[piasa]

JANUARY 1999 : (LEAKS & THE DRIPS WHO MAKE THEM : BETRAYING THE COX COMMITTEE'S TRUST, SANDY BERGER ISSUES SPINNED STATEMENT ON WHAT WAS STILL A CLASSIFIED DOCUMENT CONCERNING THE TRANSFER OF HIGH TECH SECRETS TO CHINA - See PROLIFERATION) As a member of the Cox Committee charged with investigating the transfer of high-tech secrets to China during the Clinton administration, in January 1999 Rep. Weldon sent an advance copy of the committee's report to Mr. Berger for his review. After seven months of closed-door, bipartisan hearings with no leaks to the press, the committee of five Republicans and four Democrats had unanimously recommended some three dozen steps that should be taken to protect America's national security. Within days, however, "Sandy Berger issued a statement to selected members of the media putting the White House spin on what was still a classified document," congressman Weldon recalled. "He did that without asking any member of the committee. Before the CIA director could even read our report, Berger was already spinning. That sets the pattern for what may have occurred" in the Archives case, Rep. Weldon believes. --------- via 396 posted on 01/12/2005 6:51:18 PM PST by hoosiermama

[Just mythoughts]

"CNN on Thursday obtained a CIA document that outlined the history of the claim, which originated in 2002 with a captured al Qaeda operative who recanted two years later.

The CIA report appears to support a recently declassified document that revealed the Defense Intelligence Agency thought in February 2002 that the source, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, was lying to interrogators."


The "timing" of it all, February 2002 is when Joe Wilson was sent to Niger.