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THE FBI has been accused of covering up a key case file detailing evidence against corrupt government officials and their dealings with a network stealing nuclear secrets. The assertion follows allegations made in The Sunday Times two weeks ago by Sibel Edmonds, an FBI whistleblower, who worked on the agency's investigation of the network. Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agency's Washington field office. She says the FBI was investigating a Turkish and Israeli-run network that paid high-ranking American officials to steal nuclear weapons secrets. These were then...

Many, many Amazing! details on Plame's Brewster Jennings Co. Provides Hope for Scooter Libby's Trial: No Leak/No Crime 1. LEFT-WING INDYMEDIA http://colombia.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/38643.php article on "PLAME IS NO SECRET" and MANY NEW DETAILS ON BREWSTER-JENNINGS (previously undisclosed) PUBLISHED TUES. MAR 7. 2. BREWSTER-JENNINGS = BURKE DENNEHY (PLAME'S EMPLOYER) 3. ROBERT ELLMANN, JEAN C. EDWARDS named as BREWSTER EMPLOYEES (first since Plame). THEY PUT THEIR RESUMES ON THE WEB. http://colombia.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/38643.php MARCH 7 4. MARCH 12: CHICAGO TRIBUNE PICKS UP ON ABOVE (1, 3) FIVE DAYS LATER. Another sign of Brewster-Jennings' link to the CIA came from the online résumé of a Washington...

The publication of Hubris is filled with irony for David Corn, Washington editor of the left-wing Nation magazine. He was present at the creation of the Valerie Plame "scandal," which the enemies of George W. Bush hoped could bring down a president. Nobody was more responsible for bloating this episode. Yet Corn is coauthor of a book that has had the effect of killing the story. Thanks to Corn's intrepid coauthor, Newsweek investigative reporter Michael Isikoff, Hubris definitively revealed then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage as my source that Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie, worked for the CIA and suggested her...

Was Plame Covert? A Review of Isikoff and Corn's HubrisBy Fedora I recently finished reviewing Michael Isikoff and David Corn’s Hubris (New York: Crown Publishers, 2006) to see what it adds to the current state of knowledge in the Plamegate investigation. Here I will present my findings in the form of a list of questions and answers: 1. What did Valerie Wilson aka Valerie Plame do at CIA?According to Isikoff and Corn (12-13, 283-286), after Plame graduated from the CIA’s training program, she began working with the CIA Directorate of Operations’ European Division in the Cyrus/Greece/Turkey area in the late...

Scooter must--can--clear good name, here's how. [Please excuse Freep newbie. I have tried several times to post to News/Activism. Sorry.] No leak, no leak crime. It's as simple as that. Scooter Libby can clear his good name, as this very, very recent news shows. NOTE: He has to, because a conviction could cripple the administration and hurt the cause of good government for years to come. He can do it. The Administration picked a real bulldog in special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. When Scooter comes out of this smelling like a rose, as this shows he probably will, no one will...

For the sake of the President's program, Scooter must--can--clear good his name, here's how. [I don't know all of the protocols in posting here. I am a newbie. Just fair warning. :) ] No leak, no leak crime. It's as simple as that. Scooter Libby can clear his good name, as this very, very recent news shows. NOTE: He has to, because a conviction could cripple the administration and hurt the cause of good government for years to come. He can do it. The Administration picked a real bulldog in special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. When Scooter comes out of this...

This weekend some interesting developments appeared to rip some holes in the Wilson Gambit and further erode Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s credibility. David Corn of The Nation magazine and VIPS (Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity) have pushed nonsensical claims that Valerie Plame was a nonofficial cover agent (NOC), supplying the necessary predicate for an Agee Act (Intelligence Identity Protection Act) prosecution. While I could find scant reporting in the pre-indictment period poking holes in this ridiculous notion, Saturday’s Chicago Tribune carried five stories doing just that. In two of the most significant articles, the paper showed how easy it was...

At first glance, 101 Arch St. seems like the perfect setting for a spy story: an elegant office building downtown with an upscale restaurant, lots of foot traffic, and a subway entrance to stage a getaway "It's a great place to blend in," said Rob Griffin, regional president of Cushman & Wakefield Inc., the real estate firm. The CIA may have thought so too. Valerie Plame, an undercover CIA operative once listed as her employer Brewster Jennings & Associates. A company by that name has a listed address but no visible presence at the 21-story office tower. Plame's exposure as...

NIGERGATE: Connections between members of the UN Inquiry Committee into the Oil-for-food program, the Rockefeller Group and the French. As promised some elements that the “radar missed”. Once again the Italian newspaper Il Giornale offers some fascinating insight into the less discussed aspects of the Nigergate affair. In addition I’ve posted a HIGHLY SIMPLIFIED chart mapping A PART of the links between members of the UN Oil-for-food Inquiry, the Rockefeller Group AND THE FRENCH. Is it perhaps because of these ties that France despite having been in possession of the false documents since the fall of 2000, despite only having...

Wasn't Brewster-Jennings the front CIA company, if so she should be prosecuted for outing a CIA agent.

The leak of a CIA operative's name has also exposed the identity of a CIA front company, potentially expanding the damage caused by the original disclosure, Bush administration officials said yesterday. The company's identity, Brewster-Jennings & Associates, became public because it appeared in Federal Election Commission records on a form filled out in 1999 by Valerie Plame, the case officer at the center of the controversy, when she contributed $1,000 to Al Gore's presidential primary campaign. After the name of the company was broadcast yesterday, administration officials confirmed that it was a CIA front. They said the obscure and possibly...