"CIA chief sacked for opposing torture"

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The Sunday Times February 12, 2006

CIA chief sacked for opposing torture
Sarah Baxter and Michael Smith, Washington

The CIA’s top counter-terrorism official was fired last week because he opposed detaining Al-Qaeda suspects in secret prisons abroad, sending them to other countries for interrogation and using forms of torture such as “water boarding”, intelligence sources have claimed.

Robert Grenier, head of the CIA counter-terrorism centre, was relieved of his post after a year in the job. One intelligence official said he was “not quite as aggressive as he might have been” in pursuing Al-Qaeda leaders and networks.

Vincent Cannistraro, a former head of counter-terrorism at the agency, said: “It is not that Grenier wasn’t aggressive enough, it is that he wasn’t ‘with the programme’. He expressed misgivings about the secret prisons in Europe and the rendition of terrorists.”

Grenier also opposed “excessive” interrogation, such as strapping suspects to boards and dunking them in water, according to Cannistraro...

Goss is believed to have blamed Grenier for allowing leaks to occur on his watch.

Since the appointment of Goss, the CIA has lost almost all its high-level directors amid considerable turmoil...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2036182,00.html

[marmar]

1. Surprise, surprise...Porter Goss is a rubberstamp for BushCo's tyranny...

:scared: The nightmare continues... :scared:

[bloom]

3. The only good thing

is that at least some people don't go along with the "programme". Good on them. :thumbsup:


We need more people not going along.

[Jane Austin]

2. I will never, ever, ever, ever understand why Bob Graham

endorsed Porter Goss for that position.

SO disappointing.

[yurbud]

4. Bob Graham did? You got a link for that? Given that he was one of the

very few to ask the right questions before the Iraq War--namely, if Saddam had nukes, why would he use them against us, knowing it would result in his immediate destruction?

[Jane Austin]

5. That's why I was so surprised.

I don't have a link, just a memory. Graham was being interviewed on TV when Goss was nominated, and Graham said he'd worked with him on the intelligence committees and that he was a good man, or words to that effect.

I couldn't believe it.

[OneBlueSky]

6. recommended . . . the dossier on these clowns is approaching . . .

the size of the Oxford English Dictionary . . .

in a sane society, it would be way past time for the people to say "Enough!" -- and throw the bastards out . . .