{"id":1485,"date":"2007-10-16T21:07:46","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T21:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/opinion\/who-watches-the-cia-watchers\/1485\/"},"modified":"2007-10-16T21:07:46","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T21:07:46","slug":"who-watches-the-cia-watchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/surveillance-big-brother\/who-watches-the-cia-watchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Watches the CIA Watchers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><font size=\"2\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/thenation\/20071016\/cm_thenation\/7243161;_ylt=A9G_Rz4kIhVHLQMALQD9wxIF\">Katrina vanden Heuvel<\/a><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span>In the cloak and dagger, smoke and hall of mirrors that is the CIA, we have more evidence that it&#8217;s dangerous to be a whistleblower, even if that happens to be your job. The CIA&#8217;s own inspector general, John Helgerson, is <a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/thenation\/cm_thenation\/storytext\/7243161\/24840875\/SIG=11vdad3if\/*http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=15225068\"><font color=\"#003399\">being investigated<\/font><\/a> by CIA Director Michael Hayden regarding his investigations into CIA torture allegations.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <em>New York Times<\/em>, &#8220;The review is particularly focused on complaints that Mr. Helgerson&#8217;s office has not acted as a fair and impartial judge of agency operations but instead has begun a crusade against those who have participated in controversial detention programs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the investigator into torture is <a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/thenation\/cm_thenation\/storytext\/7243161\/24840875\/SIG=122btmkm0\/*http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5hpzNzkZo4QIbporX-wWExnjsZqBw\"><font color=\"#003399\">being tortured by an investigation<\/font><\/a>&#8211;the bureaucratic equivalent of water boarding&#8211;into his crusade against the crusaders. And &#8217;round and &#8217;round we go.<\/p>\n<p>But if Hayden is watching Helgerson who is watching Hayden and the CIA, is anyone watching over this mess? Who would benefit from a cowed CIA? Who needs evidence that Iran is up to no good to justify another war? <a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/thenation\/cm_thenation\/storytext\/7243161\/24840875\/SIG=12regqkd0\/*http:\/\/matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/%20dick_cheney_privacy_advocate.php\"><font color=\"#003399\">Dick Cheney, perhaps<\/font><\/a>? Who knows? No one watches over him. Not even Google Maps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katrina vanden Heuvel In the cloak and dagger, smoke and hall of mirrors that is the CIA, we have more evidence that it&#8217;s dangerous to be a whistleblower, even if that happens to be your job. The CIA&#8217;s own inspector general, John Helgerson, is being investigated by CIA Director Michael Hayden regarding his investigations into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1614],"tags":[51],"class_list":{"0":"post-1485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-surveillance-big-brother","7":"tag-torture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}