"Robert Booker "Bob" Baer" is an American author and a former Central Intelligence Agency/CIA case officer who was primarily assigned to the Middle East. He is currently TIME.com's Espionage/intelligence columnist and has contributed to Vanity Fair (magazine)/Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Baer is a frequent commentator and author about issues related to international relations, espionage and U.S. foreign policy.

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It's insanity. These are rank amateurs and there is no legally binding law on these guys as far as I could tell. Why did they let them in the prison?

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Palestinians, other Arabs, even Iraqis go through a very tight screen when they come into that country. Documents are looked at. You just can't do it [sneak in]. It is a police state.

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You can't work in Kazakhstan without paying bribes. It's that kind of Wild West. Everyone was doing it.

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They're watching Katrina. They're watching Rita. They're watching what it's doing to the United States.

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They went to Jim Giffen to make problems go away. He was the channel.

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