Newsweek: Tip Off -Goss unwittingly revealed "Rendition" program

[Rose Siding]

An unsolicited remark from Porter Goss, then chairman House Intelligence Committee, led a British journalist to unravel many of the details of the CIA’s controversial “extraordinary rendition” program, according to a new book. The disclosure of this highly sensitive operation later prompted a major leak investigation that roiled the agency.

....Grey reports that his initial tip-off to what the CIA was doing came during a Dec. 14, 2001, interview he had with Florida Congressman Goss on Capitol Hill about the war on terror. At the time, Grey, a veteran reporter who wrote for The Sunday Times of London, asked the House Intelligence Committee chairman about the prospect that Osama bin Laden might be captured and turned over to the U.S. government.

“It’s called a rendition,” Goss replied. “Do you know that?”

“No,” Grey replied, according to a transcript of the interview that Grey made available to NEWSWEEK and portions of which are cited in “Ghost Plane.”

“Well, there is a polite way to take people out of action and bring them to some type of justice,” Goss then says. “It’s generally referred to as a rendition. It's what I would have preferred to do with Milosevic instead of bombing the hell out of a sovereign nation we're not at war with. It probably would have been smarter to think of a rendition."

....The disclosure that Goss may have played any role at all in the disclosure of the CIA’s secret programs may well be pounced on by critics, given his fierce condemnation of any leaks at all when he was CIA director.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15236104/site/newsweek/page/2/

[wakeme2008]

1. LOL and I BET that was classified at the time....

Just love these Repugs with big mouthes.

[Xipe Totec]

2. In his own words:

"All told, more than 3,000 suspected terrorists have been arrested in many countries. Many others have met a different fate. Let's put it this way -- they are no longer a problem to the United States and our friends and allies"

Presidential State of the Union Address
Jan 28, 2003

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html


When I heard this one statement by the president, I knew that renditions were taking place already. This was the original leak as far as I'm concerned.