The Bravest soul you will meet today: CIA Whistleblower

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I wish there was some way to send him our appreciation:

CIA vet may face repercussions for revealing agency secrets


A 25-year CIA veteran has written a unauthorized, 384-page book that sharply criticizes the mismanagement and misdoings of the agency, creating an unprecedented test of the rights of former employees to reveal potentially harmful information.
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"The Human Factor: Inside the CIA’s Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture" was written under the pseudonym "Ishmael Jones" to protect people the author has met who didn't know he was working undercover, CQ Politics reported.

Jones denies that the work contains any classified information and said he wrote the book to "improve the system and help it defend ourselves and our allies."

"I realized the CIA’s clandestine service was broken," the author said in an interview with FrontPage Magazine. "My mission has always been to defend America, and for many years I sought to do this by producing intelligence as an active CIA officer. Today, using this book as a tool, I seek to defend America by working to fix our broken clandestine service."

Jones is donating the book's earnings to the family of a soldier killed in Iraq and said he is ready for the consequences of publishing his book.

"I’m ready to take whatever they have to do," Jones said of his former employer.

He may have a lot to take.

Former CIA operative Frank Snepp faced heavy repercussions after he skipped agency censors and published an account of his Vietnam tour titled "Decent Interval: An Insider’s Account of Saigon’s Indecent End, Told by the CIA’s Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam."

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/CIA_vet_may_face_punishment_for_0802.html