(archived from March 22, 2013)
by Scott Creighton
This is a simple update to an article I wrote this morning about how Code Pink and other “liberal” “anti-war” groups were backing former CIA spook and ABC “News” Mockingbird John Kiriakou.
When Kiriakou was stationed in Pakistan, he worked under a guy who would kind of mentor him along the way, Robert Grenier. It was Grenier who Kiriakou was working directly under when they helped set up the leaking of Valerie Plame as a covert CIA agent in retaliation for her husband exposing the fake “Yellow Cake in Niger” story.
You see, Grenier ended up leading the CIA’s contribution to the Global Free Market Wars till he was fired in late 2006. He then went to head up Kroll Inc. As many of you know, Kroll had a rather interesting roll to play in 9/11 while Grenier was station chief in Pakistan who also had a roll to play via the ISI.
For those of you who don't know, the CIA was using ISI to funnel spending money to the patsy terrorists in the U.S. to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
As all of this unwinds I will try to show how involved was Grenier and Kiriakou were in helping to bring the Salvadorian Option of institutionalized death squads to Iraq and what does that say about him now being hailed as a “truth teller” and hero by the American Left?
“In 2001, Grenier was the CIA station chief in Islamabad, Pakistan, where he helped plan covert operations in support of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. In the summer of 2002 he was promoted to the chief of the Iraq Issues Group, where he helped coordinate covert operations in support of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.”
In 2002 he took Kiriakou with him to D.C. Wiki downplays this period in John’s career and as you will see, with good reason. They simply state he went to D.C. for an assignment there till he left in 2004.
In early 2004 things were turning bad in Iraq and they needed something to help quell the growing resistance to our flopping “democracy” that we never intended to bring to them. So, they turned to a tried and true method of dealing with civilians who don’t put up with our various dictators. They turned to creating roving death squads. This plan was announced, in not so many words, in early 2004 by Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz.
They brought in a guy by the name of James Steele who had run death squad training in El Salvador back in the early ’80s. Steele wasn’t there when Archbishop Romero was killed, but he was there when several other catholic priests were liquidated by the very people Steele had been training.
The new death squads in Iraq were run by none other than Gen. Betrayus which punched his ticket to a lifetime splendor.
Now remember, all this time, Kiriakou was working directly under Grenier who had been promoted to Iraq mission manager for the CIA. He was in charge of all CIA operations in country at that time and this certainly would have fallen under his field of operations.
Grenier is more than just a “true believer” in the CIA culture of corporate capitalism or death, he helped define it. He boasts on his bio page for ERG Partners (they help mergers and acquisitions snakes rip countries apart just like John’s company does) that he headed up training at “The Farm”, the legendary spook house of the CIA.
Previously, Bob was Kroll’s chairman for Global Security Consulting and a managing director, following a 27-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), where most recently, Bob was the Director of CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, where he led the CIA’s involvement in the global War on Terror.
Previously, he was Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Near East and South Asia and originally conceived and organized CIA’s Counter-Proliferation Division, serving as its first Chief of Operations.
Bob’s other positions included Chief of CIA’s training at “the Farm.”, CIA’s representative to the White House on Iraq; and Chief of Station in Islamabad, Pakistan 1999–2002 before and following the attacks of 9/11. Bio
Grenier was deep, deep into it, all the bullshit, all the lies leading up to the invasion of Iraq not just the Yellow Cake story but the entire stove-piping operation. This was “the guy” and his guy was John Kiriakou.
So secret was his new job, Kiriakou wrote in his book, that he had to sign six separate “secrecy agreements.”
After he and his boss, Robert Grenier, the CIA’s associate deputy director of operations for policy support who was later promoted to Iraq mission manager, signed the secrecy agreements they were briefed on their new assignment.
“Okay, here’s the deal,” the CIA’s unnamed director of Iraq operations told Kiriakou and Grenier. “We’re going to invade Iraq next spring. We’re going to overthrow Saddam Hussein. Truthout
Kiriakou worked to help promote the same illegal war and occupation that Code Pink supposedly opposes, yet there they are calling him a “hero”
But that’s not the worst of it. Remember, Kiriakou stayed on the payroll until late 2004, well into the new policy that came about in May of that same year, the policy of arming militias to wipe out Sunnis across Iraq. It was a bloodletting of biblical proportions by all standards and it was conceived of and fundamentally backed up by the CIA and therefore Grenier and John Kiriakou.
The video below goes into the details of the program, when it started, who James Steele was. It’s worth watching. It’s also worth remembering who was at the helm and who his right hand man was during the start of the Iraq Death Squads surge.
Keep in mind that Grenier and Kiriakou were both closely associated with Cheney in the run-up to the Iraq invasion and it was Cheney who ultimately brought Steele into the picture.
The torture and murder and terror that was unleashed by this new wave of U.S. backed death squads goes right to the heart of who John Kiriakou was and who is really is.
It’s also worth reporting that Grenier has become quite the Mockingbird himself, writing all kinds of articles and appearing on al Jazeera… most notably, it was Grenier who posited the first stories of bin Laden using a woman as a human shield and shooting at the SEALS, both of which turned out to be lies.
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