Perhaps the hippest piece out right now on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal was printed in today's Los Angeles Times. Titled CIA May Have Had a Role in Hiding Iraqi Prisoners, the article underlines a fact that should have been obvious from the beginning: The "ghost prisoners" in that notorious hell-hole were kept at behest of the CIA. (Whenever you see the words "Other governmental agency" in a mainstream news story or an official report, presume a reference to the intel community. OGA = CIA.)
Forgive me for being the guy who counts the deck chairs on the Titanic, but I could not help noticing that the piece says 500 CIA personnel are in Iraq right now. A previous news story had put the figure closer to 3000. I imagine the real number is somewhere in between. We can fairly presume that the place is -- as Jim Hougan once put it -- well and truly "spooked up."
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