Ex-CIA lawyer: Gitmo IDs graver than Plame leak (Holder's People Aid Terrorists Out CIA Agents?)

ACLU - John Adams Project

Lawyers

Joshua L. Dratel
Thomas Anthony Durkin
Nina Ginsberg
Nancy Hollander
Amanda Lee
Denise LeBoeuf
Edward B. MacMahon, Jr.
Scott McKay
David Nevin
Jeff Robinson
Gary D. Sowards

STATEMENTS of support -

Anthony D. Romero
Jimmy Carter
Norman Reimer
Janet Reno
Retired Rear Admiral John D. Hutson
Patricia Perry
Lt. Colonel Stuart Couch
William Webster
Robin S. Theurkauf
September 11th Advocates
September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
Samuel Walker

The American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of the United States established the John Adams Project to “support military counsel at Guantanamo Bay.”

In August 2009 claims were made that three military lawyers associated with the project had shown pictures of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers to their clients, Guantanamo captives. The captives were among the “high value detainee” program who had spent years in secret CIA interrogation centers.

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Bill O’Reilly

I am so enraged by the John Adams Project, a group of subversive Americans affiliated with the ACLU who are sneaking around taking pictures of CIA agents who may have interrogated captured al-Qaeda guys in the wake of the 9/11 attack. This insidious outfit believes the CIA tortured casually and the USA is a “human rights violator.”

After taking the surreptitious photos, the Adams Project then passes them on to lawyers representing incarcerated terrorists, hoping that an accused man will, in turn, accuse a CIA agent of torturing him. This nasty business is now being investigated by the Justice Department, but the Obama administration has kept very quiet about it and, strangely, so has the media.

By exposing CIA agents to accused terrorists and their lawyers, the John Adams Project is obviously putting lives in jeopardy. This is a thousand times worse than the Plame affair, which saw top Dick Cheney aide Scooter Libby convicted of a felony while the press largely celebrated.

But where is the coverage of the Adams story? Where is President Obama on the issue? Why are these people being allowed to terrorize the Central Intelligence Agency?

Relevant questions. We await the answers.

http://www.billoreilly.com/newslettercolumn?pid=27182

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The probe was triggered by the discovery last year of about 20 color photographs of CIA officials in the cell of Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, an alleged financier of the 9/11 attacks, say three current and former government officials who asked not to be identified talking about an ongoing case.

The photos included “paparazzi style” snapshots of covert CIA officers on the street and in other public places, says one former official, an indication that private investigators had taken them on the sly to identify agency interrogators. When told of the discovery, CIA officials immediately grew alarmed that the photos had been shared among the 9/11 defendants, including alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. (The judge in charge of the military-commission case at the time had ruled that because some defendants, including Mohammed, were representing themselves, they could meet privately with their alleged co-conspirators and share material relevant to their defense.) The photos in al-Hawsawi’s cell were not captioned with the agents’ identities. But “there was real concern” that the pictures could be used to identify covert officers, resulting in agents becoming the targets of Qaeda revenge plots, says the former official.

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Lawyer from John Adams Project vs. “Factor” Producer (YouTube)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN41meN-KU8

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