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View Poll Results: Thinking of Working for the CIA?
No Way 2 20.00%
No Comment 3 30.00%
Already Am 1 10.00%
Retired 0 0%
Undecided 0 0%
Who's the CIA? 0 0%
Ah, That's Passe 1 10.00%
Waiting to See Next Election Results First 1 10.00%
I'd jump at the chance 2 20.00%
Voters: 10. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 10-29-2003, 03:19 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Unhappy Several More Good Reasons Not To Pursue a Career with the CIA?

Link: Court overturns former CIA agent's conviction for selling arms to Libya

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Hughes said the government had refused to disclose records of Wilson's continued work for the spy agency during the former agent's trial.

The government had convinced the judge in Wilson's trial that the ex-spy had virtually no contact with the CIA following his supposed retirement from the agency in 1971.

However, Hughes said "there were, in fact, over 80 contacts."

"Confronted with its own internal memoranda, the government now says that, well, it might have misstated the truth, but that it was Wilson's fault, it did not really matter, and it did not know what it was doing," Hughes wrote in a scathing ruling quashing Wilson's Texas conviction.

"The government's preparation, presentation and preservation of false evidence are not the process that is due from the government," said Hughes, who presides in the US Southern District of Texas.

Wilson is serving a 52-year sentence in a federal prison in Pennsylvania.
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Old 11-02-2003, 01:53 PM   #2 (permalink)
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What, no option indicating my opinion I'd jump at the chance? Most people forget that the CIA really has two jobs, intellegence gathering (aka spying) and analysis. The analysis part sounds really interesting.
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Old 11-02-2003, 05:04 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Angry yes, but then we'd hafta keel yu

Bah, you analysts are all alike :p ( j/k -- )

Serially, though, only mods get ta' edit polls, so tuff lukc, Belisarius

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Also, what makes you so sure you'd have control over what type of assignments you get? Doesn't the CIA still operate military-style regarding job preferences?
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Old 11-02-2003, 07:55 PM   #4 (permalink)
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i added the new option
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Old 11-03-2003, 05:01 AM   #5 (permalink)
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uhh...

don't you think u should ask first? I protest your unasked for edit.
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Old 11-03-2003, 07:48 AM   #6 (permalink)
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woohoo ... our first CodeNewbie political protest.
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