[IP] CIA Insurance
Begin forwarded message:
From: Jim Warren <jwarren@xxxxxxxx>
Date: September 12, 2006 10:14:53 AM JST
To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: fwd: CIA Insurance
Ironic: CIA torturers can buy insurance to cover their crimes
while millions of Americans go without health insurance of any
kind. Priorities, priorities....
GD
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/10/
AR2006091001286_pf.html
Worried CIA Officers Buy Legal Insurance
By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, September 11, 2006; A01
CIA counterterrorism officers have signed up in growing numbers for
a government-reimbursed, private insurance plan that would pay
their civil judgments and legal expenses if they are sued or
charged with criminal wrongdoing, according to current and former
intelligence officials and others with knowledge of the program.
The new enrollments reflect heightened anxiety at the CIA that
officers may be vulnerable to accusations they were involved in
abuse, torture, human rights violations and other misconduct,
including wrongdoing related to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. They
worry that they will not have Justice Department representation in
court or congressional inquiries, the officials said.
The anxieties stem partly from public controversy about a system of
secret CIA prisons in which detainees were ... <BIG SNIP> ...
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