OMG! Fmr CIA agent sues CIA re: withholding Iraqi Aims report - MUST READ

[housewolf]

Spy's Notes on Iraqi Aims Were Shelved, Suit Says

By JAMES RISEN
Published: August 1, 2005

WASHINGTON, July 31 - The Central Intelligence Agency was told by an informant in the spring of 2001 that Iraq had abandoned a major element of its nuclear weapons program, but the agency did not share the information with other agencies or with senior policy makers, a former C.I.A. officer has charged.
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In a lawsuit filed in federal court here in December, the former C.I.A. officer, whose name remains secret, said that the informant told him that Iraq's uranium enrichment program had ended years earlier and that centrifuge components from the scuttled program were available for examination and even purchase.

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In his lawsuit, he says his dismissal was punishment for his reports questioning the agency's assumptions on a series of weapons-related matters. Among other things, he charged that he had been the target of retaliation for his refusal to go along with the agency's intelligence conclusions.

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Mr. Krieger said he had asked the court handling the case to declassify his client's suit, but the C.I.A. had moved to classify most of his motion seeking declassification. He added that he recently sent a letter to the director of the F.B.I. requesting an investigation of his client's complaints, but that the C.I.A. had classified that letter, as well.

Most of the details of the case, he said, "were classified by the C.I.A., not to protect national security but to conceal politically embarrassing facts from public scrutiny."

http://nytimes.com/2005/08/01/politics/01weapons.html?pagewanted=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1122864568-GLPNqtgxoB8y+lvypolZnA

[still_one]

1. they will not allow it because of "national security"

I hope I am wrong

[Up2Late]

2. If this happens, will we know?

I doubt it.

[undergroundpanther]

3. National security

Is becoming plausible deniability,,

I do not buy the national security excuse anymore,

It's wearing out it's truthfulness.

National security excuse is but a lame codeword for Cover Bush admin or corporate cronies ass for an embarrassing incompetence or criminal activities..The public would disapprove of that would put the "elites" at risk of losing money or positions of power or worse.

I do not trust any of these spy VS spy assholes.

[bobbieinok]

5. just like Nixon did

[Ruffhowse]

4. BushCo will bury this story under a mountain of "classified" designations.

This whistle blower better head for the hills. People like him don't last too long pissing off BushCo.

[wli]

6. if he feels safe enough to come out it probably means he's got a plan

e.g. a contingent of bodyguards or some such

[moodforaday]

7. kicked and nominated (nt)

[johannes1984]

8. he's made the list

let's only hope that if he had contacts with the iraqi establishment , that cunning talent and strategic insight will keep him safe from the wrath of the fascists in the white house .i wouldn't be surprised if he was sitting in trans-dniester right now , which btw isn't on any of the google maps , or neocon agenda's ...so impossible for this admin to find .


Best of luck to that chap .may his quest for justice and his sourly needed expertise work at the behest of the country ....and not his own demise

[1democracy]

9. The answer is to publish everything on the web asap

Only the light of day will defeat these vampires.

[enough]

10. kick