Was Scooter the Leaker? [Plame CIA leak]

The Washington Post ^ | 4/29/04 | Richard Leiby "reliable source"

[Gothmog]

"Those hoping to solve the mystery of who leaked the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame...won't find a clear answer in the new book by" Joe Wilson.

In his book "Wilson points to" VP Cheney's "chief of staff, Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, as 'quite possibly the person who exposed my wife's identity.'"

Wilson also claims "that a 'workup' on his background was done by the White House in March 2003 after his public criticism of Iraq policy. 'The other name that has most often been repeated to me...is that of Elliott Abrams.'"

And he still thinks Rove may have done it.

"'The workup on me that turned up the information on Valerie was shared with Karl Rove, who then circulated it in administration and neoconservative circles," Wilson alleges."

[Gothmog]

I hope I excerpted that enough. The media's going to jump all over this today. It will be 'what did Bush 'admit to' at his 9/11 hearing and who in his admin leaked Plame's name.

[Quilla]

The political pimp...
the asinine ambassador...
that wizard of Washington...

I give you - Mr. Bond, Jane Bond

[dead]

I'm bored by the end of the sentence on the cover.

Who the hell wants to read that book? He wasn't on the "inside" of any of the run up to war.

Luckily for him, every library in the country is run by liberals who will buy plenty of copies, using local tax money.

But I just don't see the average person buying a book that could have been written on both sides of a single sheet of paper. Maybe one side.

[justshutupandtakeit]

My prediction is that the reading public will greet this PoS's PoS with a dramatic yawn in contrast to the RATmedia fawn.

[Gothmog]

I wonder if he mentions in his book about how he betrayed his wife's identity by listing her as his spouse on his internet bio and how she listed her CIA cover on a check to Gore that made it publically available.

[Phantom Lord]

How many different people has he claimed was the source for the leak of his wifes name?

[mass55th]

The guy to the right of Kerry in this cartoon looks an awful lot like Wilson don't you think?

[MamaLucci]

So the book that was supposed to answer the burning
question of "who outed Valerie Plame", doesn't.
Why would anyone buy this book?

[Gothmog]

I think he's just throwing out lib red meat names like Abrams, Cheney CoS Libby and, of course, Rove. If he said it was 'deputy jr. assistant press flack joe smith' no one would get excited and buy his book.

With Wilson it's all about the hype.

[Quilla]

Luckily for him, every library in the country is run by liberals who will buy plenty of copies, using local tax money.

I understand that authors keep copies of their books "on ice" to boost sales figures. I rent a space in a mini-storage facility. They have asked me to cancel my lease and vacate the premises. Apparently Johnny Cochran has every single spot rented in this rather large facility. Guess what he's storing? Thousands upon thousands of copies of his book! I wonder where Hillary's renting space?

[Quilla]

That's Kerry's butler!!! Now I know who James Wilson reminds me of - a butler.

[sinkspur]

The media's going to jump all over this today. It will be 'what did Bush 'admit to' at his 9/11 hearing and who in his admin leaked Plame's name.

Wanna bet? This guy's 15 minutes is over.

He better be careful who he slanders.

[wildbill]

Who was responsible for bringing the head of CIA OPs division to the 9/11 commission for a public outing.

This is the first time in history that this was done. The man can no longer go overseas since his picture has been in the paper.

Anyone know how to bring this to the attention of Robert Novak? The Justice Dept? The FBI?

[soozla]

Wilson should be throttled with the fan belt on his own Jag-U-Ar...isn't he the sharpie that insisted that Karl Rove be "frogmarched out of the WH in cuffs"?????? What an idiot!

[ISonnet]

I doubt this or any of the other books in the Bash Bush parade are going to change anyone's mind. Those who hate the president did before and still will.

Those who don't and either like him or at least think he's doing the best he can under the circumstances will yawn again.

They make the authors money, which is fine, and give the cable shows something to talk about.

As far as I'm concerned, whenther he lurches to the left or to the right, Kerry is still Lurch!

[Grampa Dave]

This another lie, myth, fable or son of deep throat being pushed by the Compost.

The vile left wing critter responsible for this entire mess was the creative boss of the Main Plame, Alan Foley!

He has resigned/retired from the CIA after this mess blew up.

If the Compost was a real newspaper instead of a tool of the DNC, they would be all over Foley like a Rat Terrier. Instead they are acting like al Querry's French Poodle.

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Head of CIA Weapons Analysis Program Leaving
Reuters ^ | 09-10-03


Posted on 09/10/2003 5:28:27 PM PDT by Brian S


Wed September 10, 2003 02:16 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top CIA expert on weapons of mass destruction, who became embroiled in controversy over whether the White House stretched evidence about Iraq's programs, said he planned to leave the agency in October.

Alan Foley, who heads the Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation, and Arms Control Center, told colleagues in a note dated Aug. 29 that he had been "thinking about life after the agency for some time" and decided to leave after 26 years to enter the private sector.

He alluded to this summer's finger-pointing between the Central Intelligence Agency and the White House over who was responsible for an unsubstantiated claim in President Bush's State of the Union address in January that Iraq had sought uranium from Africa.

Critics seized on the reference, later found to have been partly based on forged documents, as a sign the White House had exaggerated the threat from Iraq to build support for the war.

"While I can't prevent the inevitable speculation that will be generated by the timing of my decision, I want you to know that this is something that I decided entirely on my own," Foley said in the note, obtained by Reuters on Wednesday.

"I can't deny that the pressures of the past few months have not weighed heavily in my mind, but there are many other aspects to my decision, not the least of which is that I'm intrigued by the prospect of trying my hand at a second career in the private sector," he said.

U.S. officials have said White House National Security Council weapons expert Bob Joseph discussed the uranium line with Foley, but there were differing recollections about who said what.

In one version, Joseph asked CIA's Foley if it was OK to use the uranium line in the speech and cite the British as the source, and that the CIA approved that language.

In another version, Foley told the White House's Joseph the CIA had recommended the British not include the claim in their September 2002 dossier on Iraq but the British included it anyway, citing intelligence that the Americans did not have.

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

"Inside the lies that led to war and betrayed my wife's CIA identity"?!?

Criminy! He sounds like a high school girl upset because the word got out she has a crush on the football captain.

And the only person who cares about his wife's CIA identity is him. He's like the Darva Conger of the pundit world. "All I want is my privacy, therefore I am publishing this book..."

[Gothmog]

Yeah, and Plame and Foley used to sit right next to each other. How do you suppose Wilson got picked for the Nigeria scam?

[OldFriend]

LOLOLOL........possibly, or, on the other hand, maybe, might be......

Who wrote this book, J f'n Kerry?

[linn37]

Is that really the book cover or did someone photoshop it?