The secret rendition prisons in europe leak

[libodem]

has gotten some CIA agent fired. Why does it seem to me the secret torture prisons should have gotten this whole administration fired and not the leaker. I feel like I'm about to go crazy. Aaaagggghhhhh

[lala_rawraw]

1. fyi

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/the-executives-henchmen-_b_19591.html

[brainshrub]

2. Good article. (eom)

[libodem]

3. thank you, LaLa

you'er the best.

[grasswire]

5. did you see Andrea Mitchell on Countdown Friday?

She said the firing of a CIA agent to send a signal to others who might be whistleblowers was a CRISIS. She was quite upset at the chilling effect on the people's right to know.

Keith Olbermann made it his lead story and cast it in the same grave and historic light. Apparently some in the journalistic community see it for what it is.

[lala_rawraw]

8. yup... fucking yup!!!!

does this need its own post?

[grasswire]

9. I'll make a post with the transcript when it's available (eom)

[grasswire]

10. what Porter Goss said...

..about the Whistleblower Act:

As a member of Congress in 1998, I sponsored the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act to ensure that current or former employees could petition Congress, after raising concerns within their respective agency, consistent with the need to protect classified information.

Exercising one's rights under this act is an appropriate and responsible way to bring questionable practices to the attention of those in Congress charged with oversight of intelligence agencies. And it works. Government employees have used statutory procedures — including internal channels at their agencies — on countless occasions to correct abuses without risk of retribution and while protecting information critical to our national defense.

On the other hand, those who choose to bypass the law and go straight to the press are not noble, honorable or patriotic. Nor are they whistleblowers. Instead they are committing a criminal act that potentially places American lives at risk. It is unconscionable to compromise national security information and then seek protection as a whistleblower to forestall punishment.

Found that over on Larry Johnson's blog.

[Arkansas Granny]

12. When Goss said this in 1998, we had a Congress that did

provide oversight. Since Bush took office, Congress has failed to perform this function that is so badly needed which more or less forces people to go off the reservation, so to speak, to get this kind of information to the people. This is one of the reasons it is so important to take back the House and Senate. They are elected to represent us, the people, not to rubber stamp what the President wants. This has been sorely lacking in recent years.

[libodem]

13. This whole government has turned too spooky for me

the tattletale gets the punishment.

[lala_rawraw]

14. i think we are watching the rise

of psychos and the fall of Rome.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. I guess we haven't been able to make the distinction between

a good leak and a bad leak. Maybe it depends on which direction you're looking at it. More info here:

http://enews.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20060421/444858c0_3ca6_1552620060421616607736

[libodem]

6. thank you, too, Granny

this stuff makes my head explode. No free speech/press zone. Ah, who needs a Constitution. Who cares if we have any right to information to make informed decisions. We'll be told what we need to know.

[Southsideirish]

7. Cuz its an "ass backward" time we live in. For example, I found porn

on a library computer and, when I brought it to the attention of the admin, they said I should have addressed the issue at the time.

Well, the perp was long gone by the time I found it so what could I have "done?" I got in trouble and no discussion at all of who did the foul deed, how to prevent it in the future, etc. I was the messenger with the bad news.

(I had to tell them about it as the perp displayed it in such a way I couldn't get rid of the screen - he/she wanted everyone who went by to have to look at it. And this at a school!)

[DemReadingDU]

11. K&R

[Supersedeas]

15. and the M$M Advertising News affiliates are running away from Admin

liability...it's all about the wrongs of one agent.