The CIA black financial assets are beyond government scrutiny.

[Ichingcarpenter]

25 Cutting Edge Firms Funded By The CIA


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/25-cutting-edge-companies-funded-by-the-central-intelligence-agency-2012-8?op=1#ixzz3LgHQFDn8

Banking and Finance

Throughout its entire history, the CIA has set up an elaborate shell game of "proprietaries" (front companies), money-laundering operations and off-the-books projects so complex that no outsider- and few insiders-could ever keep track of them. BCCI was neither the first nor the last of these.

An important predecessor was the Nugan Hand Bank, which helped the CIA topple a pesky government in its host country, Australia. Capitalized with booty from drug and weapons deals in the last years of the Vietnam War, it helped finance agency operations in Angola and the Middle East

Nugan Hand's board was loaded with spooks, including former CIA Director William Colby. When Australian bank examiners closed in on the bank in 1977, Nugan killed himself and Hand disappeared with billions in depositors
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA%20Hits/CrookedBanks_CIAHits.html



Drug running and coke.

The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations

http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/nsaebb2.htm

Using secret information to make money in financial markets

wikileaks and Gizmodo
http://gizmodo.com/5888440/wikileaks-reveals-private-cias-dirty-laundry-updating-live


the elite members of the secret security state can do what they want

The CIA headquarters is just a shell front for the public to view as legitimate arm of their government...
but that's not where the real power lies......

[Jesus Malverde]

1. You mean the Sinaloa cartel and the afghan heroin booty.

Yep nothing to audit there.

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. Exactly :How can you audit something

that is hidden, off the books, compartmentalized to a need to know bases that the guy in the next desk doesn't know what you are doing and who you really answer to.

Plausible deniability

Plausible deniability is a term coined by the CIA in the early 1960s to describe the withholding of information from senior officials in order to protect them from repercussions in the event that illegal or unpopular activities by the CIA became public knowledge.

Its roots go back to Harry Truman's national security council paper 10/2 June 18/1948, which defined "covert operations" as "...all activities conducted pursuant to this directive which are so planned and executed that any U.S. Government responsibility for them is not evident to unauthorized persons and that if uncovered the U.S. Government can plausibly disclaim any responsibility for them." [NSC 5412 was de-classified in 1977, and is located at the National Archives, RG 273.]

The term most often refers to the capacity of senior officials in a formal or informal chain of command to deny knowledge of and/or responsibility for any damnable actions committed by the lower ranks because of a lack of evidence that can confirm their participation, even if they were personally involved or at least willfully ignorant of said actions. In the case that illegal or otherwise disreputable and unpopular activities become public, high-ranking officials may deny any awareness of such act in order to insulate themselves and shift blame on the agents who carried out the acts, confident that their doubters will be unable to prove otherwise. The lack of evidence to the contrary ostensibly makes the denial plausible, that is, credible. The term typically implies forethought, such as intentionally setting up the conditions to plausibly avoid responsibility for one's (future) actions or knowledge. In some organizations, legal doctrines such as command responsibility exist to hold major parties responsible for the actions of subordinates involved in heinous acts and nullify any legal protection that their denial of involvement would carry.

In politics and espionage, deniability refers to the ability of a powerful player or intelligence agency to pass the buck and avoid blowback by secretly arranging for an action to be taken on their behalf by a third party ostensibly unconnected with the major player. In political campaigns, plausible deniability enables candidates to stay clean and denounce third-party advertisements that use unethical approaches or potentially libellous innuendo.


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

My point is that they have their own money to run their operations without government interference from any branch of the government.

[Jesus Malverde]

4. DU REC

Jesus

[newfie11]

2. Tell me again who runs our foreign policy

undercover of Secrecy!

Does anyone control the CIA?
No one knows what all their up to and the damage that they've done world wide.

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. Or our domestic policy

on drugs into the ghetto, guns to cartels and media influence.