Washington Post
Saturday, February 17, 2001
Clinton Ignored CIA in Pardoning Intelligence Analyst
Clemency for Only Official Convicted of Leaking
Classified Information to Media Draws Criticism
By Vernon Loeb / Washington Post Staff Writer
Copyright 2001 The Washington Post
President Bill Clinton ignored a recommendation from the CIA last month when he pardoned former Navy intelligence analyst Samuel L. Morison, the only government official ever convicted of leaking classified information to the media.
While Clinton's pardon of former CIA director John M. Deutch caught CIA officials by surprise, the president solicited advance comment from the agency on the possibility of pardoning Morison, who leaked three secret spy satellite photographs to Jane's Defence Weekly in 1984. But Clinton ultimately disregarded the agency's position and approved a pardon application Morison submitted to the Justice Department more than two years ago.
"We said we were obviously opposed -- it was a vigorous 'Hell, no'," said one senior intelligence official. "We think giving classified information to people who are unauthorized to receive it is a bad thing to do and giving pardons to people who are convicted of doing that sends the wrong signal to people who are currently entrusted with classified information."
SNIP -- read article here
http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:K18Xw04eOgkJ:www.fas.org/sgp/news/2001/02/wp021701.htmlSo is the Republican controlled Congress still in control, they should be demanding accountability from the CIA for sending a political hack like Wilson to gather intel.
They need to haul his "frog-marching" behind into a hearing and put the man under "oath", about what he knew and when he knew it.
Just who at the CIA has turned that Agency into the intel arm of the DNC?