Date of Document: 8/21/2005
…
From/To: Created by a CIA/OIG employee

…Document Description: This four-page document is an Interview Report of an Interview with a CIA employee that was taken during the course of an OIG criminal investigation…

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Date of Document: 9/11/2005
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From/To: Created by a CIA/OIG employee

…Document Description: This two-page document is an Interview Report of an Interview with a CIA employee that was taken during the course of a criminal investigation…

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Document Description: This four-page document consists of a one-page routing slip, a two-page memorandum, and a one-page internal distribution slip. The document is dated September 28, 2005 and bears the classification SECRET. The memorandum is from the CIA Office of General Counsel to the DCIA and provides a declassification recommendation within the context of a particular matter.

The document is withheld in its entirety…

…The document is also exempt pursuant to exemption (b)(5). The memorandum contains legal advice from the CIA Office of General Counsel to the DCIA and is therefore withheld pursuant to the attorney-client privilege. It was prepared by attorneys in contemplation of a specific potential criminal prosecution and is therefore also withheld in full pursuant to the attorney work-product privilege…

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Wanna bet that the declassification recommendation was Never?

Date of Document: May 2, 2007

Document Type: Letter

Classification: SCI, Top Secret

From/To: From a member of Congress to a non-government entity

Subject: Request for information

…Document Description: This document is a three page letter requesting information and documents from a non-government entity. The document is dated May 2, 2007 and bears the classification marking TOP/SECRET//SCI.

This document is withheld in its entirety based on FOIA exemptions (b)(1) and (b)(3).

Couple questions come to mind:

1. How in the heck did the CIA’s Office of General Counsel get a copy of this letter which was sent from a Congressperson to a non-government entity?

2. How does the CIA classify an unclassified Congressional letter to a non-government entity as Top Secret/SCI?

3. Why is an unclassified Congressional letter classified?

4. Wonder if Amnesty International, one of the plaintiffs to this FOIA lawsuit, is the non-government entity? Or it could be the International Red Cross as another alternative.

47 – that 11 is interesting. I thought an order was entered a long time back requiring the disclosure of detainee names (over the objection based on that same argument of privacy issues), so are they talking about someone whose status as a detainee has not been made public to date?

It sure reads like a non-disclosed detainee. As well as an unprosecuted bunch of CIA folks.

And the date of August 2004 means we’re getting close to 4 years with no consequences. Ring any bells?

139. The CIA’s purpose in requesting advice from OLC was the very likely prospect of criminal, civil, or administrative litigation against the CIA and CIA personnel who participate in the Program. The CIA requested OLC’s legal advice both because the CIA and its personnel anticipated that these issues would continue to be the subject of litigation and, for some of these documents, because the CIA and its personnel had been subject to criminal, civil, or administrative proceedings concerning the Program. This advice was not solicited in the ordinary course of business. Rather, the requests for advice were solicited in order to prepare the CIA to defend against future criminal, civil, and administrative proceedings that the CIA considered to be virtually inevitable.

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…Because CIA’s records are decentralized and compartmented, each component must then devise its own search strategy, which includes identifying which of its records systems to search as well as what search tools, indices, and terms to employ.

Oooh, this sounds really hard. Gosh Bush Gomers, I don’t know dick about computers and their codes or whatever; but I am plenty edified enough from the Jethro Bodine School of Digitology to come over and solve that little problem for you there. Is Monday okay for ya?

This kind of pure unadulterated horseshit is so idiotically beyond the sublime that our desensitized public and E-TV Norons lap it up like the tail of the Hale-Bopp Comet on the way to Heaven’s Gate. I apologize for the person editing these foul mouthed comments, he has been sacked.

5. Document no. 249 is an Initial Serious Sensitive Incident Report related to an allegation of detainee abuse, reported on August 12, 2004. The abuse was allegedly committed by Central Intelligence Agency personnel. The document was created by a CID Agent and describes the allegations in general terms and provides the status of the investigation.

But “we don’t torture”, right?

I’ve been following all this here, especially as it’s heated up since
release of Yoo memos… but not a single word in Albuquerque’s “paper of
record”: ABQ Journal. Not a single word.

The Journal does opine, however, railing against Soros for making $$ betting against the “shitpile” … which is the most attention this paper’s given to heart of mortgage bond collapse (Samuelson’s articles about it).

Oh well, at least I can take solace knowing Doogie Feith… “took an extremely strongly pro-Geneva Convention position in the Pentagon.”

I feel like I’m living in a fucking 3 ring circus.