CIA Contractor Is Fired For Her Views On Torture And Geneva Conventions

[kpete]

Top-Secret World Loses Blogger
CIA Contractor Is Fired When Internal Post Crosses the Line

By Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 21, 2006; Page A15

Christine Axsmith, a software contractor for the CIA, considered her blog a success within the select circle of people who could actually access it.

Only people with top-secret security clearances could read her musings, which were posted on Intelink, the intelligence community's classified intranet. Writing as Covert Communications, CC for short, she opined in her online journal on such national security conundrums as stagflation, the war of ideas in the Middle East and -- in her most popular post -- bad food in the CIA cafeteria.

But the hundreds of blog readers who responded to her irreverent entries with titles such as "Morale Equals Food" won't be joining her ever again.

On July 13, after she posted her views on torture and the Geneva Conventions, her blog was taken down and her security badge was revoked. On Monday, Axsmith was terminated by her employer, BAE Systems, which was helping the CIA test software.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/20/AR2006072001816.html

[Hubert Flottz]

1. You don't cross the Secret Police.

Comrade!

[movonne]

2. If I'm understanding this, if your in the CIA, you must believe in torture

[Jara sang]

3. Alleged Ex-CIA Girl Blog

http://econo-girl.blogspot.com/

[SoCalDem]

4. Waaaay bhack when, Ari Fleisher TOLD us all to

"Watch what you say".. he was not joking.