CIA To Investigate Wikileaks Documents

Washington Examiner:

CIA Director Leon Panetta said the agency's Office of Security will "fully investigate" the WikiLeaks documents released on a public web site. "In some cases, CIA sources and methods have been compromised, harming our mission and endangering lives," he said.

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Comments

[ver1tas]

09:26 PM on 11/09/2010

Right Panetta because it's far more important to put the leak on trial than the war criminals. Another fail by the US justice system. The Framers are rolling in their graves.

The question remains who is going to investigate the CIA?

[hobo62]

04:15 PM on 11/09/2010

Does "Fox guarding the hen house" come to mind?

[Foodgrade]

01:38 PM on 11/09/2010

The CIA did so well destroying their own torture documents, I guess they're getting a shot at damage control of the leaks.

[obelis kreative]

01:04 PM on 11/09/2010

Amazing how most western democracies nowadays boast of 'transparency' and 'accountability' and then when real transparency and accountability roll into town, then there's a big problem.

[kasinca]

01:03 PM on 11/09/2010

I wonder what kind of dirt the previous crime family has to hold over the current adminstration that is bad enough to black mail them into allowing all the crimes to go by the way side. The domestic spying must be paying off.

[billyzazen]

12:24 PM on 11/09/2010

''The media, the public, even former colleagues, are not entitled to details of our work.”

apparently no one is entitled to the details of your 'work' sir, and that is becoming a BIG problem. You are the ones who need investigating here. You are the ones who need an airing out. You've fixed the rules so that in actual fact- no body has any meaningful regulatory authority over you. This needs to change.

We have questions about how YOU work against National Security having been caught handling large amounts of drugs when you are not a proper enforcement agency. Having participated in deadly experiments on US citizens which are now well documented. Having developed a 'heart attack gun' which to me is unthinkable- yet apparently you have one. Having broken US and International law time and time and time again. You DO NOT GET TO CLASSIFY CRIMINAL ACTIVITY and SHAME ON YOU FOR SUGGESTING OUR 'NATIONAL SECURITY' HAS BEEN THREATENED EVEY TIME YOU GET ANYWHERE NEAR THE RIGHTFUL CONSEQUENCES OF YOUR ACTIONS...

Don't go counting on a lot of 'conservative' support either. The more true 'conservatives' find out about your activities the Angrier they become. Liberty matters to them, and all you do is go outside your intended charter to stir up even more problems in this world then we already have.

[Marie Russell-Barker]

11:44 AM on 11/09/2010

Some may think that this kind of information is good for the public to know, but I don't see how this is informative. This Wikleak reporting of this information is not helpful. It not only is giving the citizens this information but our enemies as well. I do think that Wikleak should be investigated and prosecuted for publishing the information.

I agree there are things we need to know and some we we do not need to know. Especially since this could potential endanger others.

Another case of freedom of, I agree with freedom of \speech, and press but there should become a time when one stop and think is this what is needed? The Press want to sell their news the free speech sometime is just because I can and not thinking about who it may hurt. We are human with a brain yet some refuse to use it they may find themselves thinking.

[Foodgrade]

01:42 PM on 11/09/2010

Yeah, U.S. citizens and the world can't possibly benefit from knowing what criminals we have running this country. Kill all the witnesses and round up the usual suspects!

[lightningbolt]

11:34 AM on 11/09/2010

One of the many reasons progressives stayed home in the last election is Obama's refusal to investigate the previous administration's war crimes and its continued cover up of those crimes.  This CIA investigation is continuing the cover up.  Obama will lose more voters in the next election as a result.

[BraveWarrior]

05:02 PM on 11/09/2010

How right you are lightingbolt. They will continue to spin that it was the economy, joblessness, or whining progressives that caused the midterm defeats. But we see everyday big time criminals, nation robbing criminals get a free pass from this justice department. Corrupt and criminal corporations getting renewed, lucrative contracts. I am still waiting for an Obama apologist to explain why Blackwater has become indispensable to our national security and foreign policy. We can see that there is a special justice for the rich and powerful, and unforgiving, relentless justice for the rest of us.

[Fein]

11:26 AM on 11/09/2010

Excuse me Mr. Panetta, CIA's the perp NOT the victim.

Save the misdirection for when the documents reach the Judiciary.

[gwinegarden]

11:24 AM on 11/09/2010

They'll have to find the @sses, first.

[liberalsocialist25]

10:26 AM on 11/09/2010

Mossad as well but one controls the other.

[Rand]

04:55 PM on 11/09/2010

And the evidence that Mossad had anything to do with this is...?
 
Oh, that's right: No evidfence is needed to blame Israel

[liberalsocialist25]

10:25 AM on 11/09/2010

Memo to the wikileaks founder, try to run and hide as much as you can...the CIA is most ruthless murderous agency on the planet al

[3 magi]

10:40 AM on 11/09/2010

He`s supposedly trying to move to Switzerland.

[jspkim]

01:35 PM on 11/09/2010

if that does not work out, he'd consider moving to cuba.

[BraveWarrior]

05:07 PM on 11/09/2010

Not to worry, there will always be people who risk all to reveal the truth. You can't kill ideas. There will always be renegades, who come forward, publish a book, refuse to die with or for lies. That is the beauty of the human spirit. They can crush bodies but never the spirit, no matter how hard they try.

[LI2US]

10:17 AM on 11/09/2010

Ah, the CIA. We should surely trust the integrity of that agency, even if they are behind everything covert, and ops that are often highly illegal. Yes, trust them. That's what we should do.

[BraveWarrior]

05:09 PM on 11/09/2010

I pray that someday they pay for killing our elected leaders, and assorted citizens.

[Soma99]

10:06 AM on 11/09/2010

Why Israel sees double standard in response to Wikileaks' Iraq files
The Wikileaks files on US actions in Iraq has some Israelis arguing they were unfairly singled out by a UN inquiry over the Gaza war.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/1025/Why-Israel-sees-double-standard-in-response-to-Wikileaks-Iraq-files
On Monday, Israeli lawmaker Michael Ben Ari said he filed a formal complaint with the UN, calling for war crimes investigations of senior American politicians and "international arrest warrants for US government leaders."

IN PICTURES: Wikileaks and the war in Iraq

In a letter to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, he wrote: "I call on the UN to condemn the behavior of the US and especially its attempts to hide the facts... We need to expose the hypocrisy of the West... The world must understand who the criminals are."

Such a call emanating from Israel – usually a staunch US ally – may seem strange. But Mr. Ben Ari, a member of Israel's far right, isn't interested in prosecutions of Bush or Obama administration officials so much as he is in pointing out what, to his mind, is unfair criticism of Israel.

[lonngfello]

10:31 AM on 11/09/2010

Some of the criminals happen to have dual citizenship with Israel.

"Project for the New American Century (PNAC) a neo-conservative think tank - PNAC members hold highest-level positions in the George W. Bush administration." (authors are Jewish Zionists many with dual US Israeli citizenship, it could be their loyalty was more to Israeli, not US interests)
According to William Rivers Pitt, "men who created and nurtured the imperial dreams of PNAC became the men who run the Pentagon, the Defense Department and the White House. When the Towers came down, these men saw, at long last, their chance to turn their White Papers into substantive policy."
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Project_for_the_New_American_Century
“'Post-9/11 call for regime change in Iraq
On September 20, 2001 (nine days after the September 11, 2001 attacks), the PNAC sent a letter to President George W. Bush, advocating “a determined effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq,” or regime change:'”
“.........even if evidence does not link Iraq directly to the attack, any strategy aiming at the eradication of terrorism and its sponsors must include a determined effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq. Failure to undertake such an effort will constitute an early and perhaps decisive surrender in the war on international terrorism.[4][18]”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century#Post-9.2F11_call_for_regime_change_in_Iraq
Copy and Google if links fail.

[Soma99]

10:44 AM on 11/09/2010

Correct and now Israel is using wikileaks to cover for their own crimes. Don't get me wrong, I would love to see the Bush administration see their day in court. At the same time wikileaks was nothing we did no know before it was just the informations prime time debut. But it is interesting to me to see who the political opportunists are capitalizing on wikileaks for their own purposes. The information also was quite damning towards Iran which also serves a political purpose.

[rawresolve]

09:53 AM on 11/09/2010

Right... it's not the war crimes that are the problem, it's the whistle blowers.

[BraveWarrior]

05:16 PM on 11/09/2010

Of course Chaney outed a CIA agent, but the agency wasn't so hot to investigate or prosecute was it?