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Ex-CIA officer charged with leaking classified info to NYT reporter
2011-01-07
Sterling, who is black, said he was denied certain undercover assignments at the agency because, officials allegedly told him, he was "too big and black" to function effectively as a covert intelligence officer overseas.

Sterling worked at the CIA from 1993 to 2002, much of that time as a member of an Iran task force. It was his job to recruit and run Farsi-speaking agents.
For his punishment, I recommend giving him the job he wanted.
The indictment says Sterling was bitter about the CIA's treatment of him and the agency's refusal to settle his discrimination case. In retaliation, Sterling allegedly disclosed information and documents about his former secret work to a newspaper reporter.
AoS: link added at 8:40 CT.
Posted by:gorb

#12  "Oh yeah, you blend."

- Mona Lisa Vito to Vinny Gambini, upon arriving in Alabama (My Cousin Vinny)
Posted by: RandomJD   2011-01-07 23:39  

#11  Wait till Holder hears about this.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2011-01-07 17:31  

#10  "Oh yeah, you're gonna fit right in..."
-- Force 10 From Navarone
Posted by: mojo   2011-01-07 12:58  

#9  Or stuck with analysis, where brains matter and appearance doesn't?

TW,
you have answered your own question. :-)
Posted by: Frozen Al   2011-01-07 11:56  

#8  Why didn't he go for the sub-Saharan Africa beat? Or the Caribbean? Or Brazil? He'd fit in beautifully wherever the African slave trade had gone. Or stuck with analysis, where brains matter and appearance doesn't?
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-01-07 11:02  

#7   WTF kind of idiot do you have to be to not comprehend that being inconspicuous is a necessary part of undercover work?!

Answer: A PC idiot, since our country is so twisted, that PC more often than not trumps national security; e.g., allowing most political asylum seekers into the US from Somalia.
Posted by: Jack Salami   2011-01-07 10:18  

#6  This... officials allegedly told him, he was "too big and black" to function effectively as a covert intelligence officer overseas.

Then this... It was his job to recruit and run Farsi-speaking agents.

Well f'ing DUH! Sorry guy, you are about poorly qualified to work covert in Iran as red-headed and freckled Irishman would be to work covertly in the Congo.

The guy thinks he was "discriminated" against? Well, you're damn right he was - and justifiably so. Not all discrimination is illegal, sometimes its necessary - after all, its not illegal to discriminate against blind people when it comes to piloting aircraft, nor other jobs where there are physical qualifications -- and appearance is a physical qualification for covert work. Sorry there Mr Sterling, the world is what it is no matter howmuch you pretend otherwise; a large black man will draw attention in a nearly homogeneously light-skinned (Caucasian) Persian population like Iran, especially in light of how suspicious the police state there is anyway.

This is the epitome of the "I'm Entitled to my own reality" liberal mindset. What a fucking idiot. I hope they put his ass in prison for a long long long time for being a spiteful idiot.
Posted by: OldSpook   2011-01-07 09:59  

#5  WTF kind of idiot do you have to be to not comprehend that being inconspicuous is a necessary part of undercover work?!

Sterling deserves treason charges for being an idiot alone!
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2011-01-07 09:51  

#4  Sometimes it seems half the comments I make here are complaining about links or offtopic "funny link of the day" stories.

huh! you noticed that too?
Posted by: Frank G   2011-01-07 08:06  

#3  Maybe he WAS too big and too black to function covertly - in, say, Iran. I'm too northern European white to function there.
Posted by: Glenmore   2011-01-07 07:58  

#2  Here's your link, gromky. Maybe if you'd contribute more than once a month you'd find yourself making some honest mistakes, too.
Posted by: gorb   2011-01-07 02:54  

#1  Link goes where?

Sometimes it seems half the comments I make here are complaining about links or offtopic "funny link of the day" stories.
Posted by: gromky   2011-01-07 02:14  

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