CIA says wiretap disclosure damaging

[NorthSideSox72]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060202/ap_on_...igence_congress

 

This guy is so full of it, its coming out of his ears. I am really tiring of the use of fearmongering as a political tactic.

 

Someone please tell me how intelligence assets have been rendered unuseable (his words), simply because someone leaked that fact that such wiretaps were going on. I mean, are they serious? Do they think that no one knew that the NSA and CIA were capable of this stuff? Of COURSE they knew! Nothing has been compromised as a result of this. The only thing relevant or shocking about the "leak" was that these taps were being done without a warrant. No one questioned that such taps existed, and no one leaked any specific information (in the news I have seen).

 

Its also scary to see his quotes about the "culture of secrecy". Obviously, the CIA and NSA need to keep specific intel secret. No one has jeapordized that in the slightest (except when the White House leaked the name of a certain spy's spouse). So, is it the position of the CIA that "culture of secrecy" means that no one should know that the CIA is doing its job? That its tracking terrorists? GMAFB.

[Cknolls]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060202/ap_on_...igence_congress

 

This guy is so full of it, its coming out of his ears.  I am really tiring of the use of fearmongering as a political tactic.

 

Someone please tell me how intelligence assets have been rendered unuseable (his words), simply because someone leaked that fact that such wiretaps were going on.  I mean, are they serious?  Do they think that no one knew that the NSA and CIA were capable of this stuff?  Of COURSE they knew!  Nothing has been compromised as a result of this.  The only thing relevant or shocking about the "leak" was that these taps were being done without a warrant.  No one questioned that such taps existed, and no one leaked any specific information (in the news I have seen).

 

Its also scary to see his quotes about the "culture of secrecy".  Obviously, the CIA and NSA need to keep specific intel secret.  No one has jeapordized that in the slightest (except when the White House leaked the name of a certain spy's spouse).  So, is it the position of the CIA that "culture of secrecy" means that no one should know that the CIA is doing its job?  That its tracking terrorists?  GMAFB.

 

 

Yeah Plame can't spy on anyone anymore from her desk at Langely.

[NorthSideSox72]

One more thing on this subject.

 

If a terrorist attack occurs on US soil in the next few years, I guarantee that someone in the Bush administration will hint (or say straight out) that it was the fault of people who "leaked" this information.

[Balta1701]

One more thing on this subject.

 

If a terrorist attack occurs on US soil in the next few years, I guarantee that someone in the Bush administration will hint (or say straight out) that it was the fault of people who "leaked" this information.

I'm still waiting on an explanation about how terrorists knowing that we're spying on them without warrants that they never know about hurts our nation more than terrorists knowing that we're spying on them with warrants that they never know about.

 

If a WMD attack occurs on our soil, can we blame it on the outing of a CIA agent who worked on WMDs'?

[Rex Kickass]

Yeah Plame can't spy on anyone anymore from her desk at Langely.

 

Outting an agent's identity compromises more than herself.