"Grab a brew...? Don't cost nuthin!
Posted on 10/25/2005 9:46:55 AM PDT by SirLinksalot
Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2005 12:03 p.m. EDT
NY Times: CIA Leaked Plame's Name
The ultimate source of information identifying Leakgate accuser Valerie Plame as a CIA employee my turn out to be the CIA itself, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
Notes obtained by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald identify then-CIA Director George Tenet as the person who gave up Plame's secret to the White House, with the Times reporting that Tenet tipped Vice President Dick Cheney to her identity.
However the notes - taken by Cheney's chief of staff Lewis Libby - "contain no suggestion that either Mr. Cheney or Mr. Libby knew at the time of Ms. Wilson's undercover status or that her identity was classified."
So far, Tenet has neither confirmed nor denied that he was the original source of the Plamegate leak, with the Times reporting that he was "unavailable for comment."
"But another former senior intelligence official said Mr. Tenet had been interviewed by the special prosecutor and his staff in early 2004, and never appeared before the grand jury."
Mr. Tenet has not talked since then to the prosecutors, the former official told the Times
COUP D'ETAT: The Real Reason Tenet and Pavitt Resigned from the CIA on June 3rd and 4th
Excerpts:
Why did DCI George Tenet suddenly resign on June 3rd, only to be followed a day later by James Pavitt, the CIA's Deputy Director of Operations (DDO)?
The real reasons, contrary to the saturation spin being put out by major news outlets, have nothing to do with Tenet's role as taking the fall for alleged 9/11 and Iraqi intelligence “failures” before the upcoming presidential election.
Both resignations, perhaps soon to be followed by resignations from Colin Powell and his deputy Richard Armitage, are about the imminent and extremely messy demise of George W. Bush and his Neocon administration in a coup d'etat being executed by the Central Intelligence Agency. The coup, in the planning for at least two years, has apparently become an urgent priority as a number of deepening crises threaten a global meltdown.
Shortly after the “surprise” Tenet-Pavitt resignations, current and former senior members of the U.S. intelligence community and the Justice Department told journalist Wayne Madsen, a former Naval intelligence officer, that they were directly connected to the criminal investigation of a 2003 White House leak that openly exposed Valerie Plame as an undercover CIA officer.
Seymour Hersh dropped a major bombshell that went virtually unnoticed, 54 paragraphs deep into an October 27, 2003 story for the New Yorker titled “The Stovepipe.”
“Who produced the fake Niger papers? There is nothing approaching a consensus on this question within the intelligence community. There has been published speculation about the intelligence services of several different countries. One theory, favored by some journalists in Rome, is that [the Italian intelligence service] Sismi produced the false documents and passed them to Panorama for publication.“Another explanation was provided by a former senior C.I.A. officer. He had begun talking to me about the Niger papers in March, when I first wrote about the forgery, and said, 'Somebody deliberately let something false get in there.'
He became more forthcoming in subsequent months, eventually saying that a small group of disgruntled retired C.I.A. clandestine operators had banded together in the late summer of last year and drafted the fraudulent documents themselves.”
Seriously, that is a great idea. It reminds me of the Season premiere of South Park, which was on last Wednesday. Cartman and Stan cause a flood, and in the end, Stan tries to admit it, and everyone thinks he is bein symbolic, and everyone admits fault.
Don't tell Mrs. Badger!..........
go to Just One Minute blog--Tom Maguire argues convincingly that Libby always testified to this but his lawyers are pulling a head fake to keep Cheney's name out of this (though there was nothing improper in his knowing) they've leaked that he testified only that he learned the name from other reporters.
If it wasn't this it would be something else.
You turn on the lights and like cockroaches the "loyal opposition" scatters.
This whole story like the Harriet Miers story is nothing but Bullshit in the first place. Neither story is a story, only the media stirring shit, The more you stir it the worse it stinks.
"Grab a brew...? Don't cost nuthin!
You mean I can't "leak" it? LOL
I will be happy to admit leaking Plame's name if Fitzgerald takes himself and the rest of his circus someplace else. I'm fed up!!!
Are you sure about that? What did you have for dinner the night of June 6, 1998 and what color shoes were you wearing? Be careful what you say. We have sources, you know.
During a long conversation with a senior administration official, I asked why Wilson was assigned the mission to Niger. He said Wilson had been sent by the CIA's counterproliferation section at the suggestion of one of its employees, his wife. It was an offhand revelation from this official, who is no partisan gunslinger. When I called another official for confirmation, he said: "Oh, you know about it." The published report that somebody in the White House failed to plant this story with six reporters and finally found me as a willing pawn is simply untrue.
So...it seems Novak's first source was Tenet...we know the second source was Rove, but by then the cat was out of the bag. IOW, the Cheney/Tenet conversation is ok, the Tenet/Novak conversation is not. Tenet may be in some serious trouble for this.
That's what gets me angry. This is a waste of money we don't have, a diversion of interest away from life and death issues and it makes our government look like idiots, further undermining the war effort (whether you agree we should be there, or not, it's still Americans in harms way and until they are home, it's our job to get as many of them back here as possible alive and well [all limbs and body parts attached and inside]). It isn't just on one side of the aisle or the other, it's both sides. It's just the Coservatives' turn now. President Clinton made enough mistakes to last through a nuclear winter (which he may have caused by outing far more than a low-level CIA operative).
I'm tired of Congress and the Courts swaying with every trend or whim of the populace. There are certain eternal truths (and secular truths, as in what goes 'round, comes 'round), our elected officials should be putting to work on critical issues. It's the job, I repeat, JOB of those we elect to look down the road and make sure that what comes back 'round doesn't endanger us all. This is truly background noise for a Congress that is unable to do real work on real issues and seeks sensationalism to keep the masses occupied. I'm fed up.
What I see out of this whole thing...is bits and pieces. Someone in the CIA screwed up by just linking the husband to her, and then they screwed up by half-admiting what she does for a living. Cheny may have had part of the facts...but where did he get them? And the only answer...leads back to the CIA and the boss then...likely never grasped what he was telling Cheny was really classified.
If Tenet gives classified information to Bush administration officials who have top security clearance to receive classified information,
can the sound still be heard in the forest?
More importantly, can the trees that fall still be used to make paper for the New York Times?
The only thing that would be leakin' would be my nose.............
Hey, any lurking Democraps: Are you proud of your party?
Yesterday harassing the families of fallen American troops. Now, this `red-herring' non-issue; tonight, politicizing the deaths of American soldiers and Marines.
Your chairman should be fitted with a long-sleeved sports coat with straps. Your leaders are parodies of themselves.
Proud of yourself and what you do, you lurking `rat?
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