Journal: Wikileaks Inspires Panetta, Raises Mouse Turd Count

Impacts from Wikileaks continue to multiply.  Now, just getting a routine courier card renewed now involves pole vaulting over major mouse turds. Message from the Director: Recent Media Leaks November 8, 2010 We have seen in recent months a damaging spate of media leaks on a wide range of national security issues. WikiLeaks is but …

Journal: CIA Continues to Ignore Published Critics

Los Angeles Times October 31, 2010 Memoirs, Mistakes Converge As CIA Promises Reform Spies-turned-authors say the agency’s admitted ‘systemic failures’ in an Afghanistan suicide attack prove their allegations of myriad problems. But one veteran is being sued over his unapproved book. By Ken Dilanian Reporting from Washington–When CIA Director Leon Panetta gathered reporters recently to …

Reference: Panetta Puts Lipstick on the Pig (Again)

Message from the Director: Lessons from Khowst Last December, our Agency family lost seven courageous and talented colleagues in a terrorist attack at Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khowst, Afghanistan. These dedicated men and women were assigned to CIA’s top priority—disrupting and dismantling al-Qa’ida and its militant allies. That work carries, by its very nature, …

Journal: CIA Officer Blew Off Warning in Jordon Weeks in Advance of Jordanian Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan that Killed Seven

C.I.A. Was Told About Bomber of Afghan Base, Inquiry Finds By MARK MAZZETTI The New York Times  Published: October 19, 2010 WASHINGTON — Three weeks before a Jordanian double agent set off a bomb at a remote Central Intelligence Agency base in eastern Afghanistan last December, a C.I.A. officer in Jordan received warnings that the …