Emptywheel muses about a piece in to day’s WaPo that says:

A former CIA operative who says he tried to warn the agency about faulty intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs now contends that CIA officials also ignored evidence that Iran had suspended work on a nuclear bomb.

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The former operative alleged in a 2004 lawsuit that the CIA fired him after he repeatedly clashed with senior managers over his attempts to file reports that challenged the conventional wisdom about weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East. Key details of his claim have not been made public because they describe events the CIA deems secret.

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"On five occasions he was ordered to either falsify his reporting on WMD in the Near East, or not to file his reports at all," [his attorney, Roy] Krieger said in an interview.

In court documents and in statements by his attorney, the former officer contends that his 22-year CIA career collapsed after he questioned CIA doctrine about the nuclear programs of Iraq and Iran. As a native of the Middle East and a fluent speaker of both Farsi and Arabic, he had been assigned undercover work in the Persian Gulf region, where he successfully recruited an informant with access to sensitive information about Iran’s nuclear program, Krieger said.

While the court case refers to Jerry Doe, a male person, doesn’t the same story also fit to Valerie Plame?

She met with folks who worked in the nuclear industry, cultivated sources, and managed spies. She was a national security asset until exposed. . . ." CBS has confirmed that part of her work involved ensuring that Iran did not acquire nuclear weapons.

Part of her work during this time, according to David Corn and Michael Isikoff, appears to have been concerned with determining the use of aluminum tubes purchased by Iraq. CIA analysts prior to the Iraq invasion were quoted by the White House as believing that Iraq was trying to acquire nuclear weapons and that these aluminum tubes could be used in a centrifuge for nuclear enrichment but Isikoff and Corn argue that the undercover work being done by Mrs. Wilson and her CIA colleagues in the Directorate of Central Intelligence Nonproliferation Center strongly contradicted such a claim.

Some quotes in the WaPo do not fit a female person. That may be intended and Jerry Doe may indeed be Valerie Plame. Another possibility is that ‘Jerry Doe’ was part of the same team Plame belonged to and fired for the same reason Valerie Plame was exposed. The time-frame and the stories fit very well.

Another observation on this is that any Intelligence Service should never have a ‘doctrine’, an inherently political position, but only serve as a neutral source of information. Not that the CIA has ever been a political neutral service. But to be useful it should be such.