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Title: New Docs Expose Bush Sr. Illegally Destroying Evidence Of US Crimes While Head Of CIA
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Activist Post
URL Source: http://www.activistpost.com/2017/03 ... idence-us-crimes-head-cia.html
Published: Mar 22, 2017
Author: Claire Bernish
Post Date: 2017-03-23 06:32:34 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 492
Comments: 4
Documents recently dredged from the CIA’s massive database expose an effort by the former director to destroy documents evincing the agency’s illegal activities and operations. That director — George H.W. Bush, who served in the role from January 1976 until January 1977 — went on to become the 41st President of the United States. As MuckRock reports, In 1976, Congresswoman Bella Abzug wrote to CIA Director George H.W. Bush about the existing moratorium on the destruction of CIA files. As the Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual Rights, which had jurisdiction over government information policy including FOIA and the Privacy Act, she wanted the moratorium extended — specifically, she wanted to ensure that Congress had time to enact legislation in response to the Church, Pike, and Rockefeller hearings and the resulting reports. Preservation of records — the subject of acrimonious debate during the presidential election, thanks to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server and disappearing documents — is pivotal to government transparency and accountability. And for preventing alterations and staving off lies. In a draft response to the congresswoman, the agency originally stated, “Destruction of Agency material will be in accordance with the recommendations of the President’s Commission on CIA Activities within the United States, Presidential directives and as permitted by law.” “Recommend deletion of bracketed paragraph,” “B” penned at the bottom — with brackets specifying the entire aforementioned sentence vowing to remain true to legal strictures. A strikingly divergent message emerges in the next draft. A decision as to the disposition of those files concerning activities which the President’s Commission considered illegal and improper has not been finalized and the moritorium [sic] on destruction is still in effect. You can be assured that whatever action is taken regarding these files will be in the best interests of the individuals involved and the U.S. Government. Ultimately, the agency again flip-flopped for the final draft by including the necessary, “Destruction of Agency material will be in accordance with Presidential directives and as permitted by law.” Bush signed it — but the fact the agency at his behest considered protectionism for itself in writing cannot be discounted. It could be definitively argued that conspicuous detail marked a brief moment of naked honesty for the CIA — as if the truth of what happens to records of nastier operations momentarily spilled onto the page. It isn’t as if the CIA — whether headed by Bush or another — never guiltily concealed its wrongdoing. Remember the CIA’s abhorrently sadistic torture program? You might — but obtaining the original copy of the report on its nefarious practice won’t be possible. As The Free Thought Project reported on May 17, 2016, [T]he CIA inspector general’s office recently admitted to ‘mistakenly’ destroying their only copy of the classified report. Although CIA Director John Brennan possesses another copy of the torture report, he refuses to send a replacement to the internal watchdog’s office. Last summer, the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Justice Department were privately informed that CIA employees at the inspector general’s office had both destroyed the disk and deleted the file containing the full Senate Torture Report. Despite the fact that the Justice Department ordered all copies of the classified document to be preserved, acting CIA Inspector General Christopher Sharpley was unable to locate another copy and eventually informed the Senate Intelligence Committee that his officers has mistakenly ruined their only copies. Oops. Award-winning investigative journalist and current editor of Consortiumnews, Robert Parry, penned an article in 2000 concerning a 1976 car bombing in Washington, D.C.’s highbrow Embassy Row — about which the agency created a fake report to throw off the feds and further its own agenda. “In early fall of 1976,” Parry wrote, …after a Chilean government assassin had killed a Chilean dissident and an American woman with a car bomb in Washington, D.C., George H.W. Bush’s CIA leaked a false report clearing Chile’s military dictatorship and pointing the FBI in the wrong direction. The bogus CIA assessment, spread through Newsweek magazine and other U.S. media outlets, was planted despite CIA’s now admitted awareness at the time that Chile was participating in Operation Condor, a cross-border campaign targeting political dissidents, and the CIA’s own suspicions that the Chilean junta was behind the terrorist bombing in Washington. In a 21-page report to Congress on Sept. 18, 2000, the CIA officially acknowledged for the first time that the mastermind of the terrorist attack, Chilean intelligence chief Manuel Contreras, was a paid asset of the CIA. It seems reasonable for certain government agencies to maintain a degree of secrecy with information sensitive to national security — however, citing national security has written the permission slip for innumerable State wrongs and inexcusable encroachment on individual freedoms and liberties. And this from a CIA led by a man who would eventually reside in the White House — overseeing theoretically the clandestine activities of the entire body of Intelligence and other agencies under the control of the U.S. government. Perhaps it should be asked, what else could George Herbert Walker Bush — and the CIA — be hiding? 
Parry’s in-depth investigation skips too far from the topic-at-hand to recount here, but those opening paragraphs sufficiently summarize the agency’s attitude toward covering up illegal and worse activities — not to mention how it attests Bush’s character and ethics.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
Hasn’t it already been asked a zillion times, what is the CIA hiding? Of course it has….and today the question still goes unanswered. So WTF is new in this colossally stupendous and electrically explosive stellar “news” article? Nothing! Absolutely nothing is new here. It’s just another hit piece dragged up from the past because the author cannot find anything new at the moment to publish. Do your job, useless asshole. Get out to investigate and report mew factual answers. Don’t just stir the same shit all around again …
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Welcome aboard, excellent post. I think Bush was referring to the CIA drug-running that was going on in Mena, Arkansas, under the direction of him and Bill Clinton. "If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched." -- George H. W. Bush, cited in the June, 1992 Sarah McClendon Newsletter "I have put thousands of Americans away for tens of thousands of years for less evidence for conspiracy with less evidence than is available against Ollie North and CIA people. . . . I personally was involved in a deep-cover case that went to the top of the drug world in three countries. The CIA killed it." Former DEA Agent Michael Levine "The connections piled up quickly. Contra planes flew north to the U.S., loaded with cocaine, then returned laden with cash. All under the protective umbrella of the United States Government. My informants were perfectly placed: one worked with the Contra pilots at their base, while another moved easily among the Salvadoran military officials who protected the resupply operation. They fed me the names of Contra pilots. Again and again, those names showed up in the DEA database as documented drug traffickers. "When I pursued the case, my superiors quietly and firmly advised me to move on to other investigations." Former DEA Agent Celerino Castillo "The Subcommittee found that the Contra drug links included: Senate Committee Report on Drugs, "I really take great exception to the fact that 1,000 kilos came in, funded by US taxpayer money." DEA official Anabelle Grimm, during a 1993 interview on a CBS-TV "60 Minutes" segment entitled "The CIA's Cocaine." The 1991 CIA drug-smuggling event Ms. Grimm described was later found to be much larger. A Florida grand jury and the Wall Street Journal reported it to involve as much as 22 tons. ______________________________ The connection between Kennedy and Forrestal I wasn't aware of. I do know that he "fell to his death" under suspicious circumstances. Is there a statute of limitations on Bush's crimes? Anything that honestly portrays criminal activities of politicians, Republicans anyways, is to you a "hit piece" GHW Bush is one of the most criminal presidents we have ever had. Perhaps it should be asked, what else could George Herbert Walker Bush — and the CIA — be hiding?
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#3. To: ZZ46 (#2)
Sarah, if the American people knew the truth about what we have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched.
CNBC-TV, October 8, 1996
Powder Burns, 1992
Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy
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“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#4. To: Gatlin (#1)
It’s just another hit piece dragged up from the past...
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
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