CIA Employee’s Quest To Release Information ‘Destroyed My Entire Career’ -- Washington Post
His CIA career included assignments in Africa, Afghanistan and Iraq, but the most perilous posting for Jeffrey Scudder turned out to be a two-year stint in a sleepy office that looks after the agency’s historical files.
It was there that Scudder discovered a stack of articles, hundreds of histories of long-dormant conflicts and operations that he concluded were still being stored in secret years after they should have been shared with the public.
To get them released, Scudder submitted a request under the Freedom of Information Act — a step that any citizen can take, but one that is highly unusual for a CIA employee. Four years later, the CIA has released some of those articles and withheld others. It also has forced Scudder out.
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My Comment: The intel community is nervous that another Edward Snowden may perk releasing sensitive secrets .... especially in organizations like the CIA. Any doubts on anyone will probably end that person's career ... especially now. As to this particular case .... I do not know the details but there must be more to the story.
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