The CIA is referred to as a “invisible government,” although it is the world’s most visible, analyzed, and publicised intelligence service.
Several bureaucratic institutions have an active role in determining US foreign policy. The State Department, the Defense Department, and the Central Intelligence Agency are among the most powerful.
The Central Intelligence Organization (CIA) is the US government’s autonomous civilian intelligence agency. It is an executive agency that is responsible for providing national security intelligence assessments to senior US policymakers and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence. The agency’s fundamental duty of intelligence collecting is carried out by non-military commissioned civilian intelligence officers, many of whom have been trained to do so.
Situations that are tactical. At the request of the US President, the CIA also supervises and sometimes participates in tactical and covert operations. When such field operations are planned, the US military or other combat tacticians often carry them out on the agency’s behalf while the CIA supervises them. Between 1947 and 1989, the US attempted 72 times to change the governments of other countries.
Over the previous 30 years, at least 12 full-time C.I.A. officers have operated abroad as employees of American-owned news organisations.
Congress has many powers to engage in foreign policy, as well as to check the president’s foreign policy acts, particularly in the event of war. The War Power Clause, which was enacted in 1917, contains some of the most essential powers.
The War Power Clause and the Foreign Commerce Clause are two of the most essential powers granted to Congress by the Constitution.
President Bill Clinton signed Presidential Decision Directive (PDD) 35 over a quarter-century ago, designating intelligence assistance to military operations as the intelligence community’s “top priority” task during times of conflict. PDD-35 marked the end of a discussion concerning the function of national intelligence and its connection with the Department of Defense that had raged since the early 1980s. Gates warned in 2008 that the United States’ foreign policy was “slithering militarised.”
Karl Eikenberry, a retired lieutenant general and former ambassador to Afghanistan, stated in 2012 that the militarization of US foreign policy and unequal investment in Afghanistan were causing the country’s decline.
Michael Mullen, the former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, expressed his concern about the Defense Department’s growing role in foreign policy in a lecture at Kansas State University in 2010. “To be honest, my fear is that we aren’t advancing fast enough in this area.” Foreign policy in the United States is still dominated by the military, and our major overseas commands are still led by generals and admirals. It’s one thing to be able and eager to help in an emergency; it’s quite another to have to be the fire chief all of the time.”
Despite the fact that national security professionals have been warning about the militarization of US foreign policy for over a decade and the US has little to show for over two decades of militarised foreign policy, the US has little to show for it.
David P. Oakley is an Army strategist and an assistant professor at the College of International Security Affairs at National Defense University. Subordinating Intelligence: The DoD/CIA Post-Cold War Relationship, The Policymaking Machinery, is his most recent book.
The President, the executive branch, Congress, and the general public must all be involved in the formulation of foreign policy. The President and his subordinates in the executive branch, on the other hand, have sole authority over foreign policy. You formulate policy when you decide to protect the security of the Persian Gulf; you conduct policy when you deploy the Navy to accomplish it.
Security and the Pentagon
The United States emerged from WWII as a nuclear superpower with worldwide interests, prompting the creation of new departments to deal with foreign affairs and, most importantly, security. Military might is used as a tool of diplomacy, a means of achieving government goals set by civilian officials. The Defense Department is headed by a civilian secretary who is a member of the President’s Cabinet. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a strategy group made up of senior officers from the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps, is the President’s primary military counsel.
The National Security Act of 1947 established a small Cabinet-level National Security Council (NSC), which includes the President, Vice President, and Secretaries of State. and Defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to assist the President in managing and coordinating foreign policy, as well as the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The National Security Council (NSC) personnel, led by the President’s national security adviser, is made up of experts in various geographic areas and functional areas, such as arms control.
More recently, the introduction of the Department of Homeland Security, which began operations in early 2003 in response to the terrorist acts of 9/11/2001, significantly altered the role of executive departments in matters of foreign policy. In terms of commerce, borders, immigration, and security, the department, which oversees 22 independent agencies, has grown in influence.
Until World War II, one agency, the Department of State, established in 1789 and the highest-ranking Cabinet department, and one individual, the Secretary of State, who is directly responsible to the President, managed foreign affairs. The traditional functions of the State Department and its professional diplomatic corps, the Foreign Service, include: negotiating on behalf of the U.S.
government with foreign governments and in international organizations; defending U.S. position in the world; reporting on and analyzing conditions in foreign countries and institutions such as the UN; representing the American people and current U.S. policies to the world; promoting relations with decision makers abroad; advancing U.S. trade and investment; and protecting U.S. nationals overseas from discriminatory and/or inhumane treatment.
Intelligence
The CIA, the National Security Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency are among the federal agencies that make up the “intelligence community.” They gather data (for example, how many nuclear weapons China has), evaluate its correctness and dependability, and disseminate it to decision-makers. In addition, the intelligence community, particularly the CIA, conducts clandestine operations with the President’s consent. The intelligence community was extended in 2004 to include the new position of Director of National Intelligence, who leads and manages the work of the various intelligence organisations and serves as the President’s primary intelligence adviser.
Even as it prepared for war against Iraq, the Pentagon was already fighting a second battle: the CIA. According to former CIA employees, the Pentagon exerts constant pressure on the agency to generate intelligence reports that were more supportive of the war in Iraq. To justify war, key Department of Defense officials also manufactured their own questionable intelligence assessments.
The C.I.A., not Congress, was at the centre of America’s 20-year presence in Afghanistan. Last month, Pakistan’s foreign minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, informed parliamentarians that the government would not allow the US troops to return to the country’s air bases because to the Afghan catastrophe. “Forget about the past; I want to tell you about the future.” Prime Minister Imran Khan will not allow a US base in Pakistan as long as he is in power, Mr. Qureshi said.
The Christian Science Monitor reported that two Pakistani journalists reporting reports from Washington are receiving their salary from the US State Department through a nonprofit middleman, underscoring the sophisticated nature of America’s efforts to mould its image abroad.
The fact that the Express Tribune published this story in September 2011, a long time ago, is a telltale sign.
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“According to State Department sources in Washington familiar with the project, the sum now earmarked for the project is around $2 million over two years from public diplomacy monies granted by the State Department.”
This includes the two correspondents’ wages – Express’s Huma Imtiazand Awais Saleem of Dunya News and a bureau for both TV channels.
AAM’s president, Aaron Lobel, claims that his organisation also receives funds from a number of private investors, which it mostly uses to pay its international affairs programming on Public Radio International in the United States.
“The content is produced first and primarily by Pakistanis who are here and collaborate with their channels back home to produce stuff,” Lobel explains.
Pakistani journalists and editors at home occasionally come up with stories. However, according to Lobel, AAM has production meetings where the group’s managing director, Aliya Salahuddin, suggests stories. “I understand the concerns that underpin cooperative ventures in the US-Pakistan relationship. “However, we are quite proud of our positive connection with Dunya and Express.” Unquote.
This is a list of activities allegedly carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States of America in Pakistan. Authors like Ahmed Rashid have claimed that the CIA and ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence; Pakistan’s top intelligence organisation) are engaged in a covert battle. [1
The CIA did not carry out the regime change in PPP, the CPEC’s first signatory government. PMLN’s regime change,’ which included at least $15 billion in CPEC projects, was not carried out by the CIA. Why would the CIA plot a “regime change” in a country where the CPEC is stalled? The IMF’s Executive Board approved a $1.053 billion disbursement to Pakistan on February 2, 2022. The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) received a $1.053 tranche of funds on February 4th. the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) received $1.053 tranche of its three-year, $6 billion IMF loans.
But yes this is the way the CIA plays it diabolic role just in order to baffle the masses and give a chance to its already hired journalists and media houses, to trick the readers into believe it or notrealms.
