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umbrella of the CIA and FBI. Trusting the Arab and Muslim leaders and informers and believing that they will betray their own people was a big mistake!

B-NATIONAL SOURCES AND THE CLOSE CIRCLE OF THE US GOVERNMENT: I am absolutely convinced that the FBI and the CIA failed miserably in recruiting effective agents, in hiring "areas and regions" experts and in collaborating with experienced observers. Both agencies publicly claimed that they lacked effective human intelligence on the ground and in the field. The truth is completely the opposite, for I am fully aware of many highly experienced and qualified individuals (and clean like a whistle) who have applied to the CIA and to the FBI and were totally ignored. I know for a fact that a considerable number of absolutely reliable American-foreign born citizens with outstanding credentials, unsurpassed knowledge of the region (Middle and Neat East), and documented expertise in Syrian, Lebanese, Iraqi, Palestinian politics, internal affairs and socio-politico-demographic regional events, documented with credentials, proofs, track record who have offered their services to the CIA and to the FBI in Washington, DC, Miami, California and were turned down and ignored by the CIA and the FBI. Sometimes, they were turned down for some stupid and alarmingly choking reasons such as: 1-This or that applicant is not a member of the established American intelligence community, 2: This or that applicant has no contact with people from the inner circle of the administration, 3- This or that applicant is highly overqualified and the agency could not afford to pay him or pay her, 4: This or that applicant is of a French background, 5- This or that applicant has a very strange long name (what a stupid reason!), 6: This or that applicant has something bizarre about him or about her, because the applicant's social and educational backgrounds as well as multidimensional foreign cultural and social activities seemed too much European or foreign. But basically, the major reason for not hiring this or that applicant is this: "Applicant is not a Washington or a Bush group insider." Grosso modo, If you are NOT one of them (CIA or FBI) and/or you are not "connected" to their friends and people in power in Washington, DC, you will never be hired by the CIA or the FBI! And this is catastrophic.

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