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Turns out it doesn’t take a White House staffer to out a CIA agent. An investigation by the Chicago Tribune found lots of information about undercover intelligence agents via the Internet — a situation that reportedly has “horrified” CIA Director Porter Goss. “When the Tribune searched a commercial online data service, the result was a virtual directory of more than 2,600 CIA employees, 50 internal agency telephone numbers and the locations of some two dozen secret CIA facilities around the United States,” the newspaper said. A spokeswoman told the Tribune that “Goss is committed to modernizing the way the agency does cover in order to protect our officers who are doing dangerous work.” He better be. Expect some to blame the Tribune, too, though it surely has done the nation a favor in bringing this security lapse to light.
Posted by Rhonda Holman