16-01-2013, 10:53 AM
Senator Asks CIA Nominee Brennan when Drones can Kill Americans Suspected of being Terrorists
15th January 2013
EDITORIAL: A question of lethal force
Wyden wants answers from Obama's CIA nominee
The Register-Guard, January 15, 2013
Sen. Ron Wyden has a simple, chilling question for John Brennan, President Obama's nominee to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency: When can a U.S. president target for death American citizens who are suspected of being terrorists?
Wyden sent a letter Monday to Brennan asking for the administration's legal reasoning and guidelines for targeted killings of U.S. citizens who are suspected of terrorist activity but who have not been convicted, of crimes, or even indicted.
The Obama administration has refused to make public its legal justifications and rules for such killings. Wyden, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is right to use upcoming Senate hearings on Brennan's nomination as a wedge to break through the wall of secrecy surrounding the administration's dubious claim to such extraordinary powers.
If anyone can answer Wyden's question, it's Brennan, who is the architect of what's called the "Yemen model" for fighting counterterrorism. It's a lethal mix of Special Forces raids and drone strikes targeting suspected al-Qaeda leaders, mostly on the Arabian Peninsula.
Wyden began pressing the administration for its legal rationale in such killings a year ago after the administration killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen reportedly linked to terrorist activities, in a drone attack in the mountains of Yemen. Another American, Samir Khan, also was killed in the attack, which incinerated the car in which the two were riding.
The administration should make public the legal underpinnings and rules for such killings so that, as Wyden says in his letter, "The American people can have full knowledge of how the executive branch understands the limits and boundaries of this authority."
In his current capacity as the White House's counterterrorism adviser, Brennan oversees what administration officials call the "disposition matrix," which is used to target suspected terrorists, especially when they're American citizens. As CIA director, Brennan presumably would have the authority, either independently or together with the president, to order such killings.
In his letter to Brennan, Wyden asks how much evidence the president needs to determine that a suspected American terrorist legally can be killed. "Does the president have to provide individual Americans with the opportunity to surrender before killing them?" he adds.
Wyden also wants to know how the administration determines that it is "not feasible" to capture American citizens suspected of terrorism and that lethal force is necessary. And he wants to know if the intelligence agencies can "carry out lethal operations inside the United States."
Anyone feel a shiver running up their spine?
Finally, Wyden asked for a list of countries in which U.S. intelligence agencies have used their lethal counterterrorism powers a disclosure that clearly is essential for congressional oversight.
After the attack on al-Awlaki, retired Gen. Michael Hayden, the CIA director under George W. Bush, observed: "We needed a court order to eavesdrop on him (al-Awlaki), but we didn't need a court order to kill him. Isn't that something?"
Yes, it's something something that should be explained fully to Congress and the American public.
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Brennan's Beastly Beatitudes
9th January 2013
John Brennan Links to Armitage, Mantech, Pinochet, Bush, Tenet, Kresa, Logicon-TASC, 9/11, Southern Asset Mgt., National Review, etc.
By Alex Constantine
Bang-bang, shoot-shoot
John Brennan, chief executive officer of the Analysis Corp., was a candidate for CIA director early in the first Obama administration.
Brennan is a former top CIA official who helped establish the National Counterterrorism Center in 2004. He left the agency in 2005 to become CEO of Analysis Corp. …
Ironically, in March, an Analysis Corp. employee working at the State Department was accused of improperly accessing Barack Obama's passport file. In a statement at the time, Analysis Corp. said, "We deeply regret that the incident occurred and believe it is an isolated incident." … He served as an advisor to the Obama campaign on national security and is the head of Obama's intelligence transition team. …
http://www.washingtontechnology.com/onli...920-1.html
Re SFA, Inc., Brennan, George Tenet, Bush & the National Review
… That "consultant" is John O. Brennan, a veteran intelligence official who served as former CIA Director George Tenet's right-hand man in both the Clinton and Bush administrations." …
Brennan is the president and CEO of the national-security consulting firm The Analysis Corp., which is owned by an even larger spook-assistance firm called SFA Inc. acquired by a British firm called the Global Strategies Group. …
John Hillen
The president of Global Strategies Group (USA) LLC is John Hillen, a former high-level State Department employee who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs from 2005-2007 just prior to being tapped to lead Global Strategies' U.S. operations.
Hillen also is a former contributor to the neo-con mouthpiece publication the National Review and served as an advisor on defense policy to George W. Bush' 2000 presidential campaign.
Upon Hillen's appointment to the State Department post in 2005, National Review ran the following short announcement:
John Hillen, an NR contributing editor, has been nominated by President Bush to be assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs. Hillen earned a Ph.D. at Oxford in international affairs, and a Bronze Star in the Persian Gulf War for his role in leading a cavalry unit that went into Iraq ahead of the main invasion force.
We regret that our formal association with him will be suspended, but are delighted that the State Department is getting the services of such a solid conservative and fine foreign-policy mind.
An interview published in the July/August 2004 issue of Duke Magazine, Hillen's alma mater, offers the following insight into Hillen's character:
In March 1999, John Hillen testified before the House of Representatives' Committee on Armed Services. "It is well worth thinking now about how to handle an Iraq on the brink of developing nuclear weapons," said Hillen, then a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "A pre-emptive invasion of Iraq might then be our least-worst course of action."
… Hillen is "one of the leading younger defense policy intellectuals in the Republican camp," says Duke political scientist Peter Feaver. "If Bush were to win in 2004, you'd expect he would be positioned to take a post."
"It's possible, it's possible," admits Hillen, who says he has long aspired to become assistant secretary of defense. "I certainly intend to serve again in my career as a public servant."
http://www.campusactivism.org/phpBB3/vie...3&start=90
SFA, Inc. and Skadden Arps
Attorneys at Skadden have long-standing relationships with representatives from the U.S. government, including the executive branch agencies that comprise CFIUS a critical element to a successful outcome. Skadden attorneys also speak and write frequently on developments regarding the CFIUS review process.
Clients that Skadden has represented in the CFIUS review process during the past several years include the following, among others …
British-owned Global Strategies Group on its acquisition of SFA, Inc., a leading U.S. defense technology provider
http://www.skadden.com/mobile/index.cfm?...ticeID=101
MICHAEL DELONEY PRESIDENT, GLOBAL STRATEGIES GROUP (INTEGRATED SECURITY) INC. [Owns SFA, Inc.]
Mike is the President of Global Strategies Group (Integrated Security) Inc. (GUSIS) headquartered in Northern Virginia, USA. … Prior to GLOBAL, Mike's previous industry employment was with SAIC, Unisys, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) and CACI.
http://www.globalgroup.com/user-assets/D...graphy.pdf A Global Securities Group Director was Behind the launch of ManTech
RON JONES MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, GLOBAL STRATEGIES GROUP (NORTH AMERICA) INC. AND PRESIDENT, TECHNOLOGY & SYSTEMS
… Prior to GLOBAL, Ron was Senior Vice President, Strategy & Corporate Development, and a member of the Board of Directors for Gray Hawk Systems, Inc. Ron helped build and transform Gray Hawk as a national security technology company, until he initiated, led, developed, and closed the strategic sale of Gray Hawk Systems to ManTech (NASDAQ: MANT), helping them to launch ManTech into the counter-terrorism community ….
http://www.globalgroup.com/user-assets/D...graphy.pdf
Richard Armitage and ManTech
… Shortly after leaving government in 2005, Richard Armitage was recruited to the board of directors of ManTech International, a $1.7 billion corporation that does extensive work for the National Security Agency and other intelligence collection agencies. He's also since advised two private equity funds with significant holdings in intelligence enterprises. Veritas Capital, where Armitage served as a senior adviser from 2005 to 2007, owns intelligence consultant McNeil Technologies Inc. and DynCorp International, an important security contractor in Iraq. For a time, Veritas also owned MZM, Inc., the CIA and defense intelligence contractor that was caught before the Veritas acquisition bribing former Republican Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham. …
Re ManTech: Congressman Rick Renzi (R-AR), "one of House's most vocal advocates for increased funding for the DHS, is the son of the ManTech executive vice-president Eugene Renzi. ManTech was charged with developing an information-sharing system which is called the US public and private partnership (US P3), which links public-sector agencies and private sector to "significantly strengthen the flow of real-time threat information to state, local, and private sector partners, and provides a platform for communities through the classified secret level to state offices. … " http://alexconstantine.blogspot.com/2007...state.html
JACQUES S. GANSLER FORMER UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR ACQUISITION, TECHNOLOGY AND LOGISTICS; MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, GLOBAL STRATEGIES GROUP (NORTH AMERICA) INC.
Jacques Gansler, former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, is the first holder of the Roger C. Lipitz Chair in Public Policy and Private Enterprise. As the third ranking civilian at the Pentagon from 1997 to 2001 …
Prior to his appointment, Dr. Gansler served as the Executive Vice President and Director for TASC Incorporated [a Litton subsidiary], an applied information technology company. He also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Material Acquisition); Assistant Director of Defense Research and Engineering (Electronics); Vice President of LT.T.; Program Manager at the Singer Corporation; and Engineering Manager for the Raytheon Corporation. …
http://www.globalgroup.com/user-assets/D...graphy.pdf
Partnership: Northrop Grumman Information Technology-TASC, Inc.
Today, they do biometrics.
On board of General Motors a SAM holding, you find one of the powerbrokers of military industry: Kent Kresa from Northrop Grumman [and NG-Logicon-TASC]. Kresa handled the most important aquisitions of Northrop Grumman.
Logicon (a Northrop-Grumman subsidiary) TASC, Inc. was cobbled together by Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., Titan, Boeing, EDS, manufacturer of e-voting machines, Neil Armstrong's Veridian, and several other tech contractors. Logicon was a partner in the Eagle Alliance, the NSA-revamping group that included ACS, CACI, TRW, ManTech, etc., led by the aforementioned Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC).
In bestowing power [Bush], ChoicePoint is a critical element here CP is directed by Kenneth Langone, the Tricon/Yum! Brands (held by "The Path to 9/11″ sponsor SAM) and former NY Stock Exchange director. (Yum! Brands began as Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc. an independent, publicly-traded company that spun-off from PepsiCo, the Tom Kean ((9/11 Commission)) haunt….)
http://truthmovecom.blogspot.com/2008/05...asset.html
JACK DEVINE FOUNDING PARTNER AND PRESIDENT OF THE ARKIN GROUP LLC; MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, GLOBAL STRATEGIES GROUP (NORTH AMERICA) INC.
Jack Devine is a founding partner and President of The Arkin Group LLC, which specializes in international crisis management, strategic intelligence, investigative research and business problem solving. … He is a recognised expert in intelligence matters and has written Op-Ed articles for The Washington Post, The Financial Times and The Miami Herald. He has also made guest appearances on CBS, NBC, MSNBC, Fox News, as well as the History & Discovery channels, PBS & ABC Radio. …
http://www.globalgroup.com/user-assets/D...graphy.pdf
Jack Devine and Pinochet
Jack Devine was stationed in Chile during the [Allendé] coup as part of the Agency's Chile task force. He is now a crisis management consultant in New York with the firm The Arkin Group.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/dis...02×106324
MORE ON JACK DEVINE:
… Mr. Devine served as both Acting Director and Associate Director of CIA's operations outside the United States from 1993-1995, where he had supervisory authority over thousands of CIA employees involved in sensitive missions throughout the world. From 1995 through 1998, Mr. Devine was the senior CIA representative in Great Britain at the U.S. Embassy in London. In addition, he served as Chief of the Latin American Division from 1992-1993 and was the principal manager of the CIA's sensitive projects in Latin America.
Between 1990 and 1992, Mr. Devine headed the CIA's Counternarcotics Center, which was responsible for coordinating and building close cooperation between all major U.S. and foreign law enforcement agencies in tracking worldwide narcotics and crime organisations. From 1985-1987 [under Reagan], Mr. Devine headed the CIA's Afghan Task Force, which successfully countered Soviet aggression in the region. In 1987, he was awarded the CIA's Meritorious Officer Award for this accomplishment.
Mr. Devine's international experience with the U.S. government included postings to the United Kingdom, Italy, Argentina, Venezuela, The Dominican Republic, Mexico and Chile. During his more than 30 years with the CIA, Mr. Devine was involved in organising, planning and executing countless sensitive projects in virtually all areas of intelligence, including analysis, operations, technology and management. …
http://www.globalgroup.com/user-assets/D...graphy.pdf
DEVINE IS ANOTHER CIA PROPAGANDIST
To ensure national security, strengthen the CIA Jack Devine and Stanley Arkin Miami Herald op-ed/22 Jul 04
" … Instead of trying to run the CIA on the cheap, as we have for 25 years, it is time to bolster its resources in terms of people, money and authority … "
15th January 2013
EDITORIAL: A question of lethal force
Wyden wants answers from Obama's CIA nominee
The Register-Guard, January 15, 2013
Sen. Ron Wyden has a simple, chilling question for John Brennan, President Obama's nominee to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency: When can a U.S. president target for death American citizens who are suspected of being terrorists?
Wyden sent a letter Monday to Brennan asking for the administration's legal reasoning and guidelines for targeted killings of U.S. citizens who are suspected of terrorist activity but who have not been convicted, of crimes, or even indicted.
The Obama administration has refused to make public its legal justifications and rules for such killings. Wyden, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is right to use upcoming Senate hearings on Brennan's nomination as a wedge to break through the wall of secrecy surrounding the administration's dubious claim to such extraordinary powers.
If anyone can answer Wyden's question, it's Brennan, who is the architect of what's called the "Yemen model" for fighting counterterrorism. It's a lethal mix of Special Forces raids and drone strikes targeting suspected al-Qaeda leaders, mostly on the Arabian Peninsula.
Wyden began pressing the administration for its legal rationale in such killings a year ago after the administration killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen reportedly linked to terrorist activities, in a drone attack in the mountains of Yemen. Another American, Samir Khan, also was killed in the attack, which incinerated the car in which the two were riding.
The administration should make public the legal underpinnings and rules for such killings so that, as Wyden says in his letter, "The American people can have full knowledge of how the executive branch understands the limits and boundaries of this authority."
In his current capacity as the White House's counterterrorism adviser, Brennan oversees what administration officials call the "disposition matrix," which is used to target suspected terrorists, especially when they're American citizens. As CIA director, Brennan presumably would have the authority, either independently or together with the president, to order such killings.
In his letter to Brennan, Wyden asks how much evidence the president needs to determine that a suspected American terrorist legally can be killed. "Does the president have to provide individual Americans with the opportunity to surrender before killing them?" he adds.
Wyden also wants to know how the administration determines that it is "not feasible" to capture American citizens suspected of terrorism and that lethal force is necessary. And he wants to know if the intelligence agencies can "carry out lethal operations inside the United States."
Anyone feel a shiver running up their spine?
Finally, Wyden asked for a list of countries in which U.S. intelligence agencies have used their lethal counterterrorism powers a disclosure that clearly is essential for congressional oversight.
After the attack on al-Awlaki, retired Gen. Michael Hayden, the CIA director under George W. Bush, observed: "We needed a court order to eavesdrop on him (al-Awlaki), but we didn't need a court order to kill him. Isn't that something?"
Yes, it's something something that should be explained fully to Congress and the American public.
----------------------------------------------
Brennan's Beastly Beatitudes
9th January 2013
John Brennan Links to Armitage, Mantech, Pinochet, Bush, Tenet, Kresa, Logicon-TASC, 9/11, Southern Asset Mgt., National Review, etc.
By Alex Constantine
Bang-bang, shoot-shoot
John Brennan, chief executive officer of the Analysis Corp., was a candidate for CIA director early in the first Obama administration.
Brennan is a former top CIA official who helped establish the National Counterterrorism Center in 2004. He left the agency in 2005 to become CEO of Analysis Corp. …
Ironically, in March, an Analysis Corp. employee working at the State Department was accused of improperly accessing Barack Obama's passport file. In a statement at the time, Analysis Corp. said, "We deeply regret that the incident occurred and believe it is an isolated incident." … He served as an advisor to the Obama campaign on national security and is the head of Obama's intelligence transition team. …
http://www.washingtontechnology.com/onli...920-1.html
Re SFA, Inc., Brennan, George Tenet, Bush & the National Review
… That "consultant" is John O. Brennan, a veteran intelligence official who served as former CIA Director George Tenet's right-hand man in both the Clinton and Bush administrations." …
Brennan is the president and CEO of the national-security consulting firm The Analysis Corp., which is owned by an even larger spook-assistance firm called SFA Inc. acquired by a British firm called the Global Strategies Group. …
John Hillen
The president of Global Strategies Group (USA) LLC is John Hillen, a former high-level State Department employee who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs from 2005-2007 just prior to being tapped to lead Global Strategies' U.S. operations.
Hillen also is a former contributor to the neo-con mouthpiece publication the National Review and served as an advisor on defense policy to George W. Bush' 2000 presidential campaign.
Upon Hillen's appointment to the State Department post in 2005, National Review ran the following short announcement:
John Hillen, an NR contributing editor, has been nominated by President Bush to be assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs. Hillen earned a Ph.D. at Oxford in international affairs, and a Bronze Star in the Persian Gulf War for his role in leading a cavalry unit that went into Iraq ahead of the main invasion force.
We regret that our formal association with him will be suspended, but are delighted that the State Department is getting the services of such a solid conservative and fine foreign-policy mind.
An interview published in the July/August 2004 issue of Duke Magazine, Hillen's alma mater, offers the following insight into Hillen's character:
In March 1999, John Hillen testified before the House of Representatives' Committee on Armed Services. "It is well worth thinking now about how to handle an Iraq on the brink of developing nuclear weapons," said Hillen, then a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "A pre-emptive invasion of Iraq might then be our least-worst course of action."
… Hillen is "one of the leading younger defense policy intellectuals in the Republican camp," says Duke political scientist Peter Feaver. "If Bush were to win in 2004, you'd expect he would be positioned to take a post."
"It's possible, it's possible," admits Hillen, who says he has long aspired to become assistant secretary of defense. "I certainly intend to serve again in my career as a public servant."
http://www.campusactivism.org/phpBB3/vie...3&start=90
SFA, Inc. and Skadden Arps
Attorneys at Skadden have long-standing relationships with representatives from the U.S. government, including the executive branch agencies that comprise CFIUS a critical element to a successful outcome. Skadden attorneys also speak and write frequently on developments regarding the CFIUS review process.
Clients that Skadden has represented in the CFIUS review process during the past several years include the following, among others …
British-owned Global Strategies Group on its acquisition of SFA, Inc., a leading U.S. defense technology provider
http://www.skadden.com/mobile/index.cfm?...ticeID=101
MICHAEL DELONEY PRESIDENT, GLOBAL STRATEGIES GROUP (INTEGRATED SECURITY) INC. [Owns SFA, Inc.]
Mike is the President of Global Strategies Group (Integrated Security) Inc. (GUSIS) headquartered in Northern Virginia, USA. … Prior to GLOBAL, Mike's previous industry employment was with SAIC, Unisys, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) and CACI.
http://www.globalgroup.com/user-assets/D...graphy.pdf A Global Securities Group Director was Behind the launch of ManTech
RON JONES MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, GLOBAL STRATEGIES GROUP (NORTH AMERICA) INC. AND PRESIDENT, TECHNOLOGY & SYSTEMS
… Prior to GLOBAL, Ron was Senior Vice President, Strategy & Corporate Development, and a member of the Board of Directors for Gray Hawk Systems, Inc. Ron helped build and transform Gray Hawk as a national security technology company, until he initiated, led, developed, and closed the strategic sale of Gray Hawk Systems to ManTech (NASDAQ: MANT), helping them to launch ManTech into the counter-terrorism community ….
http://www.globalgroup.com/user-assets/D...graphy.pdf
Richard Armitage and ManTech
… Shortly after leaving government in 2005, Richard Armitage was recruited to the board of directors of ManTech International, a $1.7 billion corporation that does extensive work for the National Security Agency and other intelligence collection agencies. He's also since advised two private equity funds with significant holdings in intelligence enterprises. Veritas Capital, where Armitage served as a senior adviser from 2005 to 2007, owns intelligence consultant McNeil Technologies Inc. and DynCorp International, an important security contractor in Iraq. For a time, Veritas also owned MZM, Inc., the CIA and defense intelligence contractor that was caught before the Veritas acquisition bribing former Republican Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham. …
Re ManTech: Congressman Rick Renzi (R-AR), "one of House's most vocal advocates for increased funding for the DHS, is the son of the ManTech executive vice-president Eugene Renzi. ManTech was charged with developing an information-sharing system which is called the US public and private partnership (US P3), which links public-sector agencies and private sector to "significantly strengthen the flow of real-time threat information to state, local, and private sector partners, and provides a platform for communities through the classified secret level to state offices. … " http://alexconstantine.blogspot.com/2007...state.html
JACQUES S. GANSLER FORMER UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR ACQUISITION, TECHNOLOGY AND LOGISTICS; MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, GLOBAL STRATEGIES GROUP (NORTH AMERICA) INC.
Jacques Gansler, former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, is the first holder of the Roger C. Lipitz Chair in Public Policy and Private Enterprise. As the third ranking civilian at the Pentagon from 1997 to 2001 …
Prior to his appointment, Dr. Gansler served as the Executive Vice President and Director for TASC Incorporated [a Litton subsidiary], an applied information technology company. He also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Material Acquisition); Assistant Director of Defense Research and Engineering (Electronics); Vice President of LT.T.; Program Manager at the Singer Corporation; and Engineering Manager for the Raytheon Corporation. …
http://www.globalgroup.com/user-assets/D...graphy.pdf
Partnership: Northrop Grumman Information Technology-TASC, Inc.
Today, they do biometrics.
On board of General Motors a SAM holding, you find one of the powerbrokers of military industry: Kent Kresa from Northrop Grumman [and NG-Logicon-TASC]. Kresa handled the most important aquisitions of Northrop Grumman.
Logicon (a Northrop-Grumman subsidiary) TASC, Inc. was cobbled together by Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., Titan, Boeing, EDS, manufacturer of e-voting machines, Neil Armstrong's Veridian, and several other tech contractors. Logicon was a partner in the Eagle Alliance, the NSA-revamping group that included ACS, CACI, TRW, ManTech, etc., led by the aforementioned Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC).
In bestowing power [Bush], ChoicePoint is a critical element here CP is directed by Kenneth Langone, the Tricon/Yum! Brands (held by "The Path to 9/11″ sponsor SAM) and former NY Stock Exchange director. (Yum! Brands began as Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc. an independent, publicly-traded company that spun-off from PepsiCo, the Tom Kean ((9/11 Commission)) haunt….)
http://truthmovecom.blogspot.com/2008/05...asset.html
JACK DEVINE FOUNDING PARTNER AND PRESIDENT OF THE ARKIN GROUP LLC; MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, GLOBAL STRATEGIES GROUP (NORTH AMERICA) INC.
Jack Devine is a founding partner and President of The Arkin Group LLC, which specializes in international crisis management, strategic intelligence, investigative research and business problem solving. … He is a recognised expert in intelligence matters and has written Op-Ed articles for The Washington Post, The Financial Times and The Miami Herald. He has also made guest appearances on CBS, NBC, MSNBC, Fox News, as well as the History & Discovery channels, PBS & ABC Radio. …
http://www.globalgroup.com/user-assets/D...graphy.pdf
Jack Devine and Pinochet
Jack Devine was stationed in Chile during the [Allendé] coup as part of the Agency's Chile task force. He is now a crisis management consultant in New York with the firm The Arkin Group.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/dis...02×106324
MORE ON JACK DEVINE:
… Mr. Devine served as both Acting Director and Associate Director of CIA's operations outside the United States from 1993-1995, where he had supervisory authority over thousands of CIA employees involved in sensitive missions throughout the world. From 1995 through 1998, Mr. Devine was the senior CIA representative in Great Britain at the U.S. Embassy in London. In addition, he served as Chief of the Latin American Division from 1992-1993 and was the principal manager of the CIA's sensitive projects in Latin America.
Between 1990 and 1992, Mr. Devine headed the CIA's Counternarcotics Center, which was responsible for coordinating and building close cooperation between all major U.S. and foreign law enforcement agencies in tracking worldwide narcotics and crime organisations. From 1985-1987 [under Reagan], Mr. Devine headed the CIA's Afghan Task Force, which successfully countered Soviet aggression in the region. In 1987, he was awarded the CIA's Meritorious Officer Award for this accomplishment.
Mr. Devine's international experience with the U.S. government included postings to the United Kingdom, Italy, Argentina, Venezuela, The Dominican Republic, Mexico and Chile. During his more than 30 years with the CIA, Mr. Devine was involved in organising, planning and executing countless sensitive projects in virtually all areas of intelligence, including analysis, operations, technology and management. …
http://www.globalgroup.com/user-assets/D...graphy.pdf
DEVINE IS ANOTHER CIA PROPAGANDIST
To ensure national security, strengthen the CIA Jack Devine and Stanley Arkin Miami Herald op-ed/22 Jul 04
" … Instead of trying to run the CIA on the cheap, as we have for 25 years, it is time to bolster its resources in terms of people, money and authority … "
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass