Interesting points.
They certainly have thrown up a wall of smoke and mirrors.
Coincidentally, our old friend Joe Wilson was stationed in Burundi in 1982 when Saddam was obtaining yellowcake from Niger. Burundi also exports yellowcake, did they export it back then to Wilson's buddy Saddam?
From the get-go, the following words (chant) has bothered me enormously.. Cynthia McKinney and her allied buddies.. regarding 9-11 and President Bush: "When did he know". This "chant" has always told me that the chanters KNEW in advance.
That's the million dollar question. The very first time that the program known as "Oil for Food" crossed my research vector? Was immediately after former President Clinton "gave" a huge US oil reserve to some "man" in the US. Research I did on this kept bringing up "Oil for Food" programme. Second, the "bartering" of the O4Food program recipients were primarily France, Russia and Belgium (by the quantities, and not in order of high recipient). What did France and Russia have going on? Building up and creation of weaponry and arsenal. And Joint Space Programs. Who was France trying to sell heavy-duty arsenal to? China. Who got the coal and uranium/plutonium" out of the CA reserves ("desert protection act" (Di-Fi's husband), Via Bill Clinton? China. There have been numerous articles, some very solid over the past 10 years about how the "illegal weapons manufacture, and nukes" proliferation has been moving around the "globe". China, to the Koreas.. to Africa, to Mid-East. Never mentioned is.. the Oil4Food prime recipients.
"The supposed 'outing' appears to be nothing more than a manufactured scandal to cover up what appears to be a real scandal. What were 'agents' of the US government, elected, appointed or civil servants doing protecting Saddam/France/UN in the first place?"
It's interesting that you said this. It reminded me of something I read on another thread. Check this out and see what y'all think:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1449050/posts
To: wagglebee
now the real truth why they are making a big deal out of Plume.
10 posted on 07/23/2005 10:44:02 AM PDT by dila813
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To: wagglebee
And in further developments
ZIRCONIC / NEBULA
ZIRCONIC is a security channel behind the traditional BYEMAN compartments which reportedly contains stealth satellite programs such as MISTY (AFP-731) and PROWLER. NEBULA is the program name covering work on the general concept and technology of stealthy satellites.
Much debate has developed within Congress in response to the expensive spy satellite program currently being built by the United States. On Wednesday, December 8, Senator John D. Rockefeller (D-W.VA.) broke what had been an intense internal debate by expressing his belief that the program is “totally unjustified and very wasteful and dangerous to national security.” Three Democratic senators-- Carl M. Levin (MI); Richard Durbin (IL); and Ron Wyden (OR)-- joined him in voicing a lack of confidence in the program; and it is reported that some Republican lawmakers also share their concerns.
The spy satellites, which reportedly employ technology similar to that used on the B-2 bomber and the F-117A fighter, are designed to orbit undetected in an attempt to cloak American surveillance of other nations. As a result, countries that draw particular attention, notably Iran and North Korea, will thus be unable to determine when American satellites are overhead. Consequently, they will be unable to plan accordingly, making their developments subject to unquantifiable scrutiny.
Most of the opposition that has surfaced is rooted in the satellite program’s cost, which has reportedly doubled—from $5 billion to $9.5 billion. Critics also claim, however, that the satellite’s capabilities are irrelevant since today most countries that are surreptitiously pursuing illicit weapons are hiding them underground. Nevertheless, the program has survived (despite Senate efforts to terminate it in the last two years) with strong support from Porter Goss, the new CIA chief, and his predecessor, George Tenet.
The satellite, funded under a classified program known as Misty, was first revealed by Jeffrey T. Richelson in his 2001 book “The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology.” Richelson claimed that the first craft was launched on March 1, 1990 from the space shuttle Atlantis.
Senators Rockefeller, Levin, Wyden and Durbin objected to an item in the classified schedule of authorizations that provided for continued funding of a major acquisition program that they believed is unnecessary and the cost of which they believe is unjustified. They believe that the funds for this item should be expended on other intelligence programs that will make a surer and greater contribution to national security. For this reason, which is more fully explained in the classified record of the conference, they have not signed the conference report.
Senator Wyden said "The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has raised concerns about the need and costs of this program for the past 4 years and sought to cancel this program in each of the past 2 years. This has not been a political issue, a Democratic or Republican issue, nor should it be. The members of the Senate committee have supported these efforts in a nonpartisan way with unanimous votes each time. The Senate Intelligence Committee has determined that this program should not be funded based on firm policy judgments. Numerous independent reviews have concluded that the program does not fulfill a major intelligence gap or shortfall, and the original justification for developing this technology has eroded in importance due to the changed practices and capabilities of our adversaries. There are a number of other programs in existence and in development whose capabilities can match those envisioned for this program at far less cost and technological risk. Like almost all other acquisition programs of its size, initial budget estimates have drastically underestimated the true costs of this acquisition and independent cost estimates have shown that this program will exceed its proposed budgets by enormous amounts of money. The Senate Intelligence Committee has also in the past expressed its concern about how this program was to be awarded to the prime contractor. "
15 posted on 07/23/2005 10:48:13 AM PDT by JustAnotherOkie
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going back on my 2k memory here, but i somewhat recall that the release of this 'wilsonian' sophistry coincided closely with the senate intelligence committee memos scandal (yes, there are two "memogates" - this & the slightly more reported senate judicial memogate) that was subsequently not &/or under-reported by MSM. In the intel-scandal, the leftists on that committee led by rockefeller (d-wva) were plotting to use their highly classified take from their committee to undermine Bush administration... even at the cost of lives and increased danger to our troops.
at which point I thought it was certainly a manufactured scandal... created by the dhimms to distract attention from other, more important issues that stood to condemn the seditious behaviour of the dhimmicrats within.
Hmmmmm? $$$$$$$
According to her boss at the CIA she was NOT covert at the time, but let's not confuse them with the facts.