I had a chance to meet
firefighters who had lost an entire shift; police officers who had lost their
comrades; a young woman, 14 years old, who had written to me because her last
memory of her father was talking to him on the phone while her mother wept
beside her, right before they watched the tower go down.
And she and other members of families of 9/11 victims talked about what
this meant. It meant that their suffering had not been forgotten, and that the
American community stands with them, that we stand with each other.
So most of you will never get headlines for the work that you do. You
won’t get ticker-tape parades. But as you go about your work with incredible
diligence and dedication every single day, I hope all of you understand how
important it is, how grateful I am, and that you have the thanks of a grateful
nation.
God bless you. And God bless the United States of America. Thank you.
(Applause.)
END 3:14 P.M. EDT
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China Gives Pakistan 50 Fighter Jets
By JANE PERLEZ
Published: May 19, 2011
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — China has agreed to immediately provide 50 JF-17 fighter
jets to Pakistan, a major outcome of a visit by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza
Gilani to Beijing this week, Pakistani officials said Thursday.
Heroin, the CIA in Afghanistan, 9/11 and the Mujahadeen Kevin Hayden
Truth Is Treason
March 11, 2011
Ahmad Wali Karzai served time in US Federal prison for trafficking heroin but
returned to Afghanistan and created a very large and very feared “security
company” that essentially controls trade in and around the Helmand Province,
specifically “Highway 1″ (a strategic route). The Helmand Province is
considered to be the world’s most fertile region for growing poppies
(opium/heroin).
THE SINS OF PRESIDENT WILSON , ROOSEVELT, TRUMAN , JOHNSON , NIXON , COL EDWARD
HOUSE, ALGER HISS, MCGOERGE BUNDY,
HENRY KISSINGER ETC.....ARE PAID WITH THESE FLAGS IN Arlington National
Cemetery
THOSE YOUNG SOLDIERS DIED WITH NO KNOWLEDGE THAT THEY WERE USED AS PAWN OF CFR
AGENTS(KGB),US FOREIGN POLICY MAKERS IN WWI,WWII, COLD WAR IN KOREA,VIETNAM ....
100 000 young US soldiers sent to die in Korea and Vietnam by the CFR agents
from 1950-1973. THE REAL MONSTERS ARE THE CFR AGENTS , AND THE FED.
SOURCE : THE US DOLLAR .Why the Dollar’s Reign Is Near an End
BARRY EICHENGREEN
The Wall Street Journal
March 3, 2011
CHINA’S ATTACK
ON THE DOLLAR
By Brother Nathanael Kapner, Copyright 2011
10 March 2011 Last updated at 02:08 ET
Dead soldier Liam Tasker and Army dog return home
L/Cpl Tasker's body will return along with the ashes of his Army dog Theo
Karzai and Control
.the forced apology by General Patreus had something to do with it? Hmmm?
That’s the standard modus operandi of assassination teams – coercion and public
perception control.
The same opium trade that the United States helps finance. There are confirmed
reports that even top US military commanders either engage in bribes or are
aware of bribes given to the Taliban, insurgents and druglords for various
“favors” and lack of resistance.
the Karzais, the heroin trade and the CIA are an interesting family.
SOLUTION ?
HENRY KISSINGER ,FIX THE ORDEAL IN CAMBODIA AND RESTORE CAMBODIA INDEPENDENCE.
Bury
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