This is disgusting. ABC somehow got a hold of some documents regarding a black ops location in Lithuania, and under the Eric Holder template of “justice”, spread the news far and wide. It’s not bad enough that the ACLU has been chasing after CIA people in order to take their pictures. Or that they’ve given those pictures to GITMO terrorists. Now Eric Holder, whose legal firm stands to make a lot of money from what Obama’s administration is doing next- brings Al Qaeda to the US for show trials, and completely gives into their demands.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed immediately after he was captured in Pakistan in 2003 demanded to have a lawyer and be taken to New York. How wonderfully thoughtful of Eric Holder to grant him his first wish.
CIA ‘ran secret prison for al-Qaeda’ in Lithuanian riding school (Telegraph)
According to unnamed former intelligence operatives quoted by ABC News, the CIA built the secret jail in 2004 and used it for more than a year, flying in at least eight suspected al-Qaeda terrorists from Afghanistan.
Unnamed former intelligence operatives. Being that media quotes some very interesting characters such as Joe Cafasso when quoting ‘unnamed former intelligence operatives’, one can only imagine the reliability of such information.
How thoughtless and vicious of the media to continue with their vendetta over those who were effective against terrorism and instead turn it over to the KGB-infiltrated ranks of the keystone cops at the FBI. (Refer to Robert Hansen, Aldrich Ames and others and the fact that the FBI did nothing to stop 9/11.)
AG Eric Holder intends to pursue the investigation and prosecution of CIA agents for alleged “torture.” In an unprecedented response, seven former Intelligence chiefs warned President Barack Obama of the national security dangers of a political prosecution of intelligence and defense personnel.
From Stand With Intelligence. Read their entire response, here.
How times have changed since the days when they complained Valerie Plame’s covert status was revealed…but even then they couldn’t get the story straight; she had been previously exposed by Aldrich Ames and as a result had been working as a desk jockey at Langley.
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Update from NRO: ABC’s Flawed CIA ‘Black Site’ Report [Guy Benson]
Yesterday, ABC News tried — and largely failed — to put a dent in the news cycle by breathlessly reporting a four-year-old scoop about secret CIA facilities in Eastern Europe. In short: After 9/11, the CIA converted an old Lithuanian horseback-riding academy into a so-called “black site” prison where high-value terrorists were detained and interrogated. The Lithuanian government reportedly agreed to the facility after a 2002 visit from President Bush, during which he pledged American support for Lithuania’s inclusion in NATO. (Hey, a mutually beneficial, meaningful accord achieved by an American president on an overseas trip. Go figure.)
When the existence of a network of similar covert facilities became public in 2005, the Lithuanian prison was shut down. ABC played a significant role in breaking the story at the time, exposing three US allies that had agreed to host the CIA prisons: Lithuania, Romania, and Poland. Despite the fact that the controversial sites have been shuttered for years, ABC can’t stop flogging the smoldering remains of the story. They’re apparently determined to share every last, classified detail of the abandoned program. The CIA has called ABC’s pursuit of the story “irresponsible.” One might add “gratuitous” in describing yesterday’s report.
Setting aside ABC’s questionable news judgment (does their “new” information actually constitute news?), its biased selection and placement of quotes further taints the final product. In the online version of the story, correspondents Matthew Cole and Brian Ross quote ‘human rights activist’ John Sifton in the third paragraph—representing the very first quote of the entire piece. Sifton indignantly expresses outrageous outrage that a US intelligence service was, at one time, treating terrorists rudely. He laments the sleep deprivation and “forced standing” techniques that the hardened jihadists were forced to endure. And just in case Sifton’s position was remotely unclear, Cole and Ross quote him again at the end of the story, giving him the last, agitated word:
“It obviously took a lot of effort to keep [the prison] secret,” said John Sifton, whose firm One World Research investigates human rights abuses. “There’s a reason this stuff gets kept secret.”
“It’s an embarrassment, and a crime.”
What is a crime is these idiots beating a dead horse as if it’s “news”.
…I doubt the story will elicit much more than shrugs from average Americans. Most citizens understand that keeping the country safe isn’t always a pretty business, and a majority is willing to tolerate occasional unpleasantness if it means protecting American lives.
ABC’s investigative unit sometimes does solid work, reporting stories that are ignored by other MSM outlets. Yesterday, however, they missed the mark.
DUH…
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