<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5d65e1e0-0a80-4ffe-b887-0a3a684c56b2/1AD54C33-5A06-4DAB-925B-A855583669DC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/09/17/ignatius-proposes-a-new-deal-for-the-cia-thats-two-centuries-old/" href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/09/17/ignatius-proposes-a-new-deal-for-the-cia-thats-two-centuries-old/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.fair.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/09/17/ignatius-proposes-a-new-deal-for-the-cia-thats-two-centuries-old/"><H2>Ignatius Proposes a 'New Deal for the CIA' That's Two Centuries Old</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/09/17/ignatius-proposes-a-new-deal-for-the-cia-thats-two-centuries-old/"><P>David Ignatius starts off his <STRONG>Washington Post</STRONG> column today ("A New Deal for the CIA," <A target="_blank" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/16/AR2009091602764.html?hpid=opinionsbox1" title="WaPo: A New Deal for the CIA">9/17/09</A>) with a story about Jeannie de Clarens, a 90-year-old Frenchwoman who infiltrated the Nazi army, discovered information about German rockets that "saved London," was captured by the Gestapo and survived a year in a concentration camp without betraying her secrets.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/09/17/ignatius-proposes-a-new-deal-for-the-cia-thats-two-centuries-old/"><P>Somehow I suspect, contrary to Ignatius, that CIA employees in recent years have been more likely to be engaged in waterboarding and other forms of torture than to have performed death-defying, world-saving undercover work like de Clarens.  In any case, we admire someone like her because she stood up to a ruthless force that used torture routinely; to suggest that her example should make us pay less attention to torturers working for our own government is rather perverse.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1AD54C33-5A06-4DAB-925B-A855583669DC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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