Get Me Bob Novak on the Phone Stat!!!

Another operative, another scandal.

A senior CIA operative who handled sensitive informants in Iraq asserts that CIA managers asked him to falsify his reporting on weapons of mass destruction and retaliated against him after he refused.

The operative, who remains under cover, asserts in a lawsuit made public yesterday that a co-worker warned him in 2001 "that CIA management planned to 'get him' for his role in reporting intelligence contrary to official CIA dogma."

The subject of that reporting has been blacked out by the CIA, and the word "Iraq" does not appear in the heavily redacted version of the legal complaint, but the remaining language and context make clear that the officer's work related to prewar intelligence on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction.

In the lawsuit, the officer asserts that CIA managers retaliated against him for refusing their demands by beginning a counterintelligence investigation of allegations that he had sex with a female asset and by initiating an inspector general's investigation into allegations that he stole money meant to be used to pay human assets.

****ring****

Douchebag of Liberty: "Hello, Bob Novak, behold my lovely teeth."

Douchebag of White House: "Bob, Karl."

DOL: "Yes, master."

DOWH: "You did not hear this from me, but I've got a live one for you."

DOL: "Yes, master."

DOWH: "His name is John Doe and, well, by golly he likes to pinch da' ass, yo"

Those investigations, the lawsuit asserts, were "initiated for the sole purpose of discrediting him and retaliating against him for questioning the integrity of the WMD reporting . . . and for refusing to falsify his intelligence reporting to support the politically mandated conclusion" of matters that are redacted in the lawsuit...

...The unnamed operative is a 23-year officer of Middle Eastern descent who spent much of his career on secret and covert operations to collect intelligence on and interdict weapons of mass destruction, the lawsuit says.

In 2002, the lawsuit says, the CIA officer "attempted to report routine intelligence" from a human asset "but was thwarted by CIA superiors." It goes on to say that he was subsequently approached by a senior desk officer "who insisted that Plaintiff falsify his reporting," and that when he refused, the "management" of the CIA's Counterproliferation Division ordered that he "remove himself from any further 'handling' " of the unnamed asset, who is referred elsewhere in the document as "a highly respected human asset."

DOWH: "Oh, and Bob..."

DOL: ....

DOWH: "Bob?"

DOL: ...

DOWH: "BOB!"

DOL: "Huh?"

DOWH: "Bob, stop flossing and listen to me."

DOL: "Sorry, yes evil one."

DOWH: "The guys an Arab, make sure you add that to your report, and allert the usual suspects, Coulter, Malkin, Krauthammer."

DOL: "But, but, I'm due for a buffering?"

DOWL: "Don't make me call Dr. Christian Szell"

DOL: "Sorry Master, yes, I know the story line now, darky-muslim, traitor inside CIA who likes to have sex with innocent blonde, buxom, Americans. Right?"

DOWH: "Very good. Very good indeed."