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- Date: 2 May 2006 14:13:48 -0700
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/New_Jersey_senator_calls_on_CIA_0502.html
After reports, New Jersey senator calls on CIA director to conduct
Plame damage assessment
John Byrne
Published: Tuesday May 2, 2006
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In light of reports that CIA Agent Valerie Plame was working to track
Iran's effort to obtain nuclear weapons when her identity was leaked,
U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) today called on CIA Director Porter
Goss to provide an assessment of the damage to national security from
the incident, RAW STORY has learned.
The call comes after MSNBC confirmed a RAW STORY report that Plame was
working on Iran.
In RAW STORY's original Feb. 13, 2006 report, by Larisa Alexandrovna,
intelligence officials said that while Goss has not submitted a formal
damage assessment to Congressional oversight committees, the CIA's
Directorate of Operations did conduct a serious and aggressive
investigation.
Current and former intelligence officials familiar with the damage
assessment say that what is called a "counter intelligence assessment
to agency operations" was conducted on the orders of the CIA's
then-Deputy Director of the Directorate of Operations, James Pavitt.
Former CIA counterintelligence officer Larry Johnson said that such an
assessment would have had to be done for the CIA to have referred the
case to the Justice Department.
"An exposure like that required an immediate operational and counter
intelligence damage assessment," Johnson said. "That was done. The
results were written up but not in a form for submission to anyone
outside of CIA."
Lautenberg's letter to Goss follows. The New Jersey Democrat was the
first Senator to call for Karl Rove's security clearance to be
revoked or suspended while his role in the CIA leak case is under
investigation.
Read our our original report here.
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