Fired CIA agent seeks FBI probe of WMD intelligence

[kskiska]

A fired CIA agent, who a newspaper says told superiors in 2001 that Iraq had abandoned part of its nuclear program, is asking the FBI to investigate allegations that the spy agency dismissed him for refusing to falsify intelligence.

A July 11 letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller from the former agent's attorney suggests CIA officials may be guilty of criminal violations involving intelligence he produced on weapons of mass destruction in 2000 that contradicted an official agency position.

The former agent's attorney, Roy Krieger, said his client initially asked the CIA's inspector general to investigate charges that CIA officials had pressured him to alter the intelligence and retaliated when he refused. But the inspector general rebuffed his request.

"If the CIA is telling him to falsify information, that's potentially a crime. This merits an investigation, and if the CIA's not going to do it, the only other place is the FBI," Krieger said.

An FBI spokesman declined to comment.

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[EST]

1. Simply at a loss for appropriate words...

Hole---eee---shit!

[Stand and Fight]

2. Drip, drip, drip...

This could have some significant weight to it if the MSM stays on the case for once. As we all know, they have a bad case of ADD. :eyes: I am not holding my breath though...

Deep Throat, Part Deux? I hope.

[girl gone mad]

10. It seems to be turning into a trickle lately.

I guess we can expect more terrorist attacks once the damn starts to break.

[Stand and Fight]

11. Damn Straight!

This administration needs more cow bell!

[andino]

3. Good for him!

Now we need more of these guys to come out..

[Stand and Fight]

4. Let us hope for just that to transpire.

I'm sure "Buddy Jesus" would agree. ;)

[blm]

12. When KR reported the cooked intel story in Oct2002, they had interviewed

over a dozen agents who all came forward with the same complaints.

So, some reporters DO know there are plenty more agents, and quite likely that number may have quadrupled by now.

[cascadiance]

5. Please add a thread on this guy on new Whistleblower's forum...

There is a lot of whistleblower activity starting to come up now, and we need to help centralize info for folks. Just had a new whistleblower's group created this week at:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=344

Keep posting news like this here, so it gets a lot of attention, but let's not let these whistleblower's slip through the cracks after they've been talked about for a day or so on LBN...

[Seabiscuit]

6. The problem with these stories, as interesting as they are, is that they

surface here, get totally ignored in the MSM, then evaporate into the ether, never to be heard of again. IOW, nothing ever comes of it - i.e., in this case, the FBI, just as much controlled by the neocon junta as the CIA, will stifle this story, thwart this agent's rights, trample all over the law, and this, like so many outrages committed by this maladministration will, will simply wash over the junta's back like water over a duck's back. There must be several hundreds of incidents by now, each of them appalling, which should be front page news until resolved in the courts, and none of them are ever heard of again.

[SlowDownFast]

7. Exactly.

This story popped up last fall, I think.

I think I remember folks discussing it on DU, and I saw an interview with the agent and his lawyer on CNN as well as a short story in the paper.

He was suing the CIA for wrongful termination of employment, I believe.

Something reminded me of this story the other day, and I was wondering what came of it...

[Rex]

8. No surprise.

nt

[ngGale]

9. Tally up one more for the good guys ...

The case could shed new light on Bush administration thinking ahead of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, which the White House largely justified by charging that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and was actively pursuing nuclear arms.
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Whoever you are! :patriot:

Thank you!