Posted on 07/10/2004 1:49:22 AM PDT by thoughtomator
Former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, dispatched by the CIA in February 2002 to investigate reports that Iraq sought to reconstitute its nuclear weapons program with uranium from Africa, was specifically recommended for the mission by his wife, a CIA employee, contrary to what he has said publicly.
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Wilson's assertions -- both about what he found in Niger and what the Bush administration did with the information -- were undermined yesterday in a bipartisan Senate intelligence committee report.
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I think Kelly was a misguided fool who may have meant well in his own fashion, but Blair was the victim of his foolishness. I still am so angry that Tony Blair was asked if he had Kelly's blood on his hands. Outrageous.
Plames's boss, Foley, did a quick retirement when this story broke.
Wilson, Plame and Foley should be tried and found guilty as Congressman Peter King noted months ago.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/996728/posts
Prosecute Wilson? (Uhhh...YES!)
The Washington Times ^ | 7 Oct 03 | Greg Pierce
Posted on 10/07/2003 8:43:22 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
A leading New York congressman is calling for an investigation into whether former U.S. diplomat Joseph C. Wilson IV violated CIA secrecy when he blew the lid off his role in a February 2002 mission to determine whether Iraq had sought uranium from Niger.
For the last week, Mr. Wilson has been demanding a probe of the Bush administration's role in revealing his wife's job at the CIA, a move that he contends was an act of retaliation for his decision to go public about the Niger mission in a July op-ed piece for the New York Times.
But Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican, said Sunday that it's Mr. Wilson who needs to be investigated — and even prosecuted if he violated CIA secrecy.
"I assume that if he went into this job for the CIA, he had to sign an oath of secrecy — a confidentiality" agreement, Mr. King told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg. "And if he did, then he violated it and he should be prosecuted."
Mr. King added: "He conducted a so-called 'secret' mission for the CIA. [However] he's talking about it all over national and international television — undermining the president of the United States. ... Why wasn't this guy called in before a grand jury?"
Mr. King said that if the CIA didn't require Mr. Wilson to sign a confidentiality agreement, then the agency should explain why not — along with why it picked the talkative Mr. Wilson for the sensitive mission in the first place.
"Why did they pick the guy who was anti-Bush, antiwar with Iraq, to go over and conduct a really [slapdash] investigation of Niger?" the House Homeland Security Committee member told Mr. Malzberg.
Are you saying that what you posted is all that Bush had to say that was important? If that is the case, then he said little that he had not said before.
What I learned from all those posts is little more than what is in one of his 30 second commercials. Surely there is a Freeper somewhere worth his salt that can give us more than a 30 synopsis of a "spectacular event".
Are you referring to the female reporter whose reports were also manipulated by the BBC? The one who was pressured to alter her story?
Thank you! Now I remember reading about that when it happened but I did not remember the 70 minute interview.
70 minutes is a lot in a President's schedule - a whole lot.
Chinese in Albania, in Indonesia, in Pakistan.
What axle does the axis of terror revolve on?
Congressman Peter King suggest last year to prosecute Wilson for what you pointed out.
Below is the thread and link where Pete King says prosecute Wilson.
Prosecute Wilson? (Uhhh...YES!)
The Washington Times ^ | 7 Oct 03 | Greg Pierce
Posted on 10/07/2003 8:43:22 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
A leading New York congressman is calling for an investigation into whether former U.S. diplomat Joseph C. Wilson IV violated CIA secrecy when he blew the lid off his role in a February 2002 mission to determine whether Iraq had sought uranium from Niger.
For the last week, Mr. Wilson has been demanding a probe of the Bush administration's role in revealing his wife's job at the CIA, a move that he contends was an act of retaliation for his decision to go public about the Niger mission in a July op-ed piece for the New York Times.
But Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican, said Sunday that it's Mr. Wilson who needs to be investigated — and even prosecuted if he violated CIA secrecy.
"I assume that if he went into this job for the CIA, he had to sign an oath of secrecy — a confidentiality" agreement, Mr. King told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg. "And if he did, then he violated it and he should be prosecuted."
Mr. King added: "He conducted a so-called 'secret' mission for the CIA. [However] he's talking about it all over national and international television — undermining the president of the United States. ... Why wasn't this guy called in before a grand jury?"
Mr. King said that if the CIA didn't require Mr. Wilson to sign a confidentiality agreement, then the agency should explain why not — along with why it picked the talkative Mr. Wilson for the sensitive mission in the first place.
"Why did they pick the guy who was anti-Bush, antiwar with Iraq, to go over and conduct a really [slapdash] investigation of Niger?" the House Homeland Security Committee member told Mr. Malzberg.
Don't forget Clinton's wheelchair-bound late counsel. He was an African scholar -- another long marcher?
Tenet was not aware that Wilson went to Niger, until he heard about the report.
Plame's Boss, Foley, approved the trip and retired real quick from the Agency when Wilson and the Rats started blogging this bs story.
According to the former Niger mining minister, Wilson told his CIA contacts, Iraq tried to buy 400 tons of uranium in 1998.
Thanks for posting this great find!
Prosecute them ALL,throw them in jail and put a lid,finally,on these liars and frauds.
In trolling against our President again.
You get very old with your phoney support, you backstabbing troll.
You are probably not even an American, but some whore paid by the socialists of Germany to troll against our president.
And the MSM won't utter a peep about any of this.Peter King needs to go on Hanity's radio AND T.V. show and scream for Palme's,Wilson's,and Foley's heads on a platter.
Thanks for posting this great data. You have been a star indexer on this whole trumped up mess.
Backhoe and Seamole, fyi!
What you do,about 95% of the thimes on FR,is Bushbashing.The rest of your posts are just doon&gloom America bashing.
He's a damned troll,Dave.
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That is not how Peter King nor GW work.
They set the up the gallows and let the a$$holes like Plame, Wilson and Plame's boss hang themselves.
Apparently with this data, this has just happened to Plame.
September 11, 2003
Guardian
CIA weapons expert to quit after uranium scandal
The chief expert on weapons of mass destruction at the CIA, which was caught up in the recent storm over the invasion of Iraq, is quitting the agency next month after 26 years.
Alan Foley, who heads the Weapons Intelligence, Non- proliferation and Arms Control Centre, became enmeshed in the row over inclusion of a bogus reference to Iraqi efforts to purchase uranium in Niger, in President George Bush's State of the Union address.
In a note to colleagues, reported in the Washington Post, he alluded to the "pressures" of recent months but denied he had been forced to leave.
US officials have said White House national security council weapons expert Bob Joseph discussed the uranium line with Mr Foley, but there were differing recollections about who said what. In one version, Joseph asked CIA's Mr Foley if it was OK to use the uranium line and cite the British as the source.
In another version, Mr Foley told Mr Joseph that the CIA had recommended the British not include the claim in their September 2002 Iraq dossier but the British included it anyway.
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