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CIA Hunts for Mole
2012-05-12
The United States' top spy chief, retired Lieutenant General James Clapper, is asking for an internal investigation of the CIA. The uncovering of a clandestine CIA operation involving the installation of double agents inside the ranks of al-Qaeda by the mainstream media has left Lt. Gen. Clapper demanding answers about a possible mole within the ranks of America's supposedly top-secret spy agency.
Why now? People in the CIA have leaked all sorts of things to the newsies for years, especially when they wanted to embarrass the previous president.
Perhaps a more pertinent question is "Who benefited?".
The CIA has not formally acknowledged the existence of an investigation but a spokesperson for the agency says it is only expected given the latest news involving a double-agent in Yemen. The CIA has worked undercover with a spy that infiltrated al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, only for the media to report on the clandestine operation before it was disclosed that the US was instrumental in orchestrating the mission.

If the reportedly new investigation involving a CIA mole can be confirmed, it will mark at least the seventh criminal case launched by the Obama administration involving the leaking of classified documents -- something the president insisted on ending while running for office by offering protection for whistleblowers.
Posted by:Pappy

#5  Lt. Gen. Clapper demanding answers about a possible mole within the ranks of America's supposedly top-secret spy agency.

I recommend you begin General Clapper, by quietly polygraphing the most recent former Director.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-05-12 10:05  

#4  Start at the NY Times & Whitehouse and then work backwards to the leaks.

There should be a very short list of who knew what details and when.
Posted by: airandee   2012-05-12 08:45  

#3  ...I think the real point here is this: previous administrations simply didn't have the cojones to crack down - hard - on the idiots at the Agency who decide that their personal attitudes outweigh national security. For better or worse, the Obama Administration has no such compunctions, and is no mood to tolerate that particular nonsense.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2012-05-12 06:14  

#2  Hmmm. A mole, leaking all kinds of classified info the media and our enemies (yeah, yeah, I know it's redundant)? Has anyone tried checking into the activities of this guy in DC, black, 6 feet or so tall, thin build, who goes by aliases including "Barry Soetero" and "The One?"
Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo0   2012-05-12 05:50  

#1  An Intelligence agency that does not look at it's own executive branch is kind of... lame. Certainly not Cheka.

If I was losing agents in foreign countries, I may have some issue with that, like Lebanon or every other station in the world for that matter.

This has been a long, slow, bloodbath. I do not need "Classified documents to prove it either.

Entire Stations? Disappeared? I'm pissed off about all of this actually.
Posted by: newc   2012-05-12 00:58  

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