Posted on 07/20/2005 7:17:44 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul
Came across an article by Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, "ACTIVISM UPDATE: New York Times Reports on Embassy Bombing Investigation" dated April 28, 2000.
On April 17, the New York Times published the results of its investigation into the May 1999 bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. The article, which reveals many new details about the bombing, should be viewed by media activists as a welcome development in the effort to shed journalistic light on the incident. According to the Times' account, although the CIA has its own targeting unit, it was instead the agency's Counter-Proliferation Division (CPD), "a small office whose focus [is] the spread of missiles and nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons," that proposed the embassy target. The CPD has no experience or expertise in targeting or in the Balkans. It nominated the target on its own initiative, apparently without being solicited by NATO or the Pentagon. Although the Times does not mention it, the CPD is a covert operations unit, located within the CIA's Directorate of Operations rather than its Directorate of Intelligence. In a 1997 report to Congress, CIA counter-proliferation analysts singled out China as "the most significant supplier of weapons of mass destruction-related goods and technology to foreign countries." Counter-proliferation officials have been embroiled for years in a fight with the Clinton administration over its policy of "engagement" with China. The Times' sources say that the CPD's intended target, located near the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, was the Yugoslav Federal Directorate of Supply and Procurement (FDSP). The targeting was done by a CPD analyst using an unclassified 1997 map of Belgrade provided by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA). The map, which was not intended to be used for aerial targeting, did not identify street address numbers. The Times' sources claim that the analyst misidentified the embassy as the FDSP when he attempted to pinpoint the FDSP's address on the map by extrapolating from addresses on parallel streets. "To target based on that is incomprehensible," an official told the Times. While the Times' sources say the aerial photographs of the site provided by a NIMA official-- which showed the Chinese embassy-- raised no questions at the CIA, a senior intelligence official told the Times that "it should have been apparent to any imagery expert that the building shown did not look remotely like a warehouse or any Serbian government building." On his own initiative, the analyst then downloaded a targeting form from a secure Pentagon computer, filled it out and sent it to the Joint Chiefs of Staff "appearing to be a more advanced proposal than it was," according to Myers. The Joint Chiefs never conducted a thorough review of the target; "the reasons are not clear," Myers writes. All of the Joint Chiefs refused interviews with Myers, who is the Times' Pentagon correspondent. Eight days before the embassy was struck, another CIA analyst tried to prevent the bombing from taking place. He had no authority to review targets-- "or even to know what they were"-- but he called the NIMA official, telling him he had "heard informally" that the FDSP's actual location was 1,000 yards south of the targeted embassy building. The NIMA official tried unsuccessfully to arrange a meeting between the two officers. A few days later, NIMA provided the skeptical CIA officer with six additional images of the building, which confirmed to him that the building was not the FDSP. At that point, The CIA officer raised his concerns with military officials in Naples. According to those officers, he "did not make his questions...sound grave enough to remove the target from the list." In the end, despite its supposed value as a target, the FDSP was never bombed. Is "Joe Izusu" her second recommendation resulting in blowback for the Agency?
Lo and behold, the cause of the bombing of the Chinese Embassy during Clinton's Bosnia adventurism was the CIA's Counter-Proliferation Division (CPD), the home away from home for Valerie Plame.
FAIR, and who's fairer than Jeff Cohen, states that CPD had no targeting expertise to offer, displaced the CIA's designated targeting unit, "recommended" the target to NATO and Pentagon without being asked, used maps unsuitable for targeting, used methodology unsuited for the task, downloaded a forms from a secure Pentagon computer, filled out the forms and submitted them to Joint Staff (despite the imagery not resembling a warehouse or government building).
All while CPD analysts warned that China was "the most significant supplier of weapons of mass destruction-related goods and technology to foreign countries" and fighting with the Clinton White House over "engagement" with China.
Sounds like CPD conducts, better yet, acts out it's own foreign policy, no make that goes to war on it's own "recommendation" when it disagrees with the President of the United States.
Here are some relevant paragraphs from the FAIR article:
What role did she play in this earlier rogue adventure against a President with whom CPD had a "disagreement"?
Waaaaaaaahahhaaaaaahhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh
Jane Blonde bombed China! Is there a Karl Rove angle to this story?
This is too good if she was involved. James Bond she apparently ain't.
There sure is, Rove doctored the maps they used.
They thought the embassy was a pharmaceutical-cum-bomb-making-factory.
Legitimate to examine if CPD is a rogue unit in the CIA.
Congress should investigate.
Legitimate to examine if CPD is a rogue unit in the CIA.
Congress should investigate.
When did Valerie Plame start her career in the CIA and who appointed her? She looks like Clinton's type and you know how he loved to find jobs for his girlfriends.
Hmmmmmmm...what have you stumbled on to..!
Well she was CIA before they returned to the states in 1997.
Maybe she was the leak that told the Times this garbledy-gook. Maybe they really hit the Chinese on purpose. Maybe Wesley Clark did it.
All Amb. Wilson proved is that they serve good cocktails in hotels in Niger.
Do you have evidence to the contrary?
What does Weasley Clark think about this I wonder?
" Lo and behold, the cause of the bombing of the Chinese Embassy during Clinton's Bosnia adventurism was the CIA's Counter-Proliferation Division (CPD), the home away from home for Valerie Plame."
There are more red flags swirling around Valerie Plame than one would see during a May Day parade in the old USSR.
I hope Porter Goss is scrutinizing her work record and contacts.
If Plame's married name was Ashcroft, Halliburton or Rove ,
the fossil media would be falling all over each other to dig into her background.
Just because a CIA operative /analyst / covert/ inert/ Vanity Fair model has a uterus, that should not give them an automatic bye from investigation.
She has been working for the CIA since the eighties. She was apparently not a bad agent befor she met Wilson, but I'm not sure what her duties were. She looks like a bimbo to me, the type that would have been assigned to seduce the enemy and compromise him.
If he's that good, fire her, fire her team mates at CPD and turn it over to Joe Izusu.
Yes, let's send Wilson BACK to Niger ~ for a very long stay.
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