* the purging
The CIA announced today that it has fired an employee for leaking classified information to the news media.The termination of the unidentified officer was announced to CIA employees yesterday after an internal investigation of the leaks. The terminated officer failed a polygraph examination, according to an agency official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
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The CIA declined to identify the employee by name, assignment, gender or any other characteristic, citing the Privacy Act.
The information included highly classified material regarding a network of secret CIA prisons in foreign nations in which terrorist suspects were held, said the official who did not want to be identified. The prison system was revealed by The Washington Post last year. The Post's Dana Priest won the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting this week for her stories about the secret prisons and other national security matters." (link)
JimAngle on BritHume could barely disguise his glee and couldn't wait to blurt out the details - including her name.
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From the article:
Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), who chairs the Senate intelligence panel, welcomed the CIA's actions. In a statement, he said leaks had "hindered our efforts in the war against al Qaeda," although he did not say how.
"I am pleased that the Central Intelligence Agency has identified the source of certain unauthorized disclosures, and I hope that the agency, and the [intelligence] community as a whole, will continue to vigorously investigate other outstanding leak cases," Roberts said.
We have awful people running our government.
hmm - i'm not sure they are even 'running' the govt.
they are in charge, but i'm not sure there's any governing going on...
That open source CIA article is hilarious. They're basically admitting: the bloggers know more about the state of the world than we do.
Especially priceless was the information on avian flu outbreaks. Having closely followed the discussions at fluwiki, recombinomics, and other sites, we were pretty sure that our gov't knew more about these unsubstantiated claims than we do.
It appears we were wrong.
I wonder when they'll offer EW a job soon. She seems to synthesize more info about what's really going on in the world than most CIA analysts out there, if this article is true.
anyone that doesnt offer EW a job TODAY is stupid
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