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"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government."

saulgoodman — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:46:49 -0800

In yet another case of possible criminality within The Company ranks, the CIA's station chief in Algeria is facing investigation for sexual assualt, accused of having drugged and sexually assaulted at least two Algerian women. Though recent events have raised doubts about the prosecution of other possible crimes at the CIA, this case may actually lead to an eventual conviction. After all, he made tapes.

Kafka-esque doesn't do it justice. This is 'Alice in Wonderland.'

StopMakingSense — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 09:45:27 -0800

Newsfilter: U.S. Seeks Silence on CIA Prisons
"The Bush administration has told a federal judge that terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed to reveal details of the "alternative interrogation methods that their captors used to get them to talk...the government, in trying to block lawyers' access to the 14 detainees, effectively asserts that the detainees' experiences are a secret that should never be shared with the public."

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Arbitrage in the Plame Affair?

Mr Stickfigure — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 23:48:41 -0800

Newsfilter? [via] Former deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage admits to spilling the Plame beans. This comes on the heels of an article in Newsweek outing Armitage as Novak's primary source. Wind up the echo chamber.... [more inside]

cute.

delmoi — Fri, 12 May 2006 23:09:13 -0800

Newsfilter: Home of Former CIA No. 3 Man, Kyle "Dusty" Foggo raided by FBI

Porter Goss Resigns at CIA

digaman — Fri, 05 May 2006 11:12:01 -0800

Newsfilter: CIA director Porter Goss resigns. After taking some of the ~~fall~~ heat for bad intelligence in the months before 9/11, Cheney's "cat's paw" finally gets out of the kitchen.

E-shredding the Plame E-vidence

digaman — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:28:57 -0800

Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald says emails relevant to the Valerie Plame leak investigation have gone missing from the White House. "In an adundance of caution," Fitzgerald wrote [PDF] to "Scooter" Libby's lawyers on January 23, "we advise you that we have learned that not all email of the Office of the Vice President and the Executive Office of President for certain time periods in 2003 was preserved through the normal archiving process on the White House computer system." Might this help explain why Alberto Gonzales -- now the Attorney General, and lately so busy mustering arguments to assert that Bush's NSA domestic-spying program is "legal" -- waited 12 hours before instructing White House staff to preserve documents relevant to the leak investigation after telling Andrew Card about it? Shades of the late, great yoga instructor, Rose Mary Woods. [More on Plame here.]