Posted on 04/27/2006 7:19:49 PM PDT by hipaatwo
Gets more and more interesting, doesn't it?
...Macranger, the former intelligence official, believes he knows what is coming next:I can’t tire of telling you how important it is that Mary Loose Lips has been brought down. More than just a random ‘discovery’ - she is the key to the lock. Guys at the agency and the DOJ knew exactly where to target - and they hit it dead on. In the coming days you will see why Senator Rockefeller HAD to make such an emergency visit to Syria in 2002. For a little tip, read here.
The “here” he is referring to is a Italian article that points out Rockefeller’s business dealings with none other, Cogema. Cogema runs the Niger uranium trade....
WOW, WOW, WOW ... and I KNEW Fenton Comm. was an integral spoke in the wheel, if not the/a hub. WOW!! Does it not seem logical that she sent Wilson to Niger???? GREAT job.
A leaking Senator on the Intel Committee would explain Blair's odd comment about not being able to tell the US details about its sources for the Africa uranium intel.
Word out of the Defense Intelligence Agency and law enforcement sources has the FBI and the Department of Justice comparing notes and dates on who in the U.S. Senate received national security briefings on both the overseas terrorist prisons and the NSA overseas terrorist monitoring programs, and when those briefings took place.
"The number of Senators who received briefings is not as large as people think," says one law enforcement source. "These were programs with a limited 'Need to Know" list on Capitol Hill."
Federal investigators looking into the leaks of both those programs to the press are zeroing in on the Senate, and are expected to continue to hold interviews of both Senators and their senior staff in the coming days. "This investigation is moving forward at a pretty fast clip," says the law enforcement source. "We're not looking at a two-year probe. We're talking about moving fast."
As yet, cooperation from the media outlets -- the Washington Post and the New York Times has been minimal, but investigators aren't sure they will need full cooperation to make the case. "The Hill may be all we need," says the source.
Focus of the investigation remains on the staffs of two Senators, Sen. Jay Rockefeller and Sen. Dick Durbin, as well as committee staff for the Senate Intelligence Committee and career intelligence staff detailed to U.S. Senate offices and committees. Last week, it was revealed that on February 17 Senator Rockefeller had sent a letter to the White House claiming that the Bush Administration had illegally leaked classified materials to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward for a book project he was working on with cooperation from the Bush White House.
A number of people of Capitol Hill and in the intelligence community interpreted the letter as an attempt by Rockefeller to play defense...
BTTT!
Culture of corruption or socialistic economics radiates!!!
I can't either and I've found that drinking more coffee is of no help whatsoever. Maybe I should try a couple of cocktails and try again this evening.
The UN’s Yellowcake Loophole
But this begs the question: how could yellowcake deals proceed with nations that were already under restrictions established in the UN’s Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), and presumably under the watchful eye of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)?
The answer is simple: in 1972 the IAEA itself enacted changes to its own regulations that allowed certain nuclear materials to be maintained and traded even by countries known to be covertly developing a nuclear capability or who supported terrorist groups.
It is important to understand that yellowcake cannot be directly introduced to the enrichment process. It must first be converted to uranium dioxide. In its final report, the Iraqi Survey Group (ISG) noted that Iraq had over 4,500kg of natural uranium dioxide that was under IAEA safeguards. There was also over 6.5 tons of uranium dioxide that had not been declared to the IAEA and was therefore not monitored by the UN. Saddam had a huge amount of material that given the proper equipment could have been immediately enriched to make nuclear fuel for a reactor or a nuclear weapon.
Then there was the problem of the 500 tons of yellowcake, some of which had slipped under the IAEA radar. But a key notation appears on the ISG inventory next to all of the yellowcake finds at Al-Tuwaitha: not subject to safeguards according to INFCIRC/153 corrected.
So, according to the ISG, the baseline material that is used to manufacture uranium dioxide, which is required to be under IAEA safeguards, is itself not subject to those same safeguards! In other words, the UN has regulated a loophole to countries that might want to manufacture enriched nuclear fuel by allowing them to have the milled yellowcake to start the enrichment process. The regulation explains the rationale for this deceptive practice: To avoid hampering the economic and technological development of the State or international co-operation in the field of peaceful nuclear activities, including international exchange nuclear material…[and] To avoid undue interference in the State’s peaceful nuclear activities, and in particular in the operation of facilities….
The Information Circular is very specific that safeguards shall not apply to material in mining or ore processing activities – that means milled yellowcake. You read that right; not all of Iraq’s uranium was subject to safeguards – so that ostensibly it could aid in its economic development. Therefore, any tin pot dictator could acquire and trade in processed yellowcake, just as long as they declared it to the IAEA. Apparently, the UN felt that it could ferret out any hidden equipment or facilities that could be used to enrich converted uranium.
Thanks to the release and analysis of the huge collection of seized documents and recordings, we now know that the UN’s confidence in preventing banned equipment from being imported to Iraq was wildly misplaced.
This regulatory loophole also answers the question of why Saddam was allowed to retain this yellowcake at Al-Tuwaitha, even though his known nuclear reactors and enrichment labs were long ago destroyed and never repaired. It’s because he could; and possibly because the profit potential of trading in yellowcake is very lucrative.
The value of uranium has skyrocketed in the last three years. When Operation Iraqi Freedom was winding down in April of 2003, the spot price of milled yellowcake was $10.75 per pound; the current price has boomed to $41.00 per pound. Today, the former dictator’s stockpile of yellowcake is worth well over $41 million. The market price will probably increase since the global demand for oil is finally causing developed nations to take another look at nuclear power in order to reduce demand for petroleum
now that I have picked myself up off of the floor....
Holy crap!
Just a thought, but one to which I have no answer.......
Would it be possible for Rockefeller/Standard Oil to manipulate oil prices?
or is that tin foil thinking?
That just doesn't sound right ; )
This is interesting when one considers Iran.
Thanks for the ping!
Good 'ole Mary M. You did it for the good of the country. The question is, which country?
Diverse intelligence agencies find themselves in front of the following picture: the French in Cogema are in business with the oil magnates, including the Rockefeller group. This name brings immediatley to mind the world’s second largest petrol company: Exxon, a company present in Niger through the activities of the Esso Exploration & Production Niger. Interesting indeed but there’s more, the other partner: the French Elf Aquitaine. The link, according to a number of observers on the banks of the Thames, is of particular interest, espeially due to the fact that a well known member of the Rockefeller family is currently vice president of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Who investigated the Oil-for-food scandal alongside Paul Volcker? Miranda Duncan, the niece of David Rockefeller. Duncan resigned from the commission following the polemic brought about by the conflicts of interest between the United Nations and the commission. Duncan, David Rockefeller’s niece, was working in the front line of the investigation. A conspiracy? It’s still too early to say, Volcker (the president of the commission who has a CV full of ties to the Rockefellers) produced the Oil-for-food report on October 27 2005.
Ping-a-ling!
Today Wilson claims to be a business agent for "African mining companies." But Niger's mines are owned by a French consortium, which operates cheek-by-jowl with the Quai d'Orsay. Niger itself is a semi-colony of France. No uranium sales go on there without the full knowledge and consent of the French government. Valerie Plame was quoted in a CIA memo as saying that "my husband has good relations with both the PM [prime minister] and the former Minister of Mines (not to mention lots of French contacts)..." Lots of French contacts, indeed.
Joseph C. Wilson IV: The French Connection
And lots of interesting speculation here
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