Tuesday, July 01, 2008
In Washington DC the truth only confuses people
Which is one way to look at the unknown CIA agent who says he was fired for filing reports on nuclear weaponry in Iraq and Iran.
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.Just filing a report, then filing it away wasn't good enough. A full Orwellian Memory Hole was the Bushovik answer to inconvenient realities.
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.
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