C.I.A. Worker Says Message on Torture Got Her Fired

[Judi Lynn]

C.I.A. Worker Says Message on Torture Got Her Fired
By MARK MAZZETTI
Published: July 22, 2006

WASHINGTON, July 21 — A contract employee working for the Central Intelligence Agency said she had been fired recently for posting a message on a classified computer server that said an interrogation technique used by the agency against some terror suspects amounted to torture.

The employee, Christine Axsmith, kept the “Covert Communications” blog on a top-secret computer network used by American intelligence agencies. Ms. Axsmith was fired on Monday after C.I.A. officials objected to a message that criticized the interrogation technique called “waterboarding,” a particularly harsh practice that the C.I.A. is known to have used on Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who is widely regarded as the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.

The episode has opened a window into the new world of classified blogging: an experimental effort being carried out in top-secret computer forums where information and ideas are shared across the intelligence community. Intelligence officials said that since last year, more than 1,000 blogs had been set up on classified intelligence servers.

Ms. Axsmith, a computer security expert with a law degree, posted the message this month, shortly after the Bush administration decided to grant some protections of the Geneva Conventions to suspected terrorists in American custody. She said that her message began, “Waterboarding is torture, and torture is wrong.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/22/washington/22intel.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[DYouth]

1. We can't have healthy diversity and checks and balances in

Bush's CIA. Nope, you show the slightest dissent and you are OUT.

[cali]

2. I just read that

It's a remarkable article. Everyone should read it. k&r.

[Monkeyman]

3. yep sent it out to friends

[Just Me]

4. If you have a conscience, engage in reason and tell the truth,...

,...you are an enemy to the neocon cabal and WILL BE PUNISHED!

Get it? Got it?

So, when are these "crazies" going to be convicted of conspiracies to violate their oathes, the constitution and the laws of this land?

Any volunteers?

No?

Didn't think so. Commitment to self rather than country has become norm,...EXCEPT for those attacked as "terrorist sympathizers" including every human and legal advocacy group in the U.S.A.

[Hissyspit]

5. kick

[Moderator]

6. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2403443