Posted on 02/07/2007 5:30:00 AM PST by slowhand520
I'll share my tylenol.
But, I love this cloak and dagger drama.
This is gonna make a great book if they keep their FACTS straight.
Wasn't Wilson included on the Clinton junket to Africa during Bill's administration?
Anyone got that report?
Wilson had a great deal of private business going on in that country.
Wilson had a great deal of private business going on in that country.
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You wrote: We already knew that Wilson wasn't directly sent by Cheney, but by CIA intermediaries.
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Could it be that once again observant Freepers are light years ahead of folks at National Review?
"If it is strong enough to make it into Wall Street Journal, and if the corporate bosses read it and understand it and believe it is newsworthy for their media corporations to cover it, then it will be covered." Totally false. What could be more intriguing than a story about Libya running Saddam's nuclear research? Had this occurred under a Democrat there would have been weeks of stories lauding his wisdom in going to war. Pulitzers would have been awarded to the investigative reporters who whould have DEEPLY and EXTENSIVELY researched the connections and program.
The media is nothing more than a propaganda arm of the Party of Treason. It has shown that REPEATEDLY over the years by ignoring truly relevant stories while OVERINFLATING irrelevant ones when it is not concocting FRAUDULENT stories out of forged documents, Bush's NG story is just ONE example that we stopped dead. There are hundreds which were NOT stopped.
Hardly the only example. Another was the idea that Wilson said he had told the administration that he found no evidence of Niger selling yellowcake to Iraq, even though he reported hearing that an Iraqi official had been seeking a deal to purchase Yellowcake - which is exactly what the administration claimed.
That was in fact one of the media questions at the time, in addition to being a Cheney question.
Well, actually, they had said so before. Niger is where Iraq got their previous batch in the 1980s. One of the reasons some CIA analysts thought it didn't make sense that Iraq was shopping for yellowcake was that they already had over a hundred tons of the stuff from their previous purchase. According to Wilson, the officials he talked to were concerned about their poor conrol of some of the mines and that there might be unofficial sales.
One of the interesting things that came out in the Libby trial is that FOUR DAYS prior to the SOTU address, the CIA was force-feeding the Niger-Uranium connection to the President. This was a concentrated effort, absolutely. Positively treasonous.
A British Telegraph journalist in Niger
recently reported that the former U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs, Herman Cohen, had told Nigers president to stay quiet on the uranium issue.
Diatta is quick to address the potentially damaging media report, pointing out that Cohen is also a lobbyist for the Nigerien government and frequently travels to Niger to brief the government on his work in Washington. The former U.S. ambassador to Gabon, Joseph Wilson, is another key player who helped [* should be 'failed to'] debunk the claim that Niger sold uranium to Iraq. In 2002, he was sent by the U.S. government to check out the uranium allegations, and he reported back that it was highly unlikely that any such transaction had taken placea fact apparently not absorbed by the White House until after the presidents State of the Union address. I know [Wilson] very well also, said Diatta. And you know, something very strangewhen he went to Niger in February 2002, I was myself in Niger and we had a meeting in my house and we spoke about this matter. So, it was not a secret mission. Everyone spoke about this secret CIA mission. I dont understand why there is so much noise about this visit to Niger.
Ambassador Wilson was requested by the CIA to go to Niger, yes, but he accomplished this for his government without any problem. He told everyone that he was sent by the U.S. government on the uranium issue, without any secrecy, Diatta said.
117 posted on 10/31/2005 6:47:14 AM PST by kcvl | To 115
Rockyeller's still going to try to feed us the "no connections" nonsense about Iraq and alQaeda? Rockefeller's trying to plug groundhog holes in a levee during a 500 year flood... with nothing but a few loose tampons.
They're pulling out all the old stuff they have in their drawers; they've been waiting for this for a LONG time, ya know?
That's the batch!
Wilson is up to his EYEBALLS with uranium and dealing with ARABS....his office was in the SAME office as some ARAB terrorist backer....Mahoudi (SP)???
Where ELSE have you seen this reported, BillY? Byron York is a fine reporter but this is a very sketchy story to begin with.
What if LIBBY sent him and the prosecution to Libby is Cheney's PAYBACK??? HAHAHAHHAAHH
Wilson has his OWN uranium interests in Niger.....Nothing to do with our govts. interests.
I think the last thing the Wilson fan club of moles wanted was a war- they tried to stave it off by trying to make Iraq look bulletproof because of its WMD, something Iraq cultivated too in the believe we wouldn't dare throw our troops at poison gas or some bioattack. Hence the anthrax and all the scare efforts... it was like the dreaded "Afghan winter we're all going to die" thing the mediots were floating.
That anthrax was a warning not to go into Iraq.
Saddam Hussein's regime was too much of a cash cow to butcher, in their view.
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