A former Central Intelligence Agency [3] 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 [4], the clandestine CIA officer whose role was leaked to the press after her husband, Joseph Wilson [5], publicly challenged Bush administration conclusions about Iraq's nuclear ambitions. "In both cases, officials brought unwelcome information on W.M.D. [6] in the period prior to the Iraq invasion, and retribution followed," Krieger said.