[IP] CIA Insurance

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Jim Warren <jwarren@well.com>
Date: September 12, 2006 10:14:53 AM JST
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
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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