Christine Axsmith Affair

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Christine Axsmith is a computer security expert who was fired from BAE systems, a CIA contractor, for posting on a top-secret internal government blog that "waterboarding is torture, and torture is wrong".[1] [2]

Reports say that the director of the CIA was worried about this.[citation needed] Her dismissal lends proof to the idea that the George W. Bush administration's CIA and defense contractors try to silence critics as a strategy for avoiding prosecution for international war crimes before Bush must leave office, when he will lose protections as a head of state.[citation needed]

It is a notable early example of the effect that blogs, a new disruptive technology, have on government.[vague]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Top-Secret World Loses Blogger. The Washington Post (July 21, 2006). Retrieved on 2006-07-26.
  2. ^ C.I.A. Worker Says Message on Torture Got Her Fired. The New York Times (July 22, 2006). Retrieved on 2006-07-26.
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