Valerie Confirms Larisa's Work On CIA Doing Damage Assessment

[kpete]

Confirmed, CIA did do a damage assessment...

Well it is nice to finally have outside confirmation of my work. I have been dragged through the mud because I reported there was a damage assessment done by the CIA... today at the hearing, Mr.s Wilson confirmed that to the committee. I await as many letters of apology as I got when I first wrote the story claiming that I had fabricated the information. I, however doubt, that most of those people would apologize. In any case, at least I am no longer on my own with regard to this information.

From my article then:

"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.

read the rest at:
http://www.atlargely.com/2007/03/confirmed_cia_d.html

[whistle]

1. BushCo knew that intelligence on other nuclear treats such as N. Korea

...Iran, etc. would be affected by the outing of Plame as they could then expect CIA covert operators to give them data they wished to have to support whatever the administration wanted to do and I believe that to a high degree that is exactly what is happening now.

[Bitwit1234]

2. So getting to the real reason the outed Plame

they didn't want the info that Iran's NUCLEAR PROGRAM was not as far along as bush and his henchmen had said.

[Dems Will Win]

4. THey outed Plame because she and her CPD group intercepted

nerve gas being smuggled into Turkey in November 2002, that would have then found its way into Iraq with invading Turkish troops and been found as Iraqi WMD by the Americans.

That really pissed off the WH.

Of course Turkey never ended up invading Iraq from the north with American soldiers anyway.

[Sir Jeffrey]

9. It is actually worse than that...

They also stopped a shipment of Uranium

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2286597.stm

If I had subpoena power, I would find out how influential Brewster-Jennings was in stopping this particular shipment and whether this was to be planted in order to justify the invasion retroactively.

[TheBaldyMan]

7. not real intel, just politicised stuff. I believe the phrase is 'sexed-up'

But when you are gathering intel, which was VERY hard to come by at the time, the last thing you do is blow your own network.

RW-nuts like Ann Coulter still say Bush is 'a very intelligent man'.

[myrna minx]

3. K&R. I'm trying to wrap my mind around it all. n/t

[Dems Will Win]

5. There is ALWAYS a Damage Assessment in a leak - and it is NEVER released

[yodermon]

6. Might it be release in, say, a Treason Trial? n/t

[HereSince1628]

11. Yes, Damage assessment is SOP, and the archivist also alluded to that

in his testimony in the session just after Plame's.

It seems common sensical that the assessment would also be classified. Afterall the agency would be using that information to limit the damage and protect those people and operations put at risk. Sharing the information in detail would be unwise as it just furthers the likelihood of more damage. It seems to me that in our lifetimes we may never know the details better than Plame gave them in her testimony before Waxman's committee.

[leveymg]

8. Can you imagine the impact that had coming only a few weeks after the preliminary Iraq Survey Group

report was released on May 28, 2003? If you were a Pentagon General or a top intelligence officer, what would your response be after reading those documents?

That would have confirmed my suspicions since 9/11 and the buildup to the Iraq War that there is an "enemy within problem". A responsible officer would then task the assets of DIA and NSA to find out exactly what the Hell was going on within the Offices of the President, Vice President, and Secretaries of Defense, State and Justice, and certain Congressional Offices. They would quickly identify those who had been revealing classified information to foreign powers, engaging in graft and corruption, and formenting wars and terrorism for personal and commercial gain. I would bet that the Joint Chiefs and General Hayden have access to nearly every e-mail, every telephone conversation, and every incriminating document created or destroyed this century in Washington, DC.

If I were a responsible officer, I would make sure that those who screwed the U.S. Armed Forces, the CIA, and the American People end up deeply regretting it.

[tavalon]

10. People got after Larisa for stating the obvious?

It would have been criminally negligent for the CIA not to have done a damage assessment. SOP, it seems to me.

[blm]

12. Of course - IranContra and BCCI really never stopped, America.

Does anyone really believe that Poppy Bush and his cronies woke up one day in Jan 1993 and decided to STOP running arms and drugs and laundering money for the global terror networks? Hell no.

And they could do it with NO oversight because Clinton was playing along and keeping the books closed for them.