Philip Giraldi is supposedly a former CIA agent who has wrote articles for something called “American Conservative,” which may or may not be as described.
Plame and her husband Wilson’s biggest promoters were a group of former CIA analysts, etc., who called themselves VIPS ... “Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.” Their sole function appears to be to protect old Iraq and Iran’s WMD suppliers at all costs.
Giraldi, a former CIA employee, may or may not belong to VIPS if it still goes by the name - a group affiliated with classified document thief and leaker Dan Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame, whom we have to thank for the fall of Vietnam and the subsequent persecution of and exodus of the Boat People.
Wilson and Plame were part of Ellsberg’s “Truth-Telling Project” which encouraged government employees to leak classified information without regard to the damage such leaking would do or deaths it might cause.
Sure enough, Googling Philip Giraldi and Ray McGovern [one of the main characters of VIPS] brings up lots of hits. The two appear together in interviews and various events.
Ray McGovern’s a known antisemite...a street preacher and part of the Lyndon LaRouche cult.
Looks like Philip Giraldi is a LaRouche nut too...
Is “American Conservative” a LaRouche publication?