Posted on 07/23/2005 8:53:56 AM PDT by YaYa123
"Today...get this...he's the one giving the Democrat's radio response to the President's weekly radio address."
Did Bill Burkett ever get to do one of these for them?
Here are some key facts:
1. George Tenet's CIA sent Joe Wilson to Niger at the recommendation of Wilson's wife.
2. Wilson drank "sweet mint tea".
3. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence reported that Wilson's unwritten report to the CIA suggested that Saddam, in fact, did attempt to get uranium from Niger.
4. President Bush said in his 2003 State of the Union Address that, according to British intelligence, Saddam had tried to get uranium from Africa.
5. Long after Americans had invaded Iraq, Wilson wrote in the New York Times that Bush lied about Saddam's efforts to get uranium.
6. George Tenet admitted that he saw the text of the President's 2003 State of the Union Address and did not raise any objection to the assertion that Saddam tried to get uranium from Africa.
7. After Wilson reported to the CIA and before he wrote his infamous NYT Op Ed, DCI George Tenet sat in the Oval Office and told the President of the United States that Saddam Hussein's stockpiles of WMD were a "slam dunk".
8. Wilson's wife worked as WMD analyst at Tenet's CIA.
9. George Tenet was a Clinton appointee.
10. Joe Wilson claimed that it was Vice President Cheney who initiated his trip to Niger.
11. The Vice President had never heard of Joe Wilson and never requested that he be sent to Niger.
12. Stockpiles of WMD were not found in Iraq.
CONCLUSION: Neither George Tenet or Joe Wilson can be trusted and there is a lot more to this story than meets the eye.
"I think Ray McGovern got into trouble at the last Conyers dog and pony show for making anti-semitic remarks."
That is a bright line pattern with all of these creeps, McGovern, Johnson and Wilson.
So a google of any of their names with the codeword "neocon" and see how many thousands of hits you get.
They are all anti-Semites, and many of them, like Wilson are on the Saudi payroll.
But the media won't report this. I wonder why?
Yes, but I recall reading that later Novak said his source was CIA. If my memory is on target (and I'm not saying it is), then the senior administration official is CIA.
Are the deputy directors at the CIA appointed by the President? If so, one of them might have been Novak's source.
Both Tenet and his chief deputy (I forget his name) were Administration officials. Tenet certainly qualified as a "senior administration official." I am almost certain that one or both of them was Novak's original source. Novak has said that his original source was CIA. And his July 13 article seems to refer to at least one, and probably two, CIA sources. I'm guessing that the second source was the person who actually revealed her name. Or maybe Novak found out the same way Cooper did: by using Google to get her real name from Joe Wilson's website.
Today, Mandy Grunwald is working for Hillary. But in the summer of 2003, she was working for Kerry. So was Chris Lehame. Remember these names, they may become important if this story develops further.
The hearing is on C-Span 1 right now!!!
It's on right now!
If true, this would make Tenet's referral to Justice a bold misdirection ploy.
I hope Director Goss is cleaning house effectively, and not missing any spots.
Novak says he got her name from Wilson's entry in "Who's Who."
Robert Novak: The CIA leak
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20031001.shtml
And what does that say about Wilson? You have to pay to get your entry into Who's Who nowadays. It is simply a vanity thing.
Tenet should go crawl in a hole. He should have been fired for not verifying the false information given to him on WMD.
Interesting that Schumer would now come out with this supposed furiosity of Tenent! If this were true, why would Schumer wait till now to try and bring it to light?
I thought that "The Nation" had something to do with the leak......Oh.....that wouldn't matter
We're talking about the genesis of the leak, not its progression.
Thanks, Howlin. I'm now listening to the outraged rantings of Larry Johnson.
It seems pretty clear to me the CIA leaker is what Fitzgerald's investigating. Whoever it was, s/he's also Judy Miller's source IMO. The leaker was talking to journalist Judy and Judy was talking other journalists and to Novak's "administration officials." Now Judy ain't talking to anybody because I doubt her real CIA source has given her permission to identify him/her. Somebody's gonna' go to the slammer for a long time over this and it's not Rove.
"Both Tenet and his chief deputy (I forget his name) were Administration officials."
No, John McLaughlin was a 20 something year CIA veteran. The Deputy Directors at the intel agencies are not political appointees. They are the ones who actually have to run things.
All of which serve as confirmation that Bush should have fired Tenent and cleaned house at the CIA.
I am just now listening to Larry Johnson telling us that it is much to dangerous a world to be spending time attacking Joe and Valerie who simply told the truth. Again, we move into that parallel universe.
"Judging from news reports and the portrayal of villains in our popular entertainment, Americans are bedeviled by fantasies about terrorism. They seem to believe that terrorism is the greatest threat to the United States and that it is becoming more widespread and lethal. They are likely to think that the United States is the most popular target of terrorists. And they almost certainly have the impression that extremist Islamic groups cause most terrorism.
"None of these beliefs are based in fact. ... While terrorism is not vanquished, in a world where thousands of nuclear warheads are still aimed across the continents, terrorism is not the biggest security challenge confronting the United States, and it should not be portrayed that way."
--Larry C. Johnson, "The Declining Terrorist Threat," New York Times, July 10, 2001. Johnson, a former CIA officer, was deputy director of the U.S. State Department's Office of Counterterrorism from 1989 to 1993. A more detailed version of this argument appears here.
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