Karzai’s Brother Is a CIA Asset
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, has long been accused of dealing drugs. Charges, and accusations, have never quite stuck. Nor has American pressure ever been brought to bear in earnest. The New York Times, in an explosive story, provides something of an explanation:
Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials.
The agency pays Mr. Karzai for a variety of services, including helping to recruit an Afghan paramilitary force that operates at the C.I.A.’s direction in and around the southern city of Kandahar, Mr. Karzai’s home.
At this point, everything about the U.S. policy toward the Afghan drug trade — from tolerance to eradication during the Bush administration to an evolving approach to cultivating alternatives — now ought to be questioned. As in questioned in open congressional session. CIA money funds a politically connected drug dealer. Opium funds the Taliban. We are in Afghanistan to fight the Taliban. How much CIA money has indirectly funded the Taliban?
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman who brokered Hamid Karzai’s acceptance of the runoff vote, said in a speech yesterday that in his talks with President Karzai, the subject of Ahmed Wali Karzai’s ties to the drug trade came up, and Kerry’s been unable to confirm anything. “I have requested, from our intelligence sources [and] our law enforcement folks, the smoking gun,” Kerry said. “What evidence? [And] nobody has [any] … Nobody’s given me hard-and-fast evidence. So this [accusation] swirls around.”
Wonder why no one has told Kerry anything …
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Only the American people are ig.no.rant of what the CIA has been up to & doing to other people around the world for the past 50 years.
Obama really isn't in a catch 22. The secret & trick to America & democracy has always been embodied in that line from the old Superman TV series of the 1950s: “The neverending battle for truth, justice and the American way.”
The minute you start to bargain over telling anything but the truth, upholding justice for all, you diverge from the American way. The real American way: Upholding the Constitution.
When we play it straight, it all works. The world loves us, the American people thrive with upward mobility for all of the classes (middle class expansion both in population size & wealth aquisition).
It's when we don't play it straight that everything goes to fashizzle. Because for every action there is an opposite & equal reaction. Beyond blowback, every problem we have can be traced to CIA's misadventures on behalf of corporations. Our foreign policy was designed by establishment elites (rich industrialists who hijacked control of the US government long ago) & has been driven by psychologically damaged conservatives.
By Obama's covering Bush's tracks, he's committed himself to continuing the crimes. More than an accessory after the fact; he's now a player
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