Why isn’t this guy’s name revealed in the article?
The CIA’s station chief at its sensitive post in Algeria is under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department for allegedly raping at least two Muslim women who claim he laced their drinks with a knock-out drug, U.S. law enforcement sources tell ABC News.
Officials say the 41-year old CIA officer, a convert to Islam, was ordered home by the U.S. Ambassador, David Pearce, in October after the women came forward with their rape allegations in September.
The discovery of more than a dozen videotapes showing the CIA officer engaged in sex acts with other women has led the Justice Department to broaden its investigation to include at least one other Arab country, Egypt, where the CIA officer had been posted earlier in his career, according to law enforcement officials.
The U.S. State Department referred questions to the Department of Justice, which declined to comment.
“It has the potential to be quite explosive if it’s not handled well by the United States government,” said Isobel Coleman, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who specializes in women’s issues in the Middle East.
“This isn’t the type of thing that’s going to be easily pushed under the carpet,” she said.
The CIA refused to acknowledge the investigation or provide the name of the Algiers station chief, but the CIA Director of Public Affairs, Mark Mansfield, said, “I can assure you that the Agency would take seriously, and follow up on, any allegations of impropriety.”
Is it the Valerie Plame rule?
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Maybe we ought to send him to Makkah to be dealt with alongside these 46 gang-raping guys.
“This will be seen as the typical ugly American,” said former CIA officer Bob Baer, reacting to the ABC News report.
Because, as everyone knows, there simply is no other type of American.
Let’s say that this is a little uglier than wearing shorts and a baseball cap and having a beer gut. You know, for the sake of argument.
If this is true, can we flay him alive, then draw and quarter him?
Or is that extreme?
I think that this may deserve extraordinary rendition, JAA.
Did that asshat actually use the term “typical ugly American?” As opposed to what, twathead? The atypical lovely American? The typical Muslim tribal chief marrying his ninth wife, a ten year old girl? Could you in your supreme asshattery as a twathead ex CIA douchnozzle lecture us as to the typical status of Americans overseas?
Asshat!
Is it me or did I just channel JD?
No, then he’ll give interviews from the Algerian jail, claiming he was “driven” to it, and the Left will buy it.
Exactly, off to Makkah with him. They’ve got rules for his kind.
No doubt this is uglier. What does his native country have to do with it?
This is immoral, and this fellow should answer for all of his crimes if he did it…
But I don’t know why they didn’t just refer to him under the obvious state department cover he was under, instead of exposing him as the CIA Station Chief…
I mean, it won’t be hard to figure out who it is; just look at the people recalled in October and check out all of the Muslims who’d served in Egypt prior…
It just seems to me that until anyone was sure that these liasons weren’t simply consentual, and the ladies trying to CYA with the date rape story, that this matter could have neeb handled a little more discreetly…
Of course, I blame Boooooooooosh!
Muslim guys over there rape womens all the time. Here not so much I think. It’s a thing.
Valarie wasn’t undercover.
CIA people are weird anyway I think. Not of good character if you go by their lust for the underminings of the American security. Not sure if it’s bad recruiting or if they just inherently attract anti-American weirdos. Maybe this case will be insightful.
I blame Obama.
They used to do this sort of thing 20 or 30 years ago.
I’m probably going to regret snarking this but…
According to Islamic law, don’t those two women now have to be stoned for their adultry?
PT
Do muslim women go to bars? Do they even have bars? I didn’t think they were allowed to drink alcohol.
What gives?
BJ – I love it that you channelled me. You clearly need to be medicated.
He is a convert to islam, so what is the problem? Where are the four male witnesses? (/sarc tag for those who really need it.)
hf, I think that most CIA are dedicated folks. As with most professions, you hear most about the ones who really suck.
PT, don’t rue your snark too quickly, first checkout the comments under this Sandmonkey post on the 46 gang-rapists.
I’d suggest Rendering his arse extraordinarily.
There’s a metaphor here somewhere.
oh. But it feels good to call them all a bunch of weirdos. They leak national security secrets way too often to their dirty socialist media friends in the interests of undermining America. I either need to see some serious code reds going down or fuck all these bitches I say. They want a good reputation let the rapist traitors earn it.
Oil of Dog style rendering, Techie?
I knew that parsnip/sniffles/alphie could not avoid this one. STFU, asshat.
He’s still looking for his pony, JD.
Dude converted to Islam recently. Isn’t he off the hook? I mean what would we, as tools of American hegemony and imperialism (to say nothing of toxically poisonous Judeo-Christian orthodoxy), understand about ancient cultures? How can we understand The Other?
Somehow, somewhere, I feel psycho would have my back on this one.
Just as “Cat Groomer” could be a metaphor, huh, snip?
There’s a metaphor here somewhere.
Indeed, the word “stimulus” just naturally popped into my mind reading this.
I’m with happyfeet on the CIA. They’ve spent the last eight years undermining a sitting president. The US has fourteen separate intelligence agencies – we wouldn’t miss the CIA.
BJ Texas:
I think the reference was to the ‘typical ugly American’ theme. That phrase has been around for years and is used as part of the ‘typical anti-American talking points’ by the ‘typical anti-Americans’. I don’t think the speaker was actually saying that Americans are typically ugly.
Of course, I could be wrong.
That’s the problem with being a secret agent. You can’t talk about your successes, which may be many, varied, and heroic, but any one mistake can be spectacular. Especially when the agency has to tread political waters.
This example, of course, is awful, and the guy should be given a life of solitary at sing-sing, lest agency secrets be revealed.
Or maybe his memory erased with lasers and stuff, and turned over to the authority the girls are complaining to. The local tribal chief, or whatever.
I’m cool with either one.
The actual “Ugly American” from the book was the only idealistic character. He was called ugly because of his face.
Snipper, Just Stop. Whatever you were going to post, just don’t. You’ve already won PW’s Clown of All Time and Space and Multiverse and Everything Else. No need to pile it on. You’re just acting like Kate Winslet or Sally Field when you do that.
So … what? Why are they leaking this now? Cui bono exactly? The U.S. State Department referred questions to the Department of Justice… well, duh. What the hell would State know about it?
Repeated messages left for the CIA officer with his parents and his sister were not returned.
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The CIA refused to acknowledge the investigation or provide the name of the Algiers station chief… It can be a crime for government officials to reveal the identity of a current covert intelligence officer
ok. So once again the media already knows who he is but it’s a crime if the government tells them. This is a fun game.
Exactly, hf.
I don’t think Ed Morrissey gets it, though, because he’s going off about how this is tantamount to treason.
brb
oh. Ed’s take is … Malkinesque I think. This too shall pass. He may not realize that it was Algerian muslims what pioneered the she asked for it defense in 260 AD. Google it.
In my opinion, Scott did an excellent job with this investigation. This officer is done.
Unless you’re the Scooter…
someone over at the site of the Ed and the Allah is thinking anyway…
At least this one has her head in the game I think.
Who’s Scott?
Or maybe some few of this CIA guys known associates abroad, lee. They may even now be scrambling to get out of the way.
Perhaps this guy was sent on some super secret mission by his super secret agent/desk jockey wife to search for yellow-cake uranium sales when these 2 women entrapped him.
I look forward to all the details in next month’s Vanity Fair cover story.
Log Cabin, rape’s not funny! Unless it happens to Republicans.
interesting kind of…
Officials say the 41-year old CIA officer, a convert to Islam, was ordered home by the U.S. Ambassador, David Pearce, in October after the women came forward with their rape allegations in September.
So that’s why State’s involved… What’s interesting is that this Pearce guy hadn;t been ambassador a month even when this happened.
He’s had a neat career. Definitely not one of those whiny State Department eunuchs that wouldn’t do their jobs.
He has way bad ambassador hair though. Occupational hazard I guess.
Or maybe Obama’s desire to get the US to emulate the ‘cultural sensitivity’ of the United Nations is already bearing fruit! He did say on Al-Arabiya that his job was to get the US to treat the Muslim World with respect.
So when are these whorish she-devils going to be stoned for enticing this good Muslim man into carnal behavior?
Change you can believe in!
Yeah, but it’s interesting that they could have sat on this information since October, considering how leaky they are in other respects having to do with national security and international relations. Who was Pearce’s predecessor in that position, I wonder?
Dan, my corruption-dar is going off.
The actual “Ugly American†from the book was the only idealistic character.
Thank you, ushie.
#34 ushie:
I think I read that book back when I was in 8th-9th grade. Many short stories. I think the one you are refencing was the engineer who worked out, with a village mechanic (Jeepo?), a portable water pump for farmers – a bicycle, a hook-up for the rear wheel, and an old jeep engine block.
Of course, I was referencing the concept of the ugly American. At earlier times it was the bumpkin American, the provincial American, the whatever-is-the-current-way-to-sneer American.
Aristocracies have this thing about colonial-types getting above themselves. I think that the complaint about the US military in Britain before Operation Overlord was that they were ‘over-paid, over-sexed, and over here’.
Yes, and here’s another new one, thor.
This guy was the ambassador to Algeria before Mr. Pearce. Dunno what his deal is. He got all these awards and then he got his first ambassadorship and then ambassadored for a couple years and then he was buh-bye. But he left pre-rapings. As far as we know so far. In June.
Comment by happyfeet on 1/28 @ 5:24 pm #
“since then when President George W. Bush nominated him to become ambassador to Algeria on June 28, 2008. He became ambassador in August.”
See! See!! It’s that Booosh’s fault again. If Bush hadn’t nominated him, none of us would have happened!!1!
/snorfle
none of ‘this’ either…
There’s really no end to how much you can spend redoing your kitchen. I want a kitchen what has a fireplace and a comfy chair in it what you have to shoo the cat off of before you sit down. A for reals fireplace not the stove kind. A big imposing stone one.
Would that be one of those kitchen fireplaces you could cook for Henry VIII? Big pots and a spit turned by a dog on a treadmill-thing?
Also a den paneled in ancient oak with those kick-ass leather club chairs (the real ones, not the crappy modern knockoffs).
And a smoking jacket.
oh… the kind you could fit inside easy? That sounds very cool but probably not practical. But now you’ve got me thinking.
I like the den too but the window is key. It needs a view where one might see an errant bird or fox or bunny wander onto the grounds. Then you tell people about it as if it were of high import. Being old is gonna kick ass I think.
The Valerie Plame rule? I would not be surprised if the douchbag was Joe Wilson (yeah I know he does not work for the CIA, but I would love to see him get his tit caught in the wringer).
If your jacket is smoking you’re doing it wrong.
Dan, thor’s link points to Mayor Gregory Warr of Gulfport, Miss., as a possible fraudster. But he was really one of the few Katrina heros. George Bush singled him out as being one of the good Mayors (compared to, say, that idiot in N.O.).
I’ll bet there’s been some payback scheduled against Warr for a while. I’m thinking he’s probably not a crook.
But then, I’m picking the Cards this weekend..
If he’s a Muslim and he’s guilty of a sex-crime, seems like he ought to be judged under the rules of his beloved Sharia Law. Doesn’t Sharia Law require beheading?
i don’t what these comment are for , but when i read one or of these comment i know one thing americans are living in hell they believe every thing the government say . i will tell you one thing about Algeria . No one when i say No one i mean it , No one but GOD no whats going on in our country and one more thing i hear some people talk about religion and Islam and things like this i will say to them keep watch Hollywood movies when you don’t know nothing about the subject you hearing about just shup up and listen to the know people