I did not see anything about being branded "a congenital liar".
That was from my memory, as I remember when he tried to defect to the US and was rejected for asylum by the CIA. He was called a liar at the time, as apparently the CIA did not believe much of what he said.
I am not familiar enough with David Albright to evaluate his views on the matter.
Give him the benefit of the doubt, then. He is a former nuclear inspector in Iraq, after all, and Hamza's "mentor" in the US.
Since I do not assume that the Administration is busy looking for excuses, but is interested in evaluating the situation, I consider its endorsement of Hamza as sufficient to give him credibility
Not sure if your assumption is correct, but as you wish. Would you care to explain why you think he was rejected for asylum in 1994, then?
The one-time chief of Iraq's nuclear program, who's now a key U.S. source for intelligence on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, was initially dismissed as a joke by Clinton-era intelligence agents who rejected his initial plea for asylum in 1994.
But in a dramatic account of the episode in his 2000 book "Saddam's Bombmaker," Dr. Hamza says Clinton-era intelligence operatives first seemed to laugh him off.
Later in his book, the now key U.S. intelligence source summarized his treatment at the hands of the CIA. "They not only ignored me, they rebuffed and even ridiculed my pleas for help in 1994," he complained.
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