Walter Pincus knew Valerie since 1996

Washington Post | January 12, 1996 | Walter Pincus, Washington Post Staff Writer

[muawiyah]

http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/9-3-2003-44997.asp

Here's your girl.

Bet she had at least a genealogy ready so she had grandparent, etc. stories ready, all with lengthy German names. We know from other Freeper postings that Valerie has a real interest in Genealogy. Several posts on the net were found where she was accessing genealogical websites in Ukraine (under her maiden name). So, let's assume she always had that interest, and she needed a cover name, she'd use one that could be "researched" way back, forever ~ and to no avail, in families in the Apostolic Christian Church.

One graveyard site in Wells County Indiana is interesting. Bet Val got her names from there (or the list the CIA has for that graveyard). You can't get anything out of these Apostolic types.

[UCANSEE2]

Joe Wilson was suggested to 'spy' for the CIA by his wife Valerie.

TWICE.

The REASON was to hide the fact that JOE's COMPANY was the one BROKERING THE SALE OF YELLOWCAKE URANIUM ORE between the PRESIDENT OF NIGER and SADDAM.

Remember, he offered to 'spy' because he had to go there on 'company business anyway'????????

That is what his COMPANY does.

He came back and LIED about sales of the ORE, because his company was the one doing the sale.

TWICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Once during the Clinton Adminstration, once during the Bush Adminstration.

The 'fake' documents were being used by the CIA to screw President Bush, because the CIA knew they were fake and being used to COVER for the TRUE SOURCE of the SALE and who BROKERED the DEAL.

[muawiyah]

Wifey#2 is the infamous "Jacqueline" who is known to work for French intelligence. Amazingly several Freepers who are following these threads have met this woman, or know where she is presently assigned.

I gather she's not "under cover" these days.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

 

Going to a Washington Post (advanced) archive search - http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/advancedsearch.html , putting in Walter Pincus in the author slot, and choosing a date range of at least 1995 - 1996 sure turns up a lot of odd stories concerning doings about the CIA along that time period. Don't know if there's something really to all that, or else stories that were just media driven pap.

 

 

[UCANSEE2]

I still believe in Mr. Fitzgerald.

You just aren't patient enough.

Do you play POKER with your cards FACING your opponents????

There is much you don't know about this mess, and some you never will.

The lives and the wealth of the most powerful people on this planet are at stake. People who would kill in an instant to protect it.

Joe Wilson's company was brokering sale of URANIUM between President of Niger and Saddam.
Joe's wife got him the 'spyjob' assignment TWICE to cover for that fact.
Joe's ex-wife worked for the French government.

Exposure of JOE's little YELLOWCAKE deals would lead to exposure of them selling SADDAM the equipment to process and LAUNCH it.

They didn't want that either.

Mr. Fitzgerald is following the law and pursuing justice, no matter where it leads.

Prosecutors in the past were paid off, bought off, threatened with death, and there mainly to dilute the complaints until the public forgot about the whole issue.

This is not the case with Mr. Fitzgerald.
He is doing his job, following the law no matter where it leads.

That is usually very boring to most people. They want sensationalism.

Which is what the MSM sells.

Maybe you trust the MSM more than a respected prosecutor who cannot be bought, doing his job per law???????

[calcowgirl]

This is a longer excerpt from the original article, but still within the 300 word LAT/WaPo excerpt limit:

Agencies Debate Value Of Being Out In The Cold
Spies Under Nonofficial Cover' Are Among Most Sensitive Operations
Washington Post, January 12, 1996
Author: Walter Pincus
Edition: FINAL
Section: A SECTION
Page: A18

She was a CIA case officer working in Europe covertly, holding herself out as the representative of a Texas foundation that was interested in world economics.

Unlike most CIA case officers overseas who work out of U.S. embassies and purport to be diplomats, she was operating under what CIA calls "nonofficial cover" (NOC).

When tradecraft errors led to her entrapment by French counterintelligence, she left the country and her case eventually became a public embarrassment for both Washington and Paris.

(snip)

The recent flap over the CIA's female NOC who was operating in Europe illustrates the problem.

Several years ago, she approached a French government official and offered him money to write some reports on economic activity in that country that she said her foundation would distribute to American businessmen as her work.

The Frenchman was impressed by her and wanted the money so he supplied her with several papers using inside government information to which he had access. He did not know she was an American spying on France. "It was good cover, and, for a time, it worked," said an intelligence expert familiar with her activities.

When the woman's spying role became apparent to a male friend, however, he turned her in to French counterintelligence, which began a surveillance that exposed her activities.

The French government brought the matter to the attention of the U.S. Embassy in Paris; Ambassador Pamela Harriman had not been aware of the woman's activities.

The former CIA official said the French situation is a case where the intelligence gained through the economic information the woman obtained was not worth the risk.

---end of article---

[maro]

There will be depositions soon.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Many thanks for the input!  This just keeps getting betta and betta

 

 

[FReethesheeples]

Charles De Gaulle told me about Valerie Plame in a dream.

Later I told Scooter Libby, Richard Armitage, & Bob Woodward.

;^)

[SBD1]

I read on a FR thread within the last few days that Walter Pincus's wife Anne worked in the Clinton State Dept., Bureau of Intelligence and Research

It goes much deeper then just the Ann's job from Clinton

AIM Report: The Real China Scandal
November 20, 2002

Walter Pincus and Vernon Loeb covered the story for the Post. Loeb, the junior partner, was relatively new on that beat. Pincus's career with the Post stretched back to 1975. Prior to that he had served as an investigator for Senator J. William Fulbright, D-Ark., on the Foreign Relations Committee, and then spent three years as editor of the New Republic.

Pincus is part of the "activist media," where opinions and solutions often substitute for facts. He once said at a conference that it was his job to "cure something we find to be wrong." Until the late 1980s, he focused on nuclear arms control; "activism" on this beat generally meant supporting arms control agreements regardless of the impact on U.S. national security. He co-wrote and helped produce anti-nuclear television documentaries in the 1980s at the height of the "nuclear freeze" campaign. His articles consistently warned of dire consequences should the U.S. abrogate the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, and he has blamed the U.S. for North Korea's nuclear weapons program.

Cozy With The CIA

Pincus has had a long relationship with the CIA. Herbert Romerstein, a veteran investigator of Soviet subversion, disinformation and espionage, says Pincus and Gloria Steinem attended a Communist International Youth Festival in Vienna in 1959, with funds provided by the CIA. The CIA financed at least one more trip for Pincus in 1960. He has said that he rejected a job offer from CIA. During the Clinton years, Pincus enjoyed access to high-ranking CIA officials. He consistently portray-ed the Agency's leadership in the most favorable light-as long as that leadership came from within the Democratic Party. He has been particularly kind to George Tenet, a Clinton appointee who, has been held over by George W. Bush.

In mid-May 2002, in the midst of widespread criticism of the Agency's performance before 9/11, Pincus portrayed increases to the intelligence community's budget as indicative of the "growing confidence Congress and Bush have placed in CIA Director George J. Tenet." During the CIA-FBI "leak war" over which agency's mistakes were most responsible for the 9/11 disaster, Pincus repeatedly portrayed Tenet and the CIA in the most favorable light.

The Pincus-Tenet relationship probably dates back to the mid-1980s. Tenet got his start in Washington as a Capitol Hill aide to Senator John Heinz; after Heinz's death, he moved to the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, working for the ranking member, Senator Patrick Leahy. Tenet moved up to become staff director when the Democrats regained control of the Senate and David Boren took over the chairmanship of the committee. Boren and Tenet ran many of the Senate's Iran-Contra investigations, portrayed as a Republican scandal. Pincus wrote stories about the CIA's involvement in the scandal, based apparently on a steady stream of leaks from the Democrats.

A Friend Of Bill's

Pincus has close personal links to the Clintons. His wife, Ann, is a native of Little Rock and, for a time, his son, Ward, was a reporter for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. He claims an "association with Arkansans over the past 30 years," and says that through these connections, he and his wife befriended the late Vincent Foster. They were among the "family friends" who gathered at Foster's home on July 20, 1993 after he was found shot to death in Ft. Marcy Park. Pincus was the first to suggest that Foster had cracked under the pressure of his job as Deputy White House Counsel. None of his co-workers had seen any sign of depression, and President Clinton had said, "we will never know" why he killed himself. Six days after his death, a forged note suggesting he was depressed was allegedly found in his brief case. It had been searched previously.

That same year, Ann Pincus became a high-ranking Clinton political appointee at the U.S. Information Agency. Later, when USIA was folded into the State Department, she became a senior official in State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. His other son, Andrew, became General Counsel of the Commerce Department in 1997, just as the campaign finance scandal was unfolding. Beginning that year, Commerce came under increasing fire for liberalizing high-technology exports to China, especially satellites, allegedly in return for contributions to the Democratic National Committee. Pincus wrote a number of articles refuting those allegations that were similar to his later coverage of the Chinese nuclear espionage scandal.

An official at the Washington Post described Pincus as "a friend of Bill's." He said that the couple were frequent guests at Camp David and had attended formal White House dinners for visiting foreign dignitaries. In 1995,"Reliable Source," the Post's gossip column, reported that the Clintons had attended a dinner party at the Pincus home. Despite the obvious conflict of interest, the Post assigned Pincus to cover two of Clinton's most damaging national security scandals. The President benefited greatly from this friendship.

Walter Pincus had written one of the earliest stories on Chinese espionage in 1999. The headline read, "U.S. Cracking Down on Chinese Designs on Nuclear Data." The story had all the basic facts, but Pincus was careful to shield Clinton from any criticism. He would later say that he had considerable difficulty persuading his editors to publish this article. But after the New York Times picked up the story on March 6, 1999, Jackson Diehl, then the Post's assistant managing editor for national news, pressed Pincus and Loeb to find a different angle on the story. Initially, their coverage stuck to three basic themes.

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