PLAME'S ANTI-W. MONEY (attended Soros fund-raiser; listed as "retired" on FEC form)

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.

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.

Very interesting. That fits with Wilson's own ties to Moveon.org:

What Wilson Didn’t Say About Africa: Joseph Wilson's Silent Partners

Wilson had worked as an aide to Gore from 1985 to 1986 and had developed a friendly relationship with him. Wilson says Gore was the first person outside the State Department to contact him expressing support when he was caught in Iraq in the middle of the diplomatic crisis leading up to the Gulf War. In 1997 Gore recommended Wilson to President Clinton to help him plan a trip to Africa. When Wilson began publicly opposing Bush’s Iraq policy in 2002, Gore was still considered a potential candidate in the 2004 election. Gore’s speeches were then being sponsored by the antiwar group Moveon.org, which Wilson would support in September 2003 in an attempt to petition Congress against appropriating funds for Iraq operations.28 Moveon.org was financed by billionaire George Soros,29 who had business interests encompassing, among other things, the BTC Pipeline that Mohammed Alamoudi’s Delta Oil was helping build.30 Later, after Gore announced in December 2002 that he would not be running in the 2004 campaign,31 Moveon.org began supporting John Kerry’s campaign.32 Wilson began advising Kerry’s campaign on foreign policy matters around May 2003, several months prior to his public entry into the Niger uranium controversy.33

SNIP

[Source for Footnote] 28: Wilson, The Politics of Truth, 63-65, 163-164, 239-240, 280-282, 376-377, 389, 442

Followup to the main thread article:

Soros-Backed Activist Group Disbands as Interest Fades
Washington Post ^ | Wednesday, August 3, 2005 | Thomas B. Edsall

A year ago, the liberal group America Coming Together was on the cutting edge of national politics, spending tens of millions of dollars on a massive voter-mobilization project in every presidential battleground state. The dream was that ACT -- heavily funded by billionaire George Soros -- would play a decisive role in getting Democratic nominee John F. Kerry elected president and then remain in business as a permanent force in liberal politics.

Steve Rosenthal, who launched America Coming Together to mobilize voters for Democrat John F. Kerry, said maintaining momentum after the election proved to be harder than expected. Billionaire George Soros's heavy funding of the group ended after the election.

Instead, the group this week began sending e-mails to most of the 28 people who make up the remaining ACT staff warning that their paychecks would stop at the end of August. All the state offices have been, or are soon to be, closed.

See my post above and this old one of yours...

To: MEG33 : OK.Explain what you mean by "in Euros"and what this would implicate.I'm feeling dense. Soros was recently convicted of insider trading in France. So the money he's forking over to the Democrats is more than likely ill-gotten foreign gains. (Which is kinda illegal.)
As it goes, France is part of the European Union; an organization that issues its own currency in "Euros." As for feeling dense...I promise not to breath a word to dense's spouse about it. ; )

30 posted on 11/17/2003 1:12 AM PST by Prime Choice

One for the road:

JANUARY 28, 2004 : (PARIS : SOROS' APPEALS HEARING IS POSTPONED - See SAMIR TRABOULSI & JEAN-CHARLES NAOURI) A French court on Wednesday postponed until next year the appeals hearing of US financier George Soros, convicted in December 2002 of insider trading and fined 2.2 million euros (2.8 million dollars).
The billionaire and philanthropist was found guilty of using privileged information to speculate in shares of the French bank Societe Generale during a failed takeover bid in 1988.
The Paris appeals court rescheduled the hearing for February 10, 2005 at the request of Soros' defense team, which asked for more time to prepare their case. At the time of his conviction, Soros said he was "astounded and dismayed by the court's ruling" and vowed to appeal "to the highest level necessary".
"Let me repeat now what I have maintained from the start: at no point was I in possession of inside information regarding Societe Generale. The charges against me are unfounded and without merit," he said.
Two of Soros' co-accused -- Lebanese financier and middleman Samir Traboulsi and Jean-Charles Naouri, an aide to the late Socialist finance minister Pierre Beregevoy -- were acquitted.
The Societe Generale affair was widely cited as evidence of a climate of illicit collusion linking the worlds of politics, business and high finance under Francois Mitterrand, France's Socialist president from 1981 to 1995.
-------"FRENCH COURT POSTPONES SOROS APPEAL ON INSIDER TRADING CONVICTION UNTIL 2005," AFP via The Tocqueville Connection, Initially posted Wednesday, 28 January 2004 09:50:00 GMT, http://www.ttc.org/cgi-binloc/searchTTC.cgi?displayZop+15110

Speaking of Samir Traboulsi:

... There was one other document in the package cited by the Daily Telegraph. One month after the successful operation against Indict in Paris, Saddam’s personal office sent a memorandum to the finance ministry, authorizing them to pay $383,439 to undisclosed beneficiaries in France. The subject line read: “Role of Southern France” without further explanation. Some of President Chirac’s most trusted operatives, known for handling delicate matters with his friends in the Arab world, lived and operated in the golden triangle in the south of France, although none was mentioned in the document. Their stomping ground ranged from Grasse – where I met Bernard Guillet and legendary arms brokers Samir Traboulsi, Walid Khoraitem and many others – to the hills above St. Tropez, where Chirac crony Rafic Hariri, a billionaire wheeler-dealer who became Lebanon’s Prime Minister, maintained a vast vacation residence. The point of the triangle jutted out into the Mediterranean at Cap d’Antibes, a wild promontory known for mega-buck estates where uniformed private security guards patrolled the coast with automatic weapons at the ready....
---- "The French Betrayal of America," by Kenneth R. Timmerman, Publisher: Crown Forum (New York), Expected on sale date: March 16, 2004

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.

This is a good point, but to be completely fair, thanks to Al Gore holding our electoral system hostage for over a month with his endless attempts to cherry-pick votes in South Florida, Bush's transition team had much less time to do its job than it normally would have. Given this, they probably relied rather more heavily than normal (or, in hindsight, adviseable) on CIA staffers in deciding who would stay and who would go. And if there is one thing we have found out over the last four years, it's just how thoroughly the CIA has been infiltrated with leftist political hacks and America-hating stooges.

......the liberal group America Coming Together (ACT) was on the cutting edge of national politics, spending tens of millions of dollars on massive voter-mobilization projects. ACT -- heavily funded by billionaire George Soros -- was supposed to play the key role in getting Kerry elected president and then remain as a permanent force in liberal politics. .......this week ACT began sending e-mails to most of the 28 people who make up the remaining ACT staff warning that their paychecks would stop at the end of August. All the state offices have been, or are soon to be, closed.......

ACTION PROJECT

FReepers need to file an amicus brief requesting a court order against ACT to stay any destruction of documents related to Plame and her husband Joe Wilson.

Valerie Plame Wilson donated money to ACT (and to VP Gore) and is in hot water for submitting false information to the FEC. ACT could be shutting down so that all of its records can be shredded prior to the conclusion of Fitzgerald's grand jury....... an old liberal trick.
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Yes, I heard about this. I wish they would nail these scumbags real good, and really show the world how criminal these maggots are. Read American patriots, alright!!! (barf bucket please)

I don't understand why Repub (real Repubs, not RINOs) senators are not standing up in front of MSM cameras and demanding an investigation, just like these slimebags were trying to do the Rove. When will the Repubs ever learn to fight fire with fire???

They could hang these wretched excuses for politicians out to dry, once and for all, if they would JUST DO IT!!!!

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