CIA Ousts Another Officer Working on Iran because of Political Shitstorm
Remember how Dick Cheny outed Valerie Plame and in the process hurt our efforts to prevent Iran from getting nukes?
And since then, Iran has just been working away, allegedly, to get nukes?
Well, at a time when much of the national security establishment is drumming up war against Iran, they’ve done it again.
A senior CIA analyst resigned Tuesday amid accounts that she had been pressured to step down after her husband — a former agency employee — was charged with leaking classified information to the press. Heather Kiriakou had served as a top analyst on some of the most sensitive subjects that the agency tracks, including leadership developments in Iran. Her husband, John, faces a maximum of 30 years in prison after being accused of disclosing details about secret CIA operations as well as the identities of undercover officers.
Two sources in direct contact with the Kiriakous said that Heather had submitted her resignation under pressure from superiors at the CIA.
Or maybe that’s the whole point.
Yeah, get called to work. “You’re Fired!” Been there myself. So is it a classified secret if she resigned or was she terminated with prejudice? Plus, there are two more perps to prosecute for revealing secrets.
But I hope, as a couple they have adjoining cells. They have to take care of their baby.
First time I remember seeing John Kiriakou was on Fox defending Waterboarding and the CIA as a whole. How quickly they turn on their own when it suits them.
As to the post’s last point, I think that may be what it is about. Someone wants the war with Iran really badly [AIPAC and end of day types] on the American dime. However, the Red Chinese in particular will profit from this, they’ve already started moving into Pakistan as we are being asked [slowly] to leave.
Weird synchronicity here. Plame-Clark/Kiriakou; Iran/Iraq; Fitz. It’s simple, but complex: these carefully woven triangulations.
Thanks for fleshing out the Media skeletons, Marcy.
Valerie Plame was helping to prevent Iran from getting nukes? All I really know about is Merlin, which was not a success.
@saltinwound:
Valerie Plame was helping to prevent Iran from getting nukes?
Don’t be an ass. Check to see the players promoting both wars; and I’ve got your nuke, here.
In Plame’s case, it was related to a cover-up in the false story being put out in order to invade Iraq. In the case of Heather Kiriakou, it appears related to the Obama administration’s obsession with covering up information related to the torture activities of the United States. In both cases, the firings are ancillary to the commission of high crimes by the government of the United States.
@Jeff Kaye: Not sure that is necessarily it. First, if it was all about torture, why did the govt wait until now to mess with Kiriakou? Secondly, Kiriakou is fairly much kind of a nutso crank anyway; he is so goofy with all of his self promoting, rambling baloney, that it is hard to know when he is saying something worthwhile from where he is just spewing shit. I have never found him all that credible, in and of himself, to start with.
@Benjamin Franklin: Not so sure what you find objectionable here; Plame was working on Iranian WMD counter-proliferation. Don’t be an ass yourself.
It was addressed to me because I was questioning the effectiveness of her counter-proliferation work. I have not seen evidence of it. Obviously I do not support the people who outed her and led us into a war on false pretenses.
@saltinwound: You are not supposed to see the evidence of her work; were not supposed to know she was ever doing it.
But the problem is that we have seen evidence of Merlin, which was a reckless fiasco.
@Saltinwound: It is a complex story and the extent to which Plame’s work was the “reckless” portion is not necessarily established.