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Uh-oh!

"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."

"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."

That's one possibility. A less dramatic one is that they sent Wilson to Niger out of sheer incompetence or laziness, and later on - either just before or just after Plame's name got out - they realized they could work with Wilson, the media, and the Kerry campaign to whip it up into a scandal to embarrass or even destroy Cheney or Bush.

Hmmm...from a post by backhoe (#48)

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?