Judge: CIA Officials Misled Me; Unseals Secret Files

McClatchy:

A federal district judge ruled Monday that the CIA repeatedly misled him in asserting that state secrets were involved in a 15-year-old lawsuit involving allegedly illegal wiretapping.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth also ordered former CIA director George Tenet and five other CIA officials to explain their actions or face potential sanctions.

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Comments

[Okieborn]

DUH !!!
Get busy doing something about it !!!
To much lip service not enough action !!!!

[Whinger]

Boys will be boys!

[wonketteRAWKS]

Very cool folks!

[Coinyer101]

Time for that Judge to issue warrants for arrests, ain't it? I'm sure if they follow the trail it will all come back to cheeney...­...,

[babyboomerorig]

Who would have thought that there was even ONE judge who put all the perceived power aside to do the right thing.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

[Telemachus]

Lamberth rocks!!

"The issue that angered him most ... was the CIA's failure to reveal that Brown, once undercover, had had his cover lifted in 2002. That fact wasn't revealed until 2008.

"Lamberth concluded that the CIA's attorneys engaged in a 'fraud on the court' by not revealing that Brown's name no longer needed to be kept secret. In fact, Lambert had dismissed the case in 2004, citing Brown's undercover status. An appeals court overturned that decision.

"'The CIA was well-aware that the assertion of the state secrets privilege as to Brown was a key strategy in getting the case dismissed,' Lamberth stated in a previously sealed Feb. 6 ruling, adding that the 'misconduct by the government . . . (raises) very serious implicatio­ns.'

"Lamberth's action Monday came days after a July 10 legal filing by Assistant Attorney General Tony West in which he said the CIA 'regrets' not having informed judges earlier about Brown's changed status."

[bronceye]

Oh my God. Al Quaida wants to kill my children and if we find out what the bush/cheney regime did, Al Quaida will do just that. I am so tewwified of the wabbits.

[edwcorey]

It's time to turn that place inside out, back up the wagon, and take them all to jail. They're a fascist front posing as "protectors," who have caused a majority of the hatred for the U.S. around the world. They love to say that the good they do is secret. Why? Because the "good" they do does not exist. Their path is strewn with ineptitude, corruption and dead and tortured bodies. And I resent my taxes paying for their existence. I wouldn't mind my taxes paying for their incarceration and working on a chain gang in a uranium mine.

[lovable]

YOU MEAN THE CIA LIES. HO KNEW. WHY IS THIS NOT BREAKING NEWS AS WHEN PELOSI SAID THE SAME THING!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!! WELL THATS OPINION JORNALISM TODAY !!!!!!!!!FOX WILL NEVER REPORT THIS.

[brandnewstuff]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVvTTIojDF8
don't lie...
lie, cheat, steal, rob and rape.. don't lie

[brandnewstuff]

Okay so with illegal programs will the truth come out ChainEs agents played war on people on domestic soil.. Killing and extortion.­.. wow dallas air stinks for LIFE

[jazzman]

Oh the judge is just acting like Nancy Pelosi! We all know that Pelosi lies and the CIA is the paragon of integrity and truth. Just like we know Cheney is the also nothing but a truth teller.

[alwqb]

OK, now come out and say you lied about Nancy Pelosi. We all know she was used and its time to exonerate her. Do your job Paneta, why have you admitted that everyone else was lied to except for Nancy Pelosi?

[sc300nc]

Gee, I wonder if that judge was a Bush supporter? He wouldn't have an axe to grind, would he?

[Jalepeno]

He has to take down Slick Willie and that want set well with people. Looks as though we have many skunks in the wood pile that goes back many years.

[Moshe]

Try lied.