Report: CIA station chief in Islamabad outted

[Judi Lynn]

Source: CBS News

May 8, 2011 9:39 PM
Report: CIA station chief in Islamabad outted
Posted by Joshua Norman

The relationship between the CIA and Pakistani officials was bad before the CIA-coordinated raid that got Osama bin Laden revealed he had been hiding in plain sight there for nearly 6 years.

On Sunday, it managed to get worse as local media reported what they claimed to be the name of the current CIA station chief in Islamabad, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The anonymity of CIA operatives, especially station chiefs, is crucial to their duties abroad. Additionally, the job of CIA station chief in Islamabad is vital to U.S. intelligence, as it currently conducts a massive anti-terrorist operation focused on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region. Yet this is not the first time the CIA station chief in Pakistan has been outted by locals, as a lawsuit this past December outted the last Islamabad station chief and he was forced to leave the country, the Journal reports.

In January, a CIA contractor, Raymond Davis, was held after being accused of killing two men there, and allegedly only released upon the payment of "blood money" to the victims' families. Then in early April, Pakistan threatened new restrictions on the CIA amid its accelerated use of targeted drone strikes within its borders.



Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20060943-503543.html

[Old and In the Way]

1. How many billions have we giiven our 'partner' to fight the GWOT?

Talk about a waste of money...

[JackRiddler]

9. Please, they've performed admirably in maintaining the terror threat.

If it's naive to think the "OBL" safe haven was impossible without ISI protection of some kind, it's also naive to think the USG gives billions to Pakistan and the very same ISI elements who are managing the "terrorism" do not enjoy their own protection from the CIA.

[MisterP]

2. so the CIA coordinated the Valentine's Day-ing of a CIA ex-employee being shielded by the CIA

sockpuppet ISI; however, the CIA's Benazir said the CIA ex-employee has already been dead
and if you find anything fishy about this you "need your head examined"

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[Vehl]

5. +1

[Vehl]

4. Im sure the ISI did it

This is their form of revenge/getting back for being caught red handed with their hand in the jar


btw When this same news was posted earlier today but from a different newspaper which broke the news first; some accused the Times of India of being "biased" and not reliable

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1063102

[JackRiddler]

10. You're assuming there is one ISI.

It's a spook agency. One compartment may not know what the other is doing.

However, the CIA is not as superheroic as advertised. Which is to say, the name of a CIA station chief in a given country usually isn't a secret to whoever in that country (journalists, activists) would care to know it. He would be posing as some deputy ambassador for whatnot, or a military liaison. The tolerance of secret government on this scale, disguising itself within other agencies and within real companies and front groups, has a pernicious effect on all foreign policy. Why should a legitimate NGO be trusted, why should people ever believe someone from the embassy isn't a spook?

[ooglymoogly]

6. Let the cockroaches soar. kr nt

[Garbo 2004]

7. Associated Press says it has learned that name being reported is incorrect.

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_PAKISTAN_BIN_LADEN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-05-09-03-45-15

[Hubert Flottz]

8. I think someone has even written a song about it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUf4F9VXo_s