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The Whistle Blower
The Man Who Told the Truth and Paid the Price
by Tamar Sullivan
Ami, January 28, 2015 - 8 Shvat 5775
Via Project On Government Oversight
Richard Barlow was simply doing his job when he uncovered an illegal network of Pakistani procurement agents acquiring US components to build a nuclear bomb. But his irrefutable intelligence and his intention to go after the criminals were politically problematic, so his rivals sought to discredit him with one of the most dishonest smear campaigns in this nation’s recent history. Despite overwhelming evidence in his favor and President Bill Clinton’s full support while in office, Barlow has never been compensated for sacrificing his career by exposing the facts that could have prevented the bomb from falling into Pakistani hands, leaving us in the precarious global situation in which we find ourselves today.
Barlow’s last request for personal restitution from the White House in 2009 was probably his last. President Obama’s silence in Barlow’s case follows the latter’s two decades of failed attempts to clear his name and receive his pension. After years of backstabbing sabotage and dashed hopes, Barlow laments the reality of this last shot at compensation.
“That was the end of it for me,” Barlow, 60, quietly acknowledges. He now lives in a motor home with his dogs and barely a penny to his name.
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The news of the operatives on American soil enraged many in Congress, and they began to call for a termination of aid to Pakistan under the Solarz Amendment. Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz called for an immediate hearing to ascertain the truth about Pakistan’s nuclear program. Barlow, as the CIA’s top expert on Pakistan, was called to the hearing along with a national intelligence officer, David Einsel. Because Einsel’s priority was to keep intelligence regarding Pakistan from interfering with the Afghan war, his testimony was expected to be purposely deceitful. Barlow’s supervisors and attorneys instructed him to tell the truth when asked.
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http://www.pogoarchives.org/m/wi/ami201_feature_barlow.pdf
That was the PREVIOUS Afghan War, the one where we helped give the Soviets their Vietnam.
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