Posted on 11/15/2005 10:52:47 AM PST by parnasokan
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Very funny....by the way, when I was growing up, we were taught to say "NIGER" for the country where the 'g' kinda sounds like a 'j'.....Now alluvasudden, the CNN, MSNBC, CBS pukes are saying "nijeeeeeerrrrrr." Makes you wonder if some bright 'bulb' at CNN thought, "Hey! If we prounounce it like we used to, some dumb CNN blond (brunette, whatever) is gonna screw up and say the "N-word" by mistake sometime....
I agree with you that there is something strange about Cannistraro's role in this matter. How did he know so much about this false information?
JJA: Look at page 76 of the Silberman-Robb Report. CIA had received three reports from "a liaison intelligence service" in late '01 and early 2002. "One of these reports explained that...during meetings on July 5-6, 2000, Niger and Iraq had signed an agreement for the sale of 500 tons of uranium." And the "liaison service" provided a "verbatim text" of the agreement. Got that? Not the document, but a text. They were keeping the documents to themselves, and they wouldn't tell us the source, because, they said, they were afraid of leaks.
ML: Right, that text is supposed to be the text of one of the forged documents.
JJA: Silberman-Robb doesn't say that, actually, although that's probably true. Everyone has assumed that the "liaison service" was Italian, but since the Italians did not have those documents in early 2002-nobody except the French and Rocco, the French agent, had them at that time-it wasn't them.
ML: So they weren't the "liaison service." It was...the FRENCH???
JJA: Voila! Or should I say, Ecco!?
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If the French had sent this information to the CIA in late 2001-early 2002, then a possible source for Cannistraro could have been former associates in the CIA.
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Thanks for your attempts to keep these dots from floating off the page.
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Well, there are all kinds of possibilities where Cannistraro could have gotten it from. It couldn't have been a public source, not at that early date. I was speculating that, since he was ex-CIA, someone he had known at the CIA could have fed him the information. An active CIA person couldn't go public with that kind of information, but Cannistraro wouldn't be hampered in that way. So if someone in the CIA wanted to get it out, feed it to Cannistraro.
"How did Castelli pass on the the the exact text of the forgeries"
When did Castelli pass on the text? The CIA had supposedly been given the text - the text, not the documents themselves - sometime in late 2001-early 2002.
Not to mention that the guy at the IAEA who spotted the docs as forgeries was French. Last name of Baute, I think.
"Very soon, under the title The Rockefeller Connection, I will post something revealing, something important that until now passed completely under the Radar Screen. Stay tuned .."
Please ping me, also, when you post.
To: okie01 Hmmm...more likely Vincent Cannistraro, who tried to finger Ledeen for the forgeries. Source [http://www.rogerlsimon.com/mt-archives/2005/04/free_michael.php]
Interestingly enough, I have found so far that Cannistraro does alot of interviews in LA, where Doug said Wilkinson's phone numbers were based from. Whether he lives in LA, I have not been able to determine. If I remember correctly, Cannistraro is in cahoots with Larry Johnson in the VIPS. Something else I found that was interesting about Cannistraro:
He organized an interview with Osama bin Laden for ABC News in 1998.
Source [http://www.pewfellowships.org/seminars/2002/fall/vincent_cannistraro.htm] 147 posted on 07/27/2005 11:12:59 AM PDT by ravingnutter
Regarding the part in bold- I remember Ollie North a while back making a comment - I think it was in his newsletter- about how people in the press who had been involved with interviews of bin Laden in the past were not cooperating with US investigators hunting for bin Laden. North was disgusted by this.
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