The Novak report (Vanity)

Town Hall ^ | Jul 14, 2003, | Robert Novak

[Prost1]

Jul 14, 2003 "Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate the Italian report. The CIA says its counter-proliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him. "I will not answer any question about my wife," Wilson told me."

http://66.218.69.11/search/cache?p=robert+novak+valerie+plame+wilson&btn=Search&ei=UTF-8&u=www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20031001.shtml&w=robert+novak+valerie+plame+wilson&d=TOWy8mFULq8x&icp=1&.intl=us Oct 1, 2003 "During a long conversation with a senior administration official, I asked why Wilson was assigned the mission to Niger. He said Wilson had been sent by the CIA's counterproliferation section at the suggestion of one of its employees, his wife. It was an offhand revelation from this official, who is no partisan gunslinger. When I called another official for confirmation, he said: "Oh, you know about it." The published report that somebody in the White House failed to plant this story with six reporters and finally found me as a willing pawn is simply untrue. ... How big a secret was it? It was well known around Washington that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA. Republican activist Clifford May wrote Monday, in National Review Online, that he had been told of her identity by a non-government source before my column appeared and that it was common knowledge. Her name, Valerie Plame, was no secret either, appearing in Wilson's "Who's Who in America" entry."

[Prost1]

Please note: her name was no secret, "appearing in 'Who's Who...'".

Plame's position was from a "senior official" that she worked in the "CIA's counterproliferation section".

So, there is no outing except by Wilson!

Any other conclusion is political!

Reread the above cited articles. Novak is quite clear. And, it was the CIA that referred this "outing" to the Justice Deptment during an National Election causing a special prosecutor to be appointed.

The crime is the misuse of government funds to send a spouse on a trip to Niger for which he was unqualified and to attempt to turn a federal election using the powers of the court and MSM in fabricating crimes on the part of the Executive that could not be responded to since an investigation was/is in progress.

This is sedition of the highest order and quite possibly treason.

[Suzy Quzy]

Does the CIA normally send someone who does NOT work for the CIA or even the government (he was privately employed) on a government mission?? That makes NO sense.

[RunningWolf]

This is sedition of the highest order

I agree its sedition

and quite possibly treason.

Perhaps,

Wolf

[phelanw]

Historically, then under the (expired) Ethics in Government Act, and now after its expiration, there is only one way you get a special prosecutor/independent counsel. That is for the Attorney General to agree to his/her appointment.

Under the EIGA, the AG would send 3 names to the special division (3 judge panel) and outline jurisdiction. The special division would pick the IC and establish jurisdiction on basis of AG's recommendation. I suppose it's done the same way after expiration of EIGA.

The question is, why did the AG authorize this investigation in the first place?

[Prodn2000]

It was no secret that Valerie Plame (Wilson) was married to Joe Wilson. It apparently was a secret that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA. She was supposed to be some kind of analyst for an energy company.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

Moving along, nothing to see here, keep moving along...

Holy cow, when will this ever end.

[scott says]

My question is-- how is it possible that Wilson is not violating some kind of law by "publishing" his alleged findings in the press? If he went on some kind of "fact finding" mission for the CIA, how is it possible for him to reveal them to a newspaper, and why is this not some kind of breach of security? My head hurts.....

[Prost1]

The AG did not authorize it (Ashcroft). He recused himself and Fitzpatrick's buddy (who was the assistant) appointed him.

[Sacajaweau]

Questions:

1. Who is the party that got to Valerie to have her "suggest" Joe should be their agent to Niger?

2. How much contact did Wilson have with Kerry (and or Dem Party Leaders) before his Niger trip. He had been sent there before...during the Clinton Administration.

3. Why no "non-disclosure agreement signed by Joe?

Why no written report signed by Joe?

Who created these CIA security lapses. It didn't come from the Whitehouse?

[A CA Guy]

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