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Just days after a Washington Post reporter won a Pulitzer prize for a story about secret CIA prisons, the Agency's Director, Porter Goss, Thursday fired a spook who admitted having been one of the sources for the story...
...applies once more to anyone in U.S. custody, American or foreigner, held at home or overseas, but that is no reason for complacency. Under the definition adopted by the U.S., CID occurs when an interrogation technique “shocks the conscience.” But CIA Director Porter Goss testified in March that water-boarding—a classic form of torture in which suspects are subjected to mock execution by drowning—is a “professional interrogation technique.” Timothy Flanigan, former deputy White House counsel who at the time had been nominated...
...understand you are making a catalog of all U.S. intelligence assets. Will you be picking station chiefs? Station chiefs are for [CIA Director] Porter Goss to choose. I am not interested in directing operations. I am not interested in having field commanders. That's the job of the individual agency heads. Am I interested in what they're doing? You're darn right...
...Goss is concerned about the potential effects of books written by those with inside knowledge of agency operations. Citing the book Jawbreaker, by a former CIA field commander who hunted for Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, and the movie Syriana, based on a retired CIA officer's book, an intelligence official says part of the worry is a possible "chilling effect" on both U.S. and foreign intelligence officials?as well as on secret assets. "You don't want people who sit down with an intel officer in confidence to be concerned it will end up in the guy's memoirs...
...stories that contain classified material and try to uncover their sources. This may be the toughest spook work. Over the years, the unit, nicknamed "the leak chasers" by some agency hands, has been able to finger only a few talkers. But it has an enthusiastic?and active?backer in Goss. He told TIME in June that he had made dozens of leak-investigation referrals. "Virtually every day I can pick up a paper and find somebody who is an anonymous source," he said. "That is willful. And it seems to me there ought to be a penalty for that...