Robert Grenier
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Robert Grenier, a longtime CIA officer who served as the CIA's top counter-terrorism official for about a year, was fired from that position on 6 February 2006 by CIA director Porter Goss.[1] Grenier continues to work at the CIA.
In 2001, Grenier was the CIA station chief in Islamabad, Pakistan, where he helped plan covert operations in support of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. In the summer of 2002 he was promoted to the chief of the Iraq Issues Group, where he helped coordinate covert operations in support of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
The London Sunday Times reported that Grenier lost his job with the CIA "because he opposed detaining Al-Qaeda suspects in secret prisons abroad, sending them to other countries for interrogation and using forms of torture such as 'water boarding'." [2]
In early 2006, Grenier was identified in court documents in connection with the ongoing CIA leak grand jury investigation and charges against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Grenier told Libby on June 11, 2003, one month before the leak of Valerie Plame's CIA identity, that he believed Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife, a CIA agent, was responsible for arranging Wilson's 2002 trip to Niger.[3] Libby claims to have forgotten about the conversation. Grenier is expected to give evidence in the trial of Vice President Dick Cheney's former Chief of Staff on perjury and obstruction of justice charges.
[edit] References
- ^ Gellman, Barton and Linzer, Dafna. "Top Counterterrorism Officer Removed Amid Turmoil at CIA", Washington Post, February 7, 2006.
- ^ Baxter, Sarah and Smith, Michael. "CIA chief sacked for opposing torture", Times Online, February 12, 2006.
- ^ Meek, James Gordon. "2 in CIA to testify Libby lied on leak", New York Daily News, May 23, 2006.
