Column that deals with the wrongful (isn't it all, though?) rendition case revealed this weekend, as well as the Blanco documents regarding Katrina.
More often than not, the most revealing stories about the White House don't come directly from the White House. They come from people who've had dealings with the White House.
Case in point, two stories over the weekend, one about the CIA's practice of rendition, and the other about the government response to Hurricane Katrina.
Dana Priest writes in Sunday's Washington Post about Khaled Masri, a German citizen wrongfully imprisoned by the CIA for five months, whose case "offers a rare study of how pressure on the CIA to apprehend al Qaeda members after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has led in some instances to detention based on thin or speculative evidence. The case also shows how complicated it can be to correct errors in a system built and operated in secret."
And where did that pressure come from?
Priest's story focuses on one CIA office in particular, the Counterterrorist Center, or CTC. "J. Cofer Black, a professorial former spy who spent years chasing Osama bin Laden, was the CTC's director," Priest writes. "With a flair for melodrama, Black had earned special access to the White House after he briefed President Bush on the CIA's war plan for Afghanistan.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/12/05/BL2005120501074.html
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