Just one Minute (a blog)
Posted by: The Kid | October 10, 2004 09:07 PM
Is it possible that Fitzgerald has moved past the Plame outing into something more serious?
Everyone assumes that Plame nominated her husband for the non-paying Niger trip out of dull domestic motives. It is further assumed that he misrepresented his findings because he's a politically motivated horse's ass. What if those assumptions are wrong?
The Niger documents found in Italy were forgeries. The forger says he created them for French Intelligence, with the expectation that they would be exposed and thus damage the Saddam/yellowcake link. In other words, the French - possibly with the connivance of others - ran a counterintelligence operation against the United States.
Joe Wilson's credentials for the Niger trip were weak. He was not an investigator. But because he was sent, a professional investigator was not. When his findings were ignored, he went public via the New York Times - with a claim that is now known to be false. Just as false as those Italian forgeries, in a distinctly similar way, with distinctly similar intent.
Wilson was not paid for the Niger trip but he does receive a paycheck from Arab sources. It would be easy to hide a payoff in plain sight. Has Fitzgerald found something suspicious? Is it possible that Wilson and his wife were part of the same operation that created the Italian forgeries?
That'd be my guess--or at least part of the same operation that tried to pass the forgeries off to the British and US after the French already knew they were phony.
I need to log off for the night soon, but I will follow up on what you've posted here and come back to the Aburdene and Alamoudi stuff.
Yes?