Yesterday, CIA Director Michael Hayden said the agency will declassify records next week detailing some of its most egregious legal abuses--what historians and CIA officials call the "family jewels." Okay, I'm biting.
According to the Washington Post, the records reveal "a quarter-century of overseas assassination attempts, domestic spying, kidnapping and infiltration of leftist groups from the 1950s to the 1970s" (along with thefts, break-ins, surveillance of journalists, and even the testing of drugs on American citizens).
Why now? The CIA seems overcome by present-day image problems: what with the secret prisons, the abduction of people who end up in said prisons for enhanced-interrogation sessions, the Dusty Foggo corruption case...?
The CIA has a declassified docs collection, and George Washington University has one called The National Security Archives.
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