---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:02:53 -0700 From: A.Lizard <alizard@ecis.com> Reply-To: TSCM-L@yahoogroups.com To: TSCM-L@yahoogroups.com Subject: [TSCM-L] secret agent man!!!

Sad state of spying Intelligence vets are still musing over Michael Kostiw, whose reported shoplifting forced his withdrawal this month as the CIA's prospective executive director. But what dismays the spooks most isn't the ethics or the propriety of the case--it's that Kostiw had served as a case officer for 10 years and still couldn't manage to shoplift a package of bacon without getting caught in a Northern Virginia market. Says one old spy: "It's a perfect metaphor for the sorry state of the CIA"

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/041025/whispers/25whisplead.htm While I don't think this the place for political debate, I think the state of US intelligence services is something of interest to everyone on the list. I only hope this guy hasn't been training people. A.Lizard -- member The Internet Society (ISOC), The HTML Writers Guild. "Feudal societies go broke. These top-heavy crony capitalists of the Enron ilk are nowhere near so good at business as they think they are." Bruce Sterling Personal Website http://www.ecis.com/~alizard business Website http://reptilelabs.com backup address (if ALL else fails) alizard@gmail.com PGP 8.0 key available by request or keyserver. Download PGP from: http://www.pgpi.org for e-mail privacy. Disaster prep info: http://www.ecis.com/~alizard/y2k.html ***Looking for INTELLIGENT new technology public policy alternatives?*** http://www.ecis.com/~alizard/technology.html ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/UBhwlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ======================================================== TSCM-L Technical Security Mailing List "In a multitude of counselors there is strength" To subscribe to the TSCM-L mailing list visit: http://www.yahoogroups.com/community/TSCM-L It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Star Bucks that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking is a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. =================================================== TSKS Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TSCM-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: TSCM-L-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/