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Trivia time- Other interesting things that occured on July 7, 2003 :

JULY 7, 2003 : (THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS aka CAP IS LAUNCHED- See SOROS, SHADOW PARTY) By early 2004, the Shadow Party’s infrastructure had assumed a coherent shape, under Soros’ guidance. At its heart lay seven ostensibly “independent” non-profit groups which constitute the network’s administrative core. Let us call them the Seven Sisters. In chronological order, based upon their launch dates, they are: 1. MoveOn.org : Launched September 22, 1998 , 2. Center for American Progress (CAP) : Launched July 7, 2003 ... ------ "The Shadow Party: Part II," By David Horowitz and Richard Poe FrontPageMagazine.com October 7, 2004

JUNE 7, 2003 : (NY TIMES JUDITH MILLER & WILLIAM J BROAD STORY ABOUT MOBILE WEAPONS LAB TRAILERS - MORE 'ANONYMOUS SOURCES' TRY TO DOWNPLAY THE DISCOVERY) ----------------- "Some Analysts of Iraq Trailers Reject Germ Use," By JUDITH MILLER and WILLIAM J. BROAD, New York Times, 06-07-03

Moveon.org is the group with whom Joe Wilson and his wife Valerie are connected.

Judith Miller as we know is another individual involved in this Plame leak case.

Note that the following day is the proverbial "shot heard 'round the world day" by an obscure little internet rag called Capitol Hill Blue. Before this date Joe Wilson was a nobody, his story having failed to gain any traction. A group called TRUTHOUT.COM grabbed the article and sold it without credation to Japan Today, and from there it was picked up by CNN and others- conveniently missing the tell-tale information that would lead to the fabricated name "Terrence J Wilkinson" - the information bloggers and FR used to expose the guy as a fake. CNN opted to run the story over four hourse AFTER the author Doug Thompson of Capitol Hill Blue retracted it after the source - the "CIA agent" was exposed as bogus. ...There's a nice archive of this shot going off as it occured:

JULY 8, 2003 : (CAPITOL HILL BLUE PUBLISHES DOUG THOMPSON ARTICLE UNDER THE TITLE "White House Admits Bush Lied About Iraqi Nukes" - See the mythical? CIA guy "TERRENCE J WILKINSON") The bold headline was backed by an equally assertive lead-in, which stated "After weeks of denial, the White House Monday finally admitted President Bush lied in his January State of the Union Address when he claimed Iraq had sought significant quantities of uranium in Africa."
This assertion went far beyond what other news organizations were reporting, which was that the Bush administration had admitted that the claim made in the State of the Union Address was based on information the President later found to be unreliable. There were other eye-raising details in the story, however.
The article quoted a "CIA advisor" named Terrance J. Wilkinson, claiming he had been present at two White House briefings attended by the President. "The report had already been discredited," the story quoted Wilkinson as stating. "This point was clearly made when the president was in the room during at least two of the briefings" said Wilkinson, who claimed Bush responded in anger. "He said that if the current operatives working for the CIA couldn't prove the story was true, then the agency had better find some who could," the Capitol Hill Blue story continued Wilkinson's quote. "He said he knew the story was true and so would the world after American troops secured the country."
Wilkinson claimed to have written "numerous memos" questioning the use of "intelligence information that we knew to be from dubious sources." While American troops continue to search Iraq for a smoking gun regarding weapons of mass destruction, these allegations, if true, would be the smoking gun the left wing of American politics has been searching for in their quest to discredit the Bush administration.
- by freeper William McKinley, GAMES PEOPLE PLAY, July 10, 2003

See "White House Admits Bush Lied About Iraqi Nukes"

JULY 8, 2003 : (CAPITOL HILL BLUE'S DOUG THOMPSON PUBLISHES STORY ABOUT "T J WILKINSON'S" CLAIM TO HAVE BEEN IN THE OVAL OFFICE WHEN WILSON'S MEMO WAS PRESENTED) Based on the statements of one Terrence J. Wilkinson, who purported to "be there" when Wilson's memo was presented in the Oval Office, Doug Thompson publishes his J'Accuse in CHB. Quickly, Wilkinson's story (as well as Wilkinson himself) is proven a complete lie. But, now and only now, all hell breaks loose!
With the impetus that the President had forcibly dismissed a CIA-commissioned report, the story races around the world. Every major network, newspaper and news magazine hops on the story -- there is virtually no attribution to CHB and NO mention of Terrence J. Wilkinson. When CHB backtracks and retracts, the story shifts and the original inflammatory accusations are edited out. Instead, they begin to report response to the original report...and momentum gathers behind "Bush lied".
In other words, in my opinion, the whole escapade was a carefully planned agitprop operation in which Doug Thompson and CHB were unwitting tools. After over three months of lying fallow, somebody (employed by someone) found a way for the Niger operation to gain traction. Without Terrence J. Wilkinson, none of this would've happened!
It was a major operation bent on one purpose -- breathing life into what was a dead story. - FreeRepublic Freeper okie01 , reply 1,305 posted on 07/23/2003 7:08 PM PDT by okie01
(* My note :Wilkerson later proves to be a fake, and by Wilson's own admission he wrote no report on his trip to Niger or his findings there.)

TRUHOUT.COM is the website registered one day before 9/11- on September 10, 2001. It is run by Marc Ash. Another individual associated with the group is Peter Daou, of Online Rapid Response for John Kerry for President, Inc.

A contributing author to Truthout's website is former CIA employee Ray McGovern, of the group called VIPS which has publicly advocated that government employees leak classfied info.

Another contributing author to Truthout is Larry Johnson. Larry Johnson has a particular hatred of Ahmed Chalabi, Karl Rove and Judith Miller; Johnson when he was in the Clinton admin spent time downplaying the islamist terror threat from bin Laden. LAter he started writing for Antiwar, a site we know of from Pitt potsting their stuff on FR. Antiwar is also the group associated with Ismail Royer, who was one of the perps in the VA Jihad/Paintball cell.

Larry Johnson is also a friend of CIA leaker Mary McCarthy I mentioned earlier in the thread. Johnson is also heavily invested inthe Nigerflap plame leak story, and tried to smear Porter Goss with the hookergate story.

Another contributing author is William Rivers Pitt. Pitt is an associate of former UNSCOM inspector Scott Ritter, known for accepting funding from Shakir al Khafaji, who obtained it from Iraqi oil vouchers during theoil for Food sanctions period. Pitt and Ritter were involved in producing aan antiwar book on Iraq.