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Ex-CIA Officer Charged With Sexual Assault
The CIA's former station chief in Algeria has been indicted on sexual assault charges, the Washington Post reports.
Andrew Warren, who was the CIA's top officer in the North African country, was charged with drugging and assaulting a Muslim woman in his official residence in February 2008. The charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.
Warren had been sent back to America when the investigation was announced in January. At the time, the Justice Department was looking into assault allegations from two women. When they investigated his home, they found tapes of him engaged in sex acts, one with an apparently semi-conscious woman. The CIA says he has been fired.
Warren has said sex with both women was consensual.
Here are the details of the allegations:
The woman who made the 2008 allegation told investigators that she had known Warren for several months and that he invited her to his residence on Feb. 17 and gave her a tour. She said that after drinking two apple martinis, she suddenly felt paralyzed, though she could speak and see, authorities wrote in court documents.The woman was then sexually assaulted, she told authorities. An investigator with the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service wrote in court papers that the woman's symptoms were consistent with being drugged.
Josh
Zachary
Could it be that the women weren't expected to file charges, since the alleged assaults occured in a Muslim nation, in a culture that might disavow victim as well as perpetrator? Were the women connected to high-level sectors of Algerian government or security? Could this have been an intelligence operation to blackmail the women - force them to become agents? Is this an isolated criminal matter, or something more profound?
July 1, 2009 2:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
On these facts, Algeria ought to be able to extradite him? Anyone have a problem with that?
July 1, 2009 2:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
IT'S ABOUT TIME!
July 1, 2009 3:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
The part that truly disgusted me was this:
"If an assault is confirmed, it will be viewed as particularly serious because it could damage diplomatic relations with Algeria and undermine U.S. efforts to improve its image in the Muslim world, former diplomats and foreign policy experts said."
This is why the countless sexual assaults and various waterboardings, crucifixions, and sundry murders committed by our CIA in the course of the criminal GWOT are being kept under wraps by Obama- Damn him!
Warren, no doubt inspired by his "official" exploits, decided to strike out on his own, and had the misfortune of getting caught.
I highly doubt he will be extradited to Algeria, because he knows far too much to be allowed anywhere he could spill secrets. The only place for him is a legal black hole- He has created a major, major problem for Obama. Probably Obama deserves it.
July 1, 2009 5:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
"it (a confirmed sexual assault by a CIA agent) could damage diplomatic relations with Algeria and undermine U.S. efforts to improve its image in the Muslim world".
Only if the USA covers up for him and refuses to prosecute. An effective prosecution would go a long way toward convincing the muslim world that the USA is serious about being a nation of laws that apply to everyone, including US government officials.
The USA has a history of protecting CIA officials who break the laws of the USA and other countries.
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July 1, 2009 9:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
"The USA has a history of protecting CIA officials who break the laws of the USA and other countries."
Indeed. And after you have let them get away with THIS, what should you expect?
http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/head-shot/
July 2, 2009 11:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
Send this miserable piece of dreck back to where he committed his hieneous crimes.
Or...
Give him diplomatic cover and admit that the CIA is unsupervised, outside of legal restraints, and 'Murica can do whatever the hell we want, no matter how indecent and how far we have slid as a Nation.
Sounds like an "either-or" choice to me.
Oh - Never mind.
The Italian prosecution for the CIA kidnapping sort of sets a precedent, I'd assume.
Didn't the victim of THAT crime end up owning the house that the CIA station chief fled from when he was about to be arrested?
July 2, 2009 1:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
I would suggest that at least half of the wars and conflicts we find ourselves in are a direct result of CIA interference in that same nation a few years previous.
The people of our country may be totally ignorant of history, but I will guarantee most other countries citizens aren't...
July 2, 2009 1:47 AM | Reply | Permalink