Newsday: Panel to Hear Concerns on CIA Leak

[huckleberry]

October 23, 2003

Washington - As a rare dispute over the Senate inquiry of pre-war intelligence spilled into the open, two former CIA officers outraged over the leak of the identity of a covert CIA operative today plan to bring those concerns to the Senate Intelligence Committee.

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Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), panel chairman, said yesterday the committee has found no evidence that the White House exerted any pressure on CIA analysts to tilt their intelligence to conform to its view that Saddam Hussein posed a threat. But Sen. John Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), panel vice chairman, branded Robert's view "premature" and said Roberts does not speak for the committee. Rockefeller said the committee was continuing to examine not just how intelligence was gathered but how the administration used it. "It was premature to speculate about the committee's conclusions," he said.

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The two CIA officials who will appear before the committee today wrote Roberts and Rockefeller on Oct. 16 stressing the need for the panel to hold open hearings, saying the "unprecedented" disclosure "endangered American lives, our intelligence assets and our national security." The former CIA agents are Larry Johnson and Jim Marcinkowski, who trained with outted CIA operative Valerie Plame, sources say.


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[MinnFats]

1. Newsday.....among the best for coverage...

...of this stinking mess.
thanks.

[wryter2000]

2. You go, Rockefeller

And to the brave agents who are keeping this in our faces. :yourock:

[realFedUp]

3. Good-n/t

[wabeewoman]

4. PLEEZE!!!

"the committee has found no evidence that the White House exerted any pressure on CIA analysts to tilt their intelligence to conform to its view that Saddam Hussein posed a threat"
Do we all really look like idiots????

[jbfam4]

5. Pat Roberts is wrong

someone should send him the tape of the CIA agents meeting with this morning's dem committee. We need to call and email his office.