Outed CIA agent trying to buy Twitter so she can cancel Trump’s account [Plame]

Valerie Plame Wilson, the undercover CIA operations officer unmasked in July 2003, wants to buy a controlling share of Twitter. Her reason for doing so is to prevent President Trump from using the social media platform.

Plame Wilson was an undercover operative specializing in weapons of mass destruction for the CIA before influential columnist Robert D. Novak exposed her and her husband, Joseph Wilson. Plame Wilson had previously been critical of then President George W. Bush’s statements about Iraq’s purchase of nuclear weapons-grade uranium and accused members of the Bush administration of conspiring to destroy her career by breaking a 1982 law prohibiting the disclosure of the identities of covert CIA officers.

Now, Plame Wilson is crowd-funding to raise the money to buy enough shares of Twitter to block President Donald J. Trump.

“Donald Trump has done a lot of horrible things on Twitter,” Plame Wilson wrote on her GoFundMe page. “From emboldening white supremacists to promoting violence against journalists, his tweets damage the country and put people in harm’s way. But threatening actual nuclear war with North Korea takes it to a dangerous new level. ”

She criticizes Twitter executives, who she says have “ignored growing calls to enforce their own community standards and delete Trump’s account.”

“Twitter is a publicly traded company. Shares = power,” Plame Wilson explains on the page. “This GoFundMe will fund the purchase of a controlling interest in Twitter. At the current market rate that would require over a billion dollars.”

A controlling interest in a company requires an entity to buy 50 percent of its outstanding shares, plus one. Twitter currently has about 731 million outstanding shares and is worth around $11.8 billion.

While raising “over a billion dollars” would be incredible, Plame Wilson says it’s “a small price to pay” to remove “Trump’s most powerful megaphone.” Somehow, she also believes shutting down Trump’s Twitter account will “prevent a horrific nuclear war.”

She has a long way to go, however. Over seven days, she’s only raised $9,522 as of Wednesday afternoon.

“If we can’t get a majority interest,” Plame Wilson says, “We’ll explore options for buying a significant stake in the company and champion this proposal at the annual shareholder meeting. If that’s impossible for any reason or if there is a surplus from this campaign, 100 percent of the balance of proceeds will be donated to Global Zero, a nonprofit organization leading the resistance to nuclear war.”

Plame Wilson announced her funding request on the social media platform she has hopes to take over. On Twitter, she wrote: “If Twitter executives won’t shut down Trump’s violence and hate, then it’s up to us. #BuyTwitter #BanTrump”. . .

From David Horowitz’s FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org
Subject: PLAMEGATE

“Plamegate” was a 2002-2003 scandal that centered around Valerie Plame, a CIA employee and the wife of former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson. The other key figure in the scandal was I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, who, since January 2001, had been employed as Assistant to the President of the United States, Chief of Staff to the Vice President, and Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs. In the course of his work, Libby often had access to classified information which he was legally obligated not to disclose to persons unauthorized to receive it. At issue in this case was Libby’s alleged breach of Valerie Plame’s anonymity as a CIA employee.

In 2002 Plame’s husband, Joseph Wilson, was dispatched by the CIA to Niger to investigate allegations that Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi government had been trying to acquire, from Niger, uranium yellowcake — a processed form of uranium ore that is used in nuclear reactors. Plame played a key role in arranging this fact-finding trip for her husband. Wilson reported his findings to the CIA upon his return to the U.S., stating that the assertions about uranium yellowcake had been based on forged documents.

On January 28, 2003, President George W. Bush delivered a State of the Union address which included sixteen words stating that: “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” Critics of the President subsequently cited the fact that this statement had been made despite Wilson’s claims as evidence that Mr. Bush, in order to justify a preemptive invasion of Iraq, had knowingly misled the American public about Iraq’s efforts to acquire the raw materials for weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

On July 6, 2003, Wilson published an Op-Ed piece in The New York Times titled “What I Didn’t Find in Africa” — a reference to the allegedly nonexistent evidence of Iraq’s effort to acquire uranium yellowcake from Niger.

Eight days later, on July 14, 2003, journalist Robert Novak revealed Valerie Plame’s identity as a CIA agent in his Washington Post column. Suspicions quickly arose that Novak had obtained this information from Libby. Critics of the Bush administration speculated that Libby, on behalf of the White House, had “outed” her to retaliate against her husband Joseph Wilson for embarrassing the President.

In September 2003, the Department of Justice authorized the FBI to commence a criminal investigation of Libby’s actions. Beginning in January 2004, a grand jury was empaneled to determine which government officials had disclosed (to the media) information concerning the affiliation of Valerie Plame with the CIA — and to ascertain what may have been the nature, timing, extent, and purpose of such disclosures.

On October 28, 2005, Libby was officially charged with one count of obstruction of justice, two counts of making false statements to FBI investigators, and two counts of lying to the grand jury. He was not charged with actually leaking a CIA officer’s name. Special Investigator Patrick Fitzgerald knew from an early stage that the person who in fact had disclosed Ms. Plame’s name to the media was not Libby, but rather Richard Armitage, a former State Department official who opposed the Bush administration’s policy in Iraq.

The investigation of Libby ended on March 6, 2007, when the defendant was convicted of having given misleading testimony about the identity of the person who had told him about Ms. Plame’s role with the CIA.

The left falsely depicted Libby’s conviction as a discrediting of America’s pre-war intelligence, and used the judgment against him to promote the notion that “Bush lied, people died.” But in fact the President had not lied about Saddam’s attempt to purchase uranium from Niger. The Nigerian government believed that it had told Wilson that there was substance to the charges about yellowcake uranium. As The Washington Post editorialized, “Wilson was the one guilty of twisting the truth” in saying he had debunked the Niger story.

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Obama's message to Global Zero: progress slow but steady

In a statement read at the Global Zero summit in Paris today, President Obama repeated his commitment to the ambitious nonproliferation goals he set out in his Prague speech. "At our Nuclear Security Summit in April we will rally nations behind the goal of securing the world’s vulnerable nuclear materials in four years," Obama said. "We will strengthen the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and work with allies and partners to ensure that the rights and responsibilities of every nation are enforced. We will seek to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and negotiate a Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty. And our Nuclear Posture Review will reduce role and number of nuclear weapons in our national security strategy." He added, "Make no mistake, this will be hard. Progress will be neither quick nor easy. Rather than fixed deadlines, we will work toward reductions that are historic yet realistic, ambitious yet achievable. And as I’ve said, our ultimate goal may not be realized in our lifetimes." (Stay tuned to additional news from the Ploughshares-funded Global Zero conference from Joe Cirincione and Naila Bolus, who are in participating in the discussions in Paris.)

So let's see: Global Zero, an "anti-nuclear" organization, works with the Ploughshares Fund, one of the main organizations that pushed the Iran nuclear deal. Why is it that Valerie Plame keeps showing up wherever nukes are being proliferated to enemies of the U.S.?

Our Movement > Movement Leaders > Mr. Joseph Cirincione

Mr. Joseph Cirincione is president of the Ploughshares Fund. He is author of “Bomb Scare” and “Nuclear Nightmares,” and has written hundreds of articles on defense and nuclear issues. Previously, he served as senior vice president for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress and as director for nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He teaches at the Georgetown University Graduate School of Foreign Service and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Cirincione is an expert advisor to the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States, and serves as a member of the Advisory Committee to the Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism.

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