CIA spent $2.6b on covert operations in Pakistan

[UmarJustice]

US spy agencies have built an intelligence-gathering colossus since the attacks of September 11, 2001, but remain unable to provide critical information to the president on a range of national security threats, according to the government’s top-secret budget, despite spending $2.6 billion in Pakistan alone.

The $52.6 billion “black budget” for fiscal 2013, obtained by The Washington Post from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, maps a bureaucratic and operational landscape that has never been subject to public scrutiny.

The 178-page budget summary for the National Intelligence Programme details the successes, failures and objectives of the 16 spy agencies that make up the US intelligence community, which has 107,035 employees.

The CIA’s budget allocates $2.3 billion for human intelligence operations and $2.5 billion to cover the cost of supporting the security, logistics and other needs of those missions around the world. A relatively small amount of that total, $68.6 million, was earmarked for creating and maintaining “cover”, the false identities employed by operatives overseas.

There is no specific entry for the CIA’s fleet of armed drones in the budget summary, but a broad line item hints at the dimensions of the agency’s expanded paramilitary role, providing more than $2.6 billion for “covert action programmes” that would include drone operations in Pakistan and Yemen, payments to militias in Afghanistan and Africa, and attempts to sabotage Iran’s nuclear programme.

The documents describe expanded efforts to “collect on Russian chemical warfare countermeasures” and assess the security of biological and chemical laboratories in Pakistan.

Other blank spots include questions about the security of Pakistan’s nuclear components when they are being transported, the capabilities of China’s next-generation fighter aircraft, and how Russia’s government leaders are likely to respond to “potentially destabilising events in Moscow, such as large protests and terrorist attacks”, the report in the newspaper disclosed. -

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[haviZsultan]

So there may be thousands of Shakil Afridis and Raymond Davis's walking around the streets of Pakistan and we do not even know. Amazing.

The government has not only failed to protect Pakistani citizens from the Americans and Indians but they have also failed to deal with a bunch of evil ragtag terrorists. We need to take severe action against the Taliban and our refusal to do so is part of the problem. We have to advocate our interests as aggressively as possible. Look at India and China. Both are becoming extremely assertive nations.

The Indians even had the nerve to try Italian soldiers for attacking its people. I hope to see a day when Hakimullah Mehsud, the chief of the Pakistani taliban is dead. The CIA will not do this for us unless a peace deal is close in the future. They eliminated Baitullah Mehsud, Nek Mohammed and Wali Ur Rehman but all of these were eliminated when we were discussing peace with them. Of course the situation should not arise that we have to bow down to the terrorists and discuss peace with them. We should find a way to eliminate the Taliban... anyway my point was if we want to eliminate Hakimullah Mehsud, we will have to do it on our own.

This is indeed our war and we need to look at our own interests. I say leave the Gul Bahadurs, the Hekmatyars, the Haqqanis and the Nazirs. Just go after Hakimullah mehsud and his TTP and utterly destroy him. This is the only solution that presents itself. We have to eliminate the Taliban.

 

[funtoosh]

pak1s happy that they are getting money

So there may be thousands of Shakil Afridis and Raymond Davis's walking around the streets of Pakistan and we do not even know. Amazing.

The government has not only failed to protect Pakistani citizens from the Americans and Indians but they have also failed to deal with a bunch of evil ragtag terrorists. We need to take severe action against the Taliban and our refusal to do so is part of the problem. We have to advocate our interests as aggressively as possible. Look at India and China. Both are becoming extremely assertive nations.

The Indians even had the nerve to try Italian soldiers for attacking its people. I hope to see a day when Hakimullah Mehsud, the chief of the Pakistani taliban is dead. The CIA will not do this for us unless a peace deal is close in the future. They eliminated Baitullah Mehsud, Nek Mohammed and Wali Ur Rehman but all of these were eliminated when we were discussing peace with them. Of course the situation should not arise that we have to bow down to the terrorists and discuss peace with them. We should find a way to eliminate the Taliban... anyway my point was if we want to eliminate Hakimullah Mehsud, we will have to do it on our own.

This is indeed our war and we need to look at our own interests. I say leave the Gul Bahadurs, the Hekmatyars, the Haqqanis and the Nazirs. Just go after Hakimullah mehsud and his TTP and utterly destroy him. This is the only solution that presents itself. We have to eliminate the Taliban.

gul B, haqqani and nazir a re the original taliban. they are the villains along with PA and ISi

 

[haviZsultan]

pak1s happy that they are getting money



gul B, haqqani and nazir a re the original taliban. they are the villains along with PA and ISi

It is a matter of priorities. We should seek to eliminate the terrorists attacking us Pakistanis first before we head out to punish those more active in India or Afghanistan. Militants are a threat no matter what organization they represent but it is a matter of priorities.

Pakistan unfortunately takes no decision by itself. For example throughout 2007 and 2008 fertilizer wasn't banned when in Swat even when we were fighting a major war in the region against the Taliban who would kill Pakistani citizens with impunity. They were banned only in 2009 when US demanded fertilizer be banned because it was being used by terrorists fighting in Afghanistan to make bombs. Now the question arises why didn't they ban fertilizer without US pressure and insistance and before when the Taliban were killing our people in Swat? Is the blood of Pakistani soldiers cheap compared to the blood of American soldiers? Why did our government not think about banning fertilizer earlier?

These things prove that the government is not concerned about Pakistan's problems. They just want to chase innocents and claim they are fighting a war with the terrorists. Not one top commander of the TTP has been eliminated by us. Instead we arrested Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and top terrorists of the Al Qaeda who were involved in 9/11 but surprisingly failed to eliminate or capture Hakimullah Mehsud or even Malik Ishaq.

If we Pakistanis were as aggressive in advocating our interests we wouldn't face have the problems we face today. India is doing very well to guard its own interests.