CIA agent sues agency

[greenman3610]

Agent says he was pressured to change WMD data

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49647-2004Dec8.html

Officer Alleges CIA Retaliation
Lawsuit Says Agency Urged False Reporting on Iraqi Arms

By Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 9, 2004; Page A02

A senior CIA operative who handled sensitive informants in Iraq asserts that CIA managers asked him to falsify his reporting on weapons of mass destruction and retaliated against him after he refused.

The operative, who remains under cover, asserts in a lawsuit made public yesterday that a co-worker warned him in 2001 "that CIA management planned to 'get him' for his role in reporting intelligence contrary to official CIA dogma."

The subject of that reporting has been blacked out by the CIA, and the word "Iraq" does not appear in the heavily redacted version of the legal complaint, but the remaining language and context make clear that the officer's work related to prewar intelligence on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction.

[tk2kewl]

1. please please please tie this back to bushCo

sounds like "high crimes" to me

[Hobarticus]

2. What the hell, it's worth a shot...

Drag the whole filthy affair kicking and screaming into the light, at least...

[atommom]

3. Good for him! I hope he doesn't meet with an accident before this goes

to trial.

[quaoar]

4. Dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1056258&mesg_id=1056258

[Tight_rope]

5. Good for him...Bushco are fucking scumbags!

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. God bless you ex-CIA agent. We do have secret friends.

True patriots do exist.

[forintegrity]

7. I was wondering when the "purged" were gonna

start talking. Thank God some people still have some integrity!

YOU GO!

And stay safe.

[Stinky The Clown]

8. While I am often a party of one when it comes to some CIA issues

I have always felt that their rank and file, much like the military's rank and file, are simply honest people doing an honest job, for honest reasons.

That purge we saw a few weeks ago .... purging the "liberals in the CIA" as the media reported them. The word "liberal" was today's version of McCarthy's "communists".

They were, as I see it, largely honest people doing what they saw as a necessary job to keep the country safe. A few were dismayed to see their work subverted for politcal purposes. Now they're gone and the political subverting of the intelligence community may continue unabated.

Whoever this person is who filed the suit, they're a hero.

The scary subtext to this is that they're still "undercover". Does that mean still in Iraq or simply still without an identity that could lead to retaliation by our enemies? In either case, it may not be safe for that person. ("Nice life ya got here ...... be a shame anything were to happen to it, yanno.")

[Moderator]

9. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1056258