Fired CIA agent seeks FBI probe of WMD intelligence

Reuters ^ | 8-1-05

[Grampa Dave]

"In his new role, Foley will assume responsibility as well for the existing Nonproliferation Center, which dealt with a broad range of proliferation issues, and the Office of Transnational Issues' Weapons Intelligence Staff, which is composed largely of scientists and engineers. He will report to Tenet."

This is making those of us, who started screaming, "Check Foley out two + years ago, more on target, than we thought.

[Grampa Dave]

"I'll bet its Alan Foley....Val's boss."

Foley was probably up to his liberal butt in this, or one of his liberal underlings was the responsible one/ones.

[JustDoItAlways]

Would "Near-Eastern" include Pakistan and the A.Q. Khan network of nuclear proliferators. My guess is yes.

The CIA so dropped the ball on this one, that they should all have been fired.

[Grampa Dave]

"Would "Near-Eastern" include Pakistan and the A.Q. Khan network of nuclear proliferators. My guess is yes."

Probably.

They dropped the nuclear ball on both Pakistan and India, didn't they?

[mware]

Add this to the mix.

The following was posted on National Review's blog "The Corner" this morning by Cliff May:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NEW CLUES IN THE MYSTERY OF VALERIE PLAME [Cliff May] A recent article in the London Telegraph reports that Valerie Plame has been on an “enforced leave of absence” -- that she has been on “unpaid leave for a year.”

Now at first you might think, OK, sure, after Bob Novak wrote that she was a “CIA operative” and the Nation’s David Corn wrote that she had been a “top-secret” agent -- providing details about her work and even her cover story -- the CIA would give her a vacation.

But Novak and Corn wrote about Plame in July 2003.

If the Telegraph is correct, she was not put on “unpaid leave of absence” until a full year later, around July 2004. Why?

One also might think she voluntarily decided to take some time off but then it wouldn’t be an “enforced leave of absence,“ would it?

There also is this intriguing tidbit: According to The New York Times, a former CIA officer, whose name remains secret, is filing a lawsuit against the agency because he was dismissed in 2004 – the same year that Plame was put on “enforced leave of absence.”

What’s more, the fired CIA officer “worked in the same unit of the agency” as Plame. And his lawyer “likened his client's situation to that of Valerie Wilson, also known as Valerie Plame.”

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this very interesting find and pinging me. So Plame has been on an “enforced leave of absence” -- that she has been on “unpaid leave for a year.”

"Add this to the mix.
The following was posted on National Review's blog "The Corner" this morning by Cliff May:


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NEW CLUES IN THE MYSTERY OF VALERIE PLAME [Cliff May] A recent article in the London Telegraph reports that Valerie Plame has been on an “enforced leave of absence” -- that she has been on “unpaid leave for a year.”

Now at first you might think, OK, sure, after Bob Novak wrote that she was a “CIA operative” and the Nation’s David Corn wrote that she had been a “top-secret” agent -- providing details about her work and even her cover story -- the CIA would give her a vacation.

But Novak and Corn wrote about Plame in July 2003.

If the Telegraph is correct, she was not put on “unpaid leave of absence” until a full year later, around July 2004. Why?

One also might think she voluntarily decided to take some time off but then it wouldn’t be an “enforced leave of absence,“ would it?

There also is this intriguing tidbit: According to The New York Times, a former CIA officer, whose name remains secret, is filing a lawsuit against the agency because he was dismissed in 2004 – the same year that Plame was put on “enforced leave of absence.”

What’s more, the fired CIA officer “worked in the same unit of the agency” as Plame. And his lawyer “likened his client's situation to that of Valerie Wilson, also known as Valerie Plame.”

[mware]

Gramps there is a thread going on here at FR regarding the information. Not many posts so far, but you might want to check it out for views of posters.

[mware]

Gramps it is sure telling us something that we had to get this information from another country.

[Grampa Dave]

"Gramps there is a thread going on here at FR regarding the information. Not many posts so far, but you might want to check it out for views of posters."

Please post the link

[mware]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1456763/posts

[AliVeritas]

Did anyone see this a while back:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent7777/2005/07/17/

[sandydipper]

The CIA fired somebody?? The sky has to be falling.

[Casloy]

Does the FBI actually investigate the CIA??

No, the FBI investigates people. If someone is suspected of divulging classified information to a foreign government the FBI investigates. But, they would have no part in this investigation.

[Wolfstar]

The letter to Mueller, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters on Monday...

I don't know why Reuters feels the need to be so indirect about where the copy came from. Obviously it came from Roy Krieger, the attorney for the fired agent. Krieger wanted publicity in the hopes anti-Bush forces would help ratchet up pressure. He and his client have a lawsuit going, and they want M O N E Y.

[STARWISE]

A fired CIA agent, who a newspaper says told superiors in 2001 that Iraq had abandoned part of its nuclear program, is asking the FBI to investigate allegations that the spy agency dismissed him for refusing to falsify intelligence

I was asking because that's what this "Doe" is requesting.

[kcvl]

The former officer's lawyer, Roy Krieger, likened his client's situation to that of Valerie Plame, the clandestine CIA officer whose role was leaked to the press after her husband publicly challenged some administration conclusions about Iraq's nuclear ambitions, the report said.

"In both cases, officials brought unwelcome information on WMD in the period prior to the Iraq invasion, and retribution followed," Krieger was quoted in the report as saying.

The former officer has been accused of having sex with a female contact and diverting to his own use money earmarked for payments to informants. He denies both charges, according to The Times.

[kcvl]

After working for four years as a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the Department of Justice, Roy W. Krieger returned to private practice. The first law firm he joined went bankrupt. Six months later, Krieger found work at a second firm and remained there for a year before leaving to join a third. The third firm fired him after he had been there a little more than a year. Krieger believes Kathlynn Fadely, his immediate supervisor at Justice and his co-counsel in a lengthy trial still ongoing when he resigned, instigated his firing. His complaint named Fadely, the Justice Department and the United States as defendants.

[kcvl]

Attorney Roy Krieger, who has represented over 50 CIA employees, told Justice Department investigators of a case in which a polygrapher's supervisor ordered him to "make sure [the examinee] doesn't pass."


One longtime case officer who had flunked a polygraph test earlier in his career was reinvestigated after Ames, and demoted. Put through multiple polygraph interrogations, he says he became so frustrated that he fumed to the operator that "the only hostile foreign intelligence agency I thought I worked for was the CIA." (As did others, the agent insisted on anonymity.)

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Washington D.C. attorney Roy Krieger has filed a class action lawsuit alleging that CIA treated employees who hired attorneys more harshly than those without attorneys.

[kcvl]

CIA disciplines seven officers over NATO's bombing of Chinese embassy
By Peter Symonds
12 April 2000

snip

A lawyer representing one of the CIA officers, Roy Krieger, put his finger on the logical difficulty when he said it was “manifestly unjust” to blame individuals when “the failure was systemic”. “It's shameful that the CIA caved in to political pressure to provide scapegoats. The agency has already publicly admitted that the map provided to the officers contained errors, absent which the Chinese Embassy would not have been mistakenly targetted. These officers were asked to improvise and did their best with the tools provided to them.”

[kcvl]

According to the undercover agent, the CIA management retaliated against him by launching investigations of allegations that he had a sexual affair with a female asset and that he stole money meant to be pay off for sources.

* Roy Krieger, DC-based lawyer representing the undercover CIA operative filing the lawsuit. He specializes in national security cases and has represented scores of people in the CIA.