http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2004/December/theworld_December248.xml§ion=theworldWASHINGTON - A sacked CIA official is suing the agency for allegedly retaliating against him for refusing to falsify his reports on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction to support the White House’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. snip
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.
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