Posted on 08/21/2009 8:40:48 AM PDT by mockingbyrd
WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department is investigating whether Guantanamo Bay detainees charged with roles in the Sept. 11 attacks were improperly given photos of CIA officers or contractors, according to a person familiar with the investigation.
The investigation, headed by the Justice Department's counterespionage chief, John Dion, is trying to determine if military lawyers defending the detainees divulged classified information or compromised covert CIA officers, according to the person, who was not authorized to discuss the investigation and spoke only on condition of anonymity.
It is a violation of federal law to identify CIA covert personnel, and it is a violation of military commission rules to disclose classified information, even if only to the defendants.
The person who spoke to The Associated Press said the photos at issue were provided by the John Adams Project, a combined effort of the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers to assist in the defense of the detainees.
The investigation was first reported by The Washington Post on its Web site Thursday night. The ACLU told the Post the organization was confident no laws or regulations had been broken.
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Time to look at the faces of the 3,000 who died on 911?
Let the CIA extract all the information they can,,,, then get out the pig skin bullets.
To heck with congressional committees and partisan politics.
I doubt the New York Times cares about active CIA agents - the kind who protect us.
The New York Times cares about having a stick to hit conservatives with - and that's what Plame was - that and little else.
So you're right, fool in paradise, this won't be "news"...
The investigation, headed by the Justice Department's counterespionage chief, John Dion, is trying to determine if military lawyers defending the detainees divulged classified information or compromised covert CIA officersProbably Scooter Libby's fault.
additional:
ACLU Lawyers Identify Covert CIA Agents to Al Qaeda Terrorists
Stop the ACLU | 21 Aug 09 | Van Helsing
Posted on 08/21/2009 9:30:26 PM PDT by Jay777
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2321808/posts
If they can taint Bush/Cheney; they care. Am wondering exactly 'when' this was occurring; but assume, since it is making news; that it was under Bush. At the same time, we only have to remember that our Justice Dept. was no friend to either the President of Vice President; for the eight years that Bush/Cheney served.
The tentacles of the Left never stop 'reaching out'. . .
Definitely, time ror remembering; what our enemy never forgets.
The plotters who went after Bush1 were doing so on behalf of Iraq, not al Qaeda.
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