Goss Launches CIA Leak Probe
Posted on February 7, 2006
Via ABC
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.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.
This is great news, I hope they get to the bottom of this treason. However, I must say that one ironic detail kept sticking out to me that I couldn’t ignore….a leak about a classified email about cracking down on leaks.
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But I thought that Plame wasn’t covert? Why probe that?
Three cheers for Goss. Let’s hope he finds the liberal traitors breaking the law to try and gain their objectives, that they couldn’t at the ballot box, by betraying their oaths of office and their country.
A whistleblower faces the people he acuses. A leaker is a coward and a criminal.
Good on Goss. Time to call in a Special Prosecutor to investigate both the Washington Post and Senator Jay Rockefeler (D-WV) for their likely role in this despicable episode.
We are at war: If found guilty, Senator Rockefeller should face the firing squad!
“I hope they get to the bottom of this treason.”
Jay, me too. Honestly, I do. And I hope they also enforce the Constitution while they’re at it. Breaking the law is breaking the law and nobody is above the law. This means everybody from the ground troop who’s been entrusted by his/her countrymen with a security clearance all the way up to the President.
I agree with alot of what you believe, including the fact that the leaker needs to have their security clearance revoked immediately, and perhaps even jailed.
At least, that much we CAN agree on with this topic, my friend.
Godspeed, and blog ON…
So, just checking here–if Hillary Clinton gets elected, you’re cool with her having secret, unilateral, unreviewable wiretapping powers, right?
Could you be a dear and specifically state that?
Some years back a pundit observed that the CIA and the State Department had more Democrats and Liberals than some voting districts. I guess it is true. The problem is that Democrats can never be accused of a crime if it is committed in the name of “justice.”
No penalty is too great for this treason.
Middle Class Guy, nice comment.
At the State Dept. someone representing a country, say Russia, is said to be the “Russian Desk”. As you would guess, often times the diplomats at a “Desk” would come to be advocates of that “Desk”. The old joke is that the State Dept. needed an “American Desk”.
The word out of CIA is that in a catch-up policy (of course during a Democrat Administration) to hire enough women, the floodgates were opened without the usual precautions. Word also is that this led to a layer of employees called the “sisterhood” which kind of rose through the ranks as a group assigned to Headquarters, not throughout the Agency. In addition, the word is that this was an unusually liberal group in contrast to the normal run of agents recruited from police, military, etc. Finally, it is also said they stuck together and thus were able to exert great influence on information flow and internal Agency policies. As a result, the CIA drifted left in its personnel staffing. So today, the entire Agency is far left of where it was a few decades ago. That’s the rumor anyway, make of it what you will.
I suppose anybody talking about such things is subject to the usual radical left sliming, so I am going to go put on my wet suit.
This document?
http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/Documents/20050715140232-17725.pdf