Unintended consequences. Nice ones, I think.

Post #132,449 by Silverlock 12/27/03 1:14:37 AM 12/30/03 3:36:12 PM Reply	Unintended consequences. Nice ones, I think. Throwing a screwjob at the CIA and then outing one of their agents can't be the dumbest thing I've ever heard of but I'm damned if I can think of a dumber one offhand. Sources said the CIA is angry about the circulation of a still-classified document to conservative news outlets suggesting Plame had a role in arranging her husband's trip to Africa for the CIA. The document, written by a State Department official who works for its Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), describes a meeting at the CIA where the Niger trip by Wilson was discussed, said a senior administration official who has seen it. [link\|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30842-2003Dec25.html\|Source] Left unsaid in the article is the screwjob aspect- A line in President Bush's State of the Union address alleging that Iraq was trying to buy uranium in Africa should never have been included in the speech, CIA Director George Tenet said Friday. [link\|http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/11/sprj.irq.wmdspeech/\|Source] Call me cautious, but I'd put not humiliating and then betraying the CIA on my to-do list. ----------------------------------------- "After months of searching and billions of dollars, we've finally captured the man who had absolutely nothing to do with 9-11 !" -Rob Cordry, The Daily Show Edited by Silverlock Dec. 30, 2003, 03:36:12 PM EST Expand All History
Post #132,452 by deSitter 12/27/03 2:14:20 AM Reply	Frustrating 1) Why the hell is Ashcroft in charge of this? 2) Why the hell is a plastic turkey bigger news? 3) Why the hell has the Post waited so long to put up any news about this? I had practically forgotten about it and I read the Post several times a week. The old Post would be all over this. That's the role of the press, ferchrissakes! So what do you see happening here? -drl
Post #132,457 by Silverlock 12/27/03 8:39:07 AM Reply	Payback The CIA was reluctantly willing to take the fall for Rove's insistance on using known bad intel in the State of the Union address but the petty vengeance of outing Wilson's wife pissed off the wrong people. I'd bet there have been quite a few "suggestions" from spookdom to members of the Intelligence committee to not let this die. I also think Ashcroft has managed to piss off many of the career Justice department investigators. And finally, I think the decision to blow Plame's cover was discussed at the highest levels (Rove/Cheney) and some of those pissed off investigators already know that. Running in the background during all of this was the tension (dare I say outrage? I dare) over the pipelining of raw, unevaluated field reports direct to the White House that were then cherry picked for release to the press in order to build the case for war against Iraq. I can just imagine Tenet's reaction when he first read Novak's column- "Damn those ungrateful little pricks. Get me our contact at Justice and then let the Intel committee know we're formally requesting a criminal investigation." ----------------------------------------- "After months of searching and billions of dollars, we've finally captured the man who had absolutely nothing to do with 9-11 !" -Rob Cordry, The Daily Show
Post #164,241 by marlowe 7/13/04 3:03:41 PM Reply	Maybe they should retract that retraction [link\|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39834-2004Jul9.html\n\|Who lied, now?] Excerpt: Wilson's assertions -- both about what he found in Niger and what the Bush administration did with the information -- were undermined yesterday in a bipartisan Senate intelligence committee report. The panel found that Wilson's report, rather than debunking intelligence about purported uranium sales to Iraq, as he has said, bolstered the case for most intelligence analysts. And contrary to Wilson's assertions and even the government's previous statements, the CIA did not tell the White House it had qualms about the reliability of the Africa intelligence that made its way into 16 fateful words in President Bush's January 2003 State of the Union address. Yesterday's report said that whether Iraq sought to buy lightly enriched "yellowcake" uranium from Niger is one of the few bits of prewar intelligence that remains an open question. Much of the rest of the intelligence suggesting a buildup of weapons of mass destruction was unfounded, the report said. The report turns a harsh spotlight on what Wilson has said about his role in gathering prewar intelligence, most pointedly by asserting that his wife, CIA employee Valerie Plame, recommended him. ---------------------------------------------------------------- "All the news you wish would go away" Iraq is free, and there's nothing you can do about it. DEAL WITH IT. [link\|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/index.html\|http://www.angelfire...arlowe/index.html]
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