TV ad Seeks to Recruit Arab-Americans to CIA

Lets be honest here, this is not about bringing more Arabs into the CIA, this is about bringing more Muslims into the fold. This is about our government agencies bowing down to Muslims and Islam, just like the Labour Party does in the UK. I am sure that Muslims who want to destroy life as we know it, would never think of taking this invitation and infiltrate the CIA. Nah, that could never happen.

TV ad seeks to recruit Arab-Americans to CIA
By JEFF KAROUB

DEARBORN, Mich. – There's a swirl of activity in a spacious, modern kitchen as final meal preparations are made.

An older man tries to swipe a felafel off an appetizer plate but instead gets a loving hand slap from a woman. The happy, well-dressed guests move to a table full of food in a dining room adorned with Middle Eastern wall-hangings.

It's an inviting, if idealized, dinner party scene from any Arab-American home — at least that's what the CIA seeks to convey in the first television commercial of its kind. The agency, in turn, hopes it's an inviting message to U.S. Arabs.

"Your nation, your world," a male voice says with a Middle Eastern accent, as the frame moves outside and pans out to show the party through a window of a gleaming, high-rise building. In seconds, the shot zooms out to an image of the U.S. from space. "They're worth protecting.

"Careers in the CIA."

The commercial, which the agency plans to debut on mainstream and ethnic TV stations and Web sites nationwide within the next few months, represents artistic and technological leaps for the agency. Until now, its print, broadcast and Web advertising has focused on the variety of career options and the diversity among its ranks, but the agency hasn't used a storytelling approach to sell its message.

It's part of an ambitious outreach effort to communities the CIA deems critical to reducing the threat of terrorism in the U.S. The agency has a five-year plan to boost fluency in Arabic and other languages.

But resistance could come from U.S. Arabs who have felt the sting of suspicion since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Many Arabs and Muslims have been dubious of the government's intelligence gathering and believe spying is going on in mosques and other places.

The CIA on Wednesday held a private screening of the commercial and another 30-second spot aimed at recruiting Iranian-Americans. Each drew applause from the group of about 40 people gathered for the viewing in Dearborn, in the heart of Michigan's large Middle Eastern community.

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"It's important for them to know we understand how important their culture is to them. They're not going to lose that once they walk through the front doors of the CIA to work," said Christina Petrosian, chief of advertising and marketing for agency's recruitment and retention center.

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U.S. Aware of Hasan Efforts to Contact al Qaeda

More distrubing news on just how much US officials actually knew about the Fort Hood terrorist Malik Hassan. The finger pointing has started, but the bottom line is that no one had the guts to do the right thing and discharge Hasan. Politically correct cowardice caused these deaths.

Officials: U.S. Aware of Hasan Efforts to Contact al Qaeda
Army Major in Fort Hood Massacre Used 'Electronic Means' to Connect with Terrorists
By RICHARD ESPOSITO, MATTHEW COLE and BRIAN ROSS
Nov. 9, 2009

U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News.

It is not known whether the intelligence agencies informed the Army that one of its officers was seeking to connect with suspected al Qaeda figures, the officials said.

Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said that he requested the CIA and other intelligence agencies brief the committee on what was known, if anything, about Hasan by the U.S. intelligence community, only to be refused.

In response, Hoekstra issued a document preservation request to four intelligence agencies. The letter, dated November 7th, was sent to directors Dennis Blair (DNI), Robert Mueller (FBI), Lt. Gen Keith Alexander (NSA) and Leon Panetta (CIA).

Hoekstra said he is "absolutely furious" that the house intel committee has been refused an intelligence briefing by the DNI or CIA on Hasan's attempt to reach out to al Qaeda, as first reported by ABC News.

"This is a law enforcement investigation, in which other agencies—not the CIA—have the lead," CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano said in a response to ABC News. " Any suggestion that the CIA refused to brief Congress is incorrect."

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CIA Chief to Michigan Muslims, "The Nation Needs you"

Obama's crew just continues to bow down to the Islamic community, practically begging them to respect us. They are also masters of ignoring facts. The first being that Peter King has stated that Muslims do not cooperate. The second being that US Muslims have said that their Mosques and Koran are off limits. That certainly is not cooperating, but apparently we are going to have to learn the hard way. Just like Europe is.

CIA boss asks US Muslims to aid anti-terror effort
By JEFF KAROUB
DEARBORN, Mich. — The director of the CIA beseeched Arab-American and Muslim leaders Wednesday to join efforts to reduce the threat of terrorism in the U.S.

Speaking in the heart of Michigan's large Middle Eastern Community, Leon Panetta said the country is safer than it was when it was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, though al-Qaida still remains a threat.

"I need you. The nation needs you," Panetta said during a 25-minute speech to about 150 people at an iftar, the evening meal that breaks the fast during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

The address represented one of the Central Intelligence Agency's highest-profile recruiting efforts aimed at Arab-Americans and Muslims. Panetta said it was his first speech at a Ramadan break-fast dinner.

The agency this year announced a five-year plan to boost fluency in Arabic and other languages the CIA deems critical to its work. Panetta aims to raise foreign language proficiency inside the CIA from less than a third to at least half of all analysts and intelligence operatives.

He told the gathering he hopes to increase the share of the agency's work force that has foreign language skills. The agency seeks highly skilled workers in 90 different areas, including analysts, engineers and doctors, he said.

"We have to reflect the face of this nation, and we have to reflect the face of the world," said Panetta, drawing applause from the gathering.

Earlier, he told reporters he never considered resigning from the job he took in February, despite a battle with Attorney General Eric Holder over Holder's his decision to investigate some agency officials in past interrogations of terrorism case detainees.

"My concern is ... that we don't get trapped by the past. My feeling is ultimately, we're going to be able to move on," Panetta said. "I think the reason I felt the way I did is because I don't believe there's a basis there for any kind of additional action."

He also sought to allay concerns of many in the Arab and Muslim communities who say they have felt the sting of suspicion and discrimination since Sept. 11. About 300,000 people with roots in the Arab world live in the Detroit area.

"President Obama has done a tremendous amount of outreach in the Muslim community," Panetta said. "He very much considers them part of the American family."

Imam Hisham al-Husainy of Dearborn's Karbalaa Islamic Center said he originally thought he shouldn't attend because he wanted to remain independent. But he said his faith compelled him to help the Obama administration.

"I don't want to be CIA. ... But I will be an American Muslim who wants to bring peace and love between Muslims and Christians," said al-Husainy, who sat at the same table with Panetta. "Maybe I'll have a burden to pay later on, but I'm proud of what I'm doing."

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Sept.16Th:CIA Outreach, Dearborn Michigan

The US government is just doing a wonderful job at bowing down to the Islamic community. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder went to a LA Mosque pledging to advance religious freedoms for Muslims. While some US military "leaders" are practically crawling on their knees begging Muslims to respect us. Now the CIA has joined in on the Islamic love fest. These are the same policies that the UK has tried and we will get the same results. FAILURE.

CIA director, community leaders to meet

DEARBORN — Leon Panetta, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, is scheduled to meet with local Arab and Muslim community leaders during a Sept. 16 visit to Dearborn.

The CIA has implemented a sweeping outreach and recruitment campaign in Arab American communities over the last several years, seeking out speakers of Arabic and other Middle East languages.

The visit comes weeks after the release of records detailing harsh, Bush-era CIA interrogation and rendition programs, and the disclosure of a secret, unsuccessful program in which private Blackwater USA security contractors were hired to assassinate suspected terrorists.

Panetta was appointed CIA Director by President Barack Obama in February and has battled Attorney General Eric Holder over the release of interrogation records and Justice Department investigations of agency officials. In June, Panetta called an emergency meeting to tell Congress that the agency withheld details of the relationship with Blackwater contractors and that he officially ended the program shortly after learning of its existence.

Over the past several years, the CIA has sponsored and maintained a presence at countless Arab American annual functions, including fundraising events for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the Arab American and Chaldean Council, the Arab American Chamber of Commerce and other organizations, spending tens of thousands on booths, banners and advertising.

CIA spokespeople have said the number of job applications coming out of the Detroit area has risen significantly since the effort began.

Other top agency officials met with Arab American leaders in Southfield earlier this year.

CIA spokesman George Little told the Detroit News Tuesday "These individuals have the kinds of skills, knowledge and experiences that can strongly advance our vital intelligence mission and protect the nation's security."

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