Reply #107: Lots of good questions!

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1- Yesterday I read (I think via Steve Clemmons) a suggestion that perhaps you came upon a "fake" spy/selling weapons thing and for this reason the MSM and the state's secrets and all that.

Mr. Clemmons did not do his homework; no research. Because that was the first thing the Senate Judiciary Committee had to rule out before they took my case officially/formally and investigated it. In June & July 2002, two senior senators, Grassley (R) & Leahy (D), summoned several FBI-DOJ and DOD officials to rule out: 1- no covert operations involved; 2- No double agent situation in Dickersons' case. And they did. Mr. Clemmons is insulting these two senators' judgment and common sense?

2-Looking back, was there ever a time in which you recall being given any reason to back off (via your direct supervisor or otherwise?)?

No. In fact, the initial report was issued by the agent in charge of Turkish CI at the FBI Washington Field Office; SA Saccher. I was dragged into it later.

3- I still don't understand how state secrecy can be retroactively invoked.
It can't. However, no one challenged it. The congress took it as an order and obliged...