U.S. strips intelligence analyst of security clearance and job but won't say why

[n2doc]

By Peter Finn
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, November 27, 2010; 12:09 AM

Eighteen months ago, John Dullahan was an intelligence analyst with a long and varied career in both the military and the classified world. Today, he is jobless and blacklisted from the federal workforce, his loyalty to the United States, he says, brought into question.

He just isn't sure why.

On St. Patrick's Day 2009, the government stripped the Irish-born Dullahan's security clearance and fired him from his job at the Defense Intelligence Agency in a manner that has no precedent at the Pentagon - invoking a national security clause that states that it would harm the interests of the United States to inform him of the accusations against him.

As a result, Dullahan, a Vietnam veteran who served at military posts around the world and as a U.N. weapons inspector in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, cannot appeal to a board of senior agency officials, as others in his position might. He is, in effect, stranded.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/26/AR2010112605017.html

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Well, , ,

"In February 2009, Dullahan was called down to a security office at work and placed on administrative leave. The next month, he said, he was called back in and offered the opportunity to leave quietly with retirement benefits. If he refused and challenged his firing, he said that he was told the alternative was no retirement and termination on national security grounds.

Dullahan said he was told that he had to make a decision before leaving. After consulting with his wife, he refused."

[Poll_Blind]

2. Recommended that people take 3-4 minutes and read the whole piece, very strange.

The whole article is...very interesting. And very weird, IMO. I really don't know what to make of it.

PB

[Republican25]

3. Wikileaks

Something to do with Wikileaks? hmmmmmmm

[FarCenter]

4. Not likely, he failed the polygraph test in 2008

In early 2008, with the permission of Dullahan's DIA superiors, two FBI agents visited him at his office at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington and asked whether he would be willing to participate in a classified, black program.

Probably FBI counterintelligence had found something they didn't like about his record. The "classified, black program" probably did not exist as anything other than an excuse to give him a thorough going over.

[formercia]

5. I had a similar experience with my Polygraph examination

The examiner did the same routine, except the question was: "Have you ever been a member of a terrorist organization?"

My response kept showing deception. I didn't have the heart to tell him that the terrorist organization I worked for was the CIA.

[moondust]

6. Bwahahahaha!

Many years ago I declined an internship there due to those very entrapments and concerns. I figured it could easily become a totalitarian Hell with the Reaganites running things into the ground.