-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/9/17/162056.shtml Defanged Intelligence Traced to Pressure on Torricelli From Bianca Jagger Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2001 WASHINGTON - One lawmaker's decision to give away CIA secrets in the mid-1990s led to the political pressure that ultimately scrubbed virtually all remaining CIA use of human spies. That, in turn, is believed by intelligence experts to have aided the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington Tuesday. In 1995, then-Rep. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., made secrets public at the behest of left-wing activist Bianca Jagger, then his girlfriend, according to Newark Star-Ledger columnist Paul Mulshine in the January/February issue of Heterodoxy. Torricelli, now a U.S. senator, gave away secrets he obtained through his membership on the House Intelligence Committee. This so outraged then-Speaker Newt Gingrich that he tried to have the New Jersey Democrat kicked off the panel. Later, Torricelli was criticized in a committee report for having compromised American intelligence-gathering abilities around the world, adding that numerous CIA sources had decided to stop giving information for fear they would be outed by a congressman. Intelligence agencies are extremely wary about who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, knowing that these have to be lawmakers who are thoroughly trustworthy when it comes to sharing some of America's deepest secrets. That is why there are intelligence analysts who have the jitters that Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif., is a current committee member. In his case, the fear is that scandal makes one vulnerable to blackmail. Mulshine's article showed how Torricelli's action in giving away the name of a CIA source in Guatemala was based not on fact, but on a conspiracy theory of "the loony left," as Heterodoxy later characterized it. The lawmaker was accused of having leaped to a number of inaccurate conclusions about the CIA's role in the deaths of an American hotel owner named Michael DeVine and a Guatemalan guerilla named Efrain Bamaca Velazquez. In its 1997 report, the House Intelligence Committee had this to say about the antics of Torricelli, by then a senator: "None of the allegations raised by Rep. Torricelli in the March 22, 1995 letter to the president [Clinton] or subsequent public statements concerning the involvement of the CIA in the DeVine and Bamaca deaths in Guatemala have proved true." Sen. Torricelli did not respond to repeated efforts by NewsMax.com to get his comment for this article. It was about the time of this well-publicized incident that the CIA's slide into a deteriorated human intelligence capability accelerated. As a former CIA spy in the Mideast told NewsMax CEO Christopher Ruddy, Clinton simply changed the rules of how spies are recruited. And it was done in such a way as to make it impossible to recruit effective human spies. The agency, then under Director John Deutch and his top assistant Nora Slatkin, implemented a "human rights scrub" policy. As former New York City Mayor Ed Koch noted to NewsMax.com Monday, effective spies are people willing to betray their comrades. Some terrorists order their members to commit crimes just to test them and make sure they are not undercover agents. People like that are not recruited from the ranks of choirboys. Or as Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Bob Graham has noted since Tuesday's attacks, effective human spies "are not found in monasteries." Torricelli has been in the news recently because of a federal investigation into bribery allegations against him. The Nicaraguan-born Bianca Jagger, ex-wife of Rolling Stones rock star Mick Jagger, has appeared on Fox News Channel and other media outlets to promote environmental and other leftist causes and rail against America's use of the death penalty. She has also been romantically linked to Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn. ================================================================ Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends ================================================================ <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! 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