Part 1 The CIA are still torturing people but are being very careful about it.
on Sunday, July 25, 2010 at 6:46am
TBR News May 26, 2008 The Voice of the White House
Washington , D.C. May 24, 2008 : “The son of a top CIA official has laid his hands on a thick file of transcribed conversations between a writer and a retired senior CIA man. I have read through them and find them to be very entertaining (if you like black humor) and very enlightening. What old men with fond memories will say to a good listener is absolutely amazing. Now we can expect CIA officials, retired and active and a number of the Washington in-crowd to play the Joker card and demand that these be removed from the internet. Jokers wanted some pro-Arab postings taken down because they offended him. Wait until McCain reads what this ex-CIA boss has to say about him! You will hear him in Georgetown with the windows shut.
The CIA are still torturing people but are being very careful about it. We now know that the FBI agents working with them, were horrified by their brutality and reported their illegal actions to their senior officials in Washington . None of the agents, to their credit, would dirty their hands with this perverted and sadistic behavior but I note that their seniors sat on this.
Having read over period reports on some of this, all of it highly classified, it is my feeling that some of these perverted shits should be arrested and put on trial so the rest of the world can see the genuine filth and evil that the worthless Bush has deliberately unleashed. We ought to try Bush and give him a fair trial before we find him guilty, but that will never happen. “
Conversations with the Crow
On October 8th, 2000 , Robert Trumbull Crowley, once a leader of the CIA's Clandestine Operations Division, died in a Washington hospital of heart failure and the end effects of Alzheimer's Disease. Before the late Assistant Director Crowley was cold, Joseph Trento, a writer of light-weight books on the CIA, descended on Crowley 's widow at her town house on Cathedral Hill Drive in Washington and hauled away over fifty boxes of Crowley 's CIA files.
Once Trento had his new find secure in his house in Front Royal , Virginia, he called a well-known Washington fix lawyer with the news of his success in securing what the CIA had always considered to be a potential major embarrassment. Three months before, July 20th of that year, retired Marine Corps colonel William R. Corson, and an associate of Crowley , died of emphysema and lung cancer at a hospital in Bethesda , Md.
After Corson's death, Trento and a well-known Washington fix-lawyer went to Corson's bank, got into his safe deposit box and removed a manuscript entitled 'Zipper.' This manuscript, which dealt with Crowley 's involvement in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, vanished into a CIA burn-bag and the matter was considered to be closed forever.
The small group of CIA officials gathered at Trento 's house to search through the Crowley papers, looking for documents that must not become public. A few were found but, to their consternation, a significant number of files Crowley was known to have had in his possession had simply vanished.See the House Intelligence Committee Report on the 2009 Intelligence Authorization Act, H.Rep. 110-665, May 21:
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2008_rpt/hrpt110-665.html
AN ONLINE INDEX TO AIR FORCE HISTORICAL RECORDS
A new searchable index of hundreds of thousands of documents held by the Air Force Historical Research Agency has been created by private researchers and posted online.
http://www.airforcehistoryindex.org/
The index does not provide access to the underlying documents, which must be requested from AFHRA. Nevertheless, it has several interesting features.
For one thing, it represents a step forward in improving accessibility to declassified government records. The new Air Force index provides a simple illustration of what can be done to alert the interested public to the existence of particular records, and suggests how much more still needs to be done, including providing online access to the records themselves.
Second, the new index represents an unusual, implicit public-private partnership. Researchers gained access to the Air Force bibliographical data and installed a search engine on top, then posted it online in the public interest. The researchers said they preferred to remain anonymous.
NARA ESTABLISHES "CONTROLLED UNCLASSIFIED INFO" OFFICE
The National Archives and Records Administration today announced the establishment of a new Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) Office that is intended to lead the implementation and oversight of a new White House policy on CUI, which is unclassified information that is deemed to require protection from disclosure (Secrecy News, 05/12/08).
The CUI Office, to be headed by Information Security Oversight Office director William J. Bosanko, is tasked with developing implementation guidance, training, and oversight of the new government-wide policy.
http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2008/05/cui052208.html
CHINA 'S ECONOMIC CONDITIONS, AND MORE FROM CRS
Noteworthy new reports from the Congressional Research Service, obtained by Secrecy News, include the following.
" U.S. Nuclear Cooperation With India : Issues for Congress," updated May 20, 2008 :
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/RL33016.pdf
"Nuclear Weapons: The Reliable Replacement Warhead Program," updated May 19, 2008 :
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/RL32929.pdf
"Suits Against Terrorist States By Victims of Terrorism," updated May 1, 2008 :
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/terror/RL31258.pdf
" Syria : Background and U.S. Relations," updated May 1, 2008 :
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33487.pdf
" China 's Economic Conditions," updated May 13, 2008 :
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33534.pdf