Possible,there are a lot of stories coming out of the NSA and the CIA as to their messing with elections. Obama has been pushing back at these Neo-Con agencies and this could be payback.

corrected spelling on edit.

http://www.salon.com/2011/09/19/obama_global_destablization

Confessions of an Economic Hitman (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hitman

Domestic operations explains a lot, doesn't it DU?

So many things that have been popping up, of late, have his odor all over them. I always worry when he's quiet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Burr

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Agents for Bush

The 1980 Campaign

by Bob Callahan
Covert Action Information Bulletin

George Bush owed his recent political fortune to several old CIA friends, chiefly Ray Cline, who had helped to rally the intelligence community … and started … "Agents for Bush."

Bill Peterson of the Washington Post wrote in a March 1, 1980 article, "Simply put, no presidential campaign in recent memory – perhaps ever – has attracted as much support from the intelligence community as (has) the campaign of former CIA director George Bush."

George Bush’s CIA campaign staff included Cline, CIA Chief of Station in Taiwan from 1958 to 1962; Lt. Gen. Salm V. Wilson and Lt. Gen. Harold A. Aaron, both former Directors of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Also included were retired Gen. Richard Stillwell, once the CIA’s Chief of Covert Operations for the Far East, and at least 25 other retired Company directors, deputy directors and, or, agents.

… Angelo Codevilla, informed a congressional committee that was "aware that active duty agents of the CIA worked for the George Bush primary election campaign.

… Ray Cline claimed that he had been promoting the pro-CIA agenda that Bush had embraced for years, and that he had found the post Church-hearings criticism had died down some time ago. "I found there was a tremendous constituency for the CIA when everyone in Washington was still urinating all over it," Cline said. … "It’s panned out almost too good to be true. The country is waking up just in time for George’s candidacy. …

In July 1979 George Bush and Ray Cline attended a conference in Jerusalem. … (with) leaders of Israel, Great Britain and the United States. … The Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism was hosted by the Israeli government and … most of Israel’s top intelligence officers … were in attendance. …

… The Israelis were angry with Carter because his administration had recently released its annual report on human rights wherein the Israeli government was taken to task for abusing the rights of the Palestinian people on the West Bank and Gaza Strip. …

The Republican delegation was led by George Bush. It included Ray Cline and Major Gen. George Keegan (former USAF intelligence chief) and Harvard professor Richard Pipes.

Looking for a mobilizing issue to counter the Carter-era themes of détente and human rights, the Bush people began to explore the political benefits of embracing the terrorism/anti-terrorism theme.

… Ray Cline developed the theme that terror was not a random response. … but rather an instrument of East bloc policy adopted after 1969 when the KGB persuaded the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to accept the PLO as a major political instrument in the Mideast and to subsidize its terrorist policies by freely giving money, training, arms and coordinated communications. …

… Within days after the conference the new propaganda war began in earnest. On July 11, 1979, the International Herald Tribune featured a lead editorial entitled "The Issue is Terrorism," which quoted directly from conference speeches. …

SOURCE: Covert Action Information Bulletin No.33(Winter 1990) "The Bush Issue"

http://mediamayhem.blogspot.com/2004_04_11_archive.html

It's also likely that Obama has been under constant threat from them that, if he actually fought for the program he was elected on, the Company would "Allende" him.

Don't put it past them for a minute.

Frank Church was a patriot, a hero and a statesman, truly a great American.

The guy also led the last real investigation of CIA, NSA and FBI. When it came to NSA Tech circa 1975, he definitely knew what he was talking about:

And what happened to Church, for his trouble to preserve Democracy:



From GWU's National Security Archives:



I wonder if Sen. Richard Schweiker (R-CT), a liberal Republican, also got the treatment from NSA?

“I think that the report, to those who have studied it closely, has collapsed like a house of cards, and I think the people who read it in the long run future will see that. I frankly believe that we have shown that the [investigation of the] John F. Kennedy assassination was snuffed out before it even began, and that the fatal mistake the Warren Commission made was not to use its own investigators, but instead to rely on the CIA and FBI personnel, which played directly into the hands of senior intelligence officials who directed the cover-up.” — Senator Richard Schweiker on “Face the Nation” in 1976.

Lost to History NOT

that is depressing...

The CIA is out of control, yet strangely gets defenders here...even when they get caught lying to Congress or spying on Congress.

By MARK MAZZETTI and CARL HULSE
The New York Times, JULY 31, 2014

WASHINGTON — An internal investigation by the C.I.A. has found that its officers penetrated a computer network used by the Senate Intelligence Committee in preparing its damning report on the C.I.A.’s detention and interrogation program.

The report by the agency’s inspector general also found that C.I.A. officers read the emails of the Senate investigators and sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department based on false information, according to a summary of findings made public on Thursday. One official with knowledge of the report’s conclusions said the investigation also discovered that the officers created a false online identity to gain access on more than one occasion to computers used by the committee staff.

The inspector general’s account of how the C.I.A. secretly monitored a congressional committee charged with supervising its activities touched off angry criticism from members of the Senate and amounted to vindication for Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, the committee’s Democratic chairwoman, who excoriated the C.I.A. in March when the agency’s monitoring of committee investigators became public.

A statement issued Thursday morning by a C.I.A. spokesman said that John O. Brennan, the agency’s director, had apologized to Ms. Feinstein and the committee’s ranking Republican, Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, and would set up an internal accountability board to review the issue. The statement said that the board, which will be led by a former Democratic senator, Evan Bayh of Indiana, could recommend “potential disciplinary measures” and “steps to address systemic issues.”

But anger among lawmakers grew throughout the day. Leaving a nearly three-hour briefing about the report in a Senate conference room, members of both parties called for the C.I.A. officers to be held accountable, and some said they had lost confidence in Mr. Brennan’s leadership. “This is a serious situation and there are serious violations,” said Mr. Chambliss, generally a staunch ally of the intelligence community. He called for the C.I.A. employees to be “dealt with very harshly.”

CONTINUED...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/world/senate-intelligence-commitee-cia-interrogation-report.html?_r=0

Harshly. As if.

Ron Johnson when he takes command of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee!

Exclusive: Johnson discusses plans as oversight chair (11-5-14 Donovan Slack/Gannett)
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/politics/2014/11/05/senates-new-lead-investigator-ron-johnson/18529935

In combination with Burr, well, I "dare call it treason" yet there must be some extremely happy people in The Agency and the natsec community today just as there many depressed citizens. Interesting that another critic of the natsec community, Udall, lost his race too.

Look out for Johnson and his posse though!!!

Plastics and the guy's been to business school. The bricks at the back of the theater are showing. Sen. Ron might see that if he applied OAR: Observe - Analyze - Report, which is what they teach you in business school second year.

Drone Doc Containing "Not a Whit of Classified Material," and Much More (Lauren Harper 11-6-14 Unredacted post)
http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2014/11/06/the-cias-plan-to-destroy-its-email-records-judge-scolds-govt-for-redacting-portions-of-drone-doc-containing-not-a-whit-of-classified-material-and-much-more-frinformsum-1

With all the MASS SURVEILLANCE and illegal DOMESTIC OPERATIONS why would the Agency plan to destroy its email records? I thought that stuff was always available, and only a criminal would want to eliminate it, right?

We don't torture, right? Another post-midterm post about tptb. What do you think, DU? Think elements within the Agency did a wee bit more than cheer on the GOP?