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CIA Restricts Employees Outside Comments

By Jeralyn, Section Other Politics
Posted on Thu Apr 27, 2006 at 05:46:57 PM EST
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Shane Harris of the National Journal reports:

The CIA has imposed new and tighter restrictions on the books, articles, and opinion pieces published by former employees who are still contractors with the intelligence agency. According to several former CIA officials affected by the new policy, the rules are intended to suppress criticism of the Bush administration and of the CIA. The officials say the restrictions amount to an unprecedented political "appropriateness" test at odds with earlier CIA policies on outside publishing.

The move is a significant departure from the CIA's longtime practice of allowing ex-employees to take critical or contrary positions in public, particularly when they are contractors paid to advise the CIA on important topics and to publish their assessments.

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    • CIA Restricts Employees Outside Comments | 8 comments (8 topical)
    Re: CIA Restricts Employees Outside Comments (none / 0) (#1)
    by chew2 on Thu Apr 27, 2006 at 06:09:36 PM EST
    The "Duke" hooker scandal may entangle that partisan hack Porter Goss.
    I've learned from a highly-connected source that those under intense scrutiny by the FBI are current and former lawmakers on Defense and Intelligence comittees -- including one person who now holds a powerful intelligence post.
    CIA's Goss Drawn Into Hooker Probe?

    Re: CIA Restricts Employees Outside Comments (none / 0) (#2)
    by squeaky on Thu Apr 27, 2006 at 06:24:36 PM EST
    Wouldn't that be sweet.

    Re: CIA Restricts Employees Outside Comments (none / 0) (#3)
    by aw on Thu Apr 27, 2006 at 08:38:34 PM EST
    Government of, by, and for the people. Anyone care to dispute that?

    Re: CIA Restricts Employees Outside Comments (none / 0) (#4)
    by squeaky on Thu Apr 27, 2006 at 08:56:07 PM EST
    aw-
    Government of, by, and for the people.
    This administration would not argue that point, in fact they would hardily agree. The problem is that they interpret the peopleto mean them, an elitist secretive group. We on the other hand are the great unwashed masses.

    Re: CIA Restricts Employees Outside Comments (none / 0) (#5)
    by demohypocrates on Thu Apr 27, 2006 at 10:05:56 PM EST
    That is pathetic. Refer to a ridiculous scandal rag that doesnt allege anything but throws out a bunch of questions. Bespeaks a movement without an agenda that can be sold, but one that attacks an enemy they can take down by innuendo.

    Re: CIA Restricts Employees Outside Comments (none / 0) (#6)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Apr 27, 2006 at 11:35:14 PM EST
    So the administration damages national security yet again. These former officials now have to choose between consulting with the CIA, where their opinions must pass political correctness tests, or speaking in public about issues of national importance. It's not hard to guess that most of them will choose to speak publicly if that's where they feel their duty is, depriving the CIA of their expertise, all thanks to the latest pogrom.

    Re: CIA Restricts Employees Outside Comments (none / 0) (#7)
    by scribe on Fri Apr 28, 2006 at 09:47:17 AM EST
    Where's Larry Flynt with a million dollars, when allegedly (last paragraph)there are running around photos of these congresscritters getting jiggy?

    Re: CIA Restricts Employees Outside Comments (none / 0) (#8)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sat Apr 29, 2006 at 11:12:06 AM EST
    et al - Wow! A secret organization that doesn't want its employees talking. Works for me.

    CIA Restricts Employees Outside Comments | 8 comments (8 topical)