Posted on 07/25/2005 10:03:04 PM PDT by Sam Hill
Ex-CIA Accuse Bush of Manipulating Iraq Evidence
Monday, March 17, 2003
WASHINGTON — Invoking
the name of a Pentagon whistle-blower, a small group of retired, anti-war CIA officers are accusing the Bush administration of manipulating evidence against Iraq in order to push war while burying evidence that could show Iraq's compliance with U.N demands for disarmament.
The 25-member group, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, composed mostly of former CIA analysts along with a few operational agents, is urging employees inside the intelligence agency to break the law and leak any information they have that could show the Bush administration is engineering the release of evidence to match its penchant for war.
VIPS member Ray McGovern, a 27-year CIA veteran who gave intelligence briefings to top Reagan officials before retiring in 1990, said the administration has not made the case that Iraq has ties to Al Qaeda and is providing information that does not meet an intelligence professional's standard of proof.
"It's been cooked to a recipe, and the recipe is high policy," McGovern said. "That's why a lot of my former colleagues are holding their noses these days."
But the CIA said McGovern doesn't have any authority to speak of the quality of intelligence policy-makers are reviewing.
"He left the agency over a decade ago," spokesman Mark Mansfield said. "He's hardly in a position to comment knowledgeably on that subject."
VIPS say their appeals to CIA staff are an attempt to evoke another Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret study on U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
Leaking classified national defense information is illegal, and CIA officers, who take a secrecy oath when they join could lose their security clearances or jobs, and may even face prosecution...
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The 25-member group, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, composed mostly of former CIA analysts along with a few operational agents, is urging employees inside the intelligence agency to break the law and leak any information they have that could show the Bush administration is engineering the release of evidence to match its penchant for war.
Gee ... looks like someone has a very short fuse
And to think this man was once in the CIA
LOL Poor wittle Larry. That email he sent to M-Mammouth sure shows hoe self conscience he is. I think we are hitting a nerve Huh?
Johnson should be areested immediately.
WHOA! Do you think it was really him?
tag for later
"I think they've been "leaking" against Republicans for a long time."
Well, people like Johnson and McGovern have been working against the GOP and against America as hard as they can for YEARS.
I doubt that they have gotten many current CIA or other intel agents to join them in their traitorous activities. At least I hope so.
But I can't understand why they aren't in jail. There are laws against doing what they are doing. They should at least be enforced during war time.
Hopefully these traitorous scum will get their just rewards.
What a tool!!!
Oh, you're in trouble now!
Yes, I will; when it gets written.
It's because his mama still cuts his hair with a bowl.
I guarantee the COWARD would deny writing it! He could get VAL (the double super secret spy) to protect his sorry lying butt! roflol!
FOTFLOL!
I think this is big, Mike...Larry is now threatening people and wanting someones home address so he and his *buddies* can come calling.....Fitzgerald, are you lurking?
Hey! Since you have a personal rapport with Larry Johnson, could you ask him whether or not he still believes that TWA800 was downed by terrorists? I vividly recall him being on CNN right after TWA800 went down, and he was convinved it was as a result of terrorism. I wonder if he ever changed his mind.
Someone should DEFINITELY report this to the proper authorities.
I don't think Fitzgerald is the one to be notified though.
But I don't have any idea who should be contacted. Anyone?
Isn't Larry Johnson the fool who said Valerie Plame had 4 decades of service in the CIA? even though she was just over 40 years old
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