At CIA, Grave Mistakes, Then Promotions -- NPR/APIn December 2003, security forces boarded a bus in Macedonia and snatched a German citizen named Khaled el-Masri. For the next five months, el-Masri was a ghost. Only a select group of CIA officers knew he had been taken to a secret prison for interrogation in Afghanistan.
But he was the wrong guy.
Read more ....
More News On Misdeeds In The CIA
CIA agents who made post 9/11 mistakes were 'promoted not punished' -- The Daily Mail
CIA Officials Involved in Abuse and Wrongful Detention Rarely Reprimanded, Sometimes Promoted -- TPM
Failing upward at the CIA -- Federal Times
CIA Gets Wrong Men, Then Promotes Them -- The Slate
Look Forward, and Promote the Torturers -- Empty Wheel
Torturers: Failing Upwards -- The Daily Dish, The Atlantic
My Comment: I have been critical of the CIA for a long time (and the Associated Press even longer), but this report from the AP is dynamite. I expect a lot more coverage on this story in the next few days when the other wire services and news reporters start to do their own digging.
So much for that "new look".
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