Ever wonder what happened to the guy who destroyed the CIA torture tapes?

[bushmeister0]

Indictment? Jail time? Naw, he got a cooshy job at Blackwater USA's new private CIA operation. Thta's where all the the smart spooks are going. Patriotism is one thing, but Blackwater is where the money is.

The Nation:

"Total Intelligence, which opened for business in February 2007, is a fusion of three entities bought up by (Erik) Prince: the Terrorism Research Center, Technical Defense and The Black Group -- Blackwater vice chair Cofer Black's consulting agency. The company's leadership reads like a Who's Who of the CIA's 'war on terror' operations after 9/11. In addition to the twenty-eight-year CIA veteran Black, who is chair of Total Intelligence, the company's executives include CEO Robert Richer, the former associate deputy director of the agency's Directorate of Operations and the second-ranking official in charge of clandestine operations . . .

Total Intelligence's chief operating officer is Enrique 'Ric' Prado, a twenty-four-year CIA veteran and former senior executive officer in the Directorate of Operations. He spent more than a decade working in the CIA's Counterterrorist Center and ten years with the CIA's 'paramilitary' Special Operations Group. Prado and Black worked closely at the CIA.

Prado also served in Latin America with Jose Rodriguez, who gained infamy late last year after it was revealed that as director of the National Clandestine Service at the CIA he was allegedly responsible for destroying videotapes of interrogations of prisoners, during which 'enhanced interrogation techniques,' including waterboarding, were reportedly used. Richer told the New York Times he recalled many conversations with Rodriguez, about the tapes. 'He would always say, "I'm not going to let my people get nailed for something they were ordered to do,"' Richer said of his former boss. Before the scandal, there were reports that Blackwater had been 'aggressively recruiting' Rodriguez. He has since retired from the CIA."

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/87200/?page=entire

[ColbertWatcher]

1. The revolving door strikes again! n/t

[jimshoes]

2. How nice. We have our own Gestapo now

But do they have snappy black uniforms?

[annabanana]

3. Didn't the Gestapo at least PRETEND to be government run?

Blackwater doesn't even bother with the fiction.

[jimshoes]

5. Technically yes

I believe the gestapo was brought under state control as well as the SA or the Brownshirts who all were required to take an oath of allegiance to Hitler at some point after he became chancellor. My recollection of my readings of those times is fuzzy though at best.
It only makes me wonder if that type of scenario could ever be played out here.

[ThomWV]

4. One presumes a job with Blackwater will be no protection from prosectution after '08

I wonder, will anything be done to clean up this serwer or not?

[annabanana]

6. Isn't there some law against private armies?

really.

[robinlynne]

9. I think there will be an "appearance" of cleaning up. but not a real scrub.

[tuggle]

7. nice. why does this still make me sick?

I can't get used to the blatant corruption

[glitch]

8. Cancer is disgusting in all its forms.

There is just no way around it.

[leveymg]

10. Cofer Black and Ric Prado also were the guys who let the Flt. 77 hijackers into the country.