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May 16, 2004
Seymour Hirsch is a god
Eschaton. I have to get the New Yorker. Apparently the latest issue talks about something called Copper Green which is a torture program that Rumsfeld pushed out last year to wrest control from the CIA.
Basically, Rumsfeld bypassed most of the safety interlocks on assassination and torture and has a guy named Cambone who controlls the whole thing. Just scary how easy it is.
At least there were some good guys:
By fall, according to the former intelligence official, the senior leadership of the C.I.A. had had enough. “They said, ‘No way. We signed up for the core program in Afghanistan—pre-approved for operations against high-value terrorist targets—and now you want to use it for cabdrivers, brothers-in-law, and people pulled off the streets’”—the sort of prisoners who populate the Iraqi jails. “The C.I.A.’s legal people objected,” and the agency ended its sap involvement in Abu Ghraib, the former official said.
Posted by rich at May 16, 2004 12:18 AM
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