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Posted on 01/12/2005 10:47:51 PM PST by kattracks
A presidential commission examining U.S. intelligence failures related to weapons of mass destruction has fired an FBI agent for improperly supplying a classified CIA report to FBI headquarters, The Washington Times has learned.
The incident was viewed by officials close to the commission as an attempt by the FBI to influence the work of the panel, formed in the aftermath of the Iraq war to look at intelligence related to Iraq and other states involved in illicit weapons acquisition.[snip]
The female FBI agent, who was assigned to work for the commission, improperly removed a highly classified CIA report produced for the panel that contained criticism of the FBI for its conduct of weapons-related intelligence gathering, the sources said.
According to the officials, the document was removed from a secure vault and given to FBI headquarters official David Szady, a senior counterintelligence officer. A short time later, FBI officials voiced criticism of the CIA report to the commission, triggering an investigation that led to the female agent, who was not identified by name. The woman admitted to removing the report and was dismissed with a recommendation from the commission that she also be fired from the FBI. However, FBI officials have protected the agent, and she has been reassigned to another post within the agency, the officials said.
The fact that no action was taken against the agent is an indication that her activities were approved by senior FBI officials, the sources said.
One official said the episode was an attempt by the FBI to influence the outcome of a presidential commission. "The FBI is out of control," said the source familiar with the incident.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
FYI Ping
Glad we got past all the turf war stuff, post 9/11....yeah right!
I'm with you I thought they were supposed to share information. These turf wars are totally stupid on the part of all participants.
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh! :-(
I don't think this is what they they had in mind when they determined the agencies should share information.
The female FBI agent, who was assigned to work for the commission, improperly removed a highly classified CIA report produced for the panel that contained criticism of the FBI for its conduct of weapons-related intelligence gathering, the sources said.
Is Valerie Plame replacing Dan Rather?
Not really; keeping national security information from falling into the wrong hands appears difficult enough when kept strictly within the individual spy agencies, (the Los Alamos nuclear secrets falling into China's hands come to mind). With the new rules mandating the 'sharing' of top-secret information amongst the networks of umpteen different secret/spy agencies, keeping these secrets for the eyes of the authorized only will now become nearly impossible as they pass through agency after agency.
An example of the dangers of sharing secret info inter-agency is the certainty that the FBI, CIA, DEA, military intelligence, etc, all have some double agents. They also have, (as history clearly shows), a small percentage of employees with unreliable loyalties, (people who can be bought or blackmailed, or who have a political agenda ~ Sany Burglar comes to mind).
Perhaps each secret agency can keep a wary eye on any suspicious employees working within their own network, but they won't know who these people are in the other agencies that they must share their info with. It's gonna get dangerously confusing now. Leave it to government bureaucracy to create a more complex scenario as a means to reducing confusion.
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I've typed and deleted about five replies to you now! I'd better just say this is discouraging and leave it at that :-)
Maybe the female agent took lessons on document pilfering from Sandy Berger.
And now more leaks
Yeah, but who is the traitor? FBI or CIA?
I think there are more traitor rats in the CIA than in the FBI.
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