Some Historical Questions re: Plame

[dave29]

There are a few things that are bugging me about the Plame case, that extend back as far as the first Gulf War.

1) Dick Cheney's Comment on meet the press that he didn't know "Joe Wilson" even though Wilson was the US ambassador to Baghdad while Cheney was Secretary of Defense during Gulf War I. Could the bad blood between these two extend back further than thought?

2) Valerie Plame began working for the CIA somewhere around 1995. About the same time Brewster Jennings filings showed up. In 1995, the CIA director was John M. Deutch - whom was investigated for having classified materials on his unclassified computers after leaving the CIA. According to the report http://www.fas.org/irp/cia/product/ig_deutch.html:

CIA personnel retrieved information from Deutch's unclassified computers and magnetic media related to covert action, Top Secret communications intelligence and the National Reconnaissance Program budget.

The people who filed the report are L. Britt Snider and Daniel S. Seikaly. Could these men, Deutch, Snider, Seikaly or anyone who worked on the investigation have learned Plame's status - and ironically passed that info along later? The report suggests, also, that some of the classified materials could have potentially been compromised.

[dave29]

1. kick

for answers :kick:

[walkon]

2. Musings

1) Anytime Cheney says someting definitive he is lying. Therefore his knowledge of Ambassador Wilson is extensive.

2) What if his beef wasn't with Joe Wilson but with Brewster-Jennings and Valerie Plame - related to his tenure at Halliburton?

Vengence drives the evil mind.