A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....10-02-03...Where's My Yellowcake?! Part II

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Where's My Yellowcake?! Part II

by JohnHuang2

I'd have finished this essay sooner if it weren't for all the dang interruptions. Some weirdo calling himself "Anonymous Senior Administration Official" kept ringing my phone off the hook, peddling some CIA agent's name whose hubby (can't recall exactly) traveled to Africa looking for yellowcake sales receipts with Saddam's signature, or some such...anybody know anything about this? At first I thought it was some nutty new sales pitch by some nutty telemarketer trying to beat the Wednesday 'Do-Not-Call List' deadline. 'Keep it up , buddy,' I told the caller, 'and I'll have the Feds frog-march ya out of that house in handcuffs!' Then I thought maybe it's that South African businessman who keeps clogging my email with some incredible business proposition.

Okay, okay...I'll confess: There were no phone calls. I made it up. I think I was probably carried away by the spirit of the moment (to borrow a line).

So what's the media fuss all about this time?

First, chalk this whole thing up as more bad luck for Democrats. Just as Bush was beginning to 'slip' in polls, Bang! out of nowhere comes a "scandal" big enough to make Bush's ratings soar.

The "growing controversy" centers on who "leaked" the super-ultra-secret identity of a covert agent everyone but Robert Novak knew wasn't a covert agent but a pencil-pusher at CIA. Covert agents need low-profile, and, for whatever reason, CIA doesn't think marrying an Ambassador is a fabulous way to lower your profile. So Valerie Plame, wife of former Clinton NSC aid Joe Wilson, was good for pencil work but not cloak and dagger. So clandestine, so deeply-concealed was the mystery of Plame working at CIA that the Washington Post claims two "Senior administration officials" tried to get a bunch of reporters interested in a 'Wife-Gets-Job-For-Hubby-In-High-Profile-Iraq-Probe' angle, but only one reporter bit. Nepotism in Washington? Say it ain't so! (By the way, CIA neither confirms nor denies the identity of covert agents. CIA confirmed Plame's identity and employment when Novak called, which shows Plame was no covert agent.)

Democrats, who complained bitterly of Starr's $60-million-dollar independent probe, demand bitterly a Starr-like $60-million-dollar independent probe.

In a bid to show they're principled and consistent, Democrats, who blast the Patriot Act as horrid abomination, say the Patriot Act is indispensable here to probe who "leaked" to the media what the media and everyone already knew. Democrats also deny politics or the looming election season has anything to do with this, just undying devotion to high-minded principles so common in Washington.

Democrats say, Reuters reports, that "if such an incident had occurred during the presidency of Democrat Bill Clinton, Republicans who control Congress would be calling for hearings and issuing subpoenas." I might add that if such an incident had occurred during the presidency of Democrat Bill Clinton, Democrats, adhering scrupulously to high standards of ethics, would denounce calls for hearings and issuance of subpoenas as nothing but a right-wing witch hunt or fishing expedition to discredit Bill Clinton. Indeed, were it not for minor matters like Whitewatergate, Cattlegate, Travelgate, Zippergate, Paulagate, Juanitagate, donorgate, Chinagate, Pardongate, Filegate, etc., Clinton's would be The Most Ethical Administration In Human History.

MSNBC reports, quoting a profoundly knowledgeable college professor, that "the launch of a formal (Justice Dept.) investigation could be 'a turning point in terms of public perception'" of Bush, "a point of transition which eventually seeps down to public consciousness." I can vouch for that. Indeed, when I heard the Justice Dept. had opened a probe, I sensed a change of my public perception of Bush, a point of transition that immediately seeped down to my public consciousness; then a powerful desire overcame me, an urge to vote for Dean! Kucinich! Kerry! Lieberman! Anyone but George!

Bush's vow to cooperate fully with investigators was especially damaging to my public perception. Aren't moral presidents supposed to invoke Executive Privilege, suborn perjury, obstruct justice, cover-up, delay, deny, destroy a la Clinton? I'm confused.

Incidentally, CIA requests for probes of possible leaks are so rare, the Justice Dept. gets about one a week.

What's the fallout from all this, politically? How'll this shake out? Not to be pessimistic or anything, but this 'scandal,' phony though it is, has got the element of simplicity going for it -- it's easy to grasp -- and might resonate in ways that Enron and other previous pseudo-Bush "scandals" couldn't.

Indeed, I can, in one brief sentence, wrap up the gist of this whole 'scandal':

"Senior administration officials," in an act of 'revenge' against a prominent antiwar critic, brilliantly committed felonies by disclosing to reporters, who didn't seem interested because they knew felonies weren't being committed, the ultra-secret identity of a deep-undercover CIA agent that everyone and his sister knew worked at CIA because she wasn't deep-undercover at all, just an agency analyst who, to ensure a fair and impartial probe into White House claims that Saddam sought yellowcake Uranium from Niger, pulled agency strings so that former U.S. Ambassador Joe Wilson, an antiwar activist and her husband (but that's just a coincidence) got appointed to head up a probe so thorough and exhaustive it lasted 8 whole arduous Sweet-Mint-Tea-Sipping days "with dozens of people" in Niger, after which the good Ambassador, in a classified report submitted to appropriate authorities at the New York Times, brilliantly OUTS himself (and by extension his wife) as CIA-connected, but that's not the point because, he says, the point is that after a week of not searching for evidence to back up White House claims, he failed to find evidence to back up White House claims, which, he said, drove him to think what he fairly and impartially wanted to think all along, to wit, that Bush IS AN EVIL LIAR and SADDAM'S INNOCENT and NO BLOOD FOR OIL!

Now, try cramming that cogent one-liner on a bumper sticker ;-)

Sure, the Democrats are toasting champagne, clicking their heels over Bush's grave.

Truth is, Plame-"Gate", or whatever they're calling it, will go about as far politically as the BUSH-KNEW-ABOUT-9/11-BEFORE-9/11-BUT-DID-NOTHING-TO-STOP-IT! "scandal" which was supposed to force Bush from office. Democrats were toasting champagne, clicking their heels over Bush's grave. Or the BUSH-DIDN'T-KNOW-ABOUT-9/11-BEFORE-9/11-BUT-SHOULD'VE! "scandal" which was supposed to force Bush from office. Or, recall the No-Weapons-Of-Mass-Destruction-Found-In-Iraq -- BUSH LIED! "scandal" which was supposed to force Bush from office. Or, how about 16-Word-"Gate"? Or the Bush-Was-In-Bed-With-Ken-Lay-And-Enron! "scandal" that would march Bush frog-tied out of the White House in handcuffs.

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Anyway, that's...

My two cents..

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My 2 cents.........

Wilson's wife who is a Dem Liberal Partisan JUST happens to works for the CIA as a desk jocky suggests that Wilson a DIPLOMAT and a KNOWN Bush hater, who has NO investigative skills (he's a diplomat, not an investigator) be given the importan job (NEPOTISIM) of investigating the delicate matter of yellow cake and Saddam's trying to procurring it.

Wilson then spends 8 days drinking tea with different people asking "DID Saddam try to buy yellow cake"?

Wilson who is KNOWN TO OPPOSE the Iraq war..Wilson who hates Bush..Wilson who is a Clinton/Algore appointee ...and low and behold a negative report comes out of his phony investigation..and then his wife's job at the CIA just happens to gets 'leaked' by a senior person in SOME administration position...there are several different agencies in DC that have their own personal administrations besides the White House.

Which Novak states DID NOT CALL HIM.

Novak fails to site if it is the admin in the CIA, State Dept, Pentagon, Legislature or FBI. He just assumes we can read his mind as to which he means. He also fails to mention the party the 'leaker' belongs to. Many of these career admin people have been there through several presidencies.

Wilson himself names Plame as his wife in his bio. It is fairly well known in DC that she works at the CIA.

Wilson writes a op-ed piece for the Washington Compost about his 'secret' job his wife suggested him for.

The RATS held a meeting recently to discuss how to shave points off GW's popularity, and how to defeat him in '04.

Novak wrote his piece in July, this is OCT.

What a perfect set up to scream LEAK and COVER UP by the DNC.........Just what we are seeing unfold.

Bill Kristol said on FNC tonight that there is a battle in the 'admin' between the doves and hawks and that one of the doves may have been the source of this leak in order to bring down the President because he DARED to go to war on Saddam.

Wilson says his wife's career is 'ruined'...she's a desk jocky not a field agent. I fail to see how this 'ruins' a desk jocky's career.

I've seen in print that she's 40 and has been in the CIA 3 decades...I didn't know the CIA recuited 10 year olds.

Wilson has had to admit he LIED about Rove being the source of the 'leak'.

Wilson has ties to the Middle East Institute which is probably a LEFT leaning org.

How many other things has he lied about?

[JohnHuang2]

Great points, my friend. (One minor correction: Wilson wrote his op-ed piece in the New York Times, not the Compost. Same difference, anyhoo.

"and then his wife's job at the CIA just happens to gets 'leaked' by a senior person in SOME administration position..."

My gut tells me the source(s) was CIA itself, in CYA mode, after such a shoddy "probe." From his July piece, Novak spoke to "senior adm officials." Not "White House officials." Big difference. Reporters in Washington, for obvious reasons, always make the distinction.

[JohnHuang2]

Had it been White House, you'd have seen resignations by now. Nobody at the White House, moreover, has hired counsel.

[Fledermaus]

She's not even a true CIA employee from what I can gather. She's a "covered" employee which means on loan from another agency is what Novak wrote.

[Aeronaut]

Good morning Aqua.

[dixie sass]

"...the ultra-secret identity of a deep-undercover CIA agent that everyone and his sister knew worked at CIA because she wasn't deep-undercover at all, just an agency analyst who, to ensure a fair and impartial probe into White House claims that Saddam sought yellowcake Uranium from Niger, pulled agency strings so that former U.S. Ambassador Joe Wilson, an antiwar activist and her husband (but that's just a coincidence) got appointed to head up a probe so thorough and exhaustive it lasted 8 whole arduous Sweet-Mint-Tea-Sipping days "with dozens of people" in Niger, after which the good Ambassador, in a classified report submitted to appropriate authorities at the New York Times, brilliantly OUTS himself (and by extension his wife) as CIA-connected, but that's not the point because, he says, the point is that after a week of not searching for evidence to back up White House claims, he failed to find evidence to back up White House claims, which, he said, drove him to think what he fairly and impartially wanted to think all along, to wit, that Bush IS AN EVIL LIAR and SADDAM'S INNOCENT and NO BLOOD FOR OIL!

Priceless, John, absolutely priceless!!

And to think that she had been doing this for 30 thirty years!!!!! Amazing!!!!!!!

[dixie sass]

Wonderful layout Aquamarine! John did it again, didn't he? What a wonderful sense of humour. I got to go back and re-read it!

[JohnHuang2]

Why, thank you, friend :-) And G'mornin'!

[JohnHuang2]

G'morning, amigo

[Aeronaut]

Hi John.

[JohnHuang2]

And to think that she had been doing this for 30 thirty years!!!!!

And she's only 40. Meaning, she was CIA at 10. After this much time, you'd think Tenet would be answering to her...;-)

[dixie sass]

Y'all will enjoy John's article today!

I would be willing to bet that Wilson himself will be found to be the source of the leak. Especially since it is in his bio. How dumb can they be? Tsk, tsk...

[dixie sass]

Let's see, that would mean she is quite a bit older than Wilson, GASP!!!! That means, GASP!, that she ROBBED the cradle!

Some people are just hard up for attention ...


Of any kind!

[JohnHuang2]

Especially since it is in his bio. How dumb can they be?

Exactly!

[JohnHuang2]

And thanks again for the compliments :-)

[dixie sass]

Why sir, you are most surely welcome!

[The Mayor]

[GailA]

A memory failure, but your right there is NO difference between the NY SLIME and the Wash COMPOST.

Even FNC is not providing it's usual LIBERAL outting coverage. Just liberal spin crapola with a tad bit of conservative viewpoint thrown in. But very little reporting of a fraction of what FR has dug up.

[GailA]

Breakfast and coffee

[Calpernia]

Ahhh! Meg! Post #3!

My Eyes! My Eyes!