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The
War Profiteers - War Crimes, Kidnappings & Torture |
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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) - Selected
Lawsuits |
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Franz Boening vs.
Central Intelligence Agency Doe vs. Porter Goss,
Central Intelligence Agency et al U.S. vs. Kyle Foggo
& Brent Wilkes Valerie Plame Wilson et al vs. Lewis Libby,
Karl C. Rove et al |
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Franz Boening vs.
Central Intelligence Agency U.S. District Court for the District of
Columbia No. 1:07-cv-00430-EGS Action filed: March 5th, 2007 “[…] Plaintiff, and federal whistleblower, Franz
Boening brings this action against defendant Central Intelligence Agency
(‘CIA’) for injunctive and declaratory relief pursuant to the Federal
Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2201, the Administrative Procedure Act,
5 U.S.C. § 701 et seq., the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651, the CIA’s
internal regulations and the First Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States. […] “3. Plaintiff Franz Boening (‘Boening’) was formerly
employed by the Central Intelligence Agency from 1980 - 2005. After learning
Arabic in the early 1980s, he spent nearly one dozen years in agent
operations, primarily in the Middle East. He worked declassification issues
from 1995 - 1999, and ultimately retired from the Agency after working at the
Foreign Broadcast Information Service where he handled Internet exploitation
and training. He has held a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented security
clearance for nearly 25 years. He is required by virtue of a secrecy
agreement to submit most personal writings for prepublication review. As a
result of the matters addressed herein Boening became a whistleblower and
suffered employment retaliation to include not being sent to Foreign Country
‘A’ despite his having volunteered and possessing needed language skills.
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Doe vs. Porter
Goss, Central Intelligence Agency et al U.S. District Court for the District of
Columbia No. 1:04-cv-02122 (GK) Action filed: December 6th,
2004 “[…] Plaintiff is a citizen of the United States of
America and a current employee of the Central Intelligence Agency. Defendant
Goss is the Director of Central Intelligence (‘DCI’). Defendant CIA is an
agency of the United States. Beginning in 2001 and continuing to the present,
Defendant Goss has injured and continues to injure Plaintiff through acts and
omissions violating Plaintiff’s rights under the Administrative Procedures
Act, 5 U.S.C. §§ 706(1) & (2)(A) - (D). […] Plaintiff is being subjected
to retaliation by Defendants for his refusal to falsify intelligence
collected by him [censored] […] “In 1995 Plaintiff was assigned to the CIA/DO
Counter Proliferation Division (‘CIA/DO/CPD’) where his mission was to
collect intelligence on and interdict
the proliferation of WMD, [censored] […] At all times pertinent hereto
CIA/DO/CPD served as the primary collection point at CIA/DO for Near Easter
WMD programs, [censored] […] Plaintiff was first subjected to a demand that
he alter his intelligence reporting in 2000, [censored] […] “Later, a co-worker of Plaintiff warned him that CIA
management planned to ‘get him’ for his role in reporting intelligence
contrary to official CIA dogma [censored] […] “On August 6, 2004 Plaintiff met with two
representatives from CIA who presented him with a letter of termination for
unspecified reasons, effective September 10, 2004. The letter described
Plaintiff as a contractor whose services are no longer required. […]” |
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U.S. vs. Kyle Dustin Foggo
& Brent Roger Wilkes United States Dictrict Court for the Southern
District of California No. 07 CR 0329 LAB Action filed: February 13th, 2007 “[…] From on or about July 6, 2001 to about November 3, 2004,
defendant Kyle Dustin Foggo, was the senior officer in charge of support
operations at an ‘Overseas Location’ of the Central Intelligence Agency
(‘CIA’), and as such directed the Overseas Location’s daily operations
supplying equipment to personnel overseas. From on or about November 4, 2004
to about May 12, 2006, defendant Foggo was the Executive Director of the CIA
(then the third-highest position in the CIA), and as such directed the CIA’s
daily operations. […] “9. Beginning on a date unknown to the Grand Jury, and continuing
through in or about April 2005, within the Southern District of California
and elsewhere, defendants Kyle Dustin Foggo aka ‘Dusty’ Foggo, and Brent
Roger Wilkes, did knowingly and intentionally conspire with each other, and
with others known and unknown to the Grand Jury, to commit the following
offenses against the United States: a) Honest Wire Fraud, […] b) Engaging in
Monetary Transactions in Property Derived from Specified Unlawful Activity,
[…]” |
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U.S. District Court for the Eastern
District of North Carolina, Western Division No. 5:04-CR-211-(BO)-1 Action filed: June 17th, 2004 “[…] In June of 2003, Defendant David A. Passaro was
an independent contractor working in Afghanistan on behalf of the United
States Central Intelligence Agency (‘CIA’). Defendant Passaro was engaged in
paramilitary training activities in support of the United States military
personnel at the Asadabad Base in the Kunar Province. “[…] On June 19, 2003, Defendant Passaro took
control of the questioning process. Passaro instructed the guards that he
alone would be the source of food for Wali and to maintain Wali in a series
of ‘stress positions’ designed to weaken his resistance. Passaro further told
the guards that while they could not strike Wali, he had different rules
which permitted him to administer any force so long as it was not
life-threatening. “[…] On June 21, 2003, Wali, exhibiting the effects
of his maltreatment, began acting disoriented and belligerent towards the
guards. He entreated the guards to shoot him, and made an attempt to grab one
guard’s sidearm. The Defendant was summoned and administered first aid, which
included kicking Wali’s prostrate body. Wali was pronounced dead
approximately twenty minutes later. […]” |
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Valerie Plame
Wilson & Joseph C. Wilson IV vs. Lewis Libby Jr., Karl C. Rove et al U.S. District Court for the District of
Columbia Case No. 1:06-cv-01258-JDB Action filed: July 13th, 2006 “[…] This Complaint arises out of a conspiracy among
current and former high-level officials in the White House and actions taken
by and on behalf of those officials in 2003 to violate the constitutional and
other legal rights of Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband, Joseph C. Wilson
IV. “Those officials sought to punish Mr. Wilson for his
public staements regarding assertions by the President of the United States
in the 2003 State of the Union address that he used to justify war against
Iraq. As their chief method of punishment, the White House officials
destroyed Mrs. Wilson’s cover by revealing her classified employment with the
CIA to reporters prior to and after July 14, 2003, the date on which a
newspaper column by Robert Novak made public that employment. […]” |
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