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CIA Will Cover Legal Bills for Officers in Inquiry

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(Newser) – Leon Panetta couldn't stop the Justice Department's widening inquiry into the CIA's interrogation policies, but the agency's director can make sure his employees don't go broke paying legal fees. The agency will see to it that case officers caught up in the investigation have representation, the Washington Post reports. Most "don't have much money and could go into debt to hire a good lawyer," says one attorney.

Adds a top intelligence official: "Panetta will do everything he can to ensure that anyone who needs legal representation has it, whether they have liability insurance or not. It's a question of fairness. People who did tough jobs for the country won't be left by the side of the road."

CIA Director Leon Panetta speaks with reporters, at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Va.
CIA Director Leon Panetta speaks with reporters, at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Va.   (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
CIA Director Leon Panetta.
CIA Director Leon Panetta.   (AP Photo/Hector Mata, File)
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Jayster999
Aug 28, 09 10:04 AM CDT
See? Government cronyism and corruption flows seamlessly from one administration to another. You gullible dummycrats really thought you were getting change. Reply
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Fondue
Aug 28, 09 10:09 AM CDT
Would have been just as seamless for McCain.
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shonangreg
Aug 28, 09 10:32 AM CDT
This is all working just as it should. Panetta is advocating for his people in the face of the Justice Department. And Justice (civilian) is trumping intelligence/military. Where is the problem?
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JonmarkP
Aug 28, 09 10:55 AM CDT
No, this is not all working just as it should. The guiltiest parties (if there are degrees of guilt in something as sick as torturing people or animals) lies with Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and others who directed this disease from the top in an effort to extract false confessions tying Iraq to 9/11. The false confessions were needed to justify the invasion and extraction of Iraqi oil. Is this the new justice in America, that high officials go scott free while their minions face prosecution? That's disgusting; I am ashamed. Reply
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justme
Aug 28, 09 3:00 PM CDT
Guilty until proven innocent? Funny, I always thought it was the other way around. If this prosecutor finds the proof, fine. If not, honest government employees doing the hard work this country asks of them should be celebrated, not prosecuted.
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