It is all about the Classified Document!!!!

[dogday]

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But remember, the CIA believes that that memo contains not just incorrect but fraudulent information. TPM Reader DK very helpfully reminded me of this passage from an article in the Post from December 2003 ...

But sources said the CIA believes that people in the administration continue to release classified information to damage the figures at the center of the controversy, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV and his wife, Valerie Plame, who was exposed as a CIA officer by unidentified senior administration officials for a July 14 column by Robert D. Novak.

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http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2005_07_10.php#006122



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But sources said the CIA believes that people in the administration continue to release classified information to damage the figures at the center of the controversy, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV and his wife, Valerie Plame, who was exposed as a CIA officer by unidentified senior administration officials for a July 14 column by Robert D. Novak.

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.

CIA officials have challenged the accuracy of the INR document, the official said, because the agency officer identified as talking about Plame's alleged role in arranging Wilson's trip could not have attended the meeting.

"It has been circulated around," one official said. CIA and State Department officials have refused to discuss the document.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A30842-2003Dec25¬Found=true


There has been talked about a Classified Document that was brought aboard AF1 by Colin Powell. This document not only contain highly classified information, it also contained Fraudulent Information. The Question is who supplied this document to Novack?

[choie]

1. it's Bolton

I tell you - it's Bolton!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. My biggest question: Is the document real or not ?? Has anyone

actually ever seen it ?? Do you think Fitzie has it ? We pretty much know Gannon probably got it.

Surely Fitzie has called in a lot of CIA people involved in this, right>???

[dogday]

4. Yes it is real

Orginally Colin Powell had it aboard AF1-there is where it gets fuzzy as to how the document was put into the hands of the reporters and the article states the document was passed around.

[skids]

5. 2 documents, am I wrong?

There's the classified briefing, and then a memo about the classified briefing, IIRC. The CIA is questioning the latter both as being inaccurate and as containing classified info which it should not.

Or am I wrong here?

[maddezmom]

10. that's the way I'm reading it

Condi's Classified Top Secret Briefing and the State Dept. memo on Wilson/Plame.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. BTW I disagree: It's all about the PHONY WAR !!!

[dogday]

6. Ultimately you are correct, I was mainly

referring as to how the information was released to reporters, but it all does lead to the Iraq war for sure......

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. Didn't mean to sound snippy. I am just afraid that if they find

that Rover didn't specifically break a law, then they will say, "Ok this topic is over and Dems should move forward." I wish every politician of ours would at least throw the push for war in there at the end of a Rove conversation.

[Maraya1969]

7. How come Novack is not in trouble for printing this stuff?

I know he is a journalist but there must be some rules about what they can print and what they can't print. I think he should be in jail with the rest of them.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. what I have heard is that you have to be a govt official with security

clearance to break that law about outing someone. Also, a lot of people think he sung like a bird by identifying his sources so they couldn't get him for obstructing the investigation. I think he got his, in a way. Other reporters think he is persona non grata now.