Post by St Martins Press on Sept 15, 2010 19:25:16 GMT -8
SEPT 9 2010. The publication of “Operation Dark Heart,” by Anthony A. Shaffer, a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer and a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve, has divided military security reviewers and highlighted the uncertainty about what information poses a genuine threat to security. www.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/us/10books.html?_r=1
Post by St Martins Press on Sept 15, 2010 19:43:14 GMT -8
Last June St. Martin’s Press, the book’s publisher, distributed promotional material (pdf) to reviewers, including a list of “Key Background Points and New Revelations in Operation Dark Heart.”
Key Background Points & New Revelations In Operation Dark Heart: • The Primary target of the 1999-era black operation known as ABLE DANGER was the penetration of the known al Qaeda computers in Kabul • By 2000, Shaffer's team has targeted 2 of the 3 cells that were responsible for 9111 • Shaffer turned over the info Abel Danger had gathered but noting ever came of it • Things start to fall apart for Able Danger when SOCOM (Southern Command) lawyers rule Able Danger cannot link US Muslims in the country legally to being spied on vis-a-vis President Reagan's ruling of Executive Order 12333 which allowed this • By 2001 Able Danger was nixed and then 9111 took place. Shaffer gives Able Danger info to Dr. Philip Zelikow with the 9/11 Commission. When the military becomes aware of this it starts Shaffer down the path to the end of his career • As the military heads work toward ending Shaffer's career he is told there are complaints against him for running unsafe convoys and that he falsely claimed $247 for phone calls and a seminar he attended • What also burned at the heads of the DIA was that Shaffer was also awarded a Bronze Star • Shaffer was named Director of Task Force Stratus Ivy (which later morphed into Able Danger) with US forces going after al Qaeda in Afghanistan as well as penetrating Iran and North Korea • A group of intelligence officers identified the Taliban's resurgence's center and then were prevented from acting to stop the re-birth of the Taliban • NSA and DIA illtelligence operatives identified the location of Dr. Ayman alZawahiri, bin Laden's deputy, in late 2003 and were forced to pass the intelligence to the Pakistani Army who then permitted Zawahiri to escape in early 2004 • Details are revealed regarding a major pre-9/ll intelligence operation that could have stopped the 9/11 attacks had it been implemented • ill 2003, things started looking grim in Afghanistan, but it was 2004 that the US really started to lose there. DoD leadership ignored the first Taliban counteroffensive in 2003 as well as the intelligence that indicated the Taliban was rebuilding and planning to return to Afghanistan in 2004 • Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld insisted in 2003 that the "Taliban were defeated" despite intelligence indicating the contrary, and implanted a policy of "wishful thinking" • The Taliban's first attempt to take back ground in Afghanistan started in the fall of 2003 with a full blown force-on-force counteroffensive. The US Army defeated soundly the first attempt of the Taliban to re-take portions of Afghanistan in September 2003 in Operation Mountain Viper via terrific intelligence from Ray Moretti • illtelligence information indicated in 2003 that a full-blown Taliban insurgency was being formed and if left unchecked, the Taliban would likely re-take whole regions of Afghanistan by late 2004 -more- 2- • The Mghanistan Combined forces Commander, Lt. Gen. Barno, learned of the Taliban insurgency in October' 2003 and chose to ignore the intelligence information. When Lt. Gen. Barno was briefed on an operation, focused on Wana, Pakistan, to prevent the Taliban insurgence, he decided to take no action. Instead, Barno insisted that the intelligence information be passed to the Pakistani Intelligence Service (lSI) even after he was told that the lSI was corrupt and would not take any action against the Taliban or al Qaeda operatives suspected of being in safe havens in Pakistan. This resulted in the escape of Zawahari from his suspected Wana, Pakistan, hideout • The DoD was initially conducting cross border operations in 2003, but stopped later that year. This initially approved operation was designed to destroy the first of three known Taliban safe havens (the infamous "AI Qaeda Hotel" as it came to be known) in 2003 and was called Operation Dark Heart • The only way the cross border operation would have worked would have been in Gen. Vines and Col. Olivero had agreed to bypass the CIA. Title 10 of the US Code allows this but gray area in Title 50 would hold up Shaffer's efforts • A female operative of the Pakistani lSI was captured while she was supporting the Taliban in September 2003 • US Special Forces captured an Iranian intelligence operative and his brother who was a US citizen in a raid in Gardeyz, Mghanistan. The operative was attempting to use $65 thousand dollars furnished by Iranian intelligence to ferment resistance and attacks against the US forces in Afghanistan • Task Force 121 entered into the traditional mountain safe havens for the first time ever in Operation Winter Strike in November 2003 • In March 2003, ajoint Special Operations task force preceded the US invasion forces into Iraq, going to suspected WMD sites to capture the site and any chemical weapons. While the operations were successful, no WMD were ever found • There is a path to victory in Afghanistan - but we are not on it. We must install an Eisenhower type commander who leads combat forces both in Afghanistan and Pakistan if we are to win www.fas.org/sgp/news/2010/09/dark-promo.pdf
Publisher agrees to drop US spy secrets from book: Pentagon (AFP) – 2 days ago
St. Martin's press will destroy copies from the first printing with Pentagon representatives observing "to ensure it's done in accordance with our standards," Lapan said.
The second, revised edition would be ready by the end of next week, said the author's lawyer, Mark Zaid.
Behind the Censorship of Operation Dark Heart September 29th, 2010
By censoring Anthony Shaffer’s new book “Operation Dark Heart” even though uncensored review copies are already available in the public domain, the Department of Defense has produced a genuinely unique product: a revealing snapshot of the way that the Obama Administration classifies national security information in 2010.
17 September 2011. Anthony Shaffer was an American spy whose last mission was in Afghanistan. The military didn’t want him to go public with his story of institutional bloat and incompetence, but he did, in a heavily-censored book. Abdul Salam Zaeef was one of the founders of the Taliban. He was imprisoned in Guantanámo Bay for four years, yet still believes in the movement. Anthony Shaffer returns to tell us how he interrogates prisoners, without resorting to torture. www.rnw.nl/english/radioshow/us-and-them-0
Truth, lies and Afghanistan How military leaders have let us down By LT. COL. DANIEL L. DAVIS Feb 2012
I spent last year in Afghanistan, visiting and talking with U.S. troops and their Afghan partners. My duties with the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force took me into every significant area where our soldiers engage the enemy. Over the course of 12 months, I covered more than 9,000 miles and talked, traveled and patrolled with troops in Kandahar, Kunar, Ghazni, Khost, Paktika, Kunduz, Balkh, Nangarhar and other provinces.
What I saw bore no resemblance to rosy official statements by U.S. military leaders about conditions on the ground.
Entering this deployment, I was sincerely hoping to learn that the claims were true: that conditions in Afghanistan were improving, that the local government and military were progressing toward self-sufficiency. I did not need to witness dramatic improvements to be reassured, but merely hoped to see evidence of positive trends, to see companies or battalions produce even minimal but sustainable progress.
Instead, I witnessed the absence of success on virtually every level.
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