Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-New York) has introduced legislation to compensate Richard Barlow, the intelligence official fired for telling the truth about Pakistan's nuclear activities.

The press release reads in part,

"Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) introduced legislation today to compensate Richard Barlow, a former high-level CIA and Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) counter-proliferation intelligence officer.  In the late 1980’s Barlow was essentially forced out of his job after informing his superiors that Congress was being lied to about Pakistan's efforts to acquire nuclear weapons.  Within days after expressing his concerns inside OSD, Mr. Barlow was issued a notice of termination and his security clearances suspended based on allegations that he “intended” to blow the whistle to Congress.  Despite the fact that Barlow was cleared of any wrongdoing after several investigations, he remains unable to collect a government pension.  Rep. Maloney's private relief bill for Barlow (H.R. 6232) would provide him with financial compensation for the some of the losses he has incurred.

The backstory is atrocious:
"While Barlow was working as an intelligence officer during the late 1980s, the U.S. government was poised to sell new F-16 fighter planes to Pakistan following the conclusion of the first Afghan war. Barlow wrote an intelligence assessment for then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney that showed Pakistan's ability and intent to use F-16s to deliver nuclear bombs, and concluded that the F-16 sale would violate existing law prohibiting the sale of military equipment to any country that possessed nuclear weapons or violated our nuclear export laws.  His assessment was rewritten without his knowledge so that it endorsed the sale of the F-16s.  Barlow learned that OSD officials had lied to Congress in a hearing about the sale and that others had misled Congress regarding Pakistan’s nuclear activities. When he raised objections and submitted corrected truthful testimony inside the Executive Branch, Barlow was issued a notice of termination, stripped of his high-level security clearance, and subjected to an intense and invasive nine month-long retaliatory security investigation into nearly every aspect of his life.  All the allegations were found to have been fabricated by his superiors, yet they refused to place him back in his job, or any similar job in OSD.  Barlow resigned under duress in 1992."

btw, as is typical in these cases one notes that several past/recent administrations are involved, or to put it better either perpetrated the initial wrong or did not engage in righting it. 'Bush versus Clinton' is a shibboleth. Realistic political analysis, and realistic intelligence work, has to recognize the continuities linking the past three (or more) administrations.