Interesting, Looks like Obama may have worked for a CIA front company

[AAjax]

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5430.shtml

" -- WMR has learned from a veteran member of the White House Press Corps that the Obama administration has made it known through White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and other White House Communications officials that certain questions posed by the reporters who cover the White House are definitely off-limits.

On the banned list are any questions about Obama’s post-Columbia University employment with Business International Corporation (BIC), a global financial and political information company that WMR previously reported was a front for the CIA."


Figures, and sadly does not surprise me.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Wait- if Obama was working for the CIA at some point it would make sense that questions about it would be off limits.

 

[AAjax]

Wait- if Obama was working for the CIA at some point it would make sense that questions about it would be off limits.

Sure, but good to know all the same.

Obama=CIA?

Interesting.

 

[Jaskalas]

Open and honest! Or something like that....

 

[Sclamoz]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_International_Corporation

Just reading about it real quick it looks like it was a legit company that was providing cover for CIA agents not that it was owned and operated by the CIA. I doubt if the majority of the people working there had knowledge of the CIA connection.

 

[AAjax]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_International_Corporation

Just reading about it real quick it looks like it was a legit company that was providing cover for CIA agents not that it was owned and operated by the CIA. I doubt if the majority of the people working there had knowledge of the CIA connection.

While this may be true,this makes Hayabusa Rider's observation even more interesting. If he didn't work for the CIA, why would such questions be off limits?

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Open and honest! Or something like that....

I'll beat up on Obama when he deserves it, but in this case if the reports are true, then he shouldn't be blabbing about it. Being "open and honest" doesn't mean spilling your guts about classified information, and you know that.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

While this may be true,this makes Hayabusa Rider's observation even more interesting. If he didn't work for the CIA, why would such questions be off limits?

Let's assume for sake of argument he worked for an organization which had dealings with the CIA. First, the acknowledgment of that would be inappropriate. Second, if he admits to the first, then it leads down a long line of questions which could compromise individuals or investigations.

If I had been in such a situation, I wouldn't entertain any questions about it whatsoever.

Now if the Press wants to investigate the situation, that's within it's rights, however that doesn't mean that anyone who had knowledge of the situation needs to cooperate.

 

[woolfe9999]

This will be great fodder for conspiracy theorists. They relish these little "data points" as dots to connect in weaving their paranoid tapestries.

- wolf

 

[yllus]

Once the CIA found out about Mr. Obama's political aspirations and where he was really born, they used that knowledge to force him to work for them - in return for information that would help him assume the Presidency of the United States.

 

[SamurAchzar]

I naively thought the CIA was, just like the Navy, American...

 

[jonks]

This will be great fodder for conspiracy theorists. They relish these little "data points" as dots to connect in weaving their paranoid tapestries.

I disagree, CT's wouldn't bother with this and probably consider it a disinformation campaign. Since this involves the CIA it is all too possible that the company was in fact helping provide cover. Since the CIA may be involved, a conspiracy theorist would be quickly bored trying to assert ridiculous facts. They need something that is facially benign from which they can spin forth their insane ponderings. Something like a ... birth certificate.

 

[Dari]

This is old news.

 

[Robor]

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5430.shtml

" -- WMR has learned from a veteran member of the White House Press Corps that the Obama administration has made it known through White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and other White House Communications officials that certain questions posed by the reporters who cover the White House are definitely off-limits.

On the banned list are any questions about Obama’s post-Columbia University employment with Business International Corporation (BIC), a global financial and political information company that WMR previously reported was a front for the CIA."


Figures, and sadly does not surprise me.

Why do you tin-foil-hat-too tight-wearing wing nuts like to use the word 'interesting' so much? :hmm:

 

[heyheybooboo]

In 1983 Obama graduates from Columbia and begins working for Business International Corporation with a designated specialty of "Financing Foreign Operations".

At the same time Osama bin Laden established Maktab al-Khadamat, which, with the help of the CIA and the U.S. Armed Forces intelligence services, funneled money, arms and Muslim fighters from around the Arabic world into the Afghan war.

Huh? Huh? Huh?




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[woolfe9999]

I disagree, CT's wouldn't bother with this and probably consider it a disinformation campaign. Since this involves the CIA it is all too possible that the company was in fact helping provide cover. Since the CIA may be involved, a conspiracy theorist would be quickly bored trying to assert ridiculous facts. They need something that is facially benign from which they can spin forth their insane ponderings. Something like a ... birth certificate.

I'm not speaking of an anti-Obama cter like a birther. I am more talking of the 911 truthers, bilderburgers, anti-globalist types. The notion of a sitting President being a CIA operative is grist for the mills of those types.

- wolf

 

[SirStev0]

Why do you tin-foil-hat-too tight-wearing wing nuts like to use the word 'interesting' so much? :hmm:

Because it is noncommittal. Faux News does it all the time. Saying something is "disturbing" is another trick they use.


I'm not saying Glenn Beck killed and raped a girl in 1991 but it is very desturbing that he won't deny it.

 

[Craig234]

Who released this info about Obama working for a CIA-linked company - Scooter Libby?

 

[Robor]

Because it is noncommittal. Faux News does it all the time. Saying something is "disturbing" is another trick they use.


I'm not saying Glenn Beck killed and raped a girl in 1991 but it is very desturbing that he won't deny it.

Oh, I know. I have a friend who talks/writes *exactly* like some of the right wing nut loons on here. Of course, none of them watch Fox or listen to Rush.

 

[SirStev0]

Who released this info about Obama working for a CIA-linked company - Scooter Libby?

That doesn't sound like something he would do...

That was actually the first thing I thought when I read this. I am guessing working as a lawyer for the company he might have been privvy to certain information on the agents who were using it as a cover.

As an actual human being who realizes putting a person in undue harms way for a political agenda is probably a bad thing, I can see why Obama will not take questions on it.

 

[Fear No Evil]

Maybe Obama outed Valerie Plame then? Interesting AND disturbing.. lol

 

[Red Dawn]

Maybe Obama outed Valerie Plame then? Interesting AND disturbing.. lol

Ahahaha...Ahahaha

 

[Zebo]

Actions speak louder than words. CIA was created by American Blue-bloods to sink their teeth in all things economic with states power behind them and that's who he supports unequivocally.

It also explains a lot in the way he conducted himself, basically Presidential since Yale (a hot bed of CIA infiltration) I'm surprised he wasn't in Skull n Bones but that's only for undergrads.

 

[AAjax]

Why do you tin-foil-hat-too tight-wearing wing nuts like to use the word 'interesting' so much? :hmm:

Tin foil? Dude my helmet is Kevlar

And I used the word interesting because that's what it is to me, interesting. (but please do go on with your conspiracy theory's )

As usual most on p&n go straight to attacking the poster without substantive discussion on the posted topic.

 

[werepossum]

Actions speak louder than words. CIA was created by American Blue-bloods to sink their teeth in all things economic with states power behind them and that's who he supports unequivocally.

It also explains a lot in the way he conducted himself, basically Presidential since Yale (a hot bed of CIA infiltration) I'm surprised he wasn't in Skull n Bones but that's only for undergrads.

Wait, is that sarcasm? 'Cause I'm pretty sure the CIA was created to further the work of the wartime OSS, which was created because we learned the hard way we had no idea what was going on in foreign countries when we really needed such information.

No opinion on the actual story. It is indeed mildly interesting, but doesn't seem too useful to know, even if it's true.