Posted on 07/15/2005 11:54:27 AM PDT by nativesoutherner
From National Review this AM. Could be....
http://www.nationalreview.com/may/may200507150827.asp
Chickenman !
So Joe Wilson turns around and blames Karl Rove. Hahahahahaha! Yet MSM REFUSES to focus on the feather sentence that Sandy Berger rec'd as a result of him destroying evidence of clintoonian wrongdoing.
So Joe Wilson turns around and blames Karl Rove. Hahahahahaha! Yet MSM REFUSES to focus on the feather sentence that Sandy Berger rec'd as a result of him destroying evidence of clintoonian wrongdoing.
The left just never learns. And the next time, they will up the ante and it will be a bigger non-story than this one. Watch for them to make up more stuff and demand impeachment.
Mountains from mole hills - the dems are sinking and in their flaying arms they clutch Rove. It's much ado about very little.
OK, Corn outed her, but didn't do it intentionally, so there is no crime here.
There were people who resigned from the CIA as a result of confrontations with Goss and his aide, Patrick Murray, specifically citing Murray as the reason. Now here is where it gets interesting:
...on Nov. 5, Murray raised the issue of leaks with the associate deputy director of counterintelligence. Referring to previous media leaks regarding personnel, he said that if anything in the newly appointed executive director’s personnel file made it into the media, the counterintelligence official “would be held responsible,” according to one agency official and two former colleagues with knowledge of the conversation.Source
Also according to that article, it must be noted that the associate deputy director of counterintelligence's name was being withheld from this article because she is undercover.
Miller is not sitting in jail for her and the NYTimes to protect Karl Rove. I strongly suspect that Miller's source is Wilson & Plame themselves.
Exactly. Wilson is the source.
He outed himself as a CIA agent when he reported in the press that he had been sent by the CIA to investigate Niger uranium transactions.
Except that he wasn't sent by the CIA, he was sent by his wife, which is not precisely the same thing.
And he outed his wife when he screamed that Rove had exposed her as an undercover officer, when in fact no one had done that.
Except that she wasn't an undercover officer.
And he exposed the apparent fact that the CIA is bereft of assets on the ground in a country that is involved in uranium smuggling. He exposed the fact that the CIA nuke specialists thought the idea that they were smuggling uranium "crazy", even though we now know it was true, since Libya came forward and revealed the source of their ore.
And he revealed the fact that there was a cabal within the CIA that was prepared to phony up an investigation in order to throw an American election.
I figure, Wilson should just keep talking.
LMAO that is great....needed that laugh
I know, I know ... nothing else is going on in the whole wide world except this non-story apparently.
The only reason I came here to to "expose" the FACT that she was NOT a "SECRET AGENT"
Most interesting, ravingnutter. You've done some outstanding research on this matter.
I'm just reviewing some files on this and didn't want to let this little tidbit to be forgotten:
June Of 2003, Wilson Told The Washington Post “The Niger Intelligence Was Based On Documents That Had Clearly Been Forged Because ‘The Dates Were Wrong And The Names Were Wrong.’” (Susan Schmidt, “Plame’s Input Is Cited On Niger Mission,” The Washington Post, 7/10/04)
However, “The [Senate Select Committee On Intelligence] Report … Said Wilson Provided Misleading Information To The Washington Post Last June [12th, 2003].” (Susan Schmidt, “Plame’s Input Is Cited On Niger Mission,” The Washington Post, 7/10/04)
Senate Select Committee On Intelligence Unanimous Report: “The Former Ambassador Said That He May Have ‘Misspoken’ To The Reporter When He Said He Concluded The Documents Were ‘Forged.’” (Senate Select Committee On Intelligence, “Report On The U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Assessments On Iraq,” 7/7/04)
Oh goodie .. I have more emails to send to my lib family memebers ... LOL!
If it's David Corn the MSM's love affair with this story will end.
Not a chance. The think they've got Rove by the short hairs with this, and they're not going to let anything get in the way of that.
Great minds think alike.........
Twins sons of different mothers..........
It is accepted by all parties that Iraqi officials visited Niger in 1999. The British Government had intelligence from several different sources indicating that this visit was for the purpose of acquiring uranium. Since uranium constitutes almost three-quarters of Niger’s exports, the intelligence was credible. [Unless it was chickens, LOL!]
The Butler Report affirmed what the British government had said about the Niger uranium story back in 2003, and specifically endorsed what Bush said as well.
By extension, we conclude also that the statement in President Bush’s State of the Union Address of 28 January 2003 that “The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa” was well-founded.
From the Senate Committee:
The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence reported July 7, 2004 that the CIA had received reports from a foreign government (not named, but probably Britain) that Iraq had actually concluded a deal with Niger to supply 500 tons a year of partially processed uranium ore, or "yellowcake." That is potentially enough to produce 50 nuclear warheads.
The Senate report said the CIA then asked a "former ambassador" to go to Niger and report. That is a reference to Joseph Wilson -- who later became a vocal critic of the President's 16 words. The Senate report said Wilson brought back denials of any Niger-Iraq uranium sale, and argued that such a sale wasn't likely to happen. But the Intelligence Committee report also reveals that Wilson brought back something else as well -- evidence that Iraq may well have wanted to buy uranium.
Wilson reported that he had met with Niger's former Prime Minister Ibrahim Mayaki, who said that in June 1999 he was asked to meet with a delegation from Iraq to discuss "expanding commercial relations" between the two countries.
Based on what Wilson told them, CIA analysts wrote an intelligence report saying former Prime Minister Mayki "interpreted 'expanding commercial relations' to mean that the (Iraqi) delegation wanted to discuss uranium yellowcake sales." In fact, the Intelligence Committee report said that "for most analysts" Wilson's trip to Niger "lent more credibility to the original Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) reports on the uranium deal."
He (the intelligence officer) said he judged that the most important fact in the report was that the Nigerian officials admitted that the Iraqi delegation had traveled there in 1999, and that the Nigerian Prime Minister believed the Iraqis were interested in purchasing uranium, because this provided some confirmation of foreign government service reporting.
Both the US and British investigations make clear that some forged Italian documents, exposed as fakes soon after Bush spoke, were not the basis for the British intelligence Bush cited, or the CIA's conclusion that Iraq was trying to get uranium.
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