I'm still amused by the anonymity granted to the "CIA" in this story -- as if the agency is some amorphous spirit that communicates by thoughtwaves.
Who, if anyone, at the CIA is seeking the probe, Andrea Mitchell? Valerie Plame, perhaps?
Maybe it's the legendary T J Wilkerson :
SEPTEMBER 10, 2001 : (TRUTHOUT.ORG,.COM, AND .NET IS REGISTERED BY "MARC ASH" THE DAY BEFORE THE 911 ATTACKS; WOULD LATER PLAY THE LEAD IN SPREADING NIGER FLAP STORY)
SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 : (911 ATTACKS ON THE US)
SEPTEMBER 2002 - JULY 2003 : (CAPITOL HILL BLUE'S DOUG THOMPSON USES "TERRANCE J. WILKERSON" AS A SOURCE IN SIX STORIES AS AN UNNAMED SOURCE, AS A NAMED SOURCE IN ONE OTHER)JULY 8, 2003 : (CAPITOL HILL BLUE PUBLISHES DOUG THOMPSON ARTICLE UNDER THE TITLE "White House Admits Bush Lied About Iraqi Nukes") http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/943908/posts
JULY 9, 2003, 3:08 PM : (TROLL POSTS PLAGIARIZED CHB ARTICLE FROM JAPAN TODAY VIA TRUTHOUT ON FREEREPUBLIC.COM, ALONG WITH LINK TO THE WACKO WEBSITE STORMFRONT) At 3:08 today one of our returning trolls posted the article as it appeared on Japan Today. The user also was kind enough to include a link to Stormfront. The user has had many names here, and gets banned immediately because his ilk are not welcome here. For what it is worth. AM 59 posted on 07/09/2003 8:01 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
JULY 9, 2003 : (DOUG THOMPSON POSTS APOLOGY FOR CAPITOL HILL BLUE STORY : SOURCE TERRENCE J. WILKERSON" CITED TURNS OUT TO BE A FAKE) BREAKING: Conned big time "CIA Witness" to White House Lying about Intel story found to be FRAUD , Capitol Hill Blue ^ | July 9, 2003 | Doug Thompson
JULY 9, 2003 : (A PROFILE FOR "WILLIAM RIVERS PITT" APPEARS ON THE WEB SITE CAPITOL HILL BLUE, LISTING HIM AS "MANAGING EDITOR, TRUTHOUT.ORG") (Pitt is associated with former UN weapons inspector and more recently, wanna-be child molester Scott Ritter, who has been outspoken against US policy on Iraq.)
JULY 9, 2003 11:29 PM : (PITT POSTS ON CAPITOLGRILLING.COM, ACKNOWLEDGING JAPAN TODAY ACQUIRED CHB ARTICLE FROM TRUTHOUT.ORG) Not sure if this has been posted here, or not...
Yeah, Japan Today got it from us. I guess they 'stole' it, too since they never asked permission. They got screwed by this cluster f*** the same way we did. We're running the CHB retraction tomorrow."Stole it, too?" Gotta love that. Scroll all the way to the bottom of that page. Credit to TLBSHOW, for finding and sourcing that post, BTW. 832 posted on 07/10/2003 10:29 AM PDT by Sabertooth
William Rivers Pitt posted 07-09-2003 11:29 PM
JULY 10, 2003 : 11:51 AM : (CHB'S DOUG THOMPSON ANNOUNCES HE WILL USE NO MORE UNNAMED SOURCES; CLAIMS HE TURNED THE MATTER OVER TO LAW ENFORCEMENT, , BUT DELETES 6 OF THOSE ARTICLES FROM CHB SITE) - "A message from Capitol Hill Blue. . .No more "unnamed sources," DOUG THOMPSON, Jul 10, 2003, 11:51
"Recently, this web site discovered it has been played as a sucker by a source that was used in seven stories that ran in Capitol Hill Blue from September 2002 until July of 2003. The person in question was quoted as an unnamed source in six of the seven articles and by name (Terrance J. Wilkinson) in the seventh. We later learned the name was bogus even though I had known (or thought I knew) the person by that name for more than 20 years. We have turned all our information on this source over to the appropriate law enforcement agencies and, at their instruction, will not discuss the matter publicly until they have concluded their investigations. When those investigations are complete, we will publish a full accounting with every piece of detail that we can produce or uncover about the individual involved. We owe that to our readers."
JULY ? 2003 Sunday early : (WILSON'S NY TIMES OP ED ARTICLE CLAIMS SOME INTEL ON IRAQ'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM WAS SEXED UP) Last week, Wilson cited his inability to confirm an Iraq-Niger nuke connection to conclude in the Times: "Some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the nuclear threat."
But if, as Wilson told "Hannity & Colmes" in October, he believed Saddam indeed had an "aggressive" nuclear program at the time, his claim that Bush distorted the nuclear threat seems disingenuous at best. The diplomat who set off a political firestorm last week when he told the New York Times that President Bush may have "exaggerated" when he told the nation that Iraq sought nuclear fuel in Africa admitted last October that he believed Saddam Hussein had "an aggressive program to try and get" nuclear weapons. Though former acting U.S. ambassador to Iraq Joseph C. Wilson's op-ed in the Times warned that Bush might have led the U.S. to war "under false pretenses" by ginning up a bogus nuclear threat, he was singing a different tune during an appearance on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" nine months ago. - "Bush Nuke Basher Admitted Saddam Sought the Bomb ," by Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff, NewsMax.com, 7/14/03
JULY 14, 2003 : (NOVAK SAYS "UNNAMED SOURCES" TELL HIM THAT VALERIE PLUME IS AN AGENCY OPERATIVE ON WMD) "Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate the Italian report. The CIA says its counter-proliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him. "I will not answer any question about my wife," Wilson told me. " - Source : Robert Novak, "Mission to Niger" on TownHall.com, 7/14/03