More Politics at the CIA

A former Central Intelligence Agency officer has filed a lawsuit charging that he was fired for questioning the agency's now-disproven conclusion that Saddam Hussein was actively working to develop nuclear weapons. The former officer's attorney, Roy W. Krieger, compared his client's situation to that of Valerie Plame, the clandestine CIA officer whose role was leaked to the press after her husband, Joseph Wilson, publicly challenged Bush administration conclusions about Iraq's nuclear ambitions. "In both cases, officials brought unwelcome information on W.M.D. in the period prior to the Iraq invasion, and retribution followed," Krieger said.