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2005-11-02 Europe

CIA holding al-Qaeda captives at former Soviet compound

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-11-02 00:22|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 one word: Antarctica

Posted by 3dc 2005-11-02 00:33|| 2005-11-02 00:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Hunt the people who let this out down and do a number on them. It is treason to even talk about it. The Washington Post needs to be bought out shut down.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2005-11-02 01:25|| 2005-11-02 01:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Posted by Benjamin Franklin 2005-11-02 03:46|| 2005-11-02 03:46|| Front Page Top

#4 There's probably some truth to the notion that it's a tough choice to figure out who is who and worth what possible intel value. The "safe" option, if your superiors are control or blame freaks - and the CIA surely has a super dose of both - is to keep almost everybody, just in case. Sucks to work for ass-coverage specialists... The premium approach: "hire good people, train them up by teaming with experienced operators, and then delegate authority commensurate with responsibility" doesn't describe many Govt agencies - other than the military under the rank of LTC, lol.

As for this story making it into print, I prefer hunter / killer teams.

Posted by .com 2005-11-02 04:13|| 2005-11-02 04:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Hunt the people who let this out down and do a number on them. It is treason to even talk about it.

Silly -- it's only treason when it makes Democrats look bad!

The Washington Post needs to be bought out shut down.

Why buy them out? Criminal prosecutions all around, starting with treason charges for everyone involved with this story, should do the job quite nicely.

And, sorry, but there's no way this isn't treason. Revealing classified means and capabilities is giving aid and comfort, and doing so in the fricking newspaper does quite a good job of establishing the two witnesses or admission in court requirement.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-11-02 07:44|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-11-02 07:44|| Front Page Top

#6 but there's no way this isn't treason. Revealing classified means and capabilities is giving aid and comfort, and doing so in the fricking newspaper does quite a good job of establishing the two witnesses or admission in court requirement.

Agreed!! It might teach them to stay the Fuck out of the intel business!!

Posted by ARMYGUY 2005-11-02 07:58|| 2005-11-02 07:58|| Front Page Top

#7 WaPo...only used as liner for the bird cage at my house.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2005-11-02 07:59|| 2005-11-02 07:59|| Front Page Top

#8 All interrogations should be conducted on the battlefield. No prisoners should be taken. Release or execute on the spot.

Posted by Jating Omunter5399 2005-11-02 08:14|| 2005-11-02 08:14|| Front Page Top

#9 My concern is how will the ACLU, Red Crecent, and CNN get gate passes? I hope these facilities are seperate from existing Russian prisions, which have become medical Chernobyl's, incubators for HIV and multidrug-resistant strains of tuberculoisis. Catching and then releasing those buggers back into ME society would certainly be a tragedy.

Posted by Besoeker 2005-11-02 09:55|| 2005-11-02 09:55|| Front Page Top

#10 This has to be based on leaked information from the CIA. We need a special prosecutor to find out who's at the bottom of this.

Posted by Gleaper Thaviling8116 2005-11-02 10:01|| 2005-11-02 10:01|| Front Page Top

#11 "Lies! All lies!"

And even if true, so what?

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-11-02 10:32|| 2005-11-02 10:32|| Front Page Top

#12 No, of course this isn't treason. Revealing the name of a no-longer-covert agent, why, that's treason!

Posted by Steve White 2005-11-02 12:52|| 2005-11-02 12:52|| Front Page Top

#13 The CTC's chief of operations argued for creating hit teams of case officers and CIA paramilitaries that would covertly infiltrate countries in the Middle East, Africa and even Europe to assassinate people on the list, one by one.

Go ahead, save the high-level operatives for wringing dry at a later date. But don't let that stop you from exterminating all the rest of the non-operations propagandists (i.e., imams).

Whoever leaked this ought to join the detainees for an extended stay.

Posted by Zenster 2005-11-02 16:31|| 2005-11-02 16:31|| Front Page Top

#14 I heard rhe journalist who wrote this interviewed on NPR this afternoon. She got the information from CIA officers current and former, and it was her editor that decided not to print the names of the sites or the countries in which they are situated. Director Goss has further work to do cleaning out the CIA, I think. Such issues should not be resolved by press leaks.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-11-02 16:59|| 2005-11-02 16:59|| Front Page Top

#15 I heard rhe journalist who wrote this interviewed on NPR this afternoon. She got the information from CIA officers current and former

So why isn't she in front of a grand jury or sitting in a prison for contempt? There's no shield law protecting criminals, and that's exactly what her sources are.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-11-02 18:36|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-11-02 18:36|| Front Page Top

#16 Bah. She named a bunch of facilities that have been closed for a long time. Big deal.

I'm sure we've got replacement facilities up and running, and when they're outed they'll move again.

That said, I agree with Jating Omunter5399: All interrogations should be conducted on the battlefield. No prisoners should be taken. Release or execute on the spot.

Much less management hassle that way, with a minimal loss of intel.

Posted by Parabellum 2005-11-02 19:18|| 2005-11-02 19:18|| Front Page Top

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