After ABC Report of Secret CIA Prison, Head Spy Resigns

[sabra]

Source: ABC News

Chief of Lithuanian Intelligence Steps Down Over "Black Site" Investigation

The head of Lithuanian intelligence resigned Monday in the wake of ABC News' exclusive report that the CIA operated a secret prison for al-Qaeda detainees in 2004 and 2005.

Povilas Malakauskas, head of Lithuania's State Security department, left without prior public notice after two years in the position. Lithuanian media quoted Arydas Anusauskas, head of a parliamentary committee investigating the prison, as saying that the intelligence chief stepped down "in part" because of the government's effort to investigate the details surrounding the CIA facility.

Anusauskas told LNK TV that much of the government's investigation could have been avoided if the intel chief had told the truth about his department's involvement in the CIA program. Anusauskas told ABC News that the resignation was first discussed in September, when Malakauskas refused to provide information to investigators.

On Nov. 18, ABC News revealed the location of the secret prison, where harsh interrogation techniques were allegedly used on accused al-Qaeda terrorists, in a converted horseback riding facility 20 kilometers northeast of the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius. Where affluent Lithuanians once rode show horses and sipped coffee at an attached café, the CIA installed a hidden concrete structure where it could hold up to eight "high value detainees" at a time, a current Lithuanian government official and a former CIA official told ABC News.

For many of the residents of this former Soviet state, it is reminiscent of the KGB's secret prisons. "As a Lithuanian," a local woman told ABC News, "I am not very proud of this."



Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/abc-report-secret-cia-prison-leads-head-spy/story?id=9335203

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[LeFleur1]

2. Send This to Liz Cheney

She's out of the loop.

[Solly Mack]

3. She's a piece of shit liar

Because I have no doubts that she and her Dad watched the torture tapes together

[gratuitous]

4. Honor, duty, integrity

Seems we have off-shored more than just jobs. Malakauskas has been on the job only two years, and resigned for activities in his agency from four and five years ago. We have people still in their positions, still drawing pay, still not indicted or imprisoned, who authorized these crimes against humanity. Where is American honor anymore?

[RamboLiberal]

5. After ABC News Report of Secret CIA Prison, Head Spy Resigns

Source: ABC News

The head of Lithuanian intelligence resigned Monday in the wake of ABC News' exclusive report that the CIA operated a secret prison for al-Qaeda detainees in 2004 and 2005.

Povilas Malakauskas, head of Lithuania's State Security department, left without prior public notice after two years in the position. Lithuanian media quoted Arydas Anusauskas, head of a parliamentary committee investigating the prison, as saying that the intelligence chief stepped down "in part" because of the government's effort to investigate the details surrounding the CIA facility.

Anusauskas told LNK TV that much of the government's investigation could have been avoided if the intel chief had told the truth about his department's involvement in the CIA program. Anusauskas told ABC News that the resignation was first discussed in September, when Malakauskas refused to provide information to investigators.

On Nov. 18, ABC News revealed the location of the secret prison, where harsh interrogation techniques were allegedly used on accused al-Qaeda terrorists, in a converted horseback riding facility 20 kilometers northeast of the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius. Where affluent Lithuanians once rode show horses and sipped coffee at an attached café, the CIA installed a hidden concrete structure where it could hold up to eight "high value detainees" at a time, a current Lithuanian government official and a former CIA official told ABC News.

For many of the residents of this former Soviet state, it is reminiscent of the KGB's secret prisons. "As a Lithuanian," a local woman told ABC News, "I am not very proud of this."


Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/abc-report-secret-cia-prison-leads-head-spy/story?id=9335203

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As a U.S. citizen, I'm not very proud of this either. Unfortunately I doubt if anyone on D.C. shares that shame sufficiently to criminally prosecute those responsible!

[Goldstein1984]

6. As an American...

I'm not very proud of this.

I'm waiting for the mass graves to start turning up.

[onesmallrock]

7. if only Americans caught out being corrupt

would resign

[Goldstein1984]

8. Corruption has been institutionalized

we call it campaign finance.

I have hope that over time the excesses of the Bush/Cheney Era will be exposed that they will take their rightful place in history.

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