Internet Searches Reveal CIA's Secrets

GabrielF writes "In another blow to the reputation of the agency that just can't seem to get anything right, the Chicago Tribune used web searches and various commercial online databases to uncover a treasure trove of information about the CIA. The Tribune found the identities of over 2600 CIA employees (including an undisclosed number of covert operatives) as well as the locations of over two dozen CIA facilities across the U.S., internal telephone numbers, and information on 17 aircraft."

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Re:The CIA trained Arabs to be terrorists.

[N8F8]

First Point: You really don't know what you are talking about (from a technical or legal perspective).

Second Point: You found out about the program through leaks from the congressional comittee (Democrats) being briefed on the program). They counted on the public being too stupid to understand the hairsplitting done to call the program something differennt than wiretapping and thus making FISA approval unneccesary.

Third Point: You really should be aware that this is the typical second term ploy to turn the sitting president into a lame duck so congress can garner even more power. They usually accomplish this by apealing to the 30% of the population that really hate their own country and/or have no clue how the real world works.