Hillary Clinton's State Department bureaucrats are interfering
with current CIA operations by denying passports to agents,
according to intelligence community sources.
Though this has happened in the past, these denials were until recently a rare occurrence. There has been a surge in the State Department's denial of "country clearances" in recent months. Because the State Department has legal control over the issuance of all U.S. passports -- including those diplomatic and other special passports often used by active CIA operatives -- its refusal to issue passports in recent months has denied the CIA the ability to mount planned operations in several nations. My sources did not reveal which countries are involved but -- given the turmoil in Egypt and Pakistan, and the U.S.'s tenuous relationship with both countries -- they would likely be among those nations for which the passports are being denied.
The State Department's decreasing cooperation with the CIA may have begun as early as January 2011 when CIA contractor Raymond Davis got into a shootout with Pakistanis on a street in Lahore, killing two men who Davis said were attempting to rob him. Davis was arrested for murder and his diplomatic passport was deemed ineffective by the Pakistanis, who held him in prison until the U.S. government paid "blood money" to the relatives of the dead.
Read more: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/07/16/the-petraeus-passport-puzzle
Though this has happened in the past, these denials were until recently a rare occurrence. There has been a surge in the State Department's denial of "country clearances" in recent months. Because the State Department has legal control over the issuance of all U.S. passports -- including those diplomatic and other special passports often used by active CIA operatives -- its refusal to issue passports in recent months has denied the CIA the ability to mount planned operations in several nations. My sources did not reveal which countries are involved but -- given the turmoil in Egypt and Pakistan, and the U.S.'s tenuous relationship with both countries -- they would likely be among those nations for which the passports are being denied.
The State Department's decreasing cooperation with the CIA may have begun as early as January 2011 when CIA contractor Raymond Davis got into a shootout with Pakistanis on a street in Lahore, killing two men who Davis said were attempting to rob him. Davis was arrested for murder and his diplomatic passport was deemed ineffective by the Pakistanis, who held him in prison until the U.S. government paid "blood money" to the relatives of the dead.
Read more: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/07/16/the-petraeus-passport-puzzle
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