WP: Side Issue in the Plame Case: Who Sent Her Spouse to Africa?

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/10/AR2005081001918.html

The origin of Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV's trip to Niger in 2002 to check out intelligence reports that Saddam Hussein was attempting to purchase uranium has become a contentious side issue to the inquiry by special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald, who is looking into whether a crime was committed with the exposure of Valerie Plame, Wilson's wife, as a covert CIA employee.

After he went public in 2003 about the trip, senior Bush administration officials, trying to discredit Wilson's findings, told reporters that Wilson's wife, who worked at the CIA, was the one who suggested the Niger mission for her husband. Days later, Plame was named as an "agency operative" by syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak, who has said he did not realize he was, in effect, exposing a covert officer. A Senate committee report would later say evidence indicated Plame suggested Wilson for the trip.

Over the past months, however, the CIA has maintained that Wilson was chosen for the trip by senior officials in the Directorate of Operations counterproliferation division (CPD) -- not by his wife -- largely because he had handled a similar agency inquiry in Niger in 1999. On that trip, Plame, who worked in that division, had suggested him because he was planning to go there, according to Wilson and the Senate committee report.

The 2002 mission grew out of a request by Vice President Cheney on Feb. 12 for more information about a Defense Intelligence Agency report he had received that day, according to a 2004 report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. An aide to Cheney would later say he did not realize at the time that this request would generate such a trip.

[Carolab]

1. Good. The truth comes out. n/t

[napi21]

2. I assume Fitz has already spoken to the CPD official.

If confirmed, this is a non issue! All it proves is that the WH poopsters are trying to promote BS again!

I have heard many times that Valerie didn't have the rank in the CIA to have sent anyone anywhere!

The only story that makes any sense is that someone in the CIA called her and asked if she felt Joe would take the job, and if he was available.

[Halliburton]

3. it's looking more and more like a conspiracy

by the White House Iraq Group. Maybe Judy was involved?

:popcorn:

[Norquist Nemesis]

4. Wow! Just WOW!!!

So, they're suggesting this was a setup from the get go. This is truly stunning. Seriously.

I never thought I'd see corruptions as contemptuous as the Nixon era again in my lifetime. This is...unbelievable.

I have to admit to having the thoughts of the same and then dismissing it as a purely partisan tinfoil hat in the wake of unspeakable evil and powerful people. If this comes to pass, our Government will be shaken to the ground and all of us with it.

[wli]

this is worse than anything Nixon ever did

Bushler is even using the REX 84 concentration camps against his own citizens.

[marbuc]

5. I'm not sure I'm understanding the logic...

"The 2002 mission grew out of a request by Vice President Cheney on Feb. 12 for more information about a Defense Intelligence Agency report he had received that day, according to a 2004 report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. An aide to Cheney would later say he did not realize at the time that this request would generate such a trip."

He did not realize a request for an investigation would generate a fact finding mission? What was the CIA supposed to do, manufacture evidence? Oh, that is precisely what they were supposed to do, forget I brought it up...

[loudsue]

7. Good logic. Plus: SO WHAT IF SHE DID SUGGEST HIM???

She's a deep undercover agent, and knows what/who her husband knows in Niger. Who better to recommend someone than their best teammate/housemate/spousemate who knows very well?

They're both frikkin' life-long, professional career people, in service to our country! Duh!

If the CIA folks say she didn't send him, then I believe 'em. But it doesn't make any damn difference if she did! This was about NATIONAL SECURITY! Not "what are we havin' for dinner"?

:kick::kick::kick:

[fearnobush]

6. Even if Wilson's wife jumped up in the air with a flying kick and said:

"Hey guys... send Joe My Husband..." She would be completely vindicated as NO LAWS WERE BROKEN. GOP... how many times have your ilk received jobs because he or she was your wife, husband, brother, homosexual partner etc. Ahh lets see...

Colon Powell - meet his son Micheal Powell chair of the Stern killing and boob burning FCC.

Elaine Chao - meet her husband - Republican Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky - sold out to the People's Republic of China.

George H.W. (daddy) Bush - meet son Neil Bush - Ruined this nations economy by plundering the US Savings and Loan in a huge scandal of epic proportion.

Ok do I continue... Ok just a few more....

Dick (Head) Chaney - meet your old company you were C.E.O. od and are still receiving loot from: Halliburton - Untold billions stolen from the American Tax payer.

George W. (Chimpy) Bush: meet William H.T. “Bucky” Bush of St. Louis who managed to profit from his nephew’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the amount of $450,000.00. How? Through his seat on the board of a St. Louis-based defense contractor, Engineered Support Systems Incorporated (“ESSI”).

So thats just a few GIGANTIC cases of Nepotism The Neocon death cult has embraced - yet... Wapo... NYT's... All of the so called Liberal Main Stream Media??? You can't even write one comparison of nepotism to debunk the GOP's claim that Valerie Wilson sent her Husband to Niger. As if that in of itself is a big deal? Guess what MSM, compared to your NeoConn, death cult nepotism.... IT IS NO BIG FUCKING DEAL. Gog... you are such complicit lap dogs to this crime family WaPo etc. that it is sickening.

[lovuian]

8. Cheney requested it cause he wanted Wilson to be the fall guy

and had Plame as backup to out to get to Brewster and Jennings

Killing threestones at one time!!!

Just backfired a bit!!!

[jarab]

9. Locking

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