A ........... Q .......... KHAN

[seemslikeadream]

A man for all seasons


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rawstory.com/news/2005/Ou..._0213.html

IranThe unmasking of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson by White House officials in 2003 caused significant damage to U.S. national security and its ability to counter nuclear proliferation abroad, RAW STORY has learned.
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According to current and former intelligence officials, Plame Wilson, who worked on the clandestine side of the CIA in the Directorate of Operations as a non-official cover (NOC) officer, was part of an operation tracking distribution and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction technology to and from Iran.

Speaking under strict confidentiality, intelligence officials revealed heretofore unreported elements of Plame's work. Their accounts suggest that Plame's outing was more serious than has previously been reported and carries grave implications for U.S. national security and its ability to monitor Iran's burgeoning nuclear program.

While many have speculated that Plame was involved in monitoring the nuclear proliferation black market, specifically the proliferation activities of Pakistan's nuclear "father," A.Q. Khan, intelligence sources say that her team provided only minimal support in that area, focusing almost entirely on Iran.

Plame declined to comment through her husband, Joseph Wilson.

Valerie Plame first became a household name when her identity was disclosed by conservative columnist Robert Novak on July 14, 2003. The column came only a week after her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, had written an op-ed for the New York Times asserting that White House officials twisted pre-war intelligence on Iraq. Her outing was seen as political retaliation for Wilson's criticism of the Administration's claim that Iraq sought uranium from Niger for a nuclear weapons program.

Her case has drawn international attention and resulted in the indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, on five counts of perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements. Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald, who is leading the probe, is still pursuing Deputy Chief of Staff and Special Advisor to President Bush, Karl Rove. His investigation remains open.

The damages

Intelligence sources would not identify the specifics of Plame's work. They did, however, tell RAW STORY that her outing resulted in "severe" damage to her team and significantly hampered the CIA's ability to monitor nuclear proliferation.

Plame's team, they added, would have come in contact with A.Q. Khan's network in the course of her work on Iran.


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A.Q Khan

Is mentioned in Addington testimony!




Khan Job: Bush Spiked Probe of Pakistan’s Dr. Strangelove, BBC reported in 2001
http://www.gregpalast.com/khan-job-bush-spiked-probe-of-pakistan%E2%80%99s-dr-strangelove-bbc-reported-in-2001/

[riderinthestorm]

1. Kicking for curiousity's sake.

Just more "things that make you go hum...."

In the wake of Bhutto's assasination, and Pakistani politics, and the close and suspicious relationship of the "military/industrial complex" - BFEE, Halliburton, Carlyle Group etc. - with Pakistan's (the world's?) largest arms dealer AQ Kahn....

And the Plame outing followed by the WH coverup, and a global (sic) war on terrah, and OBL/Al Qaeda just happens to be hiding in some unreachable part of Pakistan, and ISI, and AQ Khan, and now Bhutto... and just weirdness.

None of this shit is a coincidence imho. I honestly DO believe they are connected even if we can't see all the threads that connect them. In light of Bhutto's assaination however, I actually really worry that if there isn't some mysterious powerful cabal controlling things, events in Pakistan really COULD spiral into a terrible vortex.

That region is just way too unstable and it's bristling with nukes.... :scared:

AQ Kahn is one of the biggest threads. He is/was/will be one of the lynchpins. It's interesting you bring him up right now. He was on my mind too this morning, oddly enough.

[eShirl]

2. KHANNNNNNNN!!! (kick)

[Junkdrawer]

3. The ISI is now FIRMLY in control and doesn't want power sharing....

Believe me, they are HOPING for riots... lots and lots of riots.

[gratuitous]

4. Oh come on

This is just another random, isolated incident in a disconnected series of events that has nothing to do with anything else. Nobody could have predicted, and yadda, yadda, yadda.

[nashville_brook]

5. you just channeled the conversation here at the house!

spooooooky.

thanks SLAD!

[number6]

6. Kick

Main suspects are warlords and security forces

Times Online
December 27, 2007

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3100052.ece

[ProSense]

7. More updated information on A.Q. Khan

here.

[Elspeth]

8. kick

:kick:

[eridani]

9. This belongs in the research section n/t

[Supersedeas]

10. another name to add to the Bushist legacy

[robertpaulsen]

11. Khan? Sounds familiar. He didn't have anything to do with the Libby conviction, did he?

Nah!!! And it was probably just a coincidence that Libby had his sentence commuted on the same day AQ Khan had his house arrest relaxed. :)

http://www.airamerica.com/thomhartmannpage/node/50/1412

:hi: