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2011-01-07 Home Front: WoT
Ex-CIA officer charged with leaking classified info to NYT reporter
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Posted by gorb 2011-01-07 01:11|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#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||   2011-01-07 02:14|| Front Page Top

#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||   2011-01-07 02:54|| Front Page Top

#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||   2011-01-07 07:58|| Front Page Top

#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||   2011-01-07 08:06|| Front Page Top

#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||   2011-01-07 09:51|| Front Page Top

#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||   2011-01-07 09:59|| Front Page Top

#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||   2011-01-07 10:18|| Front Page Top

#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||   2011-01-07 11:02|| Front Page Top

#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||   2011-01-07 11:56|| Front Page Top

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

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

#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||   2011-01-07 23:39|| Front Page Top

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