"From the first day we walked into the building, all members of my training class were undercover, including Valerie. In other words, we had to lie to our family and friends about where we worked. We could only tell those who had an absolute need to know where we worked. In my case, I told my wife."
Right there is some outright BS suggesting stupidity or lying... "Need to know" is a factual concept; HOWEVER, along with need to know there is a security clearance requirement -regardless, the individual agent does not arbitrarily have the discretion to determine need to know or grant clearances. Anything that can be freely revealed as he infers is by default unclassified. This guy Larry Johnson is a wacko!!!
Joe Wilson must have been blabbing his big mouth to the BBC?!
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The CIA warned the US Government that claims about Iraq's nuclear ambitions were not true months before President Bush used them to make his case for war, the BBC has learned.
Doubts about a claim that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from the African state of Niger were aired 10 months before Mr Bush included the allegation in his key State of the Union address this year, a CIA official has told the BBC.
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But the CIA official has said that a former US diplomat had already established the claim was false in March 2002 - and that the information had been passed on to government departments, including the White House, well before Mr Bush mentioned it in the speech.