Posted on 07/11/2005 12:13:42 PM PDT by areafiftyone
The report states that a CIA official told the Senate committee that Plame "offered up" Wilson's name for the Niger trip, then on Feb. 12, 2002, sent a memo to a deputy chief in the CIA's Directorate of Operations saying her husband "has good relations with both the PM [prime minister] and the former Minister of Mines (not to mention lots of French contacts), both of whom could possibly shed light on this sort of activity." The next day, the operations official cabled an overseas officer seeking concurrence with the idea of sending Wilson, the report said.
The report also said Wilson provided misleading information to The Washington Post last June. He said then that he concluded the Niger intelligence was based on documents that had clearly been forged because "the dates were wrong and the names were wrong."
"Committee staff asked how the former ambassador could have come to the conclusion that the 'dates were wrong and the names were wrong' when he had never seen the CIA reports and had no knowledge of what names and dates were in the reports," the Senate panel said. Wilson told the panel he may have been confused and may have "misspoken" to reporters. The documents -- purported sales agreements between Niger and Iraq -- were not in U.S. hands until eight months after Wilson made his trip to Niger.
Wilson's reports to the CIA added to the evidence that Iraq may have tried to buy uranium in Niger, although officials at the State Department remained highly skeptical, the report said.
It cracks me up how the LSM is cooking this story, "push a string" style!
"It doesn't matter who is destroyed, as long as we bring down the Rove!"
But, she was "WORKING TO STOP THE SPREAD OF NUKULAER WEAPONS", no wonder they are foaming at the mouth.
Hillery! better watch out there might just be an ambitious
young female staffer out to become president someday.
If the Bush Administration apologized to all the Demmie plants in the State Department and other government agencies, they wouldn't have time for anything else.
But you knew that, didn't you, MM? ;-)
Joe Wilson's wife was outed by:
Aldrich Ames
Joe Wilson (in his Who's Who entry)
Joe Wilson (on his website)
Numerous members of the DC cocktail party circuit
All that was before Rove talked to Cooper or Novak wrote his story.
Now, the Senate intelligence committee said that Joe Wilson lied about his findings, and it appears he did so for political purposes? when will you be woman enough to apologize for supporting this traitor? When will Valerie Plame apologize for sending a political operative to do intel work in a time of war? When will Joe Wilson apologize for lying to the American people?
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