Comments on: CIA Station Chief Accused of Raping Algerian Women

By: konstanze

konstanze — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:27:46 +0000

The comments to the article are full of speculation about how they might be sinister women who set him up for the purposes of blackmail.

Yeah, they forced him to lace their drinks and rape them. Heaven forbid a rapist be held accountable for his crime–especially when his victims were those evil Muslims.
God, I want to break something.

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By: MomTFH

MomTFH — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:06:04 +0000

One thing I have found to be really upsetting in all of the coverage I have read on this is that he has not been arrested. He was shown the evidence and then suspended from duty. How about an arrest?

By: Crystal

Crystal — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:09:13 +0000

This is horrible and makes me physically sick.

By: SunlessNick

SunlessNick — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:34:09 +0000

The comments to the article are full of speculation about how they might be sinister women who set him up for the purposes of blackmail.

By: SunlessNick

SunlessNick — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:25:45 +0000

Let me just say that when Isobel Coleman, a government official who specializes in women’s issues in the Middle East, says “I think this is an opportunity for the U.S. to show how seriously it takes the issue of rape,” I’m not exactly hopeful that it’s any indication that something will be done.

I just noticed that elsewhere in the article, she’s quoted as saying:

“This isn’t the type of thing that’s going to be easily pushed under the carpet,” she said.

So I share your skepticism. And isn’t it delightful how she frames pushing it under the carpet as the thing to aspire to.

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By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:30:46 +0000

Depressing is all I can say :(

I’m willing to bet a high sum that someone in the Agency has seen this thread – I hope they understand our outrage

By: SunlessNick

SunlessNick — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:53:55 +0000

Yeah, rape is always bad, but you know what’s really bad?

If one of those women you raped turns round and blackmails you over it. How is that any different from the gold-digging slut line, where the potential consequences for the man at the hands of his victim are deemed worse than the actual crime?

By: Cara

Cara — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:43:13 +0000

Right, I don’t have a negative impression of Isobel Coleman — I just think that the U.S. does not take rape very seriously, so showing the world how seriously we take it doesn’t exactly automatically mean that we’re going to take it seriously at all. And while it could be an opportunity to begin changing things on that front, I wouldn’t exactly count on it.

As for Baer, we’re going to have to agree to disagree.