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Rice Knew 'Nothing' About CIA Agent Leak
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| 09-28-03
Posted on 09/28/2003 3:39:47 PM PDT by Brian S
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posted on
09/28/2003 3:39:47 PM PDT
by
Brian S
To: Brian S
I will bet if it was leaked, it was by a clinton holdover
scum.
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posted on
09/28/2003 3:41:40 PM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(Rush agrees with me 98.5 % of the time.)
To: Brian S
Thanks, Brian for this link to a new version of this breaking story. There are also three earlier threads. No grandstanding connection to the president yet. Lots of details about White House officials leaking the name of Wilson's wife, a CIA operative, to Robert Novak's July 14 column.
Original Friday night story MSNBC that broke itWashington Post, most detailed story with new allegations
A senior administration official said two top White House officials called at least six Washington journalists and revealed the identity and occupation of Wilson's wife. That was shortly after Wilson revealed in July that the CIA had sent him to Niger last year to look into the uranium claim and that he had found no evidence to back up the charge. Wilson's account eventually touched off a controversy over Bush's use of intelligence as he made the case for attacking Iraq. "Clearly, it was meant purely and simply for revenge," the senior official said of the alleged leak. Sources familiar with the conversations said the leakers' allegation was that Wilson had benefited from nepotism because the Niger mission had been his wife's idea. Wilson said in an interview yesterday that a reporter had told him that the leaker said, "The real issue is Wilson and his wife." The official would not name the leakers for the record and would not name the journalists. The official said he had no indication that Bush knew about the calls. Columnist Robert Novak published the agent's name in a July column about Wilson's mission.
It is rare for one Bush administration official to turn on another. Asked about the motive for describing the leaks, the senior official said the leaks were "wrong and a huge miscalculation, because they were irrelevant and did nothing to diminish Wilson's credibility." The Intelligence Protection Act, passed in 1982, imposes maximum penalties of 10 years in prison and $50,000 fines for unauthorized disclosure by government employees with access to classified information.
Members of the administration, especially Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, have been harshly critical of unauthorized leakers, and White House spokesmen are often dismissive of questions about news reports based on unnamed sources. The FBI is investigating members of the Senate for possibly leaking intercept information about Osama bin Laden.
Associated Press Sun morning --Raoul
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
I wondered about that, one notices they are NOT named.
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posted on
09/28/2003 4:04:35 PM PDT
by
tet68
(multiculturalism is an ideological academic fantasy maintained in obvious bad faith. M. Thompson)
To: tet68
Well, whoever leaked it needs firing, that's for damn sure.
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posted on
09/28/2003 4:07:56 PM PDT
by
jwalsh07
To: Brian S
What I find interesting is that David Frum, in his book
"The Right Man," said that the major players in the Bush administration had frozen Novak out. So why would one of them have leaked anything to Novak? What other way could Novak have used to learn that Wilson's wife was a spook? Maybe Wilson?
All I know is that if some minor players in the Bush administration ratted Plame out to Novak they are walking dead. Bush is gonna get them for leaking to the press, then he is going to turn them over to Justice, and see that they are prosecuted. And I will bet that it don't hurt W politically.
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posted on
09/28/2003 4:09:08 PM PDT
by
No Truce With Kings
(The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
To: No Truce With Kings
No Truce With Kings: All I know is that if some minor players in the Bush administration ratted Plame out to Novak they are walking dead. Bush is gonna get them for leaking to the press, then he is going to turn them over to Justice, and see that they are prosecuted. And I will bet that it don't hurt W politically.
That's an interesting theory. The question a lot of us have though is, why didn't Bush do that two months ago when the name was leaked and published? They knew then that it was illegal, regardless of the politics, and Bush and Ashcroft were pushing a law to punish leakers. Why didn't the president find the culprit then, have him or her prosecuted and nip this story in the bud, rather than ignoring it and then have it blow up in their faces like this? Were they protecting someone higher up but below Bush? Is that why the suspicion was focused initially on Karl Rove, the most politically partisan person in the White House?
--Raoul
To: RDangerfield
NOT a white house official!
" senior administration official " which could be an old clinton or even a carter appointee in the state dept. It could even be anyone in the FBI or CIA since they are considered to be part of the "administration"
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posted on
09/28/2003 4:21:46 PM PDT
by
steplock
(www.FOCUS.GOHOTSPRINGS.com)
To: Brian S
This is an old story the democreeps wanted it brought back because they think they got traction on this.Timmy was to fast to abide he is a slut on shady stories when he can bash Bush and the Repulblicans.
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posted on
09/28/2003 4:32:43 PM PDT
by
solo gringo
(Always Ranting Always Rite)
To: steplock
Bingo, we have a winner! Clearly this x42 holdover plot was self-generated by Wilson and his wife, both who would qualify as "senior administration officials." If nothing else this is meant as an innoculation of x42 holdovers from being routed out and canned. They are trying to cover themselves by whistleblower statute and ghosts of Watergate. Bush needs to act decisively and get rid of these political timebombs. Dare them to spout their lies and suffer the consequences of being shown as partisan hacks. "The truth shall set you free" is more than a CIA slogan.
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posted on
09/28/2003 4:41:11 PM PDT
by
anymouse
To: RDangerfield
Were they protecting someone higher up but below Bush? Is that why the suspicion was focused initially on Karl Rove, the most politically partisan person in the White House?Who are W's most powerful enemies, and how have they colluded to finally manage to dent the armor?
Answer to part a: the Clintons, the press, liberal spooks. Answer to part b: The Clintons hatched the plan. CIA operatives carried it out. The press filtered the story.
Wilson does his Niger thing, angering Rove, and intentionally leaves his wife Plame's spook status out in the open as bait. The administration enforcers start calling up reporters to retaliate by outing that Wilson probably got the Niger gig through his wife and - see, they are gunning for Bush!
The brand of hardball they are playing is Washington standard issue. Reporters normally will guarantee anonymity to get the juicy story. But the first three reporters they call (playing it according to their true loyalties; i.e. anything to stick it to Bush) stonewall the news, causing the enforcers to overplay their hand. And now the whole administration has egg on their faces for getting caught doing Washington hardball.
To: RDangerfield; steplock; anymouse; Brian S; solo gringo; No Truce With Kings; tet68; ...
The Clintons hatched the plan. CIA operatives carried it out. The press filtered the story.The liberal press will never rat out those who set this up. Watch the Washington Times for the next move.
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
I will bet if it was leaked, it was by a clinton holdover
scumMy first thought exactly. This whole thing has the stench of State Department.
To: Brian S
"Critics have said the Iraq-Niger assertion, which later was found to be based partly on forged documents, showed the administration had tried to hype intelligence to make a case for going to war. "Wilson is a side-show to the main question yet unanswered, who was in the chain that forged and forwarded the documents? Why is this still covered up?
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posted on
09/28/2003 5:00:36 PM PDT
by
ex-snook
(Americans needs PROTECTIONISM - military and economic.)
To: NutCrackerBoy
The Clintons hatched the plan. CIA operatives carried it out. The press filtered the story.I think you have the right flow chart, but the wrong operatives. DIA makes more sense. Bush pretty much owns the CIA, but State, the NSA, and the Pentagon's DIA are chock full of the kind of people McCarthy went after. Clinton's kinda people.
To: ex-snook
the word (john loftus) is that the french forged the documents. they knew the brits had solid evidence regarding this (which is still true), so they planted this "big lead" as a poison pill, knowing that when this one piece of evidence (the papers) was shown to be forged it would discredit the entire story, even the good stuff.
To: Brian S
Lots of speculation into how Novak could have obtained the name of Wilson's wife from sources outside of the government.
Maybe he read this (Wilson's bio at the Middle East Intitute)
Last paragraph:"He is married to the former Valerie Plame and has two sons and two daughters."
The truth is out there.
To: oceanview
to add to that, the french were in the chain between iraq and niger, this is why they planted the poison pill.
To: anymouse
Bingo, we have a winner! Clearly this x42 holdover plot was self-generated by Wilson and his wife, both who would qualify as "senior administration officials."
This is exactly what I've been thinking! Phew!
To: Lancey Howard; RDangerfield; steplock; anymouse; Brian S; solo gringo; No Truce With Kings; ...
Bush pretty much owns the CIA, but State, the NSA, and the Pentagon's DIA are chock full of the kind of people McCarthy went after. Clinton's kinda people.I would argue only that Bush doesn't own all of the CIA. There is a sizable contingent there too who have it in for Bush.
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