CIA to Have It's Own MySpace for Agents
Not that I wish to seem paranoid, but the launching of "A-Space", a sort of MySpace for intelligence analysts at this time seems highly suspicious to me. Of course the public wouldn't be privy to all of the details involved in such a thing, but one wonders if the administration is threatening to expose undercover agents as it did with Plame but using a third party system that would avoid the messy details involved in the Plame affair. All they would need to do is have one of their pet hackers make the site public in order to create an intelligence agency nightmare. Actually, all they would have to do is say that the site had been compromised in order to create waves of panic in the CIA.
The purpose of such an endeavor, in theory, would be to let rebellious undercover CIA agents know that they could be compromised to death by the executive branch leadership should they turn upon their masters. Just a thought, of course I would have no direct proof of such a thing, but I've long thought that they made an example of Plame for exposing the fact that the administration was actively trying to plant weapons of mass destruction in Iraq prior to the war, a part of the Plame story which apparently gets little attention because it's a matter of somebody's national security. "We exposed Plame, we could expose you too."
What one must realize is that, as details emerge into the public light of day, those who operate on a need to not know basis will know more and more and will eventually be able to do the math for themselves. In such a scenario, all of a sudden agents understand precisely what it is that they've been up to, and may not be at all happy with their masters. Nobody likes being played for a fool.
The fact that participation in the new "A-Space" would be voluntary could be construed as it being more of a spider web of entrapment rather than a mandated compromise of personal security and therefore, even more suspicious. One also wonders just what sort of spam the participants might receive, or whether or not the "A-Space" will have built in means of looking into the personal computers of it's members.
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