What is going on here? I do find it strange that the two people that Cannistraro names are the same ones that worked with Aldrich Ames, the person that "outed" Valerie Plame to the Russians?
My mind doesn't operate enough to figure out a scenario, but I don't believe in those kind of coincidences.
And I will add, much as I've always thought of Woolsey, I'm surprised and disappointed to hear about how he handled that entire matter.
I did find something interesting that I missed before in Hersch's article:
The second former official, Vincent Cannistraro, who served as chief of counter-terrorism operations and analysis, told me that copies of the Burba documents were given to the American Embassy, which passed them on to the C.I.A.’s chief of station in Rome, who forwarded them to Washington. Months later, he said, he telephoned a contact at C.I.A. headquarters and was told that “the jury was still out on this”—that is, on the authenticity of the documents.
Okay...just how did Cannistraro know about the documents before they were vetted? Sounds a whole lot like Wilson's slip-up about seeing the documents.
Dang...gotta run for the evening. How did Cannistraro and the unnamed CIA agent in Hersch's article know about the documents before the CIA vetted them and exactly what path the documents took? He is ex-CIA...where is he getting his info from? I am still convinced that Cannistraro was involved in the forgeries and/or the break in. Guess I'll have to work some more on it tomorrow...'Night all!