http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/03/hbc-90006763
I remember the big to-do with the Valerie Plame case, but this is no big deal to people I guess. And the ACLU is right in there jeopardizing the lives of CIA agents by outing them to the bad guys. Real nice.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...ia_agents.html
Some criminal defense lawyers are really bad people. Whatever happened to lawyers that want to get at the truth?
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| CIA Attacks the John Adams Project By Scott Horton Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball report that Attorney General Eric Holder has tapped Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. Attorney in Chicago, to manage a special investigation into complaints by the CIA that Guantánamo defense counsel acted improperly in trying to establish the identity of CIA agents who interrogated their clients. The probe was triggered by the discovery last year of about 20 color photographs of CIA officials in the cell of Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, an alleged financier of the 9/11 attacks, say three current and former government officials who asked not to be identified talking about an ongoing case. The photos included “paparazzi style” snapshots of covert CIA officers on the street and in other public places, says one former official, an indication that private investigators had taken them on the sly to identify agency interrogators. When told of the discovery, CIA officials immediately grew alarmed that the photos had been shared among the 9/11 defendants, including alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. (The judge in charge of the military-commission case at the time had ruled that because some defendants, including Mohammed, were representing themselves, they could meet privately with their alleged co-conspirators and share material relevant to their defense.) The photos in al-Hawsawi’s cell were not captioned with the agents’ identities. But “there was real concern” that the pictures could be used to identify covert officers, resulting in agents becoming the targets of Qaeda revenge plots, says the former official. |
http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...ia_agents.html
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| The John Adams Project is a joint effort by the ACLU and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers to locate, stalk, and photograph covert CIA agents and to show those photographs to terrorist detainees The Justice Department is investigating the John Adams Project. It is a violation of federal law to identify covert CIA agents. An ACLU spokesperson justified the outing of covert CIA agents by claiming that they had been involved in the "torture" of Guantanamo terrorist detainees that ACLU lawyers are representing. Hot Air's Ed Morrissey recalls that those criticizing the outing of Valerie Plame, a CIA analyst, by State Department official Richard Armitage to the late Robert Novak stated that it was tantamount to treason. The Valerie Plame case involved exposing a CIA analyst to the newspaper reading public. The John Adams Project involves exposing covert CIA operatives to enemies of the United States, something that would seem to be much worse. Therefore, the John Adams Project might be considered in some quarters treason on steroids. |
