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CIA Probe Now ‘Hopelessly Politicized’
By Steve Bagley | September 27, 2009 3:11 pm

Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball at Newsweek offer an interesting analysis of Sen. Kit Bond’s (R-Mo.) announcement last week that he was pulling the entire GOP staff off a Senate Intelligence Committee investigation into Central Intelligence Agency interrogation practices.

They write:

The move appears to be part of a broader campaign by congressional Republicans and the U.S. intelligence community to pressure [Attorney General Eric] Holder to rescind his recent appointment of a special counsel to investigate allegations of torture during the Bush administration.

And:

The flare-up is significant because, whatever the results of Holder’s criminal probe, the Senate panel’s investigation offered perhaps the only opportunity for a full public accounting of the U.S. intelligence community’s conduct in the aftermath of September 11 attacks.

The result, Isikoff and Hosenball write, is the interrogations inquiry has become “hopelessly politicized.”

Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.)

Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.)

Bond, the ranking Republican on the intelligence panel, said he objects to Holder’s decision to empower a special prosecutor, John Durham, to examine whether criminal laws were broken during interrogations. Among the methods the CIA used against terrorism suspects is waterboarding, a method both Holder and President Obama have described as torture.

According to the  Washington Times:

“Had Mr. Holder honored the pledge made by the president to look forward, not backwards, we would still be active participants in the committee’s review,” said Sen. Christopher S. Bond of Missouri, the panel’s vice chairman. “Instead, DOJ sent a loud and clear message that previous decisions to decline prosecution mean nothing and old criminal charges can be brought anytime against anyone — against these odds, what current or former CIA employee would be willing to gamble his freedom by answering the committee’s questions?”

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said she regretted Bond’s decision to boycott the investigation.

Bond’s move came after seven former CIA directors wrote Obama, urging him to overturn Holder’s decision. The Sept. 18 letter reads:

Attorney General Holder’s decision to re-open the criminal investigation creates an atmosphere of continuous jeopardy for those whose cases the Department of Justice had previously declined to prosecute. Moreover, there is no reason to expect that the re-opened criminal investigation will remain narrowly focused.

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  1. amgroup01 says:

    I would be greatly disappointed if the investigation was stalled or completely abandoned. The following is an excerpt from the latest newsletter from Freedom From Covert Harassment and Surveillance Organization or FFCHS:

    “THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE AGREES TO HEAR FROM US; Eric Griffin: I spoke to Senator Leahy’s office and he states that if enough people call, he will hold hearings on this matter. Call his Judiciary Committee office at: (202) 224-4242 request to hold hearing on THE ERIC GRIFFIN /F.F.C.HS CASE TODAY.”

    The following is a response (September 26, 2009) to an email from the Executive Director of the Freedom From Covert Harassment and Surveillance Organization or FFCHS

    “Thanks, Derrick. I just received this yesterday. I at least got a confirmation on the psychiatric abuses, but they are not taking any action now. I hope they are collecting data on other victims of mind control in an effort to take some sort of action later.

    I just completed this document.

    Updated Version – HAARP, The United States Government, The Advanced Media Group, and U.S. Sponsored Mind Control
    http://advancedmediagroup.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/haarp-the-united-states-government-and-advanced-media-group-september-23-20092.pdf

    It identifies the relationship among all of the players involved in the ISC scandal and how mind control may have been involved. You’ll notice my transcript with the Pennsylvania Securities Commission and how they covered me up. If you follow Joe Tate’s career, you have to wonder about Dick Cheney. This gets real interesting with my Father. He was U.S. Navy, Bobby Ray Inman was U.S. Navy, Jim Guerin was U.S. Navy and of course George H.W. Bush was U.S. Navy. Now, the dates of my Father’s documents regarding the experiments he talks about, you get to the NSA, the U.S. Navy Intelligence, and Bobby Ray Inman, former director of NSA. ISC’s first major project was with the NSA. My father may have been working with one of the earlier experiments of synthetic telepathy.

    I didn’t realize that the ISC Scandel was one of the reasons that Bobby Ray Inman withdrew as Bill Clinton’s nomination for Secretary of Defense in 1993; which means that Bill Clinton had to have known about ISC.

    My Father’s passport is another story. He had to have been a Covert Courier, or he was doing other intelligence work. The HAARP installation in Puerto Rico is also interesting. I am getting closer to identifying this whole Mind Control issue and Lancaster’s role. Here is another caveat, Rufus Fulton, former CEO and Chairman of Fulton Bank worked in the Kennedy Administration’s National Security detail. He worked on classified communications right inside the White House up until JFK was assassinated. He was sent their by DOD. This was a time when by Father was traveling the World, while at the same time running Caterbone Cleaners, Inc., all while being the Father of six boys. If you look at my Father’s ID picture, he looks like pure intell, not a Dry Cleaner.

    I also posted my new Video Library page to my website yesterday. The proposal Jay Curtis was referring to was for the Department of Defense.”

    New Video Library
    New Mind Control Video Library

    Stan J. Caterbone
    Advanced Media Group
    http://www.amgglobalentertainmentgroup.com

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