CIA making secret payments to members of Karzai administration

[maddezmom]

Source: WaPo

By Greg Miller
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, August 27, 2010; 12:14 AM

The CIA is making secret payments to multiple members of President Hamid Karzai's administration, in part to maintain sources of information in a government in which the Afghan leader is often seen as having a limited grasp of developments, according to current and former U.S. officials.

The payments are long-standing in many cases and designed to help the agency maintain a deep roster of allies within the presidential palace. Some aides function as CIA informants, but others collect stipends under more informal arrangements meant to ensure their accessibility, a U.S. official said.

The CIA has continued the payments despite concerns that it is backing corrupt officials and undermining efforts to wean Afghans' dependence on secret sources of income and graft.

The U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a significant number of officials in Karzai's administration are on the payroll. Paul Gimigliano, a CIA spokesman, disputed that characterization, saying, "This anonymous source appears driven by ignorance, malice or both."



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[mike r]

1. $50 million a year

Nice.

[Downwinder]

2. =4,166 people on Social Security. n/t

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. By the same metric, one month of DoD spending= 5.5M SS recipients.

Month, not year.

There are only 58.5M people on the SS roles. You could pay all SS benefits from DoD spending and still have $200B left over.

:think:

[SugarShack]

3. U.S. criminal tax dollars ....drug running etc., hard at work

no surprise here....

[saigon68]

4. The U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity

Thugs and Hoodlums rewarded---

Nice job Obama


Its just "MORE CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN"

[Hubert Flottz]

5. "Yes We Can"

Keep On Keeping On!

[UpInArms]

7. the CIA is a corrupt torturing device funded by US taxpayers

shut them down.

[No Elephants]

8. Well, the CIA denied it (kind of), so it can't be so.

:rofl:

[saigon68]

10. LOL

[Pavulon]

9. Read Legacy of Ashes.

Greece is an interesting cold war action.

[gtar100]

11. Oops, not so secret anymore.

Especially if *I* heard about it.

[Odin2005]

12. Same as it ever was.

[saigon68]

13. `