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Apparently CIA station chiefs aren't as intelligent as you'd think they'd have to be:

The U.S. government is investigating a former CIA officer in Algeria who has been accused of drugging and raping two women while he held the post, according to an affidavit released by the Justice Department.

Andrew Warren has been accused by the women, who are both Algerian nationals, of drugging and raping them on separate occasions while he was still working for the CIA in the Algerian capital, according to the court document, which was filed in the fall of 2008.

Warren has not been charged with a crime. He has told investigators that he engaged in "consensual sexual intercourse" with both accusers, the affidavit states.

CNN has been unable to reach Warren for comment.

According to the affidavit, a search of Warren's residence in Algiers turned up Xanax, Valium, and "a handbook on the investigation of sexual assaults," according to the affidavit.

Now I'm sure that during his stay in Algeria, Warren probably got pretty lonely. But did he really need to resort to rape? I'm sure there's plenty of Algerian women that would just love to hook up with a high ranking US Government official. I seriously doubt he needed to drug and rape them. Maybe he's a midget, or he's got a third arm growing out of his forehead. Either way, though, if you were a CIA operative of any sort, why would you leave Xanax, Valium and a handbook of how to rape women lying around in your residence? This would be like Dexter leaving a forensics book and his cutlery set lying around next to each other. Or a drug dealer keeping his scale and his divvied up bags of coke together; it's just something you don't do.

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This one is a shining example of how technology meets law enforcement:

The Racine County Sheriff’s Department used Google Earth — an online mapping program — last week to pinpoint marijuana fields in Mount Pleasant and bust a Racine man for harvesting pot.

The investigation began Friday after Racine County Sheriff’s deputies pulled over Dean Brown, 37, of Racine, near highways 75 and 20, according to a criminal complaint. A deputy smelled marijuana as he approached the car, and discovered 18 pounds of freshly harvested marijuana in the car’s cargo area. The marijuana, stuffed in two large garbage bags with heavy stems poking through the plastic, was worth between $63,000 and $140,000.

Brown was arrested for felony drug possession, but that was just the beginning of the investigation. Deputies found a GPS unit around Brown’s neck with coordinates to areas throughout Racine County, the complaint said.

On Saturday, Metro Drug agents plugged coordinates saved in Brown’s GPS unit into Google Earth, a searchable compilation of satellite images available through the Internet. By entering the coordinates, agents were able to find the locations in Racine County programmed into the GPS unit.

Don't the police have more advanced technology than Google Earth to look up GPS locations? I know Google is the shit, and I've certainly tried to spy on people with it, but I'm also not a government employee. What happens when a patrol car gets a call to go to a certain address? Does the cop have to run out to his car real quick to grab his Garmin before he heads out? Shouldn't the police have some sort of bad ass GPS tracking system that fires lasers from space or something cool?

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This just in, Rod Blagojevich claims he's done nothing wrong:

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich appeared before state senators Thursday for the first time during his impeachment trial, saying he has done "absolutely nothing wrong."

He said there's been a "rush to judgment and an evisceration of presumption of innocence."

The governor said the prosecution has not proven the allegations, which are based on a criminal complaint released by federal authorities in December, when he was arrested on federal corruption charges.

"How can you throw a governor out of office on a criminal complaint, and you haven't been able to show or prove any criminal activity?" he asked.

"How can you throw a governor out of office who is clamoring and begging and pleading with you to give him a chance to bring witnesses in, to prove his innocence, to do more than just ask for a presumption of innocence?"

Because Blagojevich is giving a closing argument, not testimony, senators will not be able to question him, and he will not be cross-examined by the prosecutor for the House of Representatives, which impeached the governor in a nearly unanimous vote.

Well, I guess that settles that.. Pack up your bags, Illinois senate, Blag is innocent! I find it interesting that, rather than appearing at the impeachment trial for the past few days, he's been parading around the country, speaking with various news outlets and condemning the proceedings as some sort of witch hunt. THE FEDS HAVE YOU ON TAPE, SELF-IDENTIFYING!! Maybe if you went on Tuesday or Wednesday, when they were replaying the tapes, you'd know that you, sir, are busted.