CIA Agent Says Bosses Ordered Him To Falsify WMD Reports

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* CIA Agent Says Bosses Ordered Him To Falsify WMD Reports *

An undercover intelligence officer, who is suing the CIA, says his
managers asked him to falsify his reporting on weapons of mass
destruction and retaliated against him when he refused. We speak with
his attorney.

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AMY GOODMAN: Roy Krieger is with us. He’s a D.C.-based lawyer representing the undercover CIA operative who’s filing the lawsuit. Welcome to Democracy Now!

ROY KRIEGER: Thank you.

AMY GOODMAN: Well, can you explain exactly what happened?

ROY KRIEGER: Well, actually, I'm very limited in what I can say because, as you can see, and as you said from the -- rather on the complaint, it is heavily redacted. I can only comment on the unclassified or un-redacted portions of the complaint. The CIA has pulled down the veil of secrecy on this case and classified the enormous amount of information that in my experience in the past seven years of dealing with the CIA, I have never filed a lawsuit in which they have redacted this much of the material out of it. They took out over 400 words from a 2,400-word document. I'm quite limited in what I can say. I cannot even confirm or deny that we're talking about Iraq or any other country other than to say that it involves weapons of mass destruction in the Near East during the pre-war period. And our client, as you commented was retaliated against after he refused a request from his supervisors in the counter-proliferation division on several different occasions to falsify or misstate intelligence that had been collected by him.

AMY GOODMAN: Is he still employed by the CIA?

ROY KRIEGER: No, he is not. He was in September of 2003, he was placed on paid administrative leave after these two investigations of him were launched. He was kept on paid administrative leave for one year, and then he received a letter notifying him that his services were being terminated. One of the investigations, the inspector general investigation, we know, is still ongoing. We met with investigators from CIA's inspector general's office just last week in my office with my client for nearly -- probably about 30 or 45 minutes. They asked him a series of questions related to the financial fraud investigation. The counterintelligence investigation that was launched of him for allegedly having a sexual affair with an asset, I think has probably been terminated simply because his employment has been terminated, and we have received no information that the investigation was handed off to the FBI, which would be normal procedure in this case. But he is no longer employed at the CIA, and he is still the subject, or I should say the target, of a criminal investigation.

AMY GOODMAN: Why did the lawsuit go forward now? We're talking about something that took place three years ago?

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1. kick

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2. doesn't pass my smell test

although I don't doubt the * admin pressured CIA and DIA to produce intelligence they wanted to hear, I have my doubts on this case. The guy handled intelligence "assets" for his job? (ie spies). Those guys don't produce or write intelligence reports. they pass on the information to others. Trying to ask him to "tilt" intelligence is like me trying to change what's in the Washington Post by pressuring my newspaper distributor. He doesn't write or produce anything. It seems like there were plenty of Iraqi exiles willing to pass on any WMD BS the administration wanted to hear without this guy anyway.

Tinfoil hat time: wouldn't one big fake case in the news, once discredited, tend to discredit by association any real cases that come along afterwards???