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The Chicago Tribune says it has compiled a list of 2,653 CIA employees, just by searching the internet.
The newspaper said it gathered the information from online services that compile public data, that any fee-paying subscriber can access.

It did not publish the names, at the CIA's request. Many of the agents are believed to be covert. The paper also located two dozen "secret" facilities.

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Originally posted by Geezer:

should the Internet be shut down for outing an additional 2.5K spooks?

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Originally posted by cartoon:
Welcome to the information age.

This is very scary. (At least I'm scared.)

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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Because of Plame's outing, not only was one secret agenda killed, but many of Plame's contacts as well, by Al Qaeda forces who quickly seized on the identification with pictures and details which was dutifully broadcast ad nauseum by our media thanks to another traitor, Bob Novak. As a result of all of this, Al Qaeda was freed of many of its own leaks, and could pursue WMD trades more or less unhindered.

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
I agree, Cartoon.

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
If the 'net gets closed, it was nice talking with ya...

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Originally posted by cartoon:

Net gets closed?!?!? Whoah!! I was referring to the fact that people can apparently access personal information regarding the identity of our agents freely over the internet.

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
However we may duke it out on the RWED, we're both still Browncoats, right?

Looney Chrisisall

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Ah yes, the Plame Gambit. An evil plot to betray the United States by outing our own female Jane Bond despite the fact the she was retired from covert work (unless she was under conver working a desk at the CIA), her only real contacts were a hair salon in Prague and a Chinease take-out place near Langley, and everybody already knew who she was.

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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
the revealing of her identity would have tipped off Al Qaeda, who probably keeps tabs on everyone from the west that their associates do business with.

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Originally posted by dc4bs:

um...

I'm not gonna argue about who built the "caves",

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In the early part of the first millennium B.C., Persians started constructing elaborate tunnel systems called qanats for extracting groundwater in the dry mountain basins of present-day Iran (see figure 1). Qanat tunnels were hand-dug, just large enough to fit the person doing the digging. Along the length of a qanat, which can be several kilometers, vertical shafts were sunk at intervals of 20 to 30 meters to remove excavated material and to provide ventilation and access for repairs. The main qanat tunnel sloped gently down from pre-mountainous alluvial fans to an outlet at a village. From there, canals would distribute water to fields for irrigation. These amazing structures allowed Persian farmers to succeed despite long dry periods when there was no surface water to be had. Many qanats are still in use stretching from China on the east to Morocco on the west, and even to the Americas.

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I'm not gonna argue about who built the "caves", but if it was us then why couldn't we find em and or get into them for so long?

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I mean, given we'd have access to the construction plans, etc...

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It did not publish the names, at the CIA's request. Many of the agents are believed to be covert. The paper also located two dozen "secret" facilities.

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Next time someone cmoplains about the Big Bad Media, I'd like to point them to this. "See, the reporters aren't all out to get you. They're not trying to destroy the country, or advance an insidious agenda. If they were, they'd have published the names!"