[TheBlueMax]

Just my two cents here from past contact with the Farm, but you are not "relieved" from your position at Langley because you are soft on terrorism. You may get the golden parachute, but not yanked from your spot. I would not be surprised if he was found to have committed some offense, either of agency rules and reg's, or talked to someone he shouldn't have about inside operations.

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[Freedom is eternally right]

The Aussie take on it, with yet another one of Joe and Val's defenders being quoted:

WASHINGTON: The CIA's senior counter-terrorism official was fired because he opposed detaining al-Qa'ida suspects in secret prisons abroad, sending them to other countries for interrogation abroad and using forms of torture such as "water boarding", intelligence sources have claimed.

Robert Grenier, head of the CIA counter-terrorism centre, was relieved of his post last week after a year in the job. One intelligence official said he was "not quite as aggressive as he might have been" in pursuing al-Qa'ida leaders and networks.

Vincent Cannistraro, a former head of counter-terrorism at the agency, said: "It is not that Grenier wasn't aggressive enough -- it's that he wasn't with the program. He expressed misgivings about the secret prisons in Europe and the rendition of terrorists."

Mr Grenier also opposed "excessive" interrogation, such as strapping suspects to boards and submerging them in water, Mr Cannistraro said.

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[GOPJ]

...you are not "relieved" from your position at Langley because you are soft on terrorism. You may get the golden parachute, but not yanked from your spot. I would not be surprised if he was found to have committed some offense, either of agency rules and reg's, or talked to someone he shouldn't have about inside operations.

You're right. But what was the reason to give this to the Post? Damning with the faintest of praise...