CIA probed for spying in U.S., failing to share intelligence with FBI

BY JAMES GORDON MEEK

New York Daily News


WASHINGTON - (KRT) - A secretive government commission recently scrutinized the CIA for expanding its spy activities inside the United States and for failing to share key intelligence with the FBI, the New York Daily News has learned.

The presidentially appointed WMD Commission was created to investigate the CIA's failures on assessing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, but surprised many by also probing the agency's post-Sept. 11 intelligence gathering on American soil. Its findings are in a final report due this month, commission and government sources said.

CIA spying on Americans is strictly limited by law, yet the agency wants a greater role spying on foreigners and potential terrorists inside the United States, sources said. That worries experts, who fear Americans' civil liberties may be violated.

FBI Director Robert Mueller and CIA head Porter Goss met recently to discuss how to resolve the matter, an official said.

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WASHINGTON - A secretive government commission recently scrutinized the CIA for expanding its spy activities inside the U.S. and for failing to share key intelligence with the FBI, the Daily News has learned.
The presidentially appointed WMD Commission was created to investigate the CIA's failures on assessing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, but surprised many by also probing the agency's post-Sept. 11 intelligence gathering on American soil. Its findings are in a final report due this month, commission and government sources said.

CIA spying on Americans is strictly limited by law, yet the agency wants a greater role spying on foreigners and terrorists inside the U.S., sources said. That worries experts, who fear Americans' civil liberties may be violated.
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A troubling charge is that the CIA has withheld intelligence from the FBI. Before the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the agency failed to tell FBI agents about two Al Qaeda operatives living here, who then hijacked planes.

At least twice since, the FBI investigated and arrested terror suspects in the U.S., only to learn they were undercover CIA "assets," or sources, top U.S. officials told The News.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/291938p-249957c.html

would go a long way to improving intelligence and therefore REAL security for the homeland. Until they do that, all the Homeland Security BS is only a vehicle for diminishing the rights of citizens.

Until they actually fix what is broken in the agencies, stop the attempts to sell duct tape, and put feet on the ground to INSPECT CARGO CONTAINERS coming into this country, we know they are not concerned with really keeping America safe from terrorists.

No, not the substance of the story, but the fact that it was carried in a stateside newspaper. Nothing will come of it, of course, but at least for a moment there was mention made of the fact that CIA, while blundering around the globe, getting things wrong and getting people killed for their errors, was doing a little domestic spying as well.

The scandal of the story, though, is not that CIA is doing something illegal (ho hum), but that they won't share with the FBI! Waaaahhh!

Notice how easily that rolled off the tongue: "A secretive government commission." No one even questioned that it's a commission created by our very partisan White House, nor that it's investigating the CIA -- even though we all know it was Cheney that stirred up that Hornet's nest and tried to use the CIA to justify the Iraq war. And now we have the FBI standing in line to take pot shots, even though the majority of Americans don't know anything about Sibel Edmonds, and what she has to say about the FBI may make many wonder why the FBI is allowed to be involved in any investigation at all.