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. February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Porter Goss Porter Johnston Goss (born November 26, 1938) is an American politician and a former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. ...

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. Islamabad (Urdu: اسلام آباد, abode of Islam), is the capital city of Pakistan, and is located in the Potohar Plateau in the northwest of the country. ... Combatants al-Qaeda, Taliban Northern Alliance, United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, New Zealand, Italy, Germany Commanders Mohammed Omar Osama bin Laden Tommy Franks Mohammed Fahim Strength Casualties {{{notes}}} The United States invasion of Afghanistan occurred in October 2001, in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks on... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Combatants Coalition Forces (United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Poland) Iraq Commanders Tommy Franks Saddam Hussein Strength 263,000 375,000 The 2003 invasion of Iraq, termed Operation Iraqi Freedom by the US administration, began on March 20. ...

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] The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Ireland, published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International which is in turn owned by News Corporation. ...

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. Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois CIA leak grand jury investigation (rel. ... I. Lewis Libby I. Lewis Scooter Libby Jr. ... For detail on the political scandal, see Plame affair Valerie Elise Plame Wilson (born April 19, 1963 in Anchorage, Alaska) was a United States Central Intelligence Agency officer, who was identified as a CIA operative in a newspaper column by Robert Novak on July 14, 2003. ... Joseph C. Wilson IV was a United States career foreign service officer and later a diplomat between 1976 and 1998. ... A vice president is an officer in government or business who is next in rank below a president. ... Richard Bruce Dick Cheney (born January 30, 1941) is the 46th Vice President of the United States, serving under President George W. Bush. ...

References

1. ^ Gellman, Barton and Linzer, Dafna. "Top Counterterrorism Officer Removed Amid Turmoil at CIA", Washington Post, February 7, 2006.
2. ^ Baxter, Sarah and Smith, Michael. "CIA chief sacked for opposing torture", Times Online, February 12, 2006.
3. ^ Meek, James Gordon. "2 in CIA to testify Libby lied on leak", New York Daily News, May 23, 2006.