NYPD And The CIA - A Perilous Partnership

Today the Associated Press broke a story that truly sends chills down my spine.  No, not a story of a terrible, bloody crime, not a story of mass murder or a bombing, yet a scary story just the same.  And a story that should bring us all to the boiling point of hot outrage, if anything should.  The story, though repeated by many other sources, can be found here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44255142/ns/us_news-security/

I will not try to repeat the story, as it is much too complicated, with twists and turns and deception, but I will try to highlight some of the more terrifying aspects of this situation.  It seems that at some point after the 9/11 attacks on New York, the police commissioner, Raymond Kelly, made contact with his former friends who were senior members of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to discuss implementing some sort of anti-terrorist cooperative.  The express purpose of this "coop" was very noble in itself - to protect New York by any means, from any future such attrocity as the World Trade Center attacks.  If one digs a little deeper, as did Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo, however, one finds that Commissioner Kelly had been in touch with the CIA as early as 2002.  The World Trade Center had been bombed once before, and NYPD and the CIA were in positions to help each other, as it were.

I am not going to dwell on the details of this Associate Press probe, the facts are there to be read by anyone who wants to do so.  I am just going to say that the cooperation between the CIA and NYPD provided the CIA with a quasi-legal means of conducting intelligence operations on United States soil, and provided NYPD with the means of creating a domestic "super-intelligence agency" that is outside the control of local officials, federal officials, and even NYPD itself.  Apparently some NYPD officers were even deputized as US Marshals, with the accompanying national jurisdiction, but again, not under the supervision of either NYPD or the US Marshal's Service.  And, this NYPD-CIA partnership circumvents cooperation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the agency that is (or ONCE WAS) charged with investigating terrorism activities within the United States.  Again I will stress, this NYPD-CIA venture is not under the control of any local, state, or federal agency, and of course WOULD NOT BE, since it is patently ILLEGAL in nature.

The NYPD-CIA coop was accidentally discovered in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 2009 when an apparently nosy apartment supervisor opened an apartment for whatever reason.  When he opened the door, the "super" was shocked to find leaflets and materials related to Islamic terrorists, as well as maps and what appeared to be plans for upcoming attacks on New York.  He promptly called the New Brunswick police, who in turned called the FBI, and, as we say, the cat was out of the bag.  Several New York police officers and CIA operatives were identified in conjunction with the "terrorist hideout."  Later, similar operations were discovered in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.  Like I said, not in New York PD jurisdiction, and outside of the "legal" realm of CIA operations.  Of course, with a secret agency, we The People never know where secret operatives are working, anyway. 

My main point is, this NYPD-CIA operation has been discovered and exposed in just a few locales.  How do we know where there might be other clandestine operational bases?  They could be in any city or town in the United States.  Further, this evil coop is using NYPD "ethnically diverse" officers to do things such as sit in Muslim cafes or coffee houses and just listen and look for suspicious activity.  This of course means that no crime is suspected, as would be necessary to warrant this activity in the first place.  These operatives even go to mosques to listen to sermons and mingle with the people, again to learn about possible terrorist activity, again, with no legal provocation, or what was once constitutionally mandatory, the thing police officers and courts called "Probable Cause." 

You should know that information Mr. Goldman and Mr. Apuzzo found indicated that the targets were not all Muslims, and hardly any were "terrorists."  Ethnic neighborhoods targeted by CIA-NYPD included Puerto Rican and Somali, just to name a couple.  It reminds me of that most famous quote by Martin Niemoller (after several years in a Nazi concentration camp):

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out --


Because I was not a Socialist.



Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out --

Because I was not a Trade Unionist.



Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out --

Because I was not a Jew.




Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to speak for me.

If you have never been alarmed about some political or national crisis before, this MAY be the one to get you out of your chair.  You see, I live in Midland, Texas.  I have no idea whether or not the NYPD-CIA is operating here.  You live in Denver?  How do you know they have not rented the house NEXT DOOR?  I understand that New Yorkers may want some sort of super-secret security force, and who can blame them?  But the terrorists have won another victory...they have scared many people to the point where citizens are willing to give up liberty for security.  But as Benjamin Franklin said:

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

We cannot tolerate the NYPD-CIA monster.  This is a national concern for ALL OF US, not a city issue for the people of New York.  We all have the power to make a simple phone call or send an email to our United States senators and demand that this tyrannical partnership be forever dissolved.  Our leaders must send the CIA back to work overseas, send the NYPD officers back to their city, and if the deputized cops really want to be federal deputies, assign them to US Marshals and put them to work, at New York City expense, of course.