Meet Jerry Doe--Plame-like

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http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2006/05/meet_john_doe.html

May 04, 2006
Meet Jerry Doe

by emptywheel

> Meet Jerry Doe (the pseudonym "Jerry" has been used in some of the reporting on this story). Jerry Doe is a former colleague of Valerie Plame's, hired as a contract operations officer in 1982 and moved to permanent status in 1995, assigned at that point to counter-proliferation (CPD) in the Middle East. He was fired in 2004 because, Doe alleges in a lawsuit, he refused to falsify information on Iraq and, presumably, given the fact his complaint names three countries, two other places. He is suing Porter Goss, James Pavitt, the former head of CPD, and a senior CIA desk officer for violating the Administrative Procedures Act, violating his privacy, breach of contract, not converting his status formally, and tortious violation of his rights.
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> This is the chronology described in Doe's complaints:
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> If what Doe alleges is true, the CIA five times tried to force him to stop pursuing intelligence--one time burying actionable intelligence, another time, trying to get him to falsify intelligence--that countered the party line. To punish him for not hewing to the party line, they first withheld a promotion he had qualified for. Then, they accused him (falsely, he says) of sleeping with a female asset, blackmailing James Pavitt, and embezzling money. Doe alleges these accusations served as the pretext to fire him. Then, to make sure he didn't contest the termination, they retroactively negated his move from contract to staff status, 10 years after the fact. By turning Doe, retroactively, back into a contractor, they denied him the ability to appeal or investigate his own personnel files.
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> Now, I said above that Valerie was not the only one. With Doe, she is at least the second CPD officer who has been prevented from presenting evidence that might undermine the warmongers' nuclear rationale to start a war by effectively ending her career. At least, thanks to this James Risen article, we know Jerry Doe was trying to present information that might have prevented the Iraq war.
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> In a lawsuit filed in federal court here in December, the former C.I.A. officer, whose name remains secret, said that the informant told him that Iraq’s uranium enrichment program had ended years earlier and that centrifuge components from the scuttled program were available for examination and even purchase........