Need a link and need it baaaad. . .

[eileen from OH]

It's a transcript of 3 former CIA agents testifying before the Senate - may have been before the intelligence committee. One or more were lifelong Republicans and they were amazingly candid and brutal over the pressure they received to change intelligence to fit the policy. I THINK they also got into the Plame thing as well.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance.

eileen from OH

[Emit]

1. Is this it?

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"Testifying" before the senators were Vincent Cannistraro, a onetime senior official at the CIA Counterterrorism Center, Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst who went through training with Valerie Wilson (nee Plame), and James Marcinkowski, a former CIA clandestine officer.

The remarks from the panelists were sharp and passionate. They each decried the leak, criticized Bush's lackadaisical response to it, and blasted the Bush allies who have downplayed the significance of the leak and politicized the issue by attacking Joseph Wilson. The three men demolished much of the spin that has been coming from Republican circles. "Anyone who would care to try to portray this action as merely negligent, as opposed to deliberate, should also be prepared to explain how anyone so completely inept as to divulge this information by accident ever became a ‘senior official' in any organization, let alone an organization running the country," Marcinkowski remarked in his prepared statement. "What sickens me," said Johnson, "is the partisan nature that the White House has allowed to take on." Johnson noted that he had written his remarks with two other CIA veterans who had trained with Valerie Wilson--Michael Grimaldi and Brent Cavan--and that he and his co-authors were Republicans who had voted for Bush and contributed money to his presidential campaign.
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http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?bid=3&pid=1035

[eileen from OH]

2. Yes, that's it - thank you!

But I know I also read a transcript and the Nation article doesn't link to it. Maybe I can find it now that I have the agents names.

Thanks, again!

eileen from OH

[Emit]

3. In case you didn't find it, I think it may be here

http://democrats.senate.gov/dpc/dpchearing.cfm?A=5
Edited to add: Or more directly here:
http://democrats.senate.gov/dpc/hearings/hearing5/transcript.htm