CIFA? GYOICFW

Smedleyman — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:13:16 -0800

James Clapper , undersecretary of defense for intelligence, has just recommended closing the Counterintelligence Field Activity program, a 1,000-man agency (mostly contractors with a secret budget) set up shortly after 9/11 to fight foreign terroristson U.S. soil, whose contracts are based on congressional earmarks (and administration insiders) were under investigation by the Pentagon and federal prosecutors (for domestic spying, the use of/deletion of data from the TALON (.pdf file) program (managed by the CIFA as JPEN ) A handy timeline ( via ): * September 2002, then Deputy Secretary of Defense for Counter-Intelligence Burtt (the guy who resigned yesterday) establishes CIFA to oversee counterintelligence units of the armed services; consulting on the new agency was James King, recently retired director of National Imagery and Mapping Agency and MZM vice president * Late 2002, Cunningham got Mitchell Wade a data storage contract worth $6 million, of which $5.4 was profit * January 2004, Cunningham added $16.5 million to defense authorization for a "collaboration center" that appears to include business for Wade's company * December 2005, Pincus reveals a CIFA database contains raw intelligence data on peace activists (and, presumably, Jesus' General) * March 2006, prosecutors in the Cunningham case announce they're reviewing CIFA contracts to MZM * March 2006, Stephen Cambone announces an investigation of CIFA's contracting--the investigation is (like the investigation into Dougie Feith) "ongoing" * May 2006, Porter Goss resigns under allegations of ties to the Wilkes/Wade bribery ring * May 2006, House Intelligence Committee (Peter Hoekstra's Committee) first moves to exercise oversight on CIFA * June 2006, USNCO destroys all the TALON reports * August 2006, CIFA director and deputy director resign

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