A former CIA operative who says he tried to warn the agency about faulty intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs now contends that CIA officials also ignored evidence that Iran had suspended work on a nuclear bomb.

The onetime undercover agent, who has been barred by the CIA from using his real name, filed a motion in federal court late Friday 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.

The former operative alleged in a 2004 lawsuit that the CIA fired him after he repeatedly clashed with senior managers over his attempts to file reports that challenged the conventional wisdom about weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East. Key details of his claim have not been made public because they describe events the CIA deems secret.

The consensus view on Iran's nuclear program shifted dramatically last December with the release of a landmark intelligence report that concluded that Iran halted work on nuclear weapons design in 2003. The publication of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran undermined the CIA's rationale for censoring the former officer's lawsuit, said his attorney, Roy Krieger.

"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," Krieger said in an interview.



washingtonpost.com

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He's like a maniac with a shotgun that doesn't run out of ammo.

Serious stuff, the above.

But here's how it goes.

Even if this guy can prove his allegations with these documents, nothing whatever will be done about it.

Bush will pass go collect his POTUS pension, and we will still be stuck in Iraq.

And here is still further proof, fellow citizens, that we fell though the looking glass into KafkaLand...

After Bush's last misleading facts..Alot of us will be watching now.

Yeah.... all Bush


All other intel at that time, foreign and domestic, told a different story





oh.... wait


IT DIDN'T

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Socialism will only work with a society of prisoners, slaves, and robots who can be controlled by the ruling elite (which will always exist in that type of system).

Join the ban bobo brigade! Join the ban kirk company. Just say no to trolls.

And for the idiotic statement of the month...

This agent's work was so censored that the CIA approved the release of the NIE report that stated Iran had suspended it's nuclear program. Oh ok I get it now...

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Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Will Rogers

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel or envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Winston Churchill

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.

JFK

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain

And the band plays on. Wilfully blind. The last vestiges.

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I've seen the wild horses, I've heard the bull roarers

Do you have anything of substance to add or just rhetoric?

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Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Will Rogers

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel or envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Winston Churchill

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.

JFK

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain

That wasn't rhetoric, that was a nice piece of background colour. It was a lovely segue, in keeping with the theme of the thread, a seamless, delightful and smooth support to the central idea, a sublime joining of ideas and emotions that helped shore up the central thesis of the thread.

And then you fucked it up. Philistine!

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I've seen the wild horses, I've heard the bull roarers

More rhetoric, empty of substance....

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Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Will Rogers

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel or envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Winston Churchill

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.

JFK

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain

Who died and made you the referee? Stop being a twat.

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I've seen the wild horses, I've heard the bull roarers

The only twat here is you. Another word would be troll.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

-Bertrand Russell

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

-Laurence J. Peters

I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

Even more----

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Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Will Rogers

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel or envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Winston Churchill

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.

JFK

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain

Beautifully crafted retort.