As I understood from what I read this morning, the name has been mi-spelled in all the Pakistan media thus far. I played around with checking on Mark Charlton and Mark Carleton & found one potential candidate but ran outta interest before I searched Mike Carlton.
This was just a warning shot Mike/Mark swears he isn’t gonna leave unlike Jonathan Banks the previous Islamabad CIA station chief who scarpered like the slimy weasel he is last december, claiming that the ISI had given his name to a bereaved Pakistani who had decided to use the civil courts as a means of getting some measure of justice for the fact his family had been wiped out by a drone in the North west last fall.
Such whitebread names these murdering psychopaths have. Interesting isn’t it that they feel confident dealing with bullets and bombs but being good little technocrats of empire, it is the possibility of being sued, aka bourgeois revenge, that worries em the most.
Suing em has a fuckin touch of brilliance to it because it seems amerikans will go along with any encroachment on their freedom or right to speak – from being held without trial, to torture, to presidential sanctioned murder, nowadays but the notion of regulating a man’s right to sue another is positively communist. Hoist the loudmouthed, flabby and ill educated shits with their own petard, all you Pakistanis. Hit em in the only spot that causes em pain, their wallets.
The Times of India using an even shriller tone of hypocritical self righteous indignation than usual, reckons that the ISI leaked the name as a warning to the seppos that their insistence on being provided with a list of all ISI’s agents in “S” division, which is said to handle ties with terrorist organizations.
Who can blame them basically the amerikans are asking for Pakistan to hand over its network responsible for keeping Pakistanis safe, to a foreign power. Why? So they don’t get caught next time a Raymond Davis takes it upon himself to murder Pakistani citizens? Even worse when the CIA learns of an impending attack, from ‘turned operatives either by way of the carrot(citizenship, money) or stick (exposure, torture), they are quite capable of doing nothing lest it ‘compromise it’s sources’ i.e. making S division an enemy of Pakistani and its people.
The amerikan media also omits to mention the first outing was the amerikan media’s outing last year of Pakistan’s ISI deputy whose name was prevented from publication in Pakistan by their official secrets act.
Of course the amerikans will claim that freedom of speech prohibits them from stopping that (even though the source was within the CIA?) yet should any other nation state try to argue their press freedoms prevent interference to amerika, the old exceptionalism rears up, just like the pus encrusted boil on the anus of humanity it is.
Those links b put up are chocka with amerikans insisting that the Pakistani media committed an act of war by publishing Carleton’s name, if that is the case why isn’t the entire Bush cabinet slotted up for eternity over Valerie Plame?

Posted by: Debs is dead | May 10 2011 9:38 utc | 3

opsss Valerie Plame, not Plum

Posted by: claudio | May 10 2011 9:52 utc | 5

DiD @3 – sorry, hadn’t read your last paragraph before posting; anyways, the double standards are so blatant that the Plame case deserves to be underlined
MB @6 – I don’t get it, what are you hinting at? fake names? or “racism” (only anglo-saxons in the inner structures that rules the Empire)?

Posted by: claudio | May 10 2011 11:53 utc | 7

It behooves all of us to out a CIA person any chance we can get. It is a loathsome, murderous, sadistic organization that operates outside of the “law” and is, let’s face it, accountable to no one but itself.
So, I’m glad Bushco outed Professor Valerie Plum, albeit it was hypocritical, and I’m glad Pakistan outed Steve Carlton (Lefty) as Station Chief in Pakistan.
Do the world a huge service, and out a CIA person today. You will save many lives and much suffering.

Posted by: Morocco Bama | May 10 2011 15:33 utc | 9

Cynthia,
I’m not sure I understand the sentiment of your comment. I agree with what you said, but you started with Morocco Bama as though you were countering me in some way. I would never take the counter side of the statements you made. That’s not me, and I’m not sure what I said for you to think it was me.
For example, I never argued that the “alleged” assassination of OBL was justified. That kind of argument is a waste of time. I’d like to leave OBL out of it, and talk about what you mentioned……the Prez, or really the Office of the Executive, playing Tony Soprano. Art imitates life and then life imitates art in a feedback loop, I suppose.

Posted by: Morocco Bama | May 10 2011 16:25 utc | 11

It is disturbing to me, as well, Cynthia. Couple it with this, and pretty soon these very same people will be cheering on our march to BHO’s legal regime backed Gulag.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mPZlysCAm0&feature=player_embedded
Pre-Crime is upon us.

Posted by: Morocco Bama | May 10 2011 18:13 utc | 13

@ben – AFAIK, in China you get incarcerated for having committed “activities against the state”, not on the assumption you might commit them
are there specific examples of China being or becoming a post-modern orwellian state like the Us, instead of a traditional dictatorship? (I don’t know, I’m asking)
disclaimer: I don’t recommend that system, but we must disassemble what is described to us as “evil” (Saddam, OBL, China, copyright “pirates”, marijuana, passive smoke, etc etc), with which contemporary western society is obsessed, and analyze it socially and politically
just using Nazism or China as insults on aspects we don’t like of our societies doesn’t help us understand neither our societies, nor Nazism, nor China

Posted by: claudio | May 10 2011 19:29 utc | 15

Pre-crimes are a Benthamite concept. And very much akin to selective breeding/eugenics. No doubt the anglo utilitarian origins of fascism have been explored somewhere.
“But it’s even worse that our president has the authority to use this secret army to act as judge, jury, and assassin all rolled up into one.” He doesn’t have that legal authority. He simply arrogates the power to do so. It could be argued that this is a form of self-outlawry, in which, by putting themselves outside of the bounds of the law, such people implicitly surrender the law’s protections.
The most interesting aspect of these Pakistan stories is that they reveal a desire to intensify a conflict which is wholly artificial. Whether this is done to curry (no pun intended) favour with India’s rulers and put the entire region from the Irrawady to Colombo to the Iranian border of Afghanistan under the regional hegemony of India seems unlikely. But, since we are clearly dealing with the direct (US)descendants of those British bozos whose obsession with Afghanistan Lord Salisbury explained on the basis that they were using maps with far too small a scale, nothing in the way of stupidity can be ruled out.
Next week, I think it is, the Shanghai Cooperation alliance (or whatever?) meets and will inevitably look at the region from a Sino-Russian,Central-Asian point of view. It will not have escaped their notice that, if the US does not want Pakistan, Pakistan might want them. And would be very welcome. What with ports on the Indian Ocean and all.

Posted by: bevin | May 10 2011 20:27 utc | 17

the pakistanis should be wise and throw out ALL the americans…their idea of diplomacy is to interfere in sovereign states, when they are drone bombing their citizens, freely.

Posted by: brian | May 10 2011 21:32 utc | 19