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Progressive Politics ExaminerJay began writing politically themed commentary and founded his blog, Swimming Freestyle, in October 2007. Here he'll write about politics from a progressive perspective.
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Ex Agent Claims CIA Ignoring Iran Facts
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by Jay McDonough, Progressive Politics Examiner
A former CIA operative who says he tried to warn the agency about faulty intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs now contends that CIA officials also ignored evidence that Iran had suspended work on a nuclear bomb.It's become increasingly clear Iraq and Iran intelligence has been cherry picked by the Bush Administration to support their positions. Coming from various sources, most recently Scott McClellan and this CIA operative, reports that conflicting intelligence were either downplayed or ignored in support of flimsy and, oftentimes, disputed claims of Iraqi and Iranian capabilities.
The onetime undercover agent, who has been barred by the CIA from using his real name, filed a motion in federal court late Friday asking the government to declassify legal documents describing what he says was a deliberate suppression of findings on Iran that were contrary to agency views at the time.
"On five occasions he was ordered to either falsify his reporting on WMD in the Near East, or not to file his reports at all," (attorney Roy) Krieger said in an interview.
In court documents and in statements by his attorney, the former officer contends that his 22-year CIA career collapsed after he questioned CIA doctrine about the nuclear programs of Iraq and Iran. As a native of the Middle East and a fluent speaker of both Farsi and Arabic, he had been assigned undercover work in the Persian Gulf region, where he successfully recruited an informant with access to sensitive information about Iran's nuclear program, Krieger said.
Here's a question: Given that the U.S. intelligence consensus (published as an National Intelligence Estimate in December 2007) concluded Iran had abandoned any efforts to develop nuclear weapons in 2003, why is the Bush Administration continuing to beat war drums so loudly? The follow-up question, I suppose, is why does the media not ask the White House to explain why they're ignoring that NIE?
Topics: Iran , CIA
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