Plame Sheds Little Light in Leak Case

[blitzburgh55]

Plame said she did not select her husband for a CIA fact-finding trip to Niger. Wilson later wrote in a newspaper column that his trip debunked the administration's prewar intelligence that
Iraq was seeking to buy uranium from Africa.

"I did not recommend him. I did not suggest him. There was no nepotism involved. I did not have the authority," she said.

That conflicts with senior officials at the CIA and State Department, who testified during Libby's trial and told Congress that Plame recommended Wilson for the trip.

Does anyone have any more information on the above statement?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070316/ap_on_go_co/cia_leak_congress;_ylt=Am38XyU7Z3WJy1Ft25HfxWus0NUE

[blm]

1. Plame was ASKED by others at the CIA if her husband would be a good choice and

WOULD she recommend him for the job....that's a big difference.

Being SOLICITED for a recommendation by your bosses and fulfilling that request is enormously different than Plame ASSERTING herself into a power position and sending Wilson.

Why do people always FORGET that Plame wasn't running that show and did not control who was sent?

[blitzburgh55]

2. Thanks

Do you happen to have a link? Some righties are saying that Plame commited perjury today because of that statement.

[blm]

3. It's in her testimony. If they think that she perjured herself then Bush's attorneys would

be all over her and saying so on every show possible.

[emulatorloo]

5. Plame said today that the CIA guy came to her and said "THEY TWISTED MY WORDS!"

She said he was very upset about how the (Right Wing) senate committee twisted his testimony.

She said he wrote his superiors at the CIA a memo about how his testimony was distorted.

Waxman said the committee today will supoena the memo and put it in the record.

You have to remember that three wingnut senators (Roberts Hatch and Bond) inserted a bunch of false talking points and distortions about Plame and Wilson into the Senate report.

The wingnuts now just repeat the talking points as if they were proven facts ad nauseum.

[librechik]

4. I guess it's her word against theirs

except that she was there and has reason to know, and they weren't there, and have every reason to lie.

Oh and the CIA backs up her version.

Only the robots at the AP would continue to keep this issue hazy after all the reiterated testimony today.

[sam sarrha]

7. and the corporate whores choosing to publish the AP distortions, like Yahoo

[sam sarrha]

6. it is amazing how such shallow people can get us in such deep shit

[Spazito]

8. Actually, she did NOT recommend her husband....

A CIA employee received a call from the Office of the VP about the Niger yellowcake and she spoke to Valerie Plame, her superior, and while she was speaking to her, another senior agent entered the discussion and suggested former Amb. Wilson might be the right person to send to Niger to investigate the claim. They then, V. Plame and the other senior CIA agent took it to the top where V. Plame was asked if she would broach the question of Amb. Wilson going to Niger and she agreed to do that. She was also asked to forward this via e-mail to her superiors which she also agreed to do.

There is a memo from a key CIA official asking to testify about this request, to clarify what happened and the Republicans, at the time, refused his request.

[trof]

9. "Little Light"? MY GOD! She put a KLIEG LIGHT on the roaches.

And HOW they scurried.

[blitzburgh55]

10. I combed through the Libby indictment transcripts

and found no testimony that anyone said that Plame sent Wilson. There were a lot of questions about nepotism, but none of the testimony agreed with that. Looks like the AP is FOS.

I also found this...

On February 12, 2002, one of Plame's subordinates at the Counterproliferation Division (CPD) of the CIA got a call from Cheney's office inquiring about a previous intelligence report about Iraqi pursuit of uranium in Niger. The subordinate reported the call to Plame, and one of her coworkers, hearing what was going on, suggested that Plame's husband, Joe Wilson, be sent on a mission. Valerie's superior asked her to ask her husband to come in to discuss the possibility the following week, and to write up an email or a memo memorializing the matter.

http://www.prospect.org/weblog/2007/03/post_3142.html#015905

[cyberpj]

11. CONGRESS SHOULD INVESTIGATE WHO FORGED THE URANIUM DOCUMENTS! nt