http://abcnews.go.com/US/Investigation/story?id=1587307&page=1

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"EXCLUSIVE: Is CIA Leak Probe a 'Witch Hunt'? Director Launches Internal Investigation Into Who Gave Sensitive Information to the Media Feb. 7, 2006 — The director of the CIA has launched a major internal probe into media leaks about covert operations. In an agencywide e-mail, Porter Goss blamed "a very small number of people" for leaks about secret CIA operations that, in his words, "do damage to the credibility of the agency." According to people familiar with the Goss e-mail, sent in late January and classified secret, the CIA director warned that any CIA officer deemed suspect by the agency's Office of Security and its Counter Intelligence Center (which handles internal affairs) could be subjected to an unscheduled lie detector test. CIA personnel are subjected to polygraphs at regular intervals in their careers, but one former intelligence officer called the new warning a "witch hunt." Others said Goss' e-mail was narrowly focused and did not suggest agencywide, random lie detector tests. "It would make no sense at all to give everyone here a lie detector test," said one person who knew about the e-mail. Goss told CIA employees there were ways other than talking to the news media to resolve any issues they had with classified CIA operations. The memo informs its recipients that the CIA has asked the Justice Department to prosecute any leakers within its ranks. This comes in connection with recent news reports that detailed the CIA's operation of secret prisons in Europe and its far-flung flights of suspected terrorists to foreign prisons. Crime reports from the CIA are sent to the FBI and the Department of Justice, and constitute a statement that the CIA believes a crime has been committed. Current and former employees say there have been only a handful of such agencywide memos in recent years. One dealt with sexual harassment in the workplace and another with the embezzlement of agency money. Goss confirmed the general outline of the leak probe in his appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Feb. 2. "We also have an investigation of finding out what leakage, if any, is coming out of that building," he said, referring to CIA headquarters. "And I'm afraid there is some coming out. I also believe that there has been an erosion of the culture of secrecy. And we're trying to reinstill that." CIA officers are given lie detector tests when they formally become candidates, upon completion of their probation, and then at five-year intervals throughout their careers. CIA officers also agree to undergo "aperiodic" lie detector tests if requested. Goss told the Intelligence Committee that "on the external side, I've called in the FBI, the Department of Justice. It is my aim, and it is my hope, that we will witness a grand jury investigation with reporters present being asked to reveal who is leaking this information.""

Note the irony of the news about a "secret" email within the CIA being leaked to Reuters.

Porter Goss =

2/7/2006 3:35:49 PM

I have no problem with a "CIA witchhunt"

until its been proven that what they "whistleblew" was actually illegal, they aren't whistleblowers - they're traitors.

2/7/2006 5:06:26 PM

we should give all citizens lie detector tests, as a condition of continued priveledge of citizenry.

if you're not a terrarrist, you got nothin to worry about.

2/8/2006 1:03:59 AM

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"they aren't whistleblowers - they're traitors"

i like it when you talk all manly and tough. can you use your clint eastwood voice, pleeeze.

2/8/2006 1:06:13 AM

gg excising those few words from my broader statement

2/8/2006 1:43:12 AM

This is just going to make the news more boring than it already is. Fuck Porter Goss.

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"Goss told CIA employees there were ways other than talking to the news media to resolve any issues they had with classified CIA operations."

Other Ways
1. File for unemployment.

2/8/2006 2:37:42 AM

nice one, gamecat.

2/8/2006 5:01:29 AM

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11279032/site/newsweek/

2/11/2006 4:08:19 AM

bush is a traitor

2/11/2006 4:29:06 AM

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/02/rockefeller.pdf

Jay Rockefeller responds:

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"I am surprised and puzzled, however, that Director Goss chose to lay the blame for this damage on what he describes as misguided whistleblowers. Clearly "leaks" and damaging revelations of intelligence sources and methods are generated primarily by Executive Branch officials pushing a particular policy, and not by the rank-and-file employees of the intelligence agencies. For confirmation we need look no further than press reports from the past few days. On February 9th, the National Journal reported that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby told a grand jury that he was "authorized" by Vice President Cheney and other White House superiors to disclose classified information from a National Intelligence Estimate to the press to defend the Administration's use of pre-war intelligence in making the case to go to war in Iraq. This blatant abuse of intelligence information for political purposes is inexcusable, but all too common. Throughout the period leading up to the Iraq war the Administration selectively declassified or leaked information related to Iraq's acquisition of aluminum tubes, the alleged purchase uranium, the non-existent operational connection between Iraq and al Qaeda, and numerous other issues. The leaks associated with the Iraq war were a continuation of a pattern of using classified material for political gain that began after the September 11 attacks. In his 2002 book, Bush at War, Bob Woodward described almost unfettered access to classified material of the most sensitive nature. According to his account he was provided information related to sources and methods, extremely sensitive covert actions, and foreign intelligence liaison relationships. It is no wonder that, as Director Goss wrote, "because of the number of recent news reports discussing our relationships with other intelligence services, some of these critical partners have even informed the C.I.A. that they are reconsidering their participation in some of our most important antiterrorism ventures." I wrote both former Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) George Tenet and Acting DCI John McLaughlin seeking to determine what steps were being taken to address the appalling disclosures contained in Bush at War. The only response I received was to indicate that the leaks had been authorized by the Administration. The CIA has still not responded to a follow-up letter I sent a year and a half ago on September 1, 2004, trying to pin down which officials were authorized to meet with Mr. Woodward and by whom, and what intelligence information was conveyed during these authorized exchanges. ..."

2/24/2006 1:29:53 PM

speaking of the cia

if you're talking about the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, that was a government inside job.

That is a 100% proven fact.

2/24/2006 8:16:02 PM

^

2/25/2006 3:42:46 PM