Yet another case of a CIA operative who is "left behind" in Lahore of all places...this man is in in danger; he could be hanged. His jailers are no friends of the U.S. He went over there with a diplomatic passport. He didn't sign on for this s#$^^& - the guys that high tailed it out of there after destroying the documents at the safe house should have made sure they got him out when he was in trouble- first.

What happened to 'no man left behind'?

According to the AP in Dearborn Michigan, the CIA released a new recruiting commercial focused on Arab-Americans.  It shows several people at a dinner party, with a male voice speaking in a Middle Eastern accent: "Your nation, your world," as the camera moves to reveal the dinner party is in an upper level of a high rise building.  The shot moves within seconds to an image from space.  "They're worth protecting," the voice says, ending with  "Careers in the CIA."

The commercial's planned debut will be on ethnic TV stations and Web sites within the next few months.

This ad, along with another one aimed at Iranian-Americans, are part of the Agency's outreach effort considered critical in the fight against terrorism in the U.S.

CIA often gets blamed for Blackwater's mistakes.  Of course, who is crowing about all this but leftists at Democracy Now, FiredogLake, the Nation and others.  Here's at the site Newser they talk about Blackwater waging a "secret war" in Pakistan. At America Blog is the headline Blackwater allegedly running covert ops in Pakistan, posing as USAID employees - with the accusation that Blackwater is kidnapping and assassinating people in Pakistan.  Of course, Blackwater employees, like some who have served in our military, are still faced with the accusation of 'killing innocent Iraqis' along with bribing Iraqi officials.

Alas, what the leftists say and what reality is are two totally separate things.  The problem is that they are waging a war on our silent professionals and have made serious progress in destroying their valuable work and threaten to completely destroy their ability to continue doing it.  American citizens need them for the work they do, regardless as to whether those who attended "Peace and Conflict Studies" classes understand it or not.

In late October, according to this article at the Corner at NRO, the Justice Department released reams of newly declassified documents on the CIA's interrogation program.  Among them is a revised, October 2009 version of the DOJ's Inspector General’s report on the FBI’s involvement in detainee interrogations.   This report proves DEFINITIVELY that FBI interrogator Ali Soufan lied about his role in the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah. 

Soufan is a hero of the left for criticizing the CIA's interrogation techniques, Warrick and Finn did so here in this Washington Post Op Ed citing information provided by him.  A full retraction was posted at the Washington Post, although it wasn't called a "retraction", where they admit that valuable intelligence was gathered as a result of the CIA's interrogation techniques.

“Although Abu Zubaydah was not a member of al Qaeda and had limited relations with bin Laden, he was a font of information on the membership of the terrorist group because of his long standing ties with [Khalid Sheikh] Mohammed and North African jihadists” (emphasis added).

It's long been said that the entire reason to bring Gitmo terrorists to New York is to put the United States on Trial.  Vince Flynn, wildly successful novelist and friend to the Intelligence community, spoke on Glenn Beck earlier this week and flatly stated that Eric Holder will use the trials to further humiliate and maybe even prosecute -- the CIA agents who protected Americans from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his ilk.

In fact, when Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was first rousted out of bed in 2003 in Pakistan, the first thing he wanted was a lawyer and to be taken to New York.  Isn't it sickening how Holder is granting him his first wish.

Read more at the Examiner.

There has been a major flap over Panetta's failure to protect the Agency from Obama's attack on the Bush administration's interrogation practices - particularly waterboarding. 

"There was a feeling [Panetta] had not done enough to defend the CIA from the politicians," says one former Agency staffer. "People were asking, 'What's the point in having a so-called political expert as xirector if he can't do that?"

After months of political infighting, Joe Biden and National Security Advisor James Jones ruled that the CIA would continue to have a direct line to the White House on covert operations and that CIA station chiefs would continue as top intelligence officers in all missions abroad.  Blair had been seeking more responsibility in covert ops, and the right to anoint a non-CIA staffer as intel boss on certain foreign missions.

Poor Valerie.   The New York Times trumpeted the news the other day - that Valerie's 'rights' weren't violated by the CIA.  The Chicago Tribune featured a tiny paragraph about how she lost her appeal to declassify parts of her memoir, "Fair Game".

“When Ms. Wilson elected to serve with the C.I.A., she accepted a life-long restriction on her ability to disclose classified and classifiable information.”

Consequently, her memoirs are losing their appeal, too.  Media continue to spread the lie that she was "outted" by "Scooter" Libby, when, in fact she was outted by Aldrich Ames and that's why she was sitting in Langley as a desk jockey for years.  It was widely known in Washington's cocktail circuit that she worked for the CIA...it was no "secret".  She wouldn't have been able to pose for Vanity Fair with her famous husband, Joe Wilson, if she was in fact protecting a 'covert' identity; yet that's precisely what she did.

As reported at the UK's telegraph by Andrew Osborn in Moscow:

A former horse riding school in the tiny Baltic state of Lithuania was used as a secret CIA prison to hold and interrogate top al-Qaeda terrorists, it has been claimed.

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