Agent Provocateur? WP: "Waterboarding is torture and torture is wrong" post gets CIA contractor's internal blog removed from Intelink, the contractor fired and security clearance yanked. Is it naive to wonder how such an ordinary sentiment would be so threatening to a US federal agency? After all presumably people at the CIA read the newspapers and know that an overwhelming majority of the Senate has voted to outlaw torture a couple times. Is this the kind of thing that has to be whispered in the hallways of Langley, for fear of provoking offense? Or perhaps more likely, is this about a contractor, BAE, that doesn't want to risk losing its CIA contracts?

Anyhow, now that the news has spread to the Washington Post, the New York Times and God forbid, Wonkette, it seems that the CIA and BAE may have invited more headaches for having fired the contractor than if they'd let the (after all) internal post go, where it most likely would have been quickly forgotten into the ephemera of blog posts about CIA cafeteria cuisine? More: Interesting comments at her open blog.

Posted by Laura at July 21, 2006 07:54 PM