The Internet outs CIA operatives

POSTED BY: Geezer
UPDATED: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 23:35
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GEEZER

Monday, March 13, 2006 1:27 AM

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The Chicago Tribune says it has compiled a list of 2,653 CIA employees, just by searching the internet.
The newspaper said it gathered the information from online services that compile public data, that any fee-paying subscriber can access.

It did not publish the names, at the CIA's request. Many of the agents are believed to be covert. The paper also located two dozen "secret" facilities.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4799174.stm

So if "Scooter" Libby and possibly Dick Cheney should be prosecuted for outing Valerie Plame, should the Internet be shut down for outing an additional 2.5K spooks? Now that Dubai Ports World has pulled the plug on his last crusade, will Chuck Schumer jump on this as his next soundbite spectacular?

"Keep the Shiny side up"

CARTOON

Monday, March 13, 2006 2:33 AM

Welcome to the information age.

This is very scary. (At least I'm scared.)

CHRISISALL

Monday, March 13, 2006 2:36 AM

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Originally posted by Geezer:

should the Internet be shut down for outing an additional 2.5K spooks?

I resent that...I mean, isn't 'spooks' a loaded term?

Chrisisall, the friendly ghost

RUE

Monday, March 13, 2006 2:43 AM

Hey, they didn't give up on total information awareness. It only seems fair to run it both ways.

Nearly everything I know I learned by the grace of others.

CHRISISALL

Monday, March 13, 2006 2:55 AM

Um..where exactly do chickens come to roost?

Earth is too interesting these days...Chrisisall

CHRISISALL

Monday, March 13, 2006 2:57 AM

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Originally posted by cartoon:
Welcome to the information age.

This is very scary. (At least I'm scared.)

I agree, Cartoon.
If the 'net gets closed, it was nice talking with ya...

Chrisisall

DREAMTROVE

Monday, March 13, 2006 12:35 PM

I think that this is actually different. Cheney and Libby were actually committing a deliberate act of treason. I strongly suspect that the motive for outing her was not a 'petty payback' for her husband's disloyalty to the president's agenda, (ie his telling of the truth) but that in fact Valerie Plame was the target all along. Plame was not just the wife of the former ambassador to Iraq, but also the head of a WMD research program which had two dozen contacts in the muslim underworld. This operation was churning out classified information which quite likely was at odds with what the vice president wanted to hear, or more importantly, wanted other people with the proper level of clearance to hear.

Because of Plame's outing, not only was one secret agenda killed, but many of Plame's contacts as well, by Al Qaeda forces who quickly seized on the identification with pictures and details which was dutifully broadcast ad nauseum by our media thanks to another traitor, Bob Novak. As a result of all of this, Al Qaeda was freed of many of its own leaks, and could pursue WMD trades more or less unhindered.

Which they did with the blind eye of Dubai Ports.

I think all of this is serious stuff, and it's pretty clear whether or not one believes "Bush is Clinton" that at the very least Bush and Clinton both operated in interests other than those of America, whether they were those of Communist China, Israeli Theocracy, Saudi Bombs and Oil Inc. or the new EUSSR. I don't think this is a partisan issue.

HERO

Monday, March 13, 2006 3:08 PM

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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Because of Plame's outing, not only was one secret agenda killed, but many of Plame's contacts as well, by Al Qaeda forces who quickly seized on the identification with pictures and details which was dutifully broadcast ad nauseum by our media thanks to another traitor, Bob Novak. As a result of all of this, Al Qaeda was freed of many of its own leaks, and could pursue WMD trades more or less unhindered.

Ah yes, the Plame Gambit. An evil plot to betray the United States by outing our own female Jane Bond despite the fact the she was retired from covert work (unless she was under conver working a desk at the CIA), her only real contacts were a hair salon in Prague and a Chinease take-out place near Langley, and everybody already knew who she was.

What's next Dr. Evil?

H

CARTOON

Monday, March 13, 2006 4:14 PM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
I agree, Cartoon.

(Cartoon immediately suspects the motives of this chrisisall person -- because no one agrees with Cartoon.)

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
If the 'net gets closed, it was nice talking with ya...

Net gets closed?!?!? Whoah!! I was referring to the fact that people can apparently access personal information regarding the identity of our agents freely over the internet.

(Cartoon is further confused that this chrisisall person claims that it was "nice" talking with Cartoon -- as everyone knows that talking with Cartoon can never be construed as something which is "nice". Cartoon therefore immediately launches an investigation into the background of this chrisisall person -- via the information which is apparently freely accessible over the internet -- to determine the mental state of the afforementioned chrisisall person.

CHRISISALL

Monday, March 13, 2006 4:49 PM

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Originally posted by cartoon:

Net gets closed?!?!? Whoah!! I was referring to the fact that people can apparently access personal information regarding the identity of our agents freely over the internet.

Well, it's scary for lots of reasons.

And chill, my friend. However we may duke it out on the RWED, we're both still Browncoats, right?

Looney Chrisisall

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