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The nominee to head the Department of Intelligence, that oversees the CIA, is Admiral Blair. Above is the logo for the National Intelligence Director; an office that was created on May 5, 2005, to insure that corruption throughout US National Intelligence will more directly support all the criminality created by the Cheney-Bush-Doctrine of 2002. Obama’s choice for this office not only supports the continuance of crimes against humanity: it will insure that the Cheney-Bush policies go forward uninterrupted into the bleakest of futures for the US and the world.
“Obama has tapped Leon Panetta, a former Congress-member and White House Chief of Staff under President Clinton. Many observers call him a surprise pick because of limited intelligence experience and his public opposition to the Bush administration’s policies on torture. Obama defended Panetta’s nomination at a news conference in Washington.
Top Democrats have chided Obama for not consulting with them before announcing the pick and have suggested they might oppose
Panetta. In a brief statement, the new chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein of California, said: “My position has consistently been that I believe the agency is best served by having an intelligence professional in charge at this time.” The outgoing intelligence committee chair, Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, says he shares Feinstein’s concerns.
[‘Intelligence professionals’ enabled the failures on 911].
It’s interesting to compare that to how lawmakers are greeting Obama’s other top intelligence pick. While members of Obama’s own party vow a tough confirmation hearing for a torture opponent, they’ve expressed no reservations about another nominee accused of supporting [massive] torture and murder abroad.
The former commander of US military forces in the Pacific, Admiral Dennis Blair, has been tapped to become the Director of National Intelligence. It’s the nation’s top intelligence job, overseeing sixteen agencies.
Blair played a critical role in backing the Indonesian occupation of East Timor during the 1990s. At the height of a wave of ruthless attacks on Timorese that killed hundreds and displaced tens of thousands, Blair personally informed top Indonesian general Wiranto of unwavering U.S. support. He continued to support the Indonesian military until international outcry forced the Clinton administration to withdraw its military and diplomatic
backing.” (1)
Here’s more of who Admiral Blair was and is: “Admiral Blair was involved in supporting the Indonesian armed forces as they were massacring churches in East Timor, as they were killing civilians in 1999 in the run-up to a UN-sponsored free election. That election was due to decide whether East Timor would become independent. The Indonesian army was trying to stop the occupied Timorese from voting for independence, so they set up militias, which went on rampages.
In one incident, they went into a church in Liquica where refugees were hiding. They massacred them with machetes. Their flesh was found plastered to the walls. Two days after that, Admiral Blair went to meet with the Indonesian commander, General Wiranto, and he gave him reassurances that the US was still behind him. He offered him new US military aid. And even though Blair had been told by the State Department and the White House to tell Wiranto to stop the massacres, Blair did not do that. This is according to classified US cables which I obtained in 1999 and reported in The Nation magazine.
After that, when people at the State Department heard about what Blair had done, he was told to talk to Wiranto again. He again spoke to Wiranto, on the phone, and again reassured him, offered him new US military aid. Blair even offered Wiranto aid for the specific unit, the Brimob, the paramilitary police who had gone into that church as they chopped up the refugees and chopped up the clergy who were hiding there. General Wiranto naturally took this as reassurance. He escalated the attacks. Wiranto was later indicted for crimes against humanity. Blair has not been held to account. And now, they say Obama wants to make him Director of National
Intelligence.” (2)
Feinstein, along with Speaker of the House Pelosi are two of the most grossly-corrupt officials that are being strengthened in the Obama administration and that will ensure an ever greater role for Israel inside all US policies, under Obama’s supposed mandate of “politics for change.”
Barack Obama keeps saying ‘he will not look backwards’ at all, because ‘he is focused on moving America forward.’
This is an oxymoron as no forward movement, that matters, can be taken without a thorough understanding of what actually happened in the past
– If the goal is to actually change anything in the way this government does business, “going forward.”
The crimes which the National Intelligence Agencies have been committing and covering up go all the way back to the Clinton Administration, as exemplified by Admiral Blair’s appointment. These two appointments (Panetta at CIA & Blair as NID) are perfect examples of two crucial points where the crimes of the past collide head-on, with Obama’s so-called “plans” for the future.
How these two political positions get filled will determine the difference between whether or not torture and crimes against humanity shall continue to be the foundation of American illegal and unilateral occupations: Or whether ‘change’ can happen within the covert side of US military and political polices. What happens on the surface of American government is nothing compared to the importance of the real polices that govern our covert and black-ops operations worldwide. Obama must be responsible for changing the global threat that US-Israel policies now pose to the peace and security of the planet
– Barack’s success or failure with these appointments shall determine virtually everything else that he supposedly “stands for.”
Israel is behind US policies in the Middle East, and those policies have been furthered and enhanced, on Israel’s behalf, by US National Intelligence interpretations, that are overseen by war-criminals and “professionals” throughout the so-called “intelligence” networks that have been in-place and growing since the Clinton years. If Obama wants to change anything he must change this: because this is
The Tail that Wags the Dog, that has enabled us, to allow the financial collapse of this country to happen as it has. (3)
Torture and the kinds of murder that Israel is now committing throughout Gaza has a great deal in common: their targets tend to end up either dead or mutilated. Have a look at these victims, and then envision what the interior of that church looked like in East Timor back in 1999, with the hacked up bodies of the victims plastered on its walls. This is why these policies of torture and the routine round-up of civilians must be publicly-severed from US policy, and permanently observed, under the laws already in effect under terms of the Geneva Conventions. Until the rights of “all people” have real weight before international law, no one is "free." (4)
Jim
Kirwan
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