Waxman Threatens to Subpoena CIA's Plame Documents
By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t | Report
Monday 14 May 2007
Congressman Henry Waxman, the Democratic chairman of the House Government Affairs and Oversight Committee, has threatened to use his subpoena power to obtain documents from the CIA related to events five years ago in which former Ambassador Joseph Wilson was chosen to travel to Niger to probe allegations that Iraq was trying to obtain yellowcake uranium from the African country.
In a letter sent Friday to CIA Director Michael Hayden, a copy of which was obtained by Truthout, Waxman said he wants the spy agency to declassify a February 12, 2002 memo and turn it over to his committee, which is vigorously investigating lax security measures in the White House that led senior members of the Bush administration to disseminate classified information about Plame's undercover CIA status to the media. Waxman set a May 18 deadline for the CIA to turn over the materials.
"On March 26, Chairman Waxman sent you a letter requesting documents relating to the accuracy of testimony by an unnamed
reports officer cited in the Senate report," states the letter sent to Hayden, which is signed by Waxman and the Oversight Committee's ranking minority member Tom Davis (R-Virginia). "According to Ms. Wilson's testimony, information provided to the Senate by this CPD reports officer was 'twisted and distorted' to support the inaccurate claim that Ms. Wilson had suggested her husband ... for the mission."
"Ms. Wilson told the committee that the CPD reports officer drafted a memo to correct the record, but the CIA did not allow him to send it," Waxman's letter further added. "She also told the committee that the officer asked to be re-interviewed by the Senate, but the CIA denied this request."
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051407B.shtml
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