Pakistani Agency Demands Data on C.I.A. Contractors

Source: The New York Times

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan’s chief spy agency has demanded an accounting by the Central Intelligence Agency of all its contractors working in Pakistan, a fallout from the arrest last month of an American involved in surveillance of militant groups, a senior Pakistani intelligence official said Friday.

Angered that the American, Raymond A. Davis, worked as a contractor in Pakistan on covert C.I.A. operations without the knowledge of the Pakistanis, the spy agency estimated that there were “scores” more such contractors “working behind our backs,” said the official, who requested anonymity in order to speak candidly about a delicate matter between the two countries.

In a slight softening of the Pakistani stance since Mr. Davis’s arrest, the official said that the American and Pakistani intelligence agencies needed to continue cooperation, and that Pakistan was prepared to put the episode in the past if the C.I.A. stopped treating its Pakistani counterparts as inferior.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/26/world/asia/26pakistan.html

Huh!! Right!

They are notoriously infiltrated by Taliban, and are not the folks to be working with in that country.

Please supply proof.

These articles explain it better than I could:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/26/wikileaks-isi-taliban-nexus

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/06/201061335321532937.html

A good deal of support for the Taliban (supplying fighters and training for them and logistically) comes from Pakistan. There has been a relationship between the Taliban/Mujahdeen and the ISI (Pakistan) prior to 9/11. In fact, Pakistan was one of only three countries to recognize the Taliban government.

My own, anecdotal experience was from daily security briefings in Afghanistan while I was there that identified ISI agents and vehicles who would attempt surveillance of our movements.

http://crimesofthestate.blogspot.com/2007/05/pakistani-smoking-gun-of-911.html

http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=mustafa_ahmed_al-hisawi

http://www.historycommons.org/essay.jsp?article=essaysaeed

http://www.prisonplanet.com/new_revelations_on_911.htm

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FD08Aa01.html

If you're working for The Man, as most of the skeptics here at DU seem to be, you should note that before you try to kill the messengers, every single one of those links is based on dozens of news reports, the 9/11 Commission Report, and independent reporting from non-US sources.

So if you want to dispute it, you need to provide proof.

It was my experience over there, however, and the obvious snake pit that the country is with regard to the Taliban's influence on Pakistan, the Afghan Army, and Karzei's government that has me really wishing for this war to end.

I've lost too many friends for...I don't know what, anymore. It will never end.

-Travelin'

Americans would be signing the death warrant of their contractors and agents if they supply the ISI with the data.

Let us not forget that the Ex head of ISI openly brags that he tipped Osama off about an impending US strike on a meeting Osama was attending.

Recall that Dick Cheney's "secret" tour of the region was marred by his usual gauche comments and then immediately followed by an "al Qaeda" suicide bombing at the airfield where he was in Afghanistan.

The ISI was also implicated in sending money to the 9/11 hijackers, and the head of the agency was in DC that morning (hanging out with the other bin Ladens and Poppy Bush, maybe?), and was a personal witness to the attack on the Pentagon.

So yeah, this ain't gonna happen.