What did the Senate Intel. Committee say about who sent Wilson?

[Renew Deal]

Does anyone have that specific information?

[Miss Chybil]

1. Who cares WHO sent Wilson? He exposed the forgeries being pawned

off on our nation as a reason to go to war. He uncovered the truth about those 16 words in the president's State of the Union speech. Somebody forged those documents. That's what I care about. I want to know who did it.

The WHO sent him game is a red herring set out in GOP talking points. It doesn't matter.

[Renew Deal]

2. It matters to me.

Both things are important. I want to be able to argue it all correctly. I get the point.

[Cogito ergo doleo]

3. From the Report and Letter from Wilson to the Committee

Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq

Page 49 of the PDF Document Page 40 of the Report.

http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/iraq/sic70904iraqrpt.pdf

(-)Officials from the CIA’s DO Counterproliferation Division (CPD) told Committee staff that in response to questions from the Vice President’s Office and the Departments of State and Defense on the alleged Iraq-Niger uranium deal, CPD officials discussed ways to obtain additional information. (------------------) who could make immediate inquiries into the reporting, CPD decided to contact a former ambassador to Gabon who had a posting early in his career in Niger.

(-)Some CPD officials could not recall how the office decided to contact the former ambassador, however, interviews and documents provided to the Committee indicate that his wife, a CPD employee, suggested his name for the trip. The CPD reports officer told Committee staff that the former ambassador’s wife “offered up his name” and a memorandum to the Deputy Chief of the CPD on February 12, 2002, from the former ambassador’s wife says, “my husband has good relations with both the PM and the former Minister of Mines (not to mention lots of French contacts), both of whom could possibly shed light on this sort of activity.” This was just one day before CPD sent a cable (-----------------) requesting concurrence with CPD’s idea to send the former ambassador to Niger, she approached her husband on behalf of the CIA and told him “there’s this crazy report” on a purported deal for Niger to sell uranium to Iraq.

(-) The former ambassador had traveled previously to Niger on the CIA’s behalf (--------) The former ambassador was selected for the 1999 trip after his wife mentioned to her supervisors that her husband was planning a business trip to Niger in the near future and might be willing to use his contacts in the region(--------). Because the former ambassador did not uncover any information about (---) during this visit to Niger, CPD did not distribute an intelligence report on the visit.

(U) On February 19, 2002, CPD hosted a meeting with the former ambassador, intelligence analysts from both the CIA and INR, and several individuals from the the DO’s Africa and CPD divisions. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the merits of the former ambassador traveling to Niger. An INR analyst’s notes indicate that the meeting was “apparently convened by wife who had the idea to dispatch to use his contacts to sort out the Iraq-Niger uranium issue.” The former ambassador’s wife told Committee staff that she only arttended the meeting to introduce her husband and left after about three minutes.


And, from the Conclusions

>>NIGER CONCLUSIONS excerpted from the Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq (http://intelligence.senate.gov/conclusions.pdf) (Page 17)

(U) Conclusion 14. The Central Intelligence Agency should have told the Vice President and other senior policymakers that it had sent someone to Niger to look into the alleged Iraq-Niger uranium deal and should have briefed the Vice President on the former ambassadorxs findings.

Here is the letter to the U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq Report from Joe Wilson - Salon.com

“Salon Editor's note: Last week, the Senate Intelligence Committee released its report on the U.S. intelligence community's prewar assessments on Iraq. An appendix discusses the role taken by former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson in determining whether Iraq had obtained uranium from Niger. The following is Wilson's letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee pointing to errors in the Republican senators' additional comments to the report and demanding corrections.”

>>Wilson backs up his claims citing reports


Wilson states in the letter that it was “unfortunate that the report failed to include the CIA's position on this matter. If the staff had done so it would undoubtedly have been given the same evidence as provided to Newsday reporters Tim Phelps and Knut Royce in July 2003,” who reported on July 22 that: "A senior intelligence officer confirmed that Plame was a Directorate of Operations undercover officer who worked 'alongside' the operations officers who asked her husband to travel to Niger. But he said she did not recommend her husband to undertake the Niger assignment. 'They were aware of who she was married to, which is not surprising,' he said. 'There are people elsewhere in government who are trying to make her look like she was the one who was cooking this up, for some reason,' he said. 'I can't figure out what it could be.' 'We paid his airfare. But to go to Niger is not exactly a benefit. Most people you'd have to pay big bucks to go there,' the senior intelligence official said. Wilson said he was reimbursed only for expenses." (Newsday article "Columnist Blows CIA Agent's Cover," dated July 22, 2003).

Wilson further states, “In fact, on July 13 of this year, David Ensor, the CNN correspondent, did call the CIA for a statement of its position and reported that a senior CIA official confirmed my account that Valerie did not propose me for the trip.”

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/07/16/wilson_letter/index.html

[EC]

4. I agree with Miss Chybil

in an argument about this case, it doesn't matter who sent Wilson...that's a red herring they throw out there to take away from the real crimes, being first the forgeries and reasons for war being lies, second blowing the cover of a CIA agent and her operatives who were working on tracing WMD's ...She was doing her job, ** and Chaney asked for info on WMD's, that was her area of work and she was pissed on for doing her job...Just like every other CIA, FBI agents and others that disagreed with this administration on the info about WMD's and Iraq...

When informing someone about this, if they start at you with well Wilson said he went at the request of the White House, yada, yada...he did not say that, I don't recall him saying anything about who sent him...anyway, it doesn't matter...you don't have tho debunk something that isn't important and if someone tries to hit you with it, just ask them why it matters and what is more important to them, that he was sent by his wife to find out something or what he found out...

But here's the info anyway for you, even though from what I gather, THAT is the crux of THEIR debunking of Wilson, that his wife sent him....how that debunks the info he found I don't know...it's kinda like the Rather affair...debunking the paper, but not the content....

http://politus.blogspot.com/2004/11/911-commission-report.html
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=4505



This isn't about Joe Wilson, or his trip, this IS about how far this administration will go to PLAY politics, instead of actually governing our country...

[kansasblue]

5. I care.....cuz the media is making it sound like

he was off on some crazy trip dreamed up by his wife.

Who asked him to go speak to his credibility

[Hamlette]

6. this fully supports Wilson

Officials from the CIA’s DO Counterproliferation Division (CPD) told Committee staff that in response to questions from the Vice President’s Office and the Departments of State and Defense on the alleged Iraq-Niger uranium deal, CPD officials discussed ways to obtain additional information.

All Wilson did after that was say he thought for sure the VP would have been told about what he found there.

So? How is THAT dishonest?