Top-Secret World Loses Blogger, CIA Contractor Is Fired

[Rose Siding]

Christine Axsmith, a software contractor for the CIA, considered her blog a success within the select circle of people who could actually access it.
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The day of the last post, Axsmith said, after reading a newspaper report that the CIA would join the rest of the U.S. government in according Geneva Conventions rights to prisoners, she posted her views on the subject.

It started, she said, something like this: "Waterboarding is Torture and Torture is Wrong."

And it continued, she added, with something like this: "CC had the sad occasion to read interrogation transcripts in an assignment that should not be made public. And, let's just say, European lives were not saved." (That was a jab at Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's trip to Europe late last year when she defended U.S. policy on secret detentions and interrogations.) A self-described "opinionated loudmouth with a knack for writing a catchy headline," Axsmith also wrote how it was important to "empower grunts and paper pushers" because, she explained in the interview, "I'm a big believer in educating people at the bottom, and that's how you strengthen an infrastructure."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/20/AR2006072001816.html

[Robbien]

1. What is she doing speaking out to the WaPo now for?

It will just goad the CIA into prosecuting her.

[Rose Siding]

2. Maybe her convictions are broad based-

"I'm a big believer in educating people at the bottom, and that's how you strengthen an infrastructure."

[w4rma]

3. Another good person to be replaced by someone incompetent. (nt)

[cantstandbush]

4. Her point about educating people at the bottom is correct.

That's what everyone of us here who is against war and the current massacre taking place in Lebanon should be doind: educating the people at the bottom starting with our own families.

[Gman]

5. Said a more direct way...

educating people at the bottom drives change at the top and strengthens the infrastructure.