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shawa
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 Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:10 pm Post subject: Goss Launches CIA Leak Investigation |
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He wants a Grand Jury!! NAIL THE SUCKERS!!
| Quote: | EXCLUSIVE: Is CIA Leak Probe a 'Witch Hunt'?
Director Launches Internal Investigation Into Who Gave Sensitive Information to the Media
By BRIAN ROSS and RICHARD ESPOSITO
Feb. 7, 2006 - The director of the CIA has launched a major internal probe into media leaks about covert operations. In an agencywide e-mail, Porter Goss blamed "a very small number of people" for leaks about secret CIA operations that, in his words, "do damage to the credibility of the agency."
According to people familiar with the Goss e-mail, sent in late January and classified secret, the CIA director warned that any CIA officer deemed suspect by the agency's Office of Security and its Counter Intelligence Center (which handles internal affairs) could be subjected to an unscheduled lie detector test. CIA personnel are subjected to polygraphs at regular intervals in their careers, but one former intelligence officer called the new warning a "witch hunt." Others said Goss' e-mail was narrowly focused and did not suggest agencywide, random lie detector tests.
"It would make no sense at all to give everyone here a lie detector test," said one person who knew about the e-mail.
Goss told CIA employees there were ways other than talking to the news media to resolve any issues they had with classified CIA operations.
The memo informs its recipients that the CIA has asked the Justice Department to prosecute any leakers within its ranks. This comes in connection with recent news reports that detailed the CIA's operation of secret prisons in Europe and its far-flung flights of suspected terrorists to foreign prisons.
Crime reports from the CIA are sent to the FBI and the Department of Justice, and constitute a statement that the CIA believes a crime has been committed.
Current and former employees say there have been only a handful of such agencywide memos in recent years. One dealt with sexual harassment in the workplace and another with the embezzlement of agency money.
Goss confirmed the general outline of the leak probe in his appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Feb. 2.
"We also have an investigation of finding out what leakage, if any, is coming out of that building," he said, referring to CIA headquarters. "And I'm afraid there is some coming out. I also believe that there has been an erosion of the culture of secrecy. And we're trying to reinstill that."
CIA officers are given lie detector tests when they formally become candidates, upon completion of their probation, and then at five-year intervals throughout their careers.
CIA officers also agree to undergo "aperiodic" lie detector tests if requested.
Goss told the Intelligence Committee that "on the external side, I've called in the FBI, the Department of Justice. It is my aim, and it is my hope, that we will witness a grand jury investigation with reporters present being asked to reveal who is leaking this information."
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LewWaters
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| Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | "do damage to the credibility of the agency." |
To me, this is a gross understatement. The CIAs credibility isn't as important as National Security. Revealing to the world, including our enemies, steps taken to counter and discover their movements and plans is outright treason during war time, as far as I'm concerned.
I'm afraid the public will just poo poo it all if the CIAs 'credibility' is all that is mentioned. This is a compromise of National Security, plain and simple.
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GenrXr
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| Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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| LewWaters wrote: | | Quote: | | "do damage to the credibility of the agency." |
To me, this is a gross understatement. The CIAs credibility isn't as important as National Security. Revealing to world, including our enemies, steps taken to counter and discover their movements and plans is outright treason during war time, as far as I'm concerned.
I'm afraid the public will just poo poo it all if the CIAs 'credibility' is all that is mentioned. This is a compromise of National Security, plain and simple. |
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GoophyDog
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| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 2:06 am Post subject: |
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How ironic that a "SECRET" email appears to have been leaked.
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BuffaloJack
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Compromising National Security is compromising the security of My family and friends. There can be no justification. If it is a leak then it is intentional and an act of TREASON. It's too bad that it can't be handled like it would have been in the first half of the 20th century when everyone knew what to do with a traitor.
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LewWaters
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| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 6:29 am Post subject: |
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| Imagine how Scooter Libby feels. He is indicted for "leaking" a name that was apparently well known around Washington. Othes come forward and compromise National Security in wartime and they are protected "whistleblowers." At least according to the left. |
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Schadow
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Speaking of leakers, we now have the Senate Judiciary Committee grilling the Attorney General about the NSA program. The ranking member, Senator Leahy, is at his usual harrumphing best trying to get the AG to reveal examples of successful hits made by the program and to confess that the program is just a spying exercise targeting innocent civilians.
Turns out that Leahy has a very unsavory history dealing with national security matters, including his being kicked off the Senate Intel Committee. Here are some details from Investors Business Daily
| Quote: | War On Terror: Just a year before the 9-11 attack, a key Democrat on the Hill blocked reforms that would have made it easier for the FBI to monitor terrorist suspects. He's trying to do it again.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, wants to deny law enforcement a vital tool it needs to thwart another 9-11 the ability to eavesdrop on al-Qaida suspects inside the U.S. without court delays.
By secretly authorizing such surveillance, he claims the White House has broken the law and must stop.
"This is a federal crime!" bellows the Vermont liberal, who may know a thing or two about federal crimes. He earned the nickname "Leaky Leahy" for his habit of disclosing sensitive national-security information to the press.
The anti-terror surveillance tool is similar to one he blocked before 9-11 that might have prevented the attacks. In 2000, the National Commission on Terrorism urged Congress to pass reforms to help law enforcement fight terrorists in the wake of the al-Qaida bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa.
One of the proposals made it easier for FBI agents to get authority from the Justice Department to conduct electronic surveillance on terrorist suspects in the Muslim community. Senate Republicans adopted that and other key provisions as part of a counter-terrorism bill.
But the bill was blocked mainly by Democrats who did not want the FBI "spying" on the Muslim community. Leading the charge against the bill was Leahy, who parroted the objections of then-Attorney General Janet Reno. They viewed the bill as too intrusive and discriminatory toward Middle Easterners.
Leahy fought the anti-terror bill in his role as ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, the same seat from which he grilled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales this week about the legality of the special intelligence-collection program the White House put into effect after 9-11.
Leahy is nothing if not consistent.
He says he's only protecting the Constitution, but we have to wonder how much he cares about protecting the country from Islamic terror.
And given his almost traitorous past behavior on the Senate Intelligence Committee, we have to wonder whose side he's really on. Leahy had to give up his seat on the panel after he was found leaking intelligence reports on both Iran and Libya.
In 1985, Leahy threatened in a letter to the CIA to disclose details of a top secret plan to undermine the government of Libya's Moammar Gadhafi. A few weeks later details of the plan found their way into The Washington Post.
Then he leaked a draft report on Iran-Contra to an NBC reporter. At the time he was vice chairman of the intelligence panel. In resigning his post in shame in 1987, he maintained that he didn't breach national security. He did admit, however, that he "carelessly" let the reporter "examine the unclassified draft and to be alone with it."
It's plain that Leahy is a security risk. Yet as the lead Democrat probing the NSA surveillance program, he's privy to the most secret information imaginable in the war on al-Qaida.
At the same time, he has a disturbing record of putting the concerns of the Muslim community ahead of effective measures to protect the entire country from Muslim terrorism.
Leahy does not engender trust. Yet here we are: An admitted leaker who wasn't fit to serve on the intelligence committee is standing in judgment of the legal merits of another important counter-terrorism program. |
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Ohio Voter
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That is good. Email is the easiest to trace. Only a US Senator would think it is private.
| GoophyDog wrote: | | How ironic that a "SECRET" email appears to have been leaked. |
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