Plame and her husband "Yellowcake" Wilson
Posted on 11/09/2005 12:55:45 AM PST by mal
And they [CIA employees] have to expect that when they do their jobs, that information about whether or not they are affiliated with the CIA will be protected. . . . And they run a risk when they work for the CIA that something bad could happen to them, but they have to make sure that they don't run the risk that something bad is going to happen to them from something done by their own fellow government employees."
So spoke Patrick Fitzgerald, special prosecutor in the Valerie Plame investigation, about the need to preserve the cover of CIA case officers. His sincere concern for the woman's lost camouflage can also be heard among commentators on both left and right, even among those who recognize that Ms. Plame's publicity-loving husband, Joseph "Yellowcake" Wilson, often doesn't have a firm grip on the truth. In particular, left-leaning liberals, not well known for their defense of the CIA, have charged forward to equate the maintenance of cover for Langley's operatives (who are, let us be frank, probably overwhelmingly antiwar and anti-Bush) with the country's national security. In their eyes, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff for the vice president, is thus guilty, at a minimum, of a politically motivated disregard for a clandestine public servant on the front lines of freedom.
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"Yellowcake" Wilson. New nickname! I love it!
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1512059/posts
Is this the "French Connection" we were looking for?
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1508146/posts
Is Valerie Plame the new Deep Throat?
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Gabon, Gabon ......................
Jaqueline, the second wife (1986-1998) of Wilson's, is the real story here.
For all that follow Plamegate:
http://theanchoressonline.com/2005/11/09/wilsonplamecia-leakapalooza/
Excellent Spectator Article from yesterday (a keeper, we have a CIA name, even though Goss got rid of her, for court):
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8993
The excellent questions by Powerline:
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/012183.php
What's the story about Jacqueline? Where is she now? What has she been doing?
Wilson (as Ambassador to Gabon) had/has connections to the Gabon Chief of State, Omar Bongo, who was the chief African ally of the French oil company TotalFinaElf, a major beneficiary of the Oil-for-Food bribes. Prior to the Iraq War, they had a contract with Saddam's regime worth an estimated 12.5 to 27.0 billion barrels of oil reserves. Also he had connections via the Middle East Institute and Rock Creek, both of which are Saudi controlled.
If you will note post #21 by piasa in the thread I linked above, Wilson's wife Jacqueline was also apparently a lobbyist for Bongo and it seems Wilson was pretty chummy with Saddam's weapons buyer, having dinner with him on the eve that Kuwait was invaded in 1990, per post #22. That makes it very clear that there are connections to oil-for-food. No wonder Wilson can afford his lifestyle.
It's simply not possible that Fitzgerald was stupid enough to believe all this cr*p. He simply saw an opportunity to use the same methods he used in Illinois to bring down the corrupt Republican establishment, but pinning a technical crime on a lower level operator and then using him to work up the ladder to the bosses.
Since he fastened on Libby, his intention is clear--to nail Cheney, Rove, and Bush, by entangling them in a multi-year-long grand-jury probe where any lapses in memory or inconsistences from other witnesses are indicted as lies under oath.
In other words, Fitzgerald is doing the work of the DNC, Jay Rockefeller and crew, and the rogue leftists in the CIA.
The CIA is beyond all hope. Throw everyone there out the door, burn the friggin' building to the ground, and start over again from scratch. We'd be better off with no intelligence agancy than we are with the one we have now.
Is DIA (deep-sixing Able Danger) any better? What if the real problem is outside both agencies (and perhaps above Bush as well)?
Great pic! LOL!
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