Warrick, Joby. "CIA Sets Changes To IG's Oversight, Adds Ombudsman." Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2008, A3. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Warrick, Joby. "CIA Sets Changes To IG's Oversight, Adds Ombudsman." Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2008, A3. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
"[A]nnouncing the end of an unusual inquiry into the performance of Inspector General [IG] John L. Helgerson," CIA Director Michael V. Hayden has told CIA employees that the agency's "inspector general has agreed to tighter controls over its investigative procedures." The changes "include the appointment of a special ombudsman to oversee the IG's work" and "measures intended to speed up investigations and require the watchdog to keep CIA employees and managers informed about both the process and results of investigations."
[CIA/00s/08/Gen & Components/ODCIA]
Warrick, Joby. "Ex-Agent Says CIA Ignored Iran Facts." Washington Post, 1 Jul. 2008, A2. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
A former CIA employee, "barred by the CIA from using his real name, filed a motion in federal court [on 27 June 2008] asking the government to declassify legal documents describing what he says was a deliberate suppression of findings on Iran that were contrary to agency views at the time." He "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."
[CIA/00s/08]
Warrick, Joby. "Ex-CIA Official Indicted Over Agency Job for Mistress." Washington Post, 22 May 2008, A9. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
A federal grand jury indictment alleges that Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, the CIA's executive director from 2004 to 2006, "pressured CIA managers into hiring" his mistress "after she was turned down for a position in the CIA's general counsel office." Foggo also "faces charges of fraud, conspiracy and conflict of interest stemming mostly from alleged favors he performed for California businessman Brent R. Wilkes, a childhood friend and prominent GOP fundraiser."
[CIA/00s/08]
Warrick, Joby. "Intelligence-Gathering Program May Be Halted." Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2008, A8. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
According to defense officials on 1 April 2008, Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence James R. Clapper "has recommended the dismantling" of the controversial Counterintelligence Field Activity program (CIFA). Established by then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in the wake of the 9/11 attcks, CIFA was "[i]nitially tasked with coordinating Pentagon security efforts," but "was eventually given the power to investigate certain crimes within the United States, including treason, foreign or terrorist sabotage and economic espionage."
[MI/00s/08]
Warrick, Joby. "Nominee Withdraws Bid for Key CIA Post." Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2007, A12. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
On 25 September 2007, John A. Rizzo withdrew his candidacy for the position of CIA general counsel. His nomination had encountered "opposition from Democrats who questioned his views on the agency's methods of interrogating terrorism suspects."
Clark comment: This is a shame, as Rizzo has spent his career preparing for this job (and actually holding it as acting general counsel since 2004). There are few (if any) individuals more capable. John, you have served long and well; you have my sympathy for a raw deal.
[CIA/00s/07]
Warrick, Joby. "Senate Intelligence Panel Seeks CIA Nominee's Withdrawal." Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2007, A11. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
"Members of the Senate intelligence committee have requested the withdrawal of the Bush administration's choice for CIA general counsel, acknowledging that John Rizzo's nomination has stalled because of concerns about his views on the treatment of terrorism suspects.... Rizzo has served with the CIA since 1976 and acted as interim general counsel from 2001 to 2002 and from August 2004 to the present."
[CIA/00s/07]
Warrick, Joby. "Warnings on WMD 'Fabricator' Were Ignored, Ex-CIA Aide Says." Washington Post, 25 Jun. 2006, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Former CIA officer Tyler Drumheller, "who is writing a book about his experiences, described in extensive interviews repeated attempts to alert top CIA officials to problems with the defector, code-named Curveball, in the days before the Powell speech" to the United Nations on 5 February 2003.
[GenPostCW/00s/06/WMD]
Warrick, Joby, and Dan Eggen. "Ex-FBI Employee's Case Raises New Security Concerns: Sham Marriage Led to U.S. Citizenship." Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2007, A3. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Nada Nadim Prouty "pleaded guilty in federal court in Detroit [on 13 November 2007] to charges of conspiracy, naturalization fraud and unauthorized computer access. In addition to losing her CIA job, she has agreed to forfeit her U.S. citizenship and to face additional penalties, possibly including fines and a prison term." Prouty has worked for the CIA's operations division since 2003. Prior to that, she had been an FBI special agent since 1999, where she gained "a security clearance and a post with the bureau's Washington Field Office investigating overseas crimes."
[CIA/00s/07; FBI/00s/07]
Warrick, Joby, and Walter Pincus. "CIA Finds Holes in Pre-9/11 Work: Agency Reluctantly Releases 2-Year-Old Document Critical of Tenet." Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2007, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
The redacted executive summary of a report by CIA Inspector General John Helgerson says that former DCI "George J. Tenet and his top lieutenants failed to marshal sufficient resources and provide the strategic planning needed to counter the threat of terrorism in the years before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001." Both CIA Director Michael V. Hayden and his predecessor "have rejected calls for an 'accountability board' to assess the responsibility of individual CIA officials."
[CIA/00s/07]
Warrick, Joby, and Walter Pincus. "Lessons of Iraq Aided Intelligence on Iran: Officials Cite New Caution and a Surge in Spying." Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2007, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
"The starkly different view of Iran's nuclear program that emerged" from a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) released on 3 December 2007 "was the product of a surge in clandestine intelligence-gathering in Iran as well as radical changes in the way the intelligence community analyzes information.... Former and current intelligence officials say the new NIE reflects new analytical methods ordered by [DNI Mike] McConnell."
[Analysis/Est; GenPostCW/00s/07; OtherCountries/Iran]
Warrick, Joby, Joe Stephens, Mary Pat Flaherty, and James V. Grimaldi. "FBI Agents Ill-Equipped to Predict Terror Acts." Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2001, A1. [http://www. washingtonpost.com]
"The attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center found the nation's chief domestic law enforcement agency ill-equipped and unprepared. An agency that must track terrorists who rely heavily on technology lacks computers that can quickly access the Internet. Boxes of evidence have piled up in previous terrorist plots, but the FBI has not had translators to decipher them. It lacks Arab agents who can penetrate terrorist cells and has too few veterans who see connections among foreign suspects and far-flung sites."
[FBI/00s/01; Terrorism/01/WTC]
Warrick, Joby, and Robin Wright. "Unilateral Strike Called a Model for U.S. Operations in Pakistan." Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2008, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
According to U.S. officials, the missiles fired from a CIA MQ-1B Predator UAV, which killed senior al-Qaeda commander Abu Laith al-Libi in the town of Mir Ali, involved "an unusual degree of autonomy by the CIA inside Pakistan." The officials said that the Pakistani government "was notified only as the operation was underway."
[CIA/00s/08; Terrorism/00s/08]
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