Posted on 10/21/2005 9:44:44 AM PDT by blogblogginaway
Thanks for the kind words. I will ping you to the updated version when it posts, hopefully next week.
Actually, they were "holographs" -- hand-drawn copies of purported originals. Not technically "forgeries", as there was no intent to represent them as originals (or xerographic copies of originals).
Guess that's why we didn't get to see these forgeries!!
"Safavian also told the committee that he had "overlooked" two other clients while preparing his initial submissions for the OMB position. He did not initially mention work as a registered foreign agent for Gabon, a country persistently rated by the United States as having a "poor" human rights record, or his work as a registered foreign agent for Pascal Lissouba, the former president of the Republic of Congo who has been tried in absentia for treason and embezzlement..."
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Is this too implausible?
Who was formerly Ambassador to Gabon?? Who's former wife has been a trade rep for the government of Gabon and also a consular officer at the French Embassy???
Do I need to start buying stock in Reynolds Aluminum?
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And then ... there's THIS
"It wasn't just Wilson who lied-- it was the CIA. Again, from Vanity Fair: Phelps and Royce [of the July 22,2003 Newsday story] also cited a "senior intelligence official" who said that Plame did not recommend her husband for the Niger job, adding, "There are people elsewhere in the government who are trying to make her look like she was the one who was cooking this up, for some reason. I can't figure out what it could be. We paid his (Wilson's) airfare. But to go to Niger is not exactly a benefit. Most people you'd have to pay big bucks to go there.
Here is what this looks like to me. There are widespread indications that the CIA is incompetent. Vice President Cheney was pressuring the CIA to do a better job. The CIA decided to fight back. They are, after all, experts in information and disinformation. So they gave Wilson the Niger mission to simultaneously pretend they were making efforts to investigate and to create a news story to embarass Cheney."
Thanks ... Ping to my previous post .. in case it's not in your list.
In fact, her ID had already been compromised--the Russians and the Cubans knew what she was. That's why she was riding a desk.
From the July 22, 2004 Washington Times
CIA officer named prior to column
The identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame was compromised twice before her name appeared in a news column that triggered a federal illegal-disclosure investigation, U.S. officials say.
Mrs. Plame's identity as an undercover CIA officer was first disclosed to Russia in the mid-1990s by a Moscow spy, said officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
In a second compromise, officials said a more recent inadvertent disclosure resulted in references to Mrs. Plame in confidential documents sent by the CIA to the U.S. Interests Section of the Swiss Embassy in Havana.
The documents were supposed to be sealed from the Cuban government, but intelligence officials said the Cubans read the classified material and learned the secrets contained in them, the officials said.
Also, it's rarely pointed out that the CIA, including Valerie Plame's vaunted WMD unit, has totally botched virtually every significant development in WMD proliferation for decades. India and Pakistan going nuke, the whole Khan network including Libya and Iran and North Korea, everything about North Korea's nuke progress in the '90s, Iraq being within a year or less of having nukes at the time of the 1991 Gulf War, etc. etc. etc.
The CIA has been a total botch on WMD issues, so there was a lot more reason to be suspicious of than complacent about their pre-2003 assessments of Iraq.
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BUMP for excellence in posting.
Thanks :-) My update will mention a bit on Lissouba's ties to Gabonese President Omar Bongo and the French oil company Elf Aquitaine.
Wilson works for a company named Rock Creek enterprises, or at least he used to. Now he claims that he works for himself, but his office is still in their office and his email address is still on their server, or at least it was when all this was researched. Rock Creek was owned by Abduran Alamoudi or Al Amoudi (I've seen it spelled both ways) Al Amoudi is tied to BCCI and various Muslim support organizations and was an adviser to Hillary Rodham Clinton -- Hagel is extremely dangerous. I confirmed a lot of the information that I was collecting through a blog, called Just One Minute. I don't know who these guys are, but they seemed to have a lot of the inside information, a year ago. Follow all their links. Just One Minute
Same Alamoudi guy mentioned at your link?
Yes, it's been highly revealing that despite many facts and reasons which suggest the role of various current and former CIA people should be aggressively investigated, the MSM (and most of all NY TImes and WaPo) has been totally AWOL..... they only like CIA scandals that help the hate-America left and that's a FACT.
It's evident that some people at the CIA did not take this Niger story seriously. There's no other explanation for such an ludicrous effort as sending Wilson to a hotel to talk to various Niger officials. Even the tone of Wilson's Times article suggests the whole thing wasn't serious. Now, as between this goofy effort and other intelligence agencies, I wouldn't put my money on Wilson being correct.
It was always extremely implausible that anyone would use an email address based in a company from which they merely "rent office space" -- I've never heard of that in business, people want email addresses and URLs that reflect a connection with THEIR business, not with that of their LANDLORD, for Pete's sake.... that Rock Creek connection with Abduran Alamoudi or Al Amoudi and the Saudis, etc. is very suspicious.
btw, I would expect that the kind of consulting business Joe Wilson launched for himself in 1998 or so would have some (possibly) highly sensitive and confidential information about clients and potential clients -- if he used a Rock Creek email address then potentially THEY could read and monitor everything he did. Is it remotely plausible that someone would conduct a consulting business based on Rock Creek's email server if he had no business connection with them?? That has always struck me as bizarre and implausible.
Perhaps freepers with other experience in business and with different email servers can comment, but I cannot imagine basing my business on my landlord's server. Yes, I know people contract with outside computer companies to host email and websites if they don't have their own server(s), of course, but I think that's rather different from having your landlord with whom you have no other business connection do it, and do it in THEIR name rather than yours.
This has his fingerprints all over it!
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