CBS: Secret concert held for children of fallen heroes
Each year, intelligence professionals, special operators and the children of fallen heroes gather for a heartfelt cause — with no written invitations and a time and place so secret, it's on a need-to-know basis.
A professional keeper of secrets, retired CIA officer Mark Kelton now sits on the board of an event so cloak and dagger, even the name is shrouded in secrecy.
"We like to call it a 'covert concert event,'" he told CBS News' Catherine Herridge. "We come from a secret world, it's on a need-to-know basis, and that adds somewhat to the mystique of the event."
Some past performers are far from unknown – ZZ Top, The Steve Miller Band and Peter Frampton. One year, Lenny Kravitz rubbed shoulders with a four-star general.
To date, more than $3.5 million in scholarships has been raised for the CIA, Special Operations and Defense Intelligence memorial foundations.
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WNU Editor: This year's concert emcee and a scholarship recipient was Alison Spann. Her CIA-officer father, Mike Spann, was the first American killed in Afghanistan after 9/11.
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The CIA is supposed to protect Americans by targeting our overseas opponents. But they are not able to do so, witness the complete destruction of CIA operations in Communist China. However, the CIA is more successful in targeting American citizens in the USA. Because of the CIA's involvement in domestic spying and crimes against American citizens, including their targeting of conservative Americans, the American people feel it best to abolish the CIA.
Большое спасибо тебе, товарищ, за то, что ты здесь говоришь
Thank you very much, comrade, for what you say here
Yeah, I feel 10:20 AM is a foreign troll, too. Troll concatenated 3 factual statements. Then he suggested a course of action, which, if an American had said it of any political stripe would be valid and debatable. However, I do not appreciate a foreign troll with ill intent commenting like he has.
I do not know how the CIA gets well or how a politician of the Democrat persuasion would prove it. Brennan, Comey, Wray, Mueller, McCabe Strzok, Page, Yates, Clinesmith and others really hurt the brand. I specifically mention 8 FBI employees. They are FBI, but they worked hand in hand with the CIA on the Russian Collusion Hoax. Eight people is a lot of people to have that dirty at the mid level, upper ranks and pinnacle of an organization. We could name 8 bad CIA apples, but CIA names are typical kept secret. IMO if we have 8+ dirty in the FBIO we have 8+ dirty in the CIA.
You might say 2020 was a bad year. It is not. It is part of a secular trend. It is things like the average joe, news junkie or not, should not know the names of so many governors or so many employees of the FBI. A person might or should know the names of half dozen governors (at least 4). Instead we know 10 going on 20. That is not Trump's doing. That is people in the politics business want what they want and will make or break any law to get it. We have so many internal enemies of the Constitution, Lord knows we need no external ones.
I am the individual who left the 10:20 message and I assure you I am not a foreign troll. I am a US citizen and military veteran. My views are somewhat unconventional because unlike most Americans I think for myself and can recognize propaganda for what it is. The CIA is not all bad of course, however any agency headed by John Brennan is forever tainted in my view.
Plus I am suspicious of the role the CIA had in justifying the 2nd (disastrous) war against Iraq to depose Saddam Hussain.
On Iraq, the CIA was in error, let the White House pressure them, or the Russians moved the
WMDs to Syria with a retrograde convoy in 2014/2015. Funny but the retrograde convoy was never satisfactorily explained. We had all sorts of people on the ground with the Kurds and Syrian Arabs who were within tens of miles or at most a few hundred miles and yet the convoy is unexplained.
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