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PLAME'S ANTI-W. MONEY (attended Soros fund-raiser; listed as "retired" on FEC form)
NY POST ^ | July 27, 2005 | DEBORAH ORIN

Posted on 07/27/2005 2:45:23 AM PDT by Liz

Outed CIA spy Valerie Plame last fall gave a campaign contribution to go toward an anti-Bush fund-raising concert starring Bruce Springsteen.......

It's the first revelation that Plame participated in anti-Bush political activity while working for the CIA.

The $372 donation to the anti-Bush group America Coming Together, first reported by Time magazine's Web site, was made in Plame's married name of Valerie E. Wilson and covered two tickets.

The FEC record lists her occupation as "retired" even though she's still a CIA staffer. Under employer it says: "N.A."

A special prosecutor is probing whether Plame's CIA identity was leaked to retaliate against her husband, for attacking President Bush's Iraq policy after he went on an Iraq-linked CIA mission arranged by his wife.

Wilson — who played an active role in Democrat John Kerry's losing 2004 campaign — said the anti-Bush concert was "great" and told Time that his wife "doesn't recall listing herself as retired."

CIA rules allow campaign contributions, but the fact that Plame gave money to the anti-Bush effort is likely to raise eyebrows.

Federal rules require a political-action committee to ask all donors to list their employers.

"You don't have to provide it, but if you do, you shouldn't provide false information on those forms — like saying you're retired if you're not," said Larry Noble of the Center for Responsive Politics.

America Coming Together is one of the anti-Bush activist groups bankrolled by Bush-hating billionaire George Soros. He gave the group around $10 million.

--SNIP--

White House officials say Rove was seeking to discredit Wilson's attacks on Bush by noting that Wilson only got picked for the CIA mission because of his wife.

A bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report found that Plame did arrange her husband's trip even though he repeatedly denied it.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: act; brucespringsteen; cialeak; concert; johnkerry; kerry; soros; springsteen; valerieewilson; valeriewilson; wilson
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America Coming Together is one of the anti-Bush activist groups bankrolled by Bush-hating billionaire George Soros. He gave the group around $10 million.

Not to mention Soros' shady financial dealings.

1 posted on 07/27/2005 2:45:25 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz
A $1000 donation was made to Al Gore's presidential primary campaign on April 22, 1999 under the citation "Ms. Wilson, Valerie E. of Washington, DC 20007, Brewster-Jennings & Assoc." [3]

Wikipedia

2 posted on 07/27/2005 3:00:39 AM PDT by elli1
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To: Liz

Whoops!


3 posted on 07/27/2005 3:03:05 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Liz
It keeps gettin' better & better every day....

And the sound you hear that resemble flatulence is the air rushing out of the 'Rats party balloons...
4 posted on 07/27/2005 3:05:56 AM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Talk Nerdy To Me)
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To: elli1
Why is this woman still employed by the CIA?

Why was Joe Wilson sent on a very sensitive mission by CIA?

No wonder our intel is so faulty!

On April 3, 1998, Plame became the third wife of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV. Plame met Wilson, her second husband, at a Washington D.C party in early 1997. She was able to reveal her CIA role to him while they were dating because he held a high-level security clearance. At the time, Wilson was separated from his second wife Jacqueline, a former French diplomat.(!)

5 posted on 07/27/2005 3:12:40 AM PDT by iowamark
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To: Keith in Iowa

Can't wait to see what the WH is gonna do with this info.


6 posted on 07/27/2005 3:12:54 AM PDT by Liz (You may not be interested in politics; doesn't mean politics isn't interested in you. Pericles)
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To: Liz

>>>Can't wait to see what the WH is gonna do with this info.

Probably nothing. That's what's so sad.


7 posted on 07/27/2005 3:15:39 AM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Talk Nerdy To Me)
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To: Liz

< Can't wait to see what the WH is gonna do with this info. >

I hope they let others, like FR, light the fire under the pot.


8 posted on 07/27/2005 3:17:43 AM PDT by GOP_Proud (...when the Iraqi soldiers stand up, we will stand down...GWB)
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To: GOP_Proud

Keep stirring-----LOL.


9 posted on 07/27/2005 3:21:26 AM PDT by Liz (You may not be interested in politics; doesn't mean politics isn't interested in you. Pericles)
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To: Liz
"The FEC record lists her occupation as 'retired' even though she's still a CIA staffer. Under employer it says: N.A."

I'm not a lawyer, but isn't there a law somewhere that makes it a crime to knowingly file false information on a federal form? Especially one involving campaign donations? If she can falsify her occupation, then wouldn't it be possible for a foreign national, say a chicom for instance, to make a donation under an assumed identity? Imagine how scary it would be if someone who accepted money from the chicoms got elected. That person would be beholden to the communists! What if that person was, heaven forbid, elected president?! We really must reform our campaign finance laws soon to prevent this type of abuse.

10 posted on 07/27/2005 3:35:47 AM PDT by chief_bigfoot ("isn't THAT amazing?" - Ron Popiel)
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To: chief_bigfoot

No question---it's against the law to give false info to a federal agency.


11 posted on 07/27/2005 3:40:49 AM PDT by Liz (You may not be interested in politics; doesn't mean politics isn't interested in you. Pericles)
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To: elli1
The $1000 direct contribution is more tangible and obviously political than the tickets to the Boss concert.

I don't know why the Wilsons' political leanings are a surprise. It came out a while ago that Joseph Wilson functioned as President Clinton's political advance man for Clinton's (highly political) tour of Africa, the one in which he apologized all over the place for America to African presidents-for-life who were laughing up their sleeves at him. But of course, Clinton was under investigation by Ken Starr, and if he were indicted would be tried in a D.C. court, with a D.C. jury........

"Bobby, can you spell 'jury nullification'"?

So Wilson was used for that, which means he had Clinton's confidence and was, and is, a bona fide Clintonista.

Why either he or his wife were still working for George Bush more than two days after the first inaugural ball is a question for Bush's political staffers and whoever vetted the holdovers to answer. IMHO the Wilsons are a couple of Clinton political moles, the political equivalent of suicide-bomber sleeper agents that Clinton activated for the Iraq War and Campaign 2004.

12 posted on 07/27/2005 3:47:18 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: Liz
No question---it's against the law to give false info to a federal agency if you're a Republican.

A slight grammatical correction. :)

13 posted on 07/27/2005 3:48:10 AM PDT by fuquadukie (If you can't hang with the big dogs, then don't jump off the porch.)
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To: chief_bigfoot
Imagine how scary it would be if someone who accepted money from the chicoms got elected.

Been there; done that!

14 posted on 07/27/2005 4:04:59 AM PDT by 6SJ7
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To: Liz
Last night, I went to sleep simply imaging what it must be like in Democrat circles with the real truths and facts hitting daylight. Oh. My. It must be such a horror show and fright for them.

They've spent so many years spewing fearmongering blather about the "Torquemada Right".. can you imagine what must be going on in their nightmares when they sleep? Larry Johnson might be imagining jail time with Bruno? Joe Wilson? Bamboo shoots under the fingernails?

Indeed, Dems are their own worst enemies...

15 posted on 07/27/2005 4:29:43 AM PDT by Alia
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To: Liz; Shermy; cyncooper; Mo1; Fedora

Someone on our side is fighting back...this is a bombshell.


16 posted on 07/27/2005 4:53:48 AM PDT by Dog (Everytime a liberal whines, an angel gets its wings.)
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To: chief_bigfoot
But ALGORE didn't know the Buddhist temple was a front for the chicoms. Amen.
17 posted on 07/27/2005 4:54:13 AM PDT by gakrak ("A wise man's heart is his right hand, But a fool's heart is at his left" Eccl 10:2)
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To: generalissimoduane

Fyi..


18 posted on 07/27/2005 4:56:01 AM PDT by Dog (Everytime a liberal whines, an angel gets its wings.)
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To: Liz
...The $372 donation to the anti-Bush group America Coming Together, first reported by Time magazine's Web site, was made in Plame's married name of Valerie E. Wilson and covered two tickets...

Yes, Plame is on record having contributed to the Kerry campaign but I don't know that I'd take issue with purchasing tickets to a Bruce Springsteen concert. Quite a few pro-Bush fans bought tickets to hear Bruce rock for Bin Laden. I know because many came across the street to shake my hand.

Having said that, I wouldn't give Bruce a dime of my money.

19 posted on 07/27/2005 5:31:51 AM PDT by BufordP ("I wish we lived in the day when you could challenge a person to a duel!"--Zell Miller)
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To: Liz

Tyrunt'a Soros that would be Rex


20 posted on 07/27/2005 5:35:22 AM PDT by joesnuffy (The state always has solutions to the problems it creates...more freedom will never be a solution)
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