The Phony Plame “Outing” Story

Miscellaneous | August 4, 2005 | Self

[Cautor]

I saw that. I guess Soros didn't like the ROI he got from ACT. Don't you just pity all those tw-bit ACTors standing in the unemployment line along with all the other regular Americans the left keeps playing for saps.

[Lancey Howard]

I believe that the same mole that Miller and the Times are protecting may have been Miller's source for the info about the Holy Land Foundation (terror mosque) investigation. That was the investigation, headed by Fitzgerald, that Miller thoroughly corrupted by calling the "foundation" and tipping them off to an imminent federal raid. I have a feeling that looking for that source is one of the directions that this Plame investigation has now taken.

[beyond the sea]

Rob Griffin, regional president of a real estate firm that once oversaw the leased property remarked that “It’s almost like out of a spy novel—the tenant that wasn’t there.”?

LOL. Just like out of a spy novel.

;-)

[Cautor]

Wilson learned a lot setting around the pool drinking tea and chatting with various folk both in and out of government. You are right that Wilson's story has changed by the minute. I wonder who would trust that sucker today?

[Cautor]

Paging James Bond. Mr. Bond, please use the blue phone.

[beyond the sea]

I wonder who would trust that sucker today?

Anyone in the Democrat "leadership".

[Miss Behave]

"Paging James Bond. Mr. Bond, please use the blue phone."

Can Maxwell Smart answer the page? Using his shoe phone? :-)

And bumping your great thread, Cautor.

[digger48]

Where do the Clintonistas who were working for Kerry fit into the timeline?

[Cautor]

"Can Maxwell Smart answer the page"

Only if his real name is Maxwell Plame Wilson.

[SolidSupplySide]

Wilson was and is a left-leaning Democrat, it should be noted that she more recently contributed $372 on October 11, 2004 to “America Coming Together” organization, a George Soros-backed liberal Democrat activist group. Interestingly, in the records documenting this contribution, she listed no employer and instead stated she was “retired,” a statement in clear contradiction of the facts. In short, she told a fib on her campaign disclosure.

She was on an "enforced" leave of absence from the CIA on October 11, 2004.

[Cautor]

"Where do the Clintonistas who were working for Kerry fit into the timeline?"

I'm suspicious enough to believe there is a Clinton angle in this, but can't see it just yet. I'd very much like your theories if you have given it any thought.

[SolidSupplySide]

A fact worth recalling is that Wilson was on the payroll of the Kerry campaign until he was thoroughly discredited by revelations proving he had lied about how he garnered the Niger trip.

That had to happen about the same time that Valerie was placed on an "enforced" leave of absence from the CIA. Someone ought to match those dates up and see how closely they coincide. Coincidence, as I said in the previous sentence, or related?

[McGavin999]

Nice summary. If the Brewster Jennings cover is an example of what the CIA was producing, it's no wonder we're in such trouble. There is something decidedly unprofessional about it. Is this an example of CIA work, or is it an example of Ms. Plame's work?

The whole incident is beginning to look like something out of a 3 Stooges movie.

[Cautor]

"That had to happen about the same time that Valerie was placed on an "enforced" leave of absence from the CIA"

I've not heard of that. I certainly missed something of importance. Can you fill us in on that angle for the record?

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

One of the best I have seen so far on the issue...

Bump/bookmark... bada-bing...

[Cautor]

"If the Brewster Jennings cover is an example of what the CIA was producing, it's no wonder we're in such trouble."

I hate to admit it, but I've pretty much lost faith in the CIA--maybe even in our other intelligence agencies. It looks to me like the CIA is like the State Department--full of hold-overs or whatever that put themselves and their egos above our real national security. They both must have a ton of petty bureaucrats who leak like a cheap roofing job.

[SolidSupplySide]

While Miller languishes in jail, Mrs Wilson has quietly returned to work at the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Virginia, after a year's unpaid leave. Her work remains classified, although she is no longer a covert operative.

She spent much of her enforced leave of absence helping to counsel women suffering from postnatal depression, a condition that strikes an estimated one in 10 new mothers and which Mrs Wilson herself experienced.

Typically, in government service, an "enforced leave of absence" is a disciplinary measure. Google it.

[okie01]

I think this effort was initially launched to try and shoot President Bush's campaign out of the water. When some of the MSM reporters tied Rove to the story--after the election--the leftist Democraps turned their guns on Rove.

Agree as to the initial aim of this scam: the target was President Bush. But the Rove card got played by Amb. Joseph C. Wilson IV (ret.) early in the game -- shortly after the Novak column appeared.

Recall Wilson's histrionics and his demand that Rove be "frog-marched out of the White House"?

Personally, I believe that the attack on Rove is an opportunistic venture by Wilson/Plame, et al, trying to take advantage of some "inside info". It's not unlikely, for example, that Judith Miller and Valerie Plame knew each other -- both worked on WMD issues. Wilson/Plame may have leaked Plame's role to Miller, who in turn leaked it to Rove and Libby -- thereby setting them up.

This scenario would explain a.) Miller's involvement in the case, even though she never authored a story concerning it and b.) why she (and her employer) would not want her source revealed.

[Cautor]

Thank you for that. Story says she operated undercover for nearly 2 decades ~20 years. Let's see, graduated from Penn State in 1984 and outed by Aldrich Ames in 1994. Ummm, I'd make that 10 years at the least, not counting the year or two she must have trained before heading off on the James Bond trail. Guess the writer of this story took her word for it...or gives the MSM more credit for what Valerie said she did under the covers than I would. OTOH, maybe she did work under the covers for a few years.

[okie01]

The president said what he said in his state of the union address and then the CIA sends someone over to Niger to prove it

The timeline:

1. March, 2002: the CIA sends Wilson to Niger.

2. January, 2003: the President's SOTU, with the "16 words".

3. June, 2003: Wilson's op-ed in the NYT, claiming his "sweet mint tea mission" of the previous year had found no evidence of what the President claimed.