{"id":198719,"date":"2007-10-15T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T04:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/15\/an-ss-and-a-wehrmach-side-of-the-cia\/"},"modified":"2007-10-15T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T04:16:00","slug":"an-ss-and-a-wehrmach-side-of-the-cia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/15\/an-ss-and-a-wehrmach-side-of-the-cia\/","title":{"rendered":"An SS and a Wehrmach Side of the CIA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s one of the quotes in <a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2007\/10\/hbc-90001403\">Ken Silverstein&#8217;s Harper&#8217;s article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well over a year ago I reported on a brewing revolt within the CIA over the Bush Administration\u2019s use of renditions, \u201cenhanced interrogation\u201d techniques (otherwise known as torture) and other tough tactics employed in the \u201cwar on terrorism.\u201d One former official with whom I spoke at the time told me, \u201cThere are people who fear that indictments and subpoenas could be coming down, and they don\u2019t want to get caught up in it.\u201d This person went on to describe a split at the CIA, saying, \u201cT<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">here\u2019s an SS group within the agency that\u2019s willing to do anything and there\u2019s a Wehrmacht group that is saying, \u2018I\u2019m not gonna touch this stuff\u2019<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since then, it\u2019s become clear that dissent within the agency on these matters has become even more intense&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He then goes on to explain Michael Hayden&#8217;s retaliatory investigation of the CIA&#8217;s inspector general, and relating the resignation of a senior CIA Lawyer over Bush&#8217;s pro torture policies.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is Bush breaking the military, he&#8217;s breaking the intelligence agencies too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s one of the quotes in Ken Silverstein&#8217;s Harper&#8217;s article. Well over a year ago I reported on a brewing revolt within the CIA over the Bush Administration\u2019s use of renditions, \u201cenhanced interrogation\u201d techniques (otherwise known as torture) and other tough tactics employed in the \u201cwar on terrorism.\u201d One former official with whom I spoke &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,1102,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-intelligence","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}