The CIA’s Counterterrorist Center has spent more than $15 million in the past three years funding studies, reports and conferences produced by former Democratic administration officials and other critics of the Bush administration.
The latest effort was a $300,000 grant by the CIA to the Atlantic Council for a study co-authored by Richard A. Clarke, the former counterterrorism official who wrote a best seller accusing the Bush administration of failing in the war on terrorism by invading Iraq.
“The products of the [center] have a consistent theme: They criticize the Bush administration and provide ammunition for the Kerry campaign,” said one U.S. official who has read the resulting reports and studies.
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The funding also raised questions among administration and congressional officials involved in intelligence activities about whether the CIA selectively funds counterterrorism studies and conferences at liberal or Democratic-oriented research organizations, while shunning activities at Republican-oriented, conservative centers.
An investigation by The Washington Times of the CIA’s funding of think tanks shows that the CTC’s academic outreach program has not funded any studies or conferences at conservative organizations.
I don’t like to see intelligence agencies playing politics. I wonder if this is the reason some people are so set against Porter Goss heading the agency?
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No wonder the CIA has been running si inefficiently over the last 12 years or so. They’ve been infiltrated!
And I thought it was the FBI which screwed up big time … like covertedly celebrating 9/11 among some of its own staffs and refusing to take action on its agent refusing to report on co-relionists, and dragging its feet in calling the shooting in LAX by an ugly Egyptian terrorist as a terrorist act.
Perhaps Powell should also use a purgative for the bowel of the Old Foggy States Dept. as well. It’s immigration services eg., btw keep good people out and accept lousy ones.
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