That's the description of the CIA's job by an ex intelligence official that we're, one supposes, expected to take seriously, since it's repeated over and over again in this Foreign Policy article regarding Israeli Mossad's poising as CIA to recruit Jundallah for covert actions inside Iran. While that story might help explain sketchy reports from years ago that the US was supporting terrorist activities in Balochistan, it doesn't explain how Foreign Policy's editors can publish repeated CIA denials that they don't engage in "bang and boom" with a straight face when the CIA has been trotting around the globe with a flying robot army and a hit list for the past decade.
I can't imagine anything that the US State Department could say while officially denying that it supports Jundallah -- which seems like a remotely plausible denial -- that could weaken their credibility more than claiming in the same breath that "The United States does not sponsor any form of terrorism."
:: posted by buermann @ 2012-01-13 13:31:05 CST |
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