They sure advertise in the right places!!!!
"Intelligence agencies seek aid to recruit immigrants" by Pamela Hess, Associated Press | May 17, 2008
McLEAN, Va. - The United States is its own worst enemy when it comes to the desperately important task of recruiting immigrants as spies, analysts, and translators in the war on terror, new Americans are telling intelligence officials. The government's policies raise suspicions and fear in the immigrants' home countries and disturb potential recruits who might otherwise want to help.
The United States knows it needs the help. At the heart of a summit yesterday with immigrant groups was a stark reality: The intelligence agencies lack people who can speak the languages that are needed most, like Arabic, Farsi, and Pashtu.
More important, the agencies lack people with the cultural awareness that allows them to grasp the nuances embedded in dialect, body language, even graffiti.
They are just thinking of that now, seven years later?
What a bunch of ARROGANT SHIT-HEADS!!!!
At the suburban Virginia summit, not far from the CIA and National Counterterrorism Center, officials gathered more than a dozen representatives of recent immigrant and other ethnic groups to get their recruiting assistance.
"We are going to ask you to open up your communities to us," said Ronald Sanders, an assistant national intelligence director and the son of an Egyptian immigrant mother.
And if they say no? Then they are "terrorists?"
Not as long as they Sig Heil, right?
The officials got an earful in return - about immigration and hiring rules and foreign policies that make life harder in immigrants' old countries.
The intelligence agencies' practices also came under criticism: extraordinary rendition, holding prisoners at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, interrogation practices that some say amount to torture.
Yeah, that's what "some say." Whatever, shit MSM!!!
"Basically, they've scared people," said Amina Khan of the Association of Pakistani Professionals and a lawyer formerly with the US Energy Department.
Some US policies after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks made things worse, said Kareem Shora of the American-Arab AntiDiscrimination Committee."Nooooooooooo!!!!! Ya think?
