Pentagon Is Expected to Close Intelligence Unit

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Pentagon Is Expected to Close Intelligence Unit

By MARK MAZZETTI
Published: April 2, 2008


WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is expected to shut a controversial intelligence office that has drawn fire from lawmakers and civil liberties groups who charge that it was part of an effort by the Defense Department to expand into domestic spying.

The move, government officials say, is part of a broad effort under Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates to review, overhaul and, in some cases, dismantle an intelligence architecture built by his predecessor, Donald H. Rumsfeld.

The intelligence unit, called the Counterintelligence Field Activity office, was created by Mr. Rumsfeld after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks as part of an effort to counter the operations of foreign intelligence services and terror groups inside the United States and abroad.

Yet the office, whose size and budget is classified, came under fierce criticism in 2005 after it was disclosed that it was managing a database that included information about antiwar protests planned at churches, schools and Quaker meeting halls.

The Pentagon’s senior intelligence official, James R. Clapper, has recommended to Mr. Gates that the counterintelligence field office be dismantled and that some of its operations be placed under the authority of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the government officials said.

Pentagon officials said Mr. Gates had yet to approve the recommendation.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/02/washington/02intel.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin

[YDogg]

1. piece by piece, let rumsfeld's treasonous war machine be dismantled.

[Solly Mack]

2. What has to be asked is...in this closing, what's getting covered up?

What's being destroyed?

Just because something is stopped or closed doesn't mean crimes weren't committed ...and it also doesn't mean that investigations into those crimes should stop.

Closing/stopping and pretending it didn't happen or there's no need to look further is how war criminals/traitors get away with their crimes.

[Echo In Light]

3. "..a database of info on antiwar protests planned at churches, schools and Quakers." REAL terrorists

In their estimation.

[Tippy]

4. Some operations will be placed under Defense Int. Agency

"The Pentagon’s senior intelligence official, James R. Clapper, has recommended to Mr. Gates that the counterintelligence field office be dismantled and that some of its operations be placed under the authority of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the government officials said."

They are just house cleaning....by hiding evidence.

[niyad]

5. so they close one--how many others are operating that we don't know about?