Are Terry and Jim Wilkinson the same man?

[RainDog]

interesting...

now...

Private Jessica Lynch

“In the Joint Operations Center, Air Force Capt. Joe Della Vedova
followed the raid as it happened, and as soon as Lynch was in the
air phoned Jim Wilkinson, the top civilian communications aide to
CENTCOM Gen. Tommy Franks. ‘She is safe and in our hands,’ he
reported. The whole operation, expected to take 45 minutes, was
over in 25. Next Della Vedova called Gen. Vince Brooks..”

Newsweek, April 14

In the early hours of April 2, correspondents in Doha were
summoned from their beds to CENTCOM. Jim Wilkinson, the
White House's top figure there, had stayed up all night. …"The
president had been briefed, as had the Secretary of Defense."
The first and unexplained part of the story is that just after she was returned to US custody, the first call was to Jim Wilkinson, CENTCOM Director of Strategic Communications. This is very strange for a military operation. When I tell military friends, they often respond, “Do you suppose they staged it?”

I don’t have any information about it being staged, but we do know from Wilkinson that the President and Secretary of Defense were briefed immediately.

...
On the afternoon of the 3rd when Rumsfeld and Myers gave their press briefing, the story on the street was that she was America’s new Rambo. We know. However, that they had been briefed. We know he would have been aware of her injuries. When asked, he pulled back. He left the Washington Post story as possibly being right. Again, we see the pattern. When the story on the street supports the message, it will be left there by a non-answer. The message is more important than the truth.

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/whispers/documents/truth_3.pdf 

then...

http://chblue.com/artman/publish/article_2529.shtml


Conned big time
By DOUG THOMPSON
Jul 9, 2003, 18:05

In 1982, ( )a man came up to a me during a gathering in Albuquerque and introduced himself as Terrance J. Wilkinson. He said he was a security consultant and gave me a business card with his name and just a Los Angeles phone number.
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He said he had served in Vietnam with Army Special Force, worked for Air America, later for the FBI and as a consultant for the CIA. He said he had helped other Republican members of Congress I called some friends in other GOP offices and they said yes, they knew Terry Wilkinson.

On Tuesday, we ran a story headlined "White House admits Bush wrong about Iraqi nukes." For the first time, Wilkinson said he was willing to go on the record and told a story about being present, as a CIA contract consultant, at two briefings with Bush. He said he was retired now and was fed up and wanted to go public.

"He (Bush) said that if the current operatives working for the CIA couldn't prove the story was true, then the agency had better find some who could," Wilkinson said in our story. "He said he knew the story was true and so would the world after American troops secured the country."

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http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_2518.shtml

White House admits Bush wrong about Iraqi nukes
By
Jul 8, 2003, 01:29

  After weeks of denial, the White House Monday finally admitted President Bush was wrong in his January State of the Union Address when he claimed Iraq had sought significant quantities of uranium in Africa.

The acknowledgment came as a British parliamentary commission questioned the reliability of British intelligence about Saddam Hussein's efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to the war in Iraq.

Bush said in his State of the Union address that the British government had learned that Saddam recently sought significant quantities of uranium in Africa.

-that correction was for this story (with Wilkinson's name now removed.

[Must_B_Free]

1. You mean Terrence J Wilkinson

Wonder what that J could stand for?

[Must_B_Free]

2. kick

for the 8:34 PM crowd

[RainDog]

3. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks

this is interesting.

I suppose there could be two guys with nearly the same name in nearly similar positions (to be in the oval office when Bush talked about the uranium lies and to be Tommy Franks' Centcom man when the war was ongoing.

Wonder, if he is one and the same, who got to and why did they get to the Capitol Hill Blue guy to lie to him about the identity of Wilkerson?

Back then, they were still trying to spin the uranium lie away, and Wilson had just come forward with his story, so maybe it one more example of disinformation.

When was Tommy Franks let go, and did Wilkerson go with him?

[RainDog]

4. probably not.

I'll go get the posts from the other thread, but one says that Jim is 33. Maybe Terry is his dad?

But Jim, if he is 33, would have been 12 back in '82.

[RainDog]

5. these are from the long Wilson thread in GD

from Robbien

http://www.sptimes.com/2003/08/19/Hillsborough/Central_Command_spoke.shtml
It reports that he is a protege of Karen Hughes, and that he was expected to remain with the Bush administration after the war to work on the re-election. However he left in August giving no reason to the press.
some interesting bits:
Wilkinson, who served in the Navy Reserve, was special assistant to the president since the administration's earliest days in office. He coordinated communications for White House domestic and foreign policy agendas.
Before joining the White House, Wilkinson served as spokesman for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
During the Florida recount after the election, Wilkinson served as Miami-Dade County recount team spokesman for Bush.

from Janekat

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/whispers/whispwebarch.htm
Wilkinson returns to GOP politics
Former GOP communications big gun Jim Wilkinson, shipped to U.S. Central Command to handle press releases during the Iraq war, is returning to his roots. The Republican National Committee Tuesday said the P.R. big gun was going to take over communications for the 2004 Republican presidential convention in New York City. The announcement was made by convention manager Bill Harris.
For a guy who's done a lot in party political communications, the convention job will be a first and insiders say it could set Wilkinson up for a major job in a second Bush term.
Included in his resume are jobs like deputy White House communications director, head of the National Republican Congressional Committee's communications shop, and top aide to former House Majority Leader Dick Armey. Right after 9/11, he ran the Coalition Information Center, which put out anti-Taliban information.
Wilkinson, 33, will leave Central Command Wednesday. He'll probably also leave behind his military fatigues, which the Navy reservist wore during TV interviews and war press briefings.