Sabrina DeSousa, an alleged CIA agent charged with kidnapping in Italy, says that a Justice Department decision to pay her legal costs is much too little, much too late.
"Unbelievable! The United States Department of Justice just 'approved' an attorney to defend me, a month after the trial ended,
knowing full well that an attorney at this stage will make little or no
difference to the outcome or verdict," DeSousa said via e-mail Friday.
The release of Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi from a Scottish jail has opened cash spigots from Tripoli to London, but a Justice Department spokesman says the Libyan Pan Am 103 bomber could be arrested again, along with other unnamed conspirators.
"There remains an open indictment in the District of Columbia and an open investigation," Richard Kolko, an FBI agent and Justice Department spokesman, told SpyTalk Thursday.
It's hard to find any clear winners in the new interrogations set-up confirmed by the White House on Monday, but it's easy to spot the losers: Leon Panetta and Dennis Blair.
You can imagine the conversation Tom Ridge had with his literary agent last year.
"Governor, I've just finished your manuscript. Wonderful -- all that fascinating stuff about how the government works -- or doesn't!" (Laughs.)
"All those alphabet agencies - NSC, ODNI, NCTC - my God. How did you keep all of them straight?" (Chuckles.)
CIA Director Leon Panetta told Congress about a counterterrorism assassination program run by the agency before knowing all the facts, a renowned writer on intelligence says.
The Department of Homeland Security said today that reports on antiwar groups gathered by John Towery, an undercover Army spy in Washington State, did not make their way into DHS intelligence data banks.
Only three weeks after a federal judge ruled that CIA lawyers committed fraud in a lawsuit, another top agency lawyer is being accused of unethical conduct in another case.
Attorneys for a onetime CIA recruit who is embroiled in a contract dispute with the spy
agency have asked a federal court to punish CIA Assistant General
Counsel Daniel L. Pines for what they call "a pattern of troubling
negligence if not outright deceit."
Recent jihadist attacks on Pakistan's nuclear facilities did not threaten the security of the weapons inside, an American intelligence official says.
Leon Panetta, the former congressman and White House staffer who runs the CIA, says people should forget about the past and move on.
I totally sympathize with him. The mistakes I've made - man, I'd like people to just forget about them!
