Sunday, July 8, 2007

Whistle-Blower's Fight For Pension Drags On

....and this was George I:

Why would Poppy Bush want to cover-up Pakistan's nuclear program?

Whistle-Blower's Fight For Pension Drags On - washingtonpost.com:

He complained in 1989 that top officials in the administration of President George H.W. Bush -- including the deputy assistant secretary of defense -- were misleading Congress about the Pakistani program. He was fired and stripped of his security clearances. His intelligence career was destroyed; his marriage collapsed.

Federal investigations found Barlow was unfairly fired, winning him sympathy from dozens of Democratic and Republican lawmakers and public interest groups. But for 17 years, he has fought without success to gain a federal pension, blocked at every turn by legal and political obstacles also faced by other federal intelligence whistle-blowers.

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