Corruption In The CIA

The State of War by James Risen was placed during Bush’s (43rd) presidency and the corruption of the CIA. The Soviet Union collapse marked the beginning of corruption in the CIA. The director of the CIA was George Tenet, who was very close to George W. Bush. Tenet was seen by the public as “an honest broker of intelligence”, meanwhile in private he would tell people what they wanted to hear, then go to others and tell them the opposite of it. One of the main reasons that Tenet stayed on as the director of the CIA during George W. Bush’s presidency was due to the fact that Bush (41st) urged his son to keep Tenet. This gave some stability in CIA because the director usually changes with each new elected president. However, the unusual part was …show more content…
Pilots had out-dated maps so they had to turn to Russia’s old maps of the area. The CIA and Afghanistan have a long history that consists of the rebels fighting the Soviet army in the 80’s, fighting the Taliban years before 9/11, and paid assets in tribes to gain information about Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts. The CIA eventually found the precise location of a key lieutenant of bin Laden, Zubaydah. To capture him, the CIA, FBI, and Pakistani security forces went in and apprehended him. Zubaydah was shot when he was taken, being first thought to be a prisoner of war, until later a CIA member noticed it was him. Once in stable condition, his pain medication was turned off as a form of abuse to gain information. This incident of abuse by the military and the CIA was leaked to the public and was never able to be traced back to G.W.Bush. The president was never officially briefed on CIA interrogation tactics. The amoral and unspoken policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell” was used between the president and military/CIA on the treatment of prisoners. Han al-Shaykh al-Libi ran an al Qaeda training camp until his capture in November 2001. He was taken to Egypt and interrogated there by the Egyptian agency on behalf of the USA. This allowed the CIA and military to go around the laws against prisoner torture by Americans. They found a loop hole. To add to the corruption and cruelty of the CIA, they wanted to get …show more content…
He had to act like a greedy, unemployed scientist and take the highest bid from the Iranians who would rush the blueprints back to Tehran. This was to find out how far the Iranians were with their nuclear program. The mission was called MERLIN. The Russian met an Iranian who was willing to look at the blueprints however, the CIA had made a flaw in it. The Russian noticed the flaw and wrote a personal letter the the Iranian telling him about the flaw and that it was done on purpose, in order not to raise suspicion with the other Iranian scientists. The Iranian bought it and flew to Tehran a couple days after receiving the blueprint in Vienna. This was one of the most secretive operations of the Bush and Clinton