CIA IG Dispute: Legal official quit in protest over “enhanced interrogations” = torture

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“There’s an SS group within the agency..."

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Sources: CIA legal official quit in protest over “enhanced interrogations”
BY Ken Silverstein - Oct 12, 2007
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/10/hbc-90001403

Well over a year ago I reported (http://www.harpers.org/archive/2006/04/sb-cia-wehrmacht) on a brewing revolt within the CIA over the Bush Administration’s use of renditions, “enhanced interrogation” techniques (otherwise known as torture) and other tough tactics employed in the “war on terrorism.” One former official with whom I spoke at the time told me, “There are people who fear that indictments and subpoenas could be coming down, and they don’t want to get caught up in it.” This person went on to describe a split at the CIA, saying, “There’s an SS group within the agency that’s willing to do anything and there’s a Wehrmacht group that is saying, ‘I’m not gonna touch this stuff’.”

Since then, it’s become clear that dissent within the agency on these matters has become even more intense. As I’ve also previously reported, some of the in-house critics have taken their complaints to CIA Inspector General (IG) John Helgerson. Today’s New York Times reports that CIA director General Michael Hayden

has ordered an unusual internal inquiry into the work of (Helgerson), whose aggressive investigations of the C.I.A.’s detention and interrogation programs and other matters have created resentment among agency operatives…The review is particularly focused on complaints that Mr. Helgerson’s office has not acted as a fair and impartial judge of agency operations but instead has begun a crusade against those who have participated in controversial detention programs. .....

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1. Watchdog of C.I.A. Is Subject of C.I.A. Inquiry = "an unusual internal inquiry "

Watchdog of C.I.A. Is Subject of C.I.A. Inquiry -
By MARK MAZZETTI and SCOTT SHANE - Oct11, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/11/washington/12intel.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 — The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, has ordered an unusual internal inquiry into the work of the agency’s inspector general, whose aggressive investigations of the C.I.A.’s detention and interrogation programs and other matters have created resentment among agency operatives.

A small team working for General Hayden is looking into the conduct of the agency’s watchdog office, which is led by Inspector General John L. Helgerson. Current and former government officials said the review had caused anxiety and anger in Mr. Helgerson’s office and aroused concern on Capitol Hill that it posed a conflict of interest.

The review is particularly focused on complaints that Mr. Helgerson’s office has not acted as a fair and impartial judge of agency operations but instead has begun a crusade against those who have participated in controversial detention programs. ..........

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2. Lessee, here, now.

Torture is a crime. It is so intolerably the very essence of criminality that dooby, his trusty cussers and official liars and history adjusters spend a considerable amount of time assuring and reassuring the world and cousin Jim that "We DO not Torture!"

Like, maybe--"
anybody who leaks from MY administration will be --- et cetera ad nauseum."

So, Hedgerson had heard these rumors and had been repeatedly reassured as to where the bright line was...where the black letter law lived. And hadn't cheneybush, or doobydick, or whatever his name said torture was a crime and we don't do it and we never did.
( After all, she really needed that little slapping around and dotting her eyes for her--it sharpened her right up and she really can use some sharpening up every now and again--that ain't torture; it's training.)

So Hayden, that ridiculous overstuffed popinjay, who could not be bothered to read the constitution, and particularly the fourth amendment, a year and a half ago and hasn't done it yet. That Hayden.

That Hayden reaches in and sticks a wrench into the investigation of torture that everybody knows didn't happen. He obstructs and this tells me that he knows all about the illegal crap, because he has made a move that will eat him, right down to his unwashed ankles, when the trickery is exposed. You just don't launch an investigation, a public investigation, of the people investigating you.

If he does not have good enough dirt on all the actors of any importance, he might well end up in prison and he knows this. The man in charge of dirt would not be so stupid as to turn down the chance of obtaining all the shit the owner and purveyor of dirt would need to get what he wants and stay out of jail.

What a team for sideways pinstripes--
Dooby-dork, pretzeldunce
Dick the dark dork, evil genius and chief torturer
Hayden the harridan, "Horrible" to his friends. Blackmailer extrordinaire. Pay me now pay me later.

Condom lizzie Borden/Rice, Bearer of the official "smile" Keeper of fine footwear, leather disco boots, whips and multi-purpose chastity belts. For reasons left undisclosed, known in the group as "gurgler"
There's more.

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3. Hayden was involved in the NSA illegal spying on many millions

So, I wonder if there is any connection between dissent at CIA and illegal spying on Americans?