Cosmic Iguana - Voice of the Evil Doers

WPOST:

A senior CIA operative who handled sensitive informants in Iraq asserts that CIA managers asked him to falsify his reporting on weapons of mass destruction and retaliated against him after he refused.

The operative, who remains under cover, asserts in a lawsuit made public yesterday that a co-worker warned him in 2001 "that CIA management planned to 'get him' for his role in reporting intelligence contrary to official CIA dogma."

The subject of that reporting has been blacked out by the CIA, and the word "Iraq" does not appear in the heavily redacted version of the legal complaint, but the remaining language and context make clear that the officer's work related to prewar intelligence on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction.

In the lawsuit, the officer asserts that CIA managers retaliated against him for refusing their demands by beginning a counterintelligence investigation of allegations that he had sex with a female asset and by initiating an inspector general's investigation into allegations that he stole money meant to be used to pay human assets... [*]

The rank and file of CIA have been blamed for 9-11 and the WMD fiasco. The truth is they were guilty of neither. The FBI was the one that botched all the evidence of terrorists in flight schools etc, the CIA's upper management codependently appeased the BushCo lust for war. But it is the working stiffs at CIA who get shafted by new layers of bureaucracy, Porter Goss's purges and the like, and who get burned like Valerie Plame did.