CIA Man Alan Foley Quits (involved w/uranium in Niger situation)

[Khephra]

Leaving the Team


Speaking of the CIA . . . Alan Foley, a 26-year agency veteran and most recently head of the Weapons Intelligence, Non-Proliferation and Arms Control Center, is calling it quits next month. Foley made headlines a few months back in the to-and-fro with the White House National Security Council over whether to include that bogus reference about Iraqi efforts to purchase uranium in Niger in President Bush's State of the Union address.

"While I can't prevent the inevitable speculation that will be generated by the timing of my decision," Foley said in a note to his staff, referring to the Niger flap, "I want you to know that this is something that I decided entirely on my own."

"I can't deny that the pressures of the past few months have not weighed heavily in my mind," he said, but there were many other factors, he noted, including wanting "a second career in the private sector."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51378-2003Sep9.html

[LosinIt]

1. A fine career awaits him at Halliburton

all it will cost him is his silence.

[RMJ]

2. and his soul... n/t

[coda]

3. Too bad. He should stay.

Foley is clean as far as I'm concerned and has said all he needs to say. If NSC heads don't roll over this it sure as heck isn't his fault.