Posted on 12/04/2001 11:26:03 AM PST by t-shirt
Employees sue CIA for 'abuse of power'
By Rupert Cornwell
04 December 2001
A group of CIA officers has brought a class-action suit against the agency, alleging abuse of power against employees – including the cover-up of mistakes leading to the accidental US bombing of China's embassy in Belgrade in 1999, for which several lower-ranking employees were wrongly blamed.
The case, filed by 15 past and present mid-to-upper level CIA employees, claims that the spy agency has used illegal tactics to prevent them pursuing legitimate grievances against the CIA, including altering and destroying documents, and eavesdropping on privileged discussions with their lawyers.
Roy Krieger, a lawyer for the 15, said: "What the agency is trying to hide is not its intelligence sources but its own dirty laundry about internal disputes, kangaroo disciplinary procedures, discrimination and who is to blame for blunders."
Among those blunders was the mistaken bombing of the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia during the Kosovo war. One plaintiff alleges that he and other mid- and low-ranking officers were falsely blamed to cover up a mistake made by a senior officer. The former were disciplined, while the senior officer received only a verbal reprimand, followed by a secret, backdated promotion. He now works at the White House, the lawsuit alleges.
He can't shut up the truth. He and others serving in respective government positions can't handle the truth. The truth in one sense or another will always prevail over all those serving in government office who have violated their oaths of office to protect American citizens from enemies abroad and domestic enemies who subvertly work "hot" to overthrow the state and federal government by unlawful means which should be inserted in that "Patriotic Act". God does work in mysterious ways to expose to the sheeple how they are being deceived and lied to by those who claim to "protect" them. God helps to shed a little light on those who work subvertly to deceive and create chaos amongst the masses. Those who really see this deception, see the light of all this mess!!! That is what sets the sheeple free. Truth prevails over reason.
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