Makes me feel cheated !
Guess we were all conned by his oil greed
As reported on national papers:
Ex-CIA official alleges retaliation for not faking WMD reports
WASHINGTON: A sacked CIA official is suing the agency for allegedly retaliating against him for refusing to falsify his reports on IraqÂ’s weapons of mass destruction to support the White HouseÂ’s pre-war position, The Washington Post said Thursday.
Described as a senior CIA official who was sacked in August “for unspecified reasons,” the plaintiff’s lawsuit appears to be the first public instance of a CIA official charging that he was pressured to produce intelligence to support the US government’s pre-war contention that Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction were a grave threat to US and international security. “Their official dogma was contradicted by his reporting and they did not want to hear it,” said Roy Krieger, the officer’s attorney.
CIA spokeswoman Anya Guilsher told the daily she could not comment on the lawsuit, adding: “The notion that CIA managers order officers to falsify reports is flat wrong. Our mission is to call it like we see it and report the facts.” Krieger wrote a letter requesting a meeting with CIA Director Porter Goss due to “the serious nature of the allegations in this case, including deliberately misleading the president on intelligence concerning weapons of mass destruction,” said the daily quoting from the letter.
The United States overthrew the Iraqi dictatorship of Saddam Hussein in April 2003, but has found no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq since then. The US government has acnowledged some of its pre-war intelligence may have been faulty. The plaintiff, whose identity is blacked out in the lawsuit as well as any reference to Iraq, is of Middle Eastern descent, worked 23 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, much of them in covert operations to collect intelligence on weapons of mass destruction, said the daily.
The lawsuit was filed in a US District Court in Washington on Friday and made public Wednesday after it was screened by a judge, said The Washington Post which obtained a copy. afp