They must submit anything they write, whether it has agency business in it or not, but the CIA can only check content for classified information. It can't change things that are lies, opinion, or factually incorrect. That is not CIA internal rules that apply, but law. Scheurer wrote a dumb book which was clearly the work of one of those "if only they had listened to me types." He submitted it and it was reviewed for disclosure of classified information and may or may not have been edited accordingly. Wilson was a private citizen and was asked to go on a public mission. A confidentiality agreement would have been incredibly unusual under the circumstances. You can't ask someone to sign a confidentiality agreement on information that is not yet even known. A confidentiality agreement is a document you sign based on information you are going to be given at that moment, or have already been given. What part of his visit would have been considered confidential and which part public? Talk about a legal morass. Wilson is a flaming idiot and the people who decided to send him on that fact finding mission were idiots, but I think it was the usual bad judgement call and not something sinister.
Agreed, but it is confined only to those for publication.
Wilson was a private citizen and was asked to go on a public mission. A confidentiality agreement would have been incredibly unusual under the circumstances. You can't ask someone to sign a confidentiality agreement on information that is not yet even known. A confidentiality agreement is a document you sign based on information you are going to be given at that moment, or have already been given. What part of his visit would have been considered confidential and which part public?
Perhaps it is a matter of terminology, but I have signed agreements associated with various security clearances that would essentially allow the USG to put me in jail and throw the key away. I signed those agreements without accessing the information first.
Wilson claims his trip was a public one, but he was briefed by the Agency and others prior to undertaking the trip and debriefed when he returned. The Agency was paying his expenses. I would think that the Agency would not want any part of the the trip and its results made public. Nor would the Agency want it known that they were associated with it. DeGenova is the one who raised the lack of a confidentiality agreement as being unusual. I think he knows what he is talking about.