CIA Moves Toward Probe of Prisons Story (in addtion to Congress invest)

[rodeodance]

whow this happened a few days ago already.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051109/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/congress_media;_ylt=AvQbkj.XBjCL.h_IzCr8Uk2s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--
CIA Moves Toward Probe of Prisons Story

By KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer 18 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The
CIA took the first step toward a full-scale criminal investigation of a leak of possibly classified information on secret prisons to The Washington Post, a U.S. official said Tuesday.

The agency's general counsel sent a report to the Justice Department about the Post story, which reported the existence of secret U.S. detention centers for suspected terrorists in Eastern Europe.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the issue deals with classified information, said the referral was made shortly after the Nov. 2 story. The leak investigation into the disclosure of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity came about through the same referral procedure. The Justice Department will decide whether to initiate a criminal investigation.

The Post declined to comment.

On Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and House Speaker
Dennis Hastert called for a congressional investigation into the disclosure of the existence of the secret prisons....

[rodeodance]

1. condi comment.

......Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sidestepped questions on secret prisons, saying the United States was in a "different kind of war" and had an obligation to defend itself.

[JuniperLea]

2. That ScumBucket needs to get yanked from office too

Sidestepped... indeed. She can sidestep, tap dance and run around like nobody's business. What a tool. Different kind of war my backside! I'm sick of them making up their own definitions and rules.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

8. It's just a jump to the left!....And then a step to the right!

Condi's Song

It's so dreamy
Oh, fantasy free me
So you can't see me
No, not at all
In another dimension
With voyeuristic intention
Well secluded, I see all
...
Well I was walking down the street
Just a having a think
When a snake of a guy gave me an evil wink
He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise
He had a pick up truck and the devil's eyes
He stared at me and I felt a change
Time meant nothing, never would again

[Supersedeas]

16. Condaliar thinks the ends justify WHATEVER means apparently

[Catherine Vincent]

3. Keith just reported this.

The CIA has already started an investigation? Oh man!

[peacetalksforall]

4. Anyone smell a set-up? This is the tit-for-tat, eye for an eye, Party,

after all. White House is being investigated for commiting a crime.

Are they going to try to set-up a Dem for propaganda purposes?.

There is NOTHING we can believe from them. Why are they moving so fast to set up a Congressional investigation? I don't trust them. We have a Secretary of State who is Queen Liar. We have a White House whose lies fave killed thousands upon throusands. We are in a phoney war. Why should we believe any of them?

[goforit]

9. Beg to differ, but it's not a war against the Dems, It's against the CIA..

And against anyone who goes against the Bushco immediate wishes.

They already (in their minds) beat the Dems.Yet they want YOU
to think it is against the Dems cause they need to keep that idea alive.

They are "the Mob" and their enemy is anyone who crosses
their power line.
This could be Rethugs, foreigners, even their own daughter/mother
or all of the above.

[cantstandbush]

5. So who was the reporter who reported the story? n/t

[Rose Siding]

14. Dana Priest at the WP. Hope he's willing to go to the mat for this source

This was a righteous leak -in the public interest- not a govt sanctioned hit on a critic.

[MasonJar]

6. Why else would Bush have put Porter Goss in charge of the CIA?

[librechik]

7. ha-this will bounce back and bite them in the ass

cuz a GOP Senator leaked this!

Man those pukkkes are a big leaking mess.

:evilgrin:

[rodeodance]

10. Sen. Roberts wants it be like the 9/11 commission.

....."If the leadership determines that we should investigate the leak, it would be much like the 9/11" commission, said Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., who did not dispute a reporter's suggestion that a probe would raise First Amendment press-freedom issues.

Such an investigation would become "very difficult when you're getting into matters like this," said the senator.

Roberts also said he would support hearings into the importance of maintaining a covert agent's cover, a topic triggered by the leak of Plame's identity, eight days after her husband accused the Bush administration of manipulating prewar intelligence to exaggerate the
Iraq threat.

Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada said the House and Senate committees with normal jurisdiction should conduct any hearings, not a bicameral committee as suggested in the letter of the two Republican leaders.

[rodeodance]

12. Condi said the same thing Jr did a few days ago in Panama!

......While not confirming the existence of secret prisons, Rice told reporters, "We, our allies, others who have experienced attacks, have to find a way to protect our people."

The administration has protected itself "within the constraint of the Constitution and cognizant of our values," said Rice. "The United States holds to these values today as strongly as we ever have."

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

11. A pity they didn't move this rapidly on the Plame leak

But I guess they have to have their priorities in order... :nuke:

[rodeodance]

13. they moved fast cause they think a Dem leaked.

[grytpype]

15. yeah, they can move pretty fast when they want to.

Can't be bothered to investigate the Plame leak, that was to embarass a DEMOCRAT! The Gulag leak is embarrassing REPUBLICANS! Gotta get right on that.

[Just Me]

17. ROTFLMAO!!!

:rofl:

Whew, brother!!!

Let's watch who comes out smelling like "candy and flowers".

Geez! :eyes: