Great article about impact on CIA from outing Plame + indictments.

[Quixote1818]

This is over a year old but Wayne Madson sure seemed to know the inside scoop on this. Sorry if it's a dupe but it seems a few people are not up to date on much of this information especially the impact outing Plame may have had on the CIA.

GRAND JURY WILL SOON ISSUE EXPLOSIVE INDICTMENTS

by

Wayne Madsen




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U.S. intelligence sources have also said that Fitzgerald's investigation has gone far beyond the mere leaking of Plame's name, itself a violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, but has expanded to look into the exposure of Plame's colleagues who worked under the cover of a CIA firm called Brewster, Jennings & Associates. The "brass plate" CIA proprietary had offices in Boston and Washington, DC. Active since 1994, Brewster-Jennings was instrumental in tracking the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and had agents or correspondents in a number of countries including Iraq, North Korea, Belarus, Russia, South Africa, Iran, Israel, China, Pakistan, Congo (Kinshasa), India, Taiwan, Libya, Syria, Serbia, and Malaysia. By releasing Valerie Plame’s name, other agents' non-official covers were blown and the lives of U.S. operatives within foreign governments and businesses may have been placed in danger. Therefore, Fitzgerald's investigation has reportedly been expanded to include the issue of whether members of the staffs of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, Cheney and Bush themselves, the National Security Council, and the Departments of Defense and State, may have violated more serious espionage laws.

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The special prosecutor has been focusing on Bush, Cheney, presidential counselor Karl Rove, Cheney's chief of staff Lewis I. ("Scooter") Libby, Cheney assistants David Wurmser and John Hannah, and National Security Council officials Elliott Abrams and Stephen Hadley.

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Sensitive CIA operations that were compromised by the leak included companies, government officials, and individuals associated with the nuclear smuggling network of Pakistan's chief nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan. In addition, the identities of U.S. national and foreign agents working within the headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, North Korea's nuclear laboratory in Yongbyon, Pakistan's Kahuta uranium enrichment plant, banks and export companies in Dubai, Islamabad, Moscow, Cape Town, Tel Aviv, Liechtenstein, Cyprus, and Kiev, and Kuala Lumpur, and government agencies in Libya, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Iran were severely compromised. The CIA has reportedly given Fitzgerald highly classified details on the damage done to the CIA's WMD tracking network.

Continued at: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/062504_grand_jury.shtml

[kestrel91316]

1. la, la, la, la, la ...............

dum de dum de dum, doing the happy dance.............:bounce: :woohoo:

[txindy]

2. Fitzgerald certainly appears determined to see this through.

I know there are republicans who are not neocons and that they would be outraged and disgusted if they knew the facts of this case. It appears that Patrick Fitzgerald is one of them.

[fooj]

3. Fitzgerald is doing the right thing!

Such a refreshing change, isn't it?

peace.