Inquiry Into CIA Practices Narrows Ex-Agency Directors Urge Administration To Drop Investigation

[kpete]

Source: Washington Independent

Inquiry Into CIA Practices Narrows
Ex-Agency Directors Urge Administration To Drop Investigation

By Carrie Johnson, Jerry Markon and Julie Tate
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, September 19, 2009

The Justice Department's review of detainee abuse by the CIA will focus on a very small number of cases, including at least one in which an Afghan prisoner died at a secret facility, according to two sources briefed on the matter.

On Friday, seven former CIA directors urged President Obama to end the inquiry, arguing that it would inhibit intelligence operations in the future and demoralize agency employees who believed they had been cleared by previous investigators.

"Attorney General Holder's decision to re-open the criminal investigation creates an atmosphere of continuous jeopardy for those whose cases the Department of Justice had previously declined to prosecute," the directors, who served under Republican and Democratic presidents over the past 35 years, wrote in a letter.

Opposition to the probe has grown in the weeks since Holder ordered it, even as the outlines of the inquiry become more clear. Among the cases under review will be the death seven years ago of a young Afghan man, who was beaten and chained to a concrete floor without blankets, according to the sources. The man died in the cold night at a secret CIA facility north of Kabul, known as the Salt Pit.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/18/AR2009091802510.html?hpid=topnews

[librechik]

1. arrest those 7 traitors

they only want to protect war crimes--I'm not signing on to that!

[Piewhacket]

7. these are the PICs (perpetrators in chief). arrest? puck that, lets see some hangins.

(I'm opposed to the death penalty, or torture, so we
can only hang them a little bit, you know, up to the
point one of their major organs is about to fail, but
no further. we are civilized beings, after all.)

[rpannier]

2. Disagree with the former directors

Their argument rests on the notion that investigating inhumane and illegal activities by these agents would inhibit their ability to do their job.

If they were engaged in practices that are illegal and did result in the deaths of other people then they should be held accountable.

To argue otherwise is to give them 'rogue-behavior' status.

[bertman]

3. Seven former directors of the SS urged President Obama to end the inquiry, arguing

it would jeopardize their carefully-crafted illusion that they are beholden to anyone or any group in government.

The puppet masters do not like for their secrets and evil ways to become public knowledge. It's bad for morale.

[asjr]

4. The CIA should learn better ways to CYA. No one

person or committee should get away with torture.

[earcandle]

5. Intelligence that is intelligent is transparent. Duplicity cannot be transparent because it needs

ferreting out and prosecuted.

Duplicity will not be rewarded, nor ignored.  Make your
superiors responsible so that you are not in trouble.
Be a whistle blower, get protection, and let those really
responsibible take the heat. 

i say. 

[pattmarty]

6. Well, all I can say is "fuck 'em all". Waterboard all of these "old" fucks.

Including that phony shitbag Panetta.

[Festivito]

8. Oh dear! Imagine the amoral being FURTHER demoralized!

Shudder!

Why don't we just drop this idea of an America altogether. Government of the people, by the people for the people, with and establishment of justice -- just drop it.

On second thought, let's keep America as land of the free and home of the brave and hang these guys.

[troubledamerican]

9. Flashback Parallels: Dec 2001. Bush Halts Inquiry Into Boston FBI, Stirs Up Firestorm

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1214-01.htm

[AntiFascist]

10. I'm sure they have their reasons for ending the inquiry...

this might potentially lead to uncovering the nexus of corruption surrounding Iran-Contra, which never really went away. Certain aspects have been coming to the surface: Sibel Edmond's testimony, the real story behind the Lockerbie bombing, drip, drip, drip...

[Overseas]

11. They say the investigation "creates an atmosphere of continuous jeopardy" for them?

Well their war crimes have certainly created an atmosphere of continuous jeopardy for all of us citizens of the USA.

Now they know how we feel.