CIA dissenters helped expose renditions, says inquiry chief

[kskiska]

Source: The Guardian

American intelligence officials who were deeply opposed to the secret transfer of terror suspects to interrogation centres across Europe cooperated with an investigation into the CIA's undisclosed network of jails, it was claimed yesterday.

Dick Marty, the Swiss senator who produced the Council of Europe's report on the hidden transport and detention of suspects, yesterday told a committee in the European parliament that he had received information about the secret programme from dissident officers within the upper reaches of the CIA. He said the officers were disturbed that the programme, known as renditions, led to the torture and mistreatment of detainees.

"Many leading figures in the CIA did not accept these methods at all," Mr Marty told a committee meeting yesterday. He said senior agency officials had agreed to help his investigation in return for anonymity. "People in the CIA felt these things were not consonant with the sort of intelligence work they normally do," he said.

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But the depths of anger within the CIA remained real. "There are people who decided to take early retirement," said Mr Cannistraro. "There were a couple of ... relatively senior officials whose upward career was blocked because of their lack of wholehearted endorsement of the programme."

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2128840,00.html

[sutz12]

1. Wow, you mean there are still some patriots left at CIA.. I'm amazed.

:shrug:

[melody]

2. There are a lot of heroes in the CIA

Not Bush-level ones, but the actual ones. They put their lives on the line to do the right thing.

I know I'm a weird liberal, but I think strong intelligence is an asset to peace.

[TexasLawyer]

3. Maybe that's why I got a RW e-mail yesterday--"America's enemies within the CIA"

Received an e-mail titled "America's enemies within the CIA" from Regenery Press, of Swift-Boat fame.

Bush-Hating CIA Bureaucrats Are Sabotaging the War on Terror

Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, intelligence collection has become the number-one weapon in the war on terrorism. A plot penetrated is an attack stopped. And to the outside observer, the CIA has performed well.

But as Rowan Scarborough reveals in this groundbreaking new book, Sabotage, significant elements within the CIA are undermining both the president and national security through leaks, false allegations, and outright sabotage.

Using his first-rate sources in all levels of national security—from field officers to high-ranking analysts to former intelligence heads—Scarborough paints a disturbing picture of partisan politics endangering the success of our campaigns abroad and the very lives of our soldiers and agents.

[Senator]

4. Imagine That. Being "Deeply Opposed" To Being a Party To War Crimes

Now, why couldn't some of them have run for Congress?

We'd be half way through President Danforth's cabinet replacements by now.

And be turning the Green Zone over to Arab League-sponsored peacekeeping forces.
(What? All those contractors are gonna claim their money isn't just as green as ours?)

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