7 posts tagged “cia”
There are times when no matter how much you wish to avoid it, you have to share secrets. For example, say you're the U.S. government and the CIA is running secret operations in Holland. You have to let the Dutch know or bigger problems can result. On the other hand, say you have a secret intelligence assessment of Al-Quaeda. Do you really have to let everyone take a peek, even the nudnik who left the orange covered report (so it wouldn't be noticed?) on a train?
How many secrets can fit in one person? Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg secretly managed to save thousands of Jews from Nazi camps and his mysterious death is rife with end of WWII secrets including his possible connection to a secret US intelligence agency that -- at least according to the CIA -- has had most of its 13-year history of secrets lost to time.
The secret is a conundrum or the conundrum is being kept secret. Which is it when a Yemeni talks of his black site detention by the CIA? The U.S. claims it didn't hold Khaled al-Maqtari, but he told Amnesty International he was held and tortured for three years after being picked up in a raid at a suspected Iraqi arms market. He doesn't know why or knows and doesn't say why. Someone (or more) is guilty of something still being kept secret. What? Why?
** Big Jo may not know all the black sites, but you still need to worry that she'll put you somewhere
Will the secrets of Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Michael Todd die with him at the bottom of a Snowdoni cliff? Probably not. At least not all of them because this is great fiction and journalists are likely to turn it into fascinating facts.
Todd, a senior British police officer was in the charge of looking into how and whether the Empire helped the CIA secretly and (by most rules of law) illegally ship terrorism suspects around the globe. He found Britain not guilty and has, apparently, walked off a cliff.
Hmmm?
James Risen, author of State of War, will likely be imprisoned for keeping secrets. The NY Times reporter is scheduled to face an Alexandria, Va., Grand Jury that wants him to reveal who told him of CIA screwups, although the CIA did issue comments that he didn't have their secrets, he had someone else's fictions. So far, he says he'll protect his sources, citing a First Amendment to the Constitution that seems to offer fewer Supreme Court interpreted protections all the time.
There are some -- like Herman Gebele, a Virginia businessman thought to be a murderer who lived in Ontario until accidentally (?!) run over by a delivery truck in a Wal-Mart parking lot -- who it is suggested will take their secrets to their grave. Others, such as the 26 American CIA agents on trial in absentia in Milan, along with 6 Italian security personnel, are likely to have their grave secrets revealed. Is there an accountant shrewd enough to do the cost-benefit analysis of keeping mortal secrets?
Trust us. We are keeping secrets from you for you. The CIA ran "secret detention facilities" from 2003 through 2005 according to the European Union, and nobody was/is allowed to find out the truth. The reason is, because ...?
