Wife of Guatemalan Rebel Killed by CIA Asset Says CIA Operatives Should be Exposed

Republicans are defending Karl Rove, one of the people involved in the outing of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame. Karl Rove is one of the most powerful officials in the Bush administration. Ironically it was under another Bush administration - the Reagan/Bush administration - that the Intelligence Identities Protection Act was first passed. This act imposes strict penalties on the outing of covert CIA agents. And it is the Democrats who are insisting that this law be enforced. But there is another side to all of this that has been left out of the discussion. And that is, human rights activists and torture victims have, for years, been harshly critically of the CIA's human rights abuses in among other places, Latin American. And they have called for CIA agents and operatives who have committed crimes to be publicly identified in order to bring them to justice and shed light on CIA support of criminal activity.

Jennifer Harbury is one of these people. Her husband was a Mayan guerilla leader in Guatemala who was killed by a CIA operative.

* Jennifer Harbury, director of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee's Stop Torture Permanently campaign. She is a human rights lawyer, author of "Searching for Everardo: A Story of Love, War & the CIA in Guatemala" and the forthcoming "Truth, Torture and the American Way: The History and Consequences of U.S. Involvement in Torture"

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