What if Wilson was a fringe benefit?

[demgurl]

I was thinking about this whole thing today and how the WH seems to be a great magician when it comes to misdirection. What if Wilson was not the main target of the WH thugs and was, instead, a fringe benefit of what they were doing.

I find it very strange that not only was Plame outed, but so was her undercover company. What if they were the real threats and targets of the WH?

Follow my logic for a minute. The thugs are claiming Valerie recommended Wilson for the trip to Niger. Well, so what if she did, that is not illegal that I know of. In fact, he used to be ambassador to Niger so he would know the ins and outs of that country and be very capable of discerning whether there truly was any uranium. He would be a natural to go.

The boys in the WH must have crapped their pants when they read the op-ed that Wilson wrote. They decide to get to the bottom of all of this and try to dig up dirt, but while they are digging they find out who his wife is. Maybe they even have suspicions that in her line of work she may have inside information and she directed him where to look. All of a sudden it is Valerie that is the threat and why is she a threat? It is because of where she works.

Valerie's company worked hard to find the illegal trading of WMD's. they were very deep undercover and I bet she even knew that the yellow cake documents were fake as soon as she heard about them. An even bigger threat to the thugs now existed. Their illegal war hinged on them making everyone believe there was a threat of WMD's but Valerie's company, no doubt, would be able to dispel any of that if they put their mind to it. Think about it, this is what Valerie's company did 24 hours a day.

If the WH wanted all threats to their plans removed, they need to act fast and with precision. The only way to shut the whole business down would be to expose them all, not just Valerie! Using Wilson to do this would just be a oh-so-delicious side benefit.

This is the only thing that makes sense. If they just wanted revenge on Wilson then they would have just outed Valerie and not her business name and coworkers.

Here is the worst part folks, Valerie and her colleagues did not have diplomatic passports. If yo have one of those you kind of get a get out of jail free card if you are ever caught doing spy activities. One reason you would not have one is so you are not suspected of being a spy. The down side to this is if you are caught, and do not have the right passport, they may kill you. This means that if the CIA did not have time to pull those agents, they were put in a life threatening situation.

Actually, I guess the worst part is that these folks were the good guys and were trying to protect our country from the bad guys and the real locatable WMD's. It takes a long time to set up such an operation and look at what they did to it in a couple of small leaks to the press.

I truly think the government was going after Valerie and her coworkers and Wilson was not the main target.

[Mythsaje]

1. My thinking as well...

Wilson was a convenient piece of collateral damage.

[Jara sang]

2. I was unaware that she worked for "private company"

What was the name of this company? Do you have link?

[H2O Man]

3. It was the front

for her activities.

[hootinholler]

8. Yepper...

I have some info in this thread that might be useful.

BTW, I posted this stuff nearly the same time as the OP.

-Hoot

[acmejack]

4. Brewster Jennings

nt

[shraby]

5. Some time ago a group of du'ers asked why

they would have outed Plame and her operations and set about looking for the "why". This is a synopsis of the why that we found out.

<http://s93118771.onlinehome.us/DU/AMERICANJUDAS.pdf>

[BrklynLiberal]

10. Wow! Impressive piece of work.

[demgurl]

11. Great writing.

I never would have thought to undertake such a project. I admire you folks for doing this. Thank you.

[lyonn]

6. Damn, good thinking

No one says much about exposing the undercover company and, of course, that would truly be more critical since the govt. has been establishing it for years than exposing one agent, bad as that is!

[Merlot]

7. Agreed.

The talking heads keep mouthing phrases like "she's a desk jocky" and Wilson "isn't credible," and rove only said he'd "heard something like that." These are little, minor points that the populace can hange onto and understand. There is a much MUCH bigger story out there that nobody wants touched. It's all about the WMD's. And halliburton.

Quick, look over there! A woman posing as an undercover spy was outed! It's her husbands fault! Lions and tigers and bears - Oh My!!!!

[BrklynLiberal]

9. This thesis has other supporters...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1932675#1932682

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4116511&mesg_id=4116901

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4104003
Randi Rhodes discussed this idea at length on her show this week. She mentions the SECOND column the Novak wrote that mentions Brewster Jennings, the cover company that Valerie Plame worked for. There was no reason to mention that unless SOMEONE wanted to totally undermine all the undercover work that was being done to locate the sources of the money that was financing the terrorists. Guess where all the money was leading? >>>>> Saudis, ARAMCO, BUSH! BUSH! BUSH!!!

[demgurl]

13. Thank you for posting these links, I had not read them.

At least I know I am not alone in my thinking - before I posted this it took almost an hour to convince my husband that it might have any validity! I will now don my tinfoil hat and write yet another LTTE.

[judy from nj]

12. I've been thinking this all day.

I think they were really out to get Valerie (Plame) Wilson, and they used him as an excuse for telling on her. I would guess that she was interferring with their made up intelligence about WMD. They wanted to get rid of her, and they used her husband writing that article to get her.