They got the gold in the war crimes category....
"Ex-CIA officer accused of leaking interrogator’s name" January 24, 2012
ALEXANDRIA,
Va. - In the latest criminal case in the Obama administration’s effort
to punish leakers, a former CIA officer who helped track down and
capture a top terror suspect was charged yesterday with disclosing
classified secrets about his fellow officers to the media.
The man who came to office touting change and transparency?
John
Kiriakou, 47, of Arlington is charged with violating the Intelligence
Identities Protection Act and the Espionage Act. A judge at a federal
court hearing ordered Kiriakou to be released on a $250,000 unsecured
bond.
According to authorities, Kiriakou told a New York Times
reporter classified information about a fellow officer who participated
in interrogating suspected Al Qaeda financier Abu Zubaydah in 2002,
eight months after the terrorist attacks of Sept 11, 2001. Zubaydah was
waterboarded 83 times and his case has been made an example by those who
believe the interrogation technique should be outlawed.
Okay, first of all it that number is nearly unbelievable and horrifying (forget for a moment that all the torture is based on lies, and those ordering the torture are the ones who did and are doing the acts they are torturing innocents over).
I don't know if you know this, readers, but there are certain chemical and physiological reactions that take place when water enters the nasal and sinus cavity. Much like a hammer on your knee causing an involuntary reaction, the water in your breathing equipment generates the same.
In other words, you START FLIPPING OUT in PANIC in about SIX SECONDS!
Now, who knows how long these agents kept the towel and him and dumped water on it as the asset (if he even exists) was at a 45-degree angle. Just imagine it being done 83 times (shudder). I'd confess to building the pyramids by myself for God's sake.
Lastly, if you don't believe me go stand on your head and have someone dump some water down your nose.
I dunno, readers, do you think that's torture?
I wonder if Zubaydah was on one of the tapes the VCR ate.
According
to an affidavit, FBI agents interviewed Kiriakou last week, and he
denied leaking the names of covert CIA officers. When asked whether he
had provided the Zubaydah interrogator’s name to the Times for a 2008
article, he replied “Heavens no.’’ A New York Times spokeswoman declined
to comment.
Related: Obama Defends Dick Cheney
Gee, they BOTH LEAKED CIA NAMES, so WTF??!!
Obama PROSECUTES a HERO and DEFENDS a WAR CRIMINAL?!
Of course, being one with drone missiles and all it makes sense.
Kiriakou’s lawyer, Plato Cacheris, said after his
hearing that a potential defense argument could be that the charges
criminalize conduct that has been common between reporters and
government sources for decades. If convicted, Kiriakou could face
decades in prison and a fine of up to $1 million.
Okay, let's get something straight. It just means they will crackdown on anyone who steps out of the narrow lock-step of service to money and the further agenda of the government and its controllers. If you expose misdeeds or report truths, you need worry.
If you push the handout and reiterate the propaganda again and again and again, you are fine. Probably do well and rise to the top of the "journalism" profession. If not, you will be stuck here like me (thanks for reading, btw).
Prosecutors
started their investigation after defense attorneys for suspected
terrorists filed a classified legal brief in 2009 that included details
that had never been provided by the government.
We call 'em cover-ups.
Authorities concluded
that Kiriakou had leaked the information to reporters, and that
reporters had provided the information to the defense. Yeah, how dare they let justice enter the equation.
--more--"
The torture reminds me of that old anti-drug commercial. Where did they come up with this stuff? The Soviets?
Related: Ex-CIA officer charged with leaking secret info
Btw, anything Zubaydah said has to be tossed out due to unreliability due to stress of conditions.
So how did the CIA do in the canoe race?
"Film on CIA spymaster by son divides family" November 27, 2011|By Ian Shapira, Washington Post
WASHINGTON
- Sally Shelton-Colby needed to watch the documentary with friends, for
emotional support. Seated in a Washington movie theater in October, she
flipped open a notepad and, as the movie played, jotted down her
thoughts. She filled out several pages.
The film concerned a dead
man she’s still in love with. And the movie was made by someone she
rarely speaks to. The film: “The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My
Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby.’’ Its director and narrator: his
second-oldest son, Carl Colby.
Another gold.
Shelton-Colby,
a former US ambassador, was disturbed by her stepson’s take on her dead
husband, and so is the rest of the Washington-based Colby clan. They
are especially upset with the film’s suggestion that the former CIA
director spent his retirement in deep regret and killed himself on a
canoeing trip in the mid-1990s....
That's the cover story.
It’s been 15 years since William Colby vanished on a solo canoe trip
near his vacation home in Southern Maryland, only to be found dead days
later, floating on the banks of the Wicomico River.
The CIA’s 10th director was best known for revealing “family
secrets’’ - a compilation of the agency’s assassination attempts, drug
testing on unwitting humans, and eavesdropping on war protesters.
How little things have changed; in fact, they have gotten worse.
The
disclosures in 1975, historians believe, saved the CIA from destruction
when members of Congress were eager for its death, but they made Colby a
pariah to CIA officers who believed such transparency imperiled the
agency’s mission and national security.
Another man, a young president, tried that and had his head taken off for it.
Naturally, the CIA director’s death on a canoe ride triggered murder conspiracy theories. But...
My covert operation cover-up machine won't go there.
In the film, Carl Colby wonders whether his friends were right when they
called his father a “murderer’’ for running the notorious Phoenix
Program - a CIA operation in the Vietnam War that sought to ferret out
Viet Cong agents in South Vietnam. Thousands of targets were killed,
leading the media and much of America to call Phoenix an assassination
program....
Isn't that what it was?
Related: Slow Saturday Special: Cheney's CIA Assassination Teams
How little things....
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Wait a minute, he went canoeing at night and was no friend of Israel?
And even worse:
Michael Collins Piper in his book "Final Judgement" wrote (William Colby - The Education Forum) :
The
August 20, 1996 issue of The Sun, a supermarket tabloid, carried an
exciting 'newsflash' which announced, "Dead CIA Chief Was Set To Finally
Blow Lid on JFK Assassination".
The
tabloid announced that former CIA director William Colby had been
planning to blow the whistle on the truth about the assassination...
....The
fact is, that while serving as CIA director, William Colby was
considered hostile to Israel's interests, so much so that it was Colby
who fired the Mossad's longtime agent-in-place at the CIA, James Jesus
Angleton, who has been documented in 'Final Judgement' as the key CIA
player in the JFK assassination conspiracy...
--tip-o-cap--"
Yes, the likelihood is they were at the bottom of the event, making the press coverage understandable -- limited hangouts notwithstanding. The endless mocking has left me no longer reading the pos paper.
Colby also knew about the Franklin coverup scandal?
Related: Sunday Globe Special: Punting Penn State Story
Speedy Sandusky Trial and Conviction Used to Cover Up Large Scale Pedophile
Ring?
And the verdict is even delivered on a Slow Saturday.
Next Day Update: Son’s abuse account kept Jerry Sandusky off the stand
Also see: Sox Sandusky
Sick, and the CIA has left us all soaked.
