Thanks so much for the ping. There is a lot of good stuff here.
If you have a chance, I would love to see if you have anything on the question I posed in post #41 on the other thread:
When And Why Joseph C Wilson IV Outed Valerie Plame
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1802289/posts?page=40
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Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), formed in January 2003 "to speak out on the use of intelligence to justify the war,"
VIPS Steering Group
* Kathleen McGrath Christison, Santa Fe, NM
* William Christison, Santa Fe, NM
* David MacMichael, Linden, VA
* Raymond McGovern, Arlington, VA
* Richard Beske, San Diego, CA
* Patrick G. Eddington, Alexandria, VA
Other Alleged VIPS Members
* Eugene Betit[4]
* Ray Close[5]
* Larry Johnson[6]
# 19 May 2003: VIPS Letter sent via fax to Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations: "We Are Perplexed at the US Refusal to Permit the Return of UN Inspectors to Iraq" (published in Dissident Voice, May 21, 2003).
# 25 May 2003: VIPS: Opinion: "U.N. needs inspectors to return to Iraq", Birmingham News.
# 14 July 2003: "Cheney Must Go", an open letter to Pres. Bush published by Salon.com.
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March 10, 2004
We established our group, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, in January of last year. Before that several of us had been writing op-eds, and we had been giving each other sanity checks, because the conclusions we were coming up with were pretty far out -- that the President and the Secretary of State were lying through their teeth.
RM: Exactly, and from virtually all the agencies, not just CIA. We're hearing from some very distinguished operations officers, and from the FBI, Defense Intelligence, from the NSA, Army Intelligence, and from the State Department.