WHO of Plame's Superiors AUTHORIZED Wilson's junket to Africa?
I can't remember the fella's name but he was one of the Dept heads in the Non Proliferation section. Allegedly he retired shortly after this incident.
Here's some more info for you to ponder...how many top CIA employees resigned suddenly for "personal reasons"?
1) George Tenet for "Personal Reasons"
2) James Pavitt within 4 days of Tenet for "Personal Reasons"
3) John McLaughlin, who served as acting director following the resignation of George Tenet also for "Personal Reasons"
4) Jami Miscik,CIA Deputy Diretor for Intelligence for what she called a "natural evolution", although rumor has it that she was asked to leave.
There are many others who resigned as a result of confrontations with Goss and his aide, Patrick Murray who were "cleaning out" the CIA of Dem political operatives and they quit supposedly due to those conflicts, 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.Also according to that article, it must be noted that the associate deputy director of counterintelligence's name was being withheld because she is undercover.
Something else I found, which at the time I dismissed as moonbat rantings...
Why did DCI George Tenet suddenly resign on June 3rd, only to be followed a day later by James Pavitt, the CIA's Deputy Director of Operations (DDO)?SourceThe real reasons, contrary to the saturation spin being put out by major news outlets, have nothing to do with Tenet's role as taking the fall for alleged 9/11 and Iraqi intelligence “failures” before the upcoming presidential election.
Both resignations, perhaps soon to be followed by resignations from Colin Powell and his deputy Richard Armitage, are about the imminent and extremely messy demise of George W. Bush and his Neocon administration in a coup d'etat being executed by the Central Intelligence Agency. The coup, in the planning for at least two years, has apparently become an urgent priority as a number of deepening crises threaten a global meltdown. Shortly after the “surprise” Tenet-Pavitt resignations, current and former senior members of the U.S. intelligence community and the Justice Department told journalist Wayne Madsen, a former Naval intelligence officer, that they were directly connected to the criminal investigation of a 2003 White House leak that openly exposed Valerie Plame as an undercover CIA officer.
Seymour Hersh dropped a major bombshell that went virtually unnoticed, 54 paragraphs deep into an October 27, 2003 story for the New Yorker titled “The Stovepipe.”
“Who produced the fake Niger papers? There is nothing approaching a consensus on this question within the intelligence community. There has been published speculation about the intelligence services of several different countries. One theory, favored by some journalists in Rome, is that [the Italian intelligence service] Sismi produced the false documents and passed them to Panorama for publication.“Another explanation was provided by a former senior C.I.A. officer. He had begun talking to me about the Niger papers in March, when I first wrote about the forgery, and said, 'Somebody deliberately let something false get in there.'
He became more forthcoming in subsequent months, eventually saying that a small group of disgruntled retired C.I.A. clandestine operators had banded together in the late summer of last year and drafted the fraudulent documents themselves.”
Okay...there is much misinformation in the article which has now been disproven, as Rove/Bush/Cheney did not leak Plame's name, but what about the basic premise that this whole thing was a coup set up by the CIA?