To: A Balrog of Morgoth
SHe may have been singing for awhile. Who recalls this? ABC - EXCLUSIVE: Is CIA Leak Probe a 'Witch Hunt'? The director of the CIA has launched a major internal probe into media leaks about covert operations. In an agencywide e-mail, Porter Goss blamed "a very small number of people" for leaks about secret CIA operations that, in his words, "do damage to the credibility of the agency." According to people familiar with the Goss e-mail, sent in late January and classified secret, the CIA director warned that any CIA officer deemed suspect by the agency's Office of Security and its Counter Intelligence Center (which handles internal affairs) could be subjected to an unscheduled lie detector test. CIA personnel are subjected to polygraphs at regular intervals in their careers, but one former intelligence officer called the new warning a "witch hunt." Others said Goss' e-mail was narrowly focused and did not suggest agencywide, random lie detector tests.
953 posted on
04/21/2006 6:30:56 PM PDT by
ordi
To: ordi
Here is more from the ABC Article: The memo informs its recipients that the CIA has asked the Justice Department to prosecute any leakers within its ranks. This comes in connection with recent news reports that detailed the CIA's operation of secret prisons in Europe and its far-flung flights of suspected terrorists to foreign prisons. Crime reports from the CIA are sent to the FBI and the Department of Justice, and constitute a statement that the CIA believes a crime has been committed.
959 posted on
04/21/2006 6:34:07 PM PDT by
ordi
To: ordi
The email was in Jan? What events precipitated Goss being so mad? What leaks were there?
I need to read up on ALL of Priest's articles.
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