Posted on 10/13/2006 3:36:14 PM PDT by voletti
A lie detector test helps trip up a CIA employee who was a source for press reports about the agency's secret overseas prisons.
Just days after a Washington Post reporter won a Pulitzer prize for a story about secret CIA prisons, the Agency's Director, Porter Goss, Thursday fired a spook who admitted having been one of the sources for the story.
A Government official told TIME that the fired officer admitted to conversations with the press after irregularities were spotted in a lie detector test. Soon after, Goss moved quickly to fire the individual.
Goss spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise Dyck would not discuss details but said the unauthorized disclosure was discovered in the course of "thorough internal investigations" that examined which CIA officers might have had access to classified information that had appeared in the news media. "Through the course of these investigations, a CIA officer acknowledged having unauthorized discussions with reporters in which the officer knowingly shared sensitive intelligence," Millerwise Dyck said. "Every person who works at the CIA signs a secrecy agreement specifically stating they're prohibited from discussing classified information with any individual who is not properly cleared to receive that material. This individual violated that agreement."
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Can I axe you a question?
The CIA and FBI cannot be reformed Negrponte(sp?) and AG Gonzoles needs to strip BOTH orgs out and start over.
May this crook be the first of many....how about a prosecution and some prison time??? Maybe a secret prison in East Europe??? Ok, I take that part back.
bump
Is axed with full retirement benefits? Like every other government job.
Never happen. Fired by the CIA makes you perfect to become a security analyst on CNN.
Just put a strong Fence around it(CIA/FBI) and make into a federal Prison.
Hope they leak the leakers name...
I think that fence needs to encompass the entire DC metro area. Just do me a favor and warn me first so I can get out of this snake pit.
Porter Goss? I thought he was relieved some months ago.
Okay to add the traitor infested State Dept to your list?
exactly
I guess the logical side of my brain asks why he isnt hung on pay per view.
Can we waterboard the *itch?
Whoops, pay attention, Doug. The spokesperson was a woman, not necessarily the fired employee.
inquiring minds would like to know
I think it was a woman. Mary something IIRC.
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