Somebody fill me in on this CIA agent -"Wilsongate" deal.

[SmileyBoy]

I was watching football all day yesterday, and was studying on Fri.-Sat. Is it Georgy Boy or the administration in the hot-seat?? Is this the bombshell we've been waiting for???

[americanstranger]

1. Check these links -

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com
http://atrios.blogspot.com

They've been on it all weekend. All you need to know is provided by Josh and Atrios.

-as

[RainDog]

2. here ya go...this is the basis of the breaking story.

identities protection act
http://karws.gso.uri.edu/Marsh/CIA/50usc421.htm
(background on identities protection act)
http://www.prospect.org/print/V12/19/mooney-c.html
here's how the story broke-
Novak's article
http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak14.html
David Corn's article
http://thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=823
newsday covers it
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-uscia0722,0,2346857.story?coll=ny-top-headlines
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And Time
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,465270,00.html
More Nation, later on this topic
http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=888
John Dean WHA (white house administration) smackdown
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20030815.html
Cancer on the White House
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/134261_ambassed.html
St. Pete Times
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/08/10/Perspective/Blown_cover.shtml
now picked up by The Guardian, UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1015320,00.html
it gets covered in Asia
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EH12Ak03.html
White House striking back?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/942095.asp?0cv=CA01
Schumer Urges FBI Probe Into Iraq Leaks
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030724/ap_on_go_ot/schumer_agent_1
Probes Expected in ID of CIA Officer
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-uscia233384176jul23,0,5461415.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-print
video of Wilson
http://www.house.gov/inslee/meetings.htm
and
http://www.c-span.org/homepage.asp?Cat=Current_Event&Code=Iraq&ShowVidNum=6&Rot_Cat_CD=US_Iraq&Rot_HT=&Rot_WD=&ShowVidDays=30&ShowVidDesc=

[wryter2000]

3. Briefly

Friday afternoon (figures) it came out that Tenet had asked for an investigation in the outting of Ambassador Wilson's wife as a CIA agent. Yesterday, a "top administration official" revealed that two people in the White House had revealed the information to six different reporters. He/she (probably Tenet) said it was obviously done to get revenge and put the squeeze on anyone else who might want to speak out as Wilson had done. These were the lead stories on the national news on Saturday and Sunday.

Yesterday, Charles Schumer (D-NY) called for an independent prosecutor. He has a news conference scheduled for 3:00 pm, no doubt to make the call again.

Looks like both Dem and Repub chairs of the House Intelligent committee are pretty upset, too.

[RainDog]

4. Washington Post article

Bush Administration is focus of inquiry
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11208-2003Sep27.html

[NicoleM]

5. bombshell

It depends on the media. They could be waking up. Even though they've been kissing Dubya's ass for three years, they'd sell him down the river for a good scandal. Scandal=ratings.

[RainDog]

6. turn on CNN

it's the ONLY STORY for at least the last two programs.

this one has frog legs, thank god!

they cannot spin this away. this is a felony. this is a traitorous act, according to George Bush Sr.

[BurtWorm]

7. In a nutshell

Ambassador Joseph Wilson published an op-ed piece in the NY Times this past summer revealing that he had been asked by Cheney's office in the winter of 2002 to look into the document British agents received from Italian intelligence about Saddam looking to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger and found it to be forged. Wilson wondered why, if the administration knew the Niger documents were phony, the Bush administration continued to use them to push for the war. This was the basis of the 16 words scandal, because Bush cited the "British" info that Wilson discredited in the 2003 State of the Union address. A week or so later, Robert Novak wrote a column citing an unnamed administration official that criticized Wilson and named his wife as an undercover agent working in the underground nuclear materials market in Africa. It is a federal crime to reveal the identity of an undercover agent. This weekend, the Post revealed that the Justice Department was being pressured (by Wilson and Chuck Schumer, as well as Tenet) to identify the person who revealed Wilson's wife's identity.

[SmileyBoy]

8. OK, so this is tied into the "16 Words", then???

And an administration official had broken the law by citing the name of a CIA agent in a secret operation, and that agent was Wilson's wife??? Hope I got that right.

So, they still don't know who this official who broke the law is???

[BurtWorm]

9. Wilson himself suspects it's Karl Rove.

And Rove has pulled this kind of shit with Novack before. He lost a job with the last Bush administration doing the same kind of thing, leaking a story to Novack in 1992.