Gina Haspel’s Confirmation Challenge as CIA Director Designate

March 14, 2018


There are concerns with the appointment of Gina Haspel to the position of CIA Director; NOT because she is a woman, but because of her history in a corrupt environment and her need to “go along” in order to move forward.

Steele, a former CIA operative himself, presents his case below for what he believes is necessary for Haspel to satisfy the needs of the People, the Country, and the Commander-in-Chief.

Let us hope that the feminine energies permeating the planet now will help to bring balance in all things. We are reminded that this appointment comes on the heels of Prime Minister Trudeau appointing Brenda Lucki to head the Royal Canadian Mounted Police—another first for women.

I hope these ladies, and all others in positions of power will do the right thing. No one said it would be easy, but there are many who are turning their back on “the system” and heeding the call of the Light. We need experienced people to help run the new regime and have to trust them to a point.

Time will reveal whether our trust was well-placed or not, and, as we know, positions can be vacated and refilled very quickly and gutting every government agency and sending them unceremoniously to the curb is not an outlandish idea. In fact, many a patriot would relish it.  ~ BP


Gina Haspel’s Confirmation Challenge

March 14, 2018

by Robert Steele

Gina Haspel, the first female nominee to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is going to face some very tough questions in her confirmation hearing.

She has my support on five conditions:

01 She acknowledges the moral and practical errors of the past, inclusive of the rendition & torture program and the drone assassination program;

02 She acknowledges that much of what CIA does is not worth the money we pay for it, and CIA is severely deficient by virtue of its providing, “at best,” 4% of what the President or a major national security leader needs (and nothing for everyone else). She outlines a path toward fixing all of these shortfalls.

03 She explicitly repudiates the asinine unconstitutional pathological idea of privatizing covert and clandestine operations.

04 She points out that “central” intelligence is an oxymoron in our present state where, for example, NSA processes 1% of what it collects and does not provide meaningful persistent signals intelligence support to military operations abroad, clandestine operations, or counterintelligence operations.

05 She agrees to support the Open Source Agency as a Presidential Initiative to be resident within the Executive Office of the President (EOP), while she takes on the task of consolidating the 30% of the entire secret world that is useful in an expanded Classified Intelligence Agency (CIA).

I realize it is completely unrealistic for me to expect Director-Designate Gina Haspel to break with the “go along to get along” past, but I was there for the rail-roading of Janine Brookner, with whom I served overseas, and I understand just how badly women are treated at CIA, particularly in the Clandestine Service. She did what she had to do to get to the top of a very sordid dysfunctional cabal dominated by overweight white men with zero ethics.

Put simply, Director-Designate Haspel has an opportunity to thread the needle — pass confirmation hearings with a balanced acknowledgement of past misdeeds combined with a provocative offering of glorious future possibilities, and then go “do it.” William Binney and I are in complete agreement, 70% of the CIA as well as the technical intelligence agencies should be de-funded (with a one year soft landing — one year salary and one year re-training – for all employees and contractors displaced by the house cleaning) — at the same time that the 30% worth saving from the NSA, NRO, NGA, and DIA are folded into a re-vitalized CIA that is capable of managing a global non-official cover unilateral clandestine service; a global multinational collaborative clandestine service program; a global all-source 100% processing program; and a global all source multi-lingual multi-cultural analytic program. The Open Source Agency will be Director-Designate Gina Haspell’s safety net and firestop — not under her control but absolutely loyal to its motto, “the truth at any cost lowers all other costs” (as well as risks).

Intelligence, integrity, imagination. I pray that Director-Designate Gina Haspel has the wit to break with the past and lead us into the future.

 

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