Former CIA officers appeal to current analysts to make public any anti-war information

AP | 3/14/03 | JOHN J. LUMPKIN

[Dog]

What next!

[JennysCool]

A small group composed mostly of retired CIA officers

From a recent Administration, no doubt.

[funkywbr]

The LONGER President Bush BLIX's, the more AMMO he gives to our enemies like those above.

[kattracks]

No doubt.

Bubba not getting enough info?

[JmyBryan]

Does anyone understand that we are and have been in a cease-fire with this country. If there were no 9/11 we would still be perfectly, even overly legitimate in ousting the Iraqi regime. Including 9/11 ends any argument.

What did these guys learn in the CIA? Was it that Iraq was really just a pawn of US imperialism?

[Cicero]

So, this guy is the Daniel Ellsberg of the CIA?

[coramdeo]

It is, of course, easy to ask other people to break their oaths and go to prison. No one with any integrity inside the Agency is going to release anything, so if there are "leaks" in response to this they will not have any credibility.

As an aside, I have a close friend that I know worked for the CIA for 4 years "in the field", and he has never even admitted that is who he was working for, let alone talked about anything he was doing.

[IncPen]

Members of the group contend the Bush administration has released information on Iraq that meets only its ends -- while ignoring or withholding contrary reporting.

That's sorta the point.

Methinks these clowns are retired for a reason...

[Peach]

Agreed; these people speaking out are probably secretaries!

[Wait4Truth]

Some guy that retired a decade ago wants to challenge the Bush Administration? Give me a break! They should shut up, just as clinton and carter should.

[wideawake]

"It takes a courageous person to get by all that, and say, 'I've got a higher duty'."

Oh - who would that courageous person be, Ray?

I guess you are, huh?

Well if I may say so myself, it takes an incredibly handsome man to identify you as the self-aggrandizing twit you are, Rayster.

[paguch]

This is important. I think all of these same people spoke out when Clinton sent 400+ cruse missles. They also spoke loudly about Carter and North Korea and Panama Canal.
Does anyone have their names so we can give them credit for their former and current opinions?

[demlosers]

"He left the agency over a decade ago," said spokesman Mark Mansfield. "He's hardly in a position to comment knowledgeably on that subject."

I'll bet this guy is less informed than FReepers.

[Dog]

Some guy that retired a decade ago wants to challenge the Bush Administration?

France is....Russia is..

Guinea dissed us...

There is no bite.... behind the bark.

[mingwah]

Help me understand this...Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, Tommy Franks, et el...everyone is falsifying infomation or being duped into putting their credibility and integrity on the line to what, make Bush look good or promote a conspiracy???

[jriemer]

Kat,

Because I am a misguided optimist, I think this is a "good idea".

Any current CIA personel who takes this "small group composed mostly of retired CIA officers" up on their offer can be promptly arrested for disclosing information vital to our national security. The now ex-CIA personel would be prosecuted for crimes proportional to the secrecy level of the information disclosed to these unauthorized civilians.

The "retired CIA officers" will be identifying who they are as accomplices while removing duplicitous dead wood from the CIA. It is a win-win for the American people.

[dighton]

Methinks these clowns are retired for a reason...

These clowns just proved they never should have been hired.

[UncleSamUSA]

Anyone doing this and putting the lives of American soldiers or airmen in jeopardy should be immediately arrested and jailed for treason. And kept in solitary confinement at a US Military Base for the duration of the Iraq war.