June 2003
Week of 1-7: Washington Post’s Walter Pincus asks CIA about Wilson’s trip
State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research head Carl Ford responds to request from Under Secretary of State Marc Grossman with memo mentioning Plame’s CIA association and role in arranging Wilson’s trip; memo is possibly shared with Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and Secretary of State Colin Powell
BTW, any updates on this allegation mentioned in one of my old posts (unsubstantiated last I checked but I noted it as worth following up on)?
Walter Pincus, Dana Priest, and other researchers have previously noted that Plame’s front company was called Brewster-Jennings & Associates, a disclosure that has generated remarkably little follow-up from a media usually eager to expose CIA scandals. Some researchers have asserted that Robert Novak’s 2003 column compromised CIA assets linked to Brewster-Jennings. But others have called attention to a report by former FBI agent Sibel Edmonds indicating that a year earlier the FBI was already aware that Brewster-Jennings had been compromised during a conversation between Marc Grossman and Turkish lobbyists under Bureau surveillance in a corruption investigation.
Those must be Turkish lobbysists of the American-Turkish Council, I guess.
That Turkish lobby is getting to be a pain in the arse.