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Ex-Operative Says CIA Ignored Iran Nuke Info
By Liza Porteus VianaJul 1st 2008 1:10PM
Filed Under:eBush Administration, Breaking News, Iran, Terror
The Washington Post has a story today about a former CIA operative who claims he tried to warn the agency about bad intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs and who now says CIA officials also ignored evidence that Iran had suspended work on a nuclear bomb
.The onetime undercover agent who worked for the agency for 22 years has filed a motion in federal court asking the government to declassify legal documents describing what he says was a deliberate suppression of findings on Iran that were contrary to agency views at the time. He filed a lawsuit in 2004 alleging the CIA fired him for fighting senior bosses to file reports that went against conventional wisdom about WMD in the Middle East.
"On five occasions he was ordered to either falsify his reporting on WMD in the Near East, or not to file his reports at all," the former operative's attorney, Roy Krieger, told the Post.
The Post says the former operative, a Middle East native and fluent speaker of both Farsi and Arabic, recruited an informant who revealed secret evidence that Tehran had halted its research into designing and building a nuke. But attempts to file that information were "thwarted by CIA employees," according to court papers. Later he was told to "remove himself from any further handling" of the informant, the Post notes. The operative later was the subject of two internal investigations involving alleged sexual relations with an informant and financial improprieties. His lawyer said in court papers those probes were a "pretext to discredit."
"It would be wrong to suggest that agency managers direct their officers to falsify the intelligence they collect or to suppress it for political reasons," a CIA spokesman told the Post. "That's not our policy. That's not what we're about."
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(Page 1 of 1)Splash1:15PMJul 1st 2008
Blah, blah, blah. 19 additional nuclear man-made lakes on the earth, that's what we need; one for the capital of each country that is actively teaching their children to grow up and kill our children.
Then, we will partner with those countries, buy the newly created lake front property, build resorts and theme parks around them and employ their people. They will love us.
That's my plan. Vote for Splash.
Write me in as your choice for president. I'll push that red button like its the trigger on my favorite video game. You won't event be able to see my finger move. Sof FAST it will be just a blur.
This is my solemn pledge to you, my constituents: Not another American life will be lost to these hate-filled terror turbins. Not one.
I will bring these terror states to their knees and then they will willingly kiss some United States ass, just like Japan did. Incapable of understanding any other language, I will speak the lingo they know - unbridled violence.
DANIELLE2:01PMJul 1st 2008
I so agree with you ANYBODY-BUT-OBAMA! We can not afford obama-its just that simple!
VOTE for McCain
TJL2:33PMJul 1st 2008
This report is not surprising. The current administration, and McCain candidacy by proxy, has repeatedly based their policies on lies and intimidation of those who would dare to reveal the truth. The Valerie Plame situation comes immediately to mind. When will the American people learn that the present government cannot be trusted to be truthful about ANYTHING. Vote for a change from this insidious, lying, hateful administration. Vote for Barak Obama!
iynaroc023:28PMJul 1st 2008
McCain is the chairman of the committee. Why didn't he act? He really needs to restire
mahalapril4:44PMJul 1st 2008
test
firegeorge3:49AMJul 2nd 2008
A CIA operative who gets unverafiable information from a Iranian local with dubious credentials. Why is this puzzle missing pieces?? Our enemies certainly know how to play the press. Not long ago staged pictures in Lebanon to make the Israilies villains. Looks like another page 6 retraction. Don't get me going on the non issue Val Plaime, offed by a Democrate, who honestly admitted it after all the humbug. Appears people only remember what they want.
Chris12:38PMJul 9th 2008
McCain/McCheney clones everywhere will be jumping on the "nuke their ass and take the gas" bandwagon now. Just like when Iraq definitely had WMDs. Didn't Bush say gas would be cheaper?
Chris12:39PMJul 9th 2008
Vote McCheney 08 and watch your job move to Bangladesh
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ANYBODY-BUT-OBAMA1:00PMJul 1st 2008
The years of torture John McCain endured produced someone more
balanced than the one who sat in a so-called "church of God" for 20
years --- listening to Reverend Jeremiah Wright spew hatred and "God
Damn America"!
And eight years of Junior may be enough for you --- but eight years
of "Obama-messiah" will be enough for us all --- IF WE LAST THAT
LONG!
VOTE FOR JOHN McCAIN IN 2008.