Head of CIA Weapons Analysis Program Leaving (Valerie Plame's boss)

[grasswire]

This is the boss of Ambassador Wilson's wife! The man involved in the State of the Union controversy.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=reutersEdge&storyID=3422015

[grasswire]

1. snip

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -

A top CIA expert on weapons of mass destruction, who became embroiled in controversy over whether the White House stretched evidence about Iraq's programs, said he planned to leave the agency in October.
Alan Foley, who heads the Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation, and Arms Control Center, told colleagues in a note dated Aug. 29 that he had been "thinking about life after the agency for some time" and decided to leave after 26 years to enter the private sector.

He alluded to this summer's finger-pointing between the Central Intelligence Agency and the White House over who was responsible for an unsubstantiated claim in President Bush's State of the Union address in January that Iraq had sought uranium from Africa.

Critics seized on the reference, later found to have been partly based on forged documents, as a sign the White House had exaggerated the threat from Iraq to build support for the war.

"While I can't prevent the inevitable speculation that will be generated by the timing of my decision, I want you to know that this is something that I decided entirely on my own," Foley said in the note, obtained by Reuters on Wednesday.

"I can't deny that the pressures of the past few months have not weighed heavily in my mind, but there are many other aspects to my decision, not the least of which is that I'm intrigued by the prospect of trying my hand at a second career in the private sector," he said.

[pansypoo53219]

2. he's

considered an expert?
is that like Condi Rice being a national security expert?

[salin]

3. Maybe when in civilian clothes... he will give more

info re the Wilson case, and/or re: the admin rolein denying real intel assessments and pushing for assessments that matched the admins desired actions.

[lindashaw]

4. Wasn't there a lawsuit on behalf of Valerie Plume's exposure?

Robert Novak was given the information that Valerie Plume was a long-time CIA operative, working undercover. He reported this in his column. White, who was sent by Cheney to investigate the Niger uranium thing, says that his wife's life was jeopardized, and that it is a federal crime to expose an agent. Her name was used in Novak's report, I believe.

And I think Valerie's people died in the field: reports vary about how many. But I can't find out if this lawsuit is progressing. Anyone know?

[Sven77]

5. from timnews.com

EXPLOSIVE - Karl Rove's outing of CIA agent leads to "liquidation" of overseas assets (people) .. Al Martin

Powell has power to sign prosecution complaint

http://www.almartinraw.com/public/column106.html


>> This is very explosive and what makes it so explosive is that this Intelligence Identity Act, if it can be proved, and Rove can be successfully prosecuted and if Rove reveals that the president George Bush told him to institute this leak, then the President's automatic shield of immunity is removed and the president himself can be prosecuted for murder if any deaths of any US intelligence agents or assets resulted from the leak. This is the only legal statute that has this provision. <<

[NoKingGeorge]

7. So where is the case.?

Has it been moved to Powell's desk ? What Senators' can influence this? Can Mr.Wilson get TV exposure?

[TacticalPeek]

8. Very dubious urban legending going on here.

"White, who was sent by Cheney"

By 'White' you mean "Wilson"; and by 'Cheney' you mean CIA at Cheney's apparent general request.


"Valerie's people died in the field"

I assert there is no evidence or even claim for this. If you are going by second-hand Al Martin info, etc., be advised that I would sooner trust the reliability of Condi 'Chevron' Rice.


No need to gild the pile of poop under KKKarl. Investigation of the outing by appropriate professionals is ongoing.

Facts serve here much better than tinfoil. For now, I feel warm inside sticking just to what's known:

Inslee's forum on Iraq war attracts flood of interest
1,400 ready to comment on attack and intelligence used to justify it
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/136021_intelligence21.html

http://www.house.gov/inslee/meetings.htm

If anyone has more (generally accepted) facts limning the tortures of KKKarl, please post here. I always need to add to my list of reasons to live.

[TAH6988]

6. He already is a civilian, isn't

he?