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seeding her identity around town and making it seem like "everybody knew." Also, I'm wondering about horizontal lines of communication. For instance, along the bottom (red) line, what did Miller (or other reporters) do to assist the strategy of "everybody knew" by dropping the name to other reporters? (I'm wondering why Libby told Miller, since she never wrote about it.) There are some blue line connections made, horizontally (for instance, Cheney to Libby to Fleischer), but I think there is quite a lot of, shall we say, dotted lines (unknown--but possible blue-line horizontal connections) between (yellow line), say, Cheney to Rove (who gave Rove his marching orders)? --and between Harlow/Grenier (CIA) to "Unknown" (CIA) (green/black)--the one many suspect is Tenet. If "Unknown" (Tenet?) is telling Cheney and Rove (separately?), what's going on between "Unknown" and Harlow/Grenier, re: telling Martin and Libby?
Just at a glance, it looks like Libby's and Rove's parts in the conspiracy were separate. Could this have something to do with Libby setting up Rove as the fall guy, or Rove setting up Libby as the fall guy? (There is evidence for both set-ups, with Rove the one who wormed out of it.) If "Unknown" is Tenet, it's odd to think of this traitorous disclosure going from Tenet to Rove to Novak. That's a bit direct and risky for Tenet. Also, if it IS Tenet, then it raises the probability that Rove knew Plame's status, and also the probability that Bush was involved.
It's rather incredible--looking at this chart--to think that all this could have happened without one powerful person masterminding it all. The "Black Box" at the TOP of the chart is missing. I'm still thinking that Rumsfeld was the overall mastermind of a larger scheme that involved destroying the CIA, that went haywire. This may be why Rumsfeld is gone--with no change of policy in Iraq. His name never comes up publicly linked to these outings, but who had the most operational interest in neutralizing the CIA's WMD counter-proliferation network? Rumsfeld! --especially if he was trying to plant the nukes in Iraq after the invasion (which I strongly suspect). And he had his own personal spy/black ops agency--the OSP--designed to circumvent the honest professionals at the CIA.
Was another purpose of the OSP--beyond "stovepiping" (cooking) intelligence for public/Congressional consumption--making those "stovepiped" conclusions come true (planting the weapons in Iraq to be "found" by the US troops), and also discrediting the CIA and making it more purge-able (after having enticed the CIA into a known "no nukes in Iraq" position with the "crude" (easily detectable) Niger forgeries)? This theory would explain why they kept putting the disproven Niger allegation back into Bush's speeches--something they could have fudged just a bit (given its baselessness), to avoid embarrassment. It also explains the full court press to out Plame and the Brewster-Jennings network, and the panicky way they did it (involving all those reporters--journalist witnesses to treason--and so many top Bushites). It feels like a lot more was at stake than a newsstream argument (Wilson's article), which might have disappeared into the war profiteering corporate news monopoly river of forgetfulness, if they hadn't made such a fuss about it. But if they feared that Wilson/Plame (and/or others, including others in the counter-proliferation network) were onto their scheme to PLANT the weapons, then they had reason to panic. And if the network had foiled their scheme, they also had reason to be angry and vengeful.
An event that was simultaneous with the Plame/B-J outings was the whistleblowing (also on the prewar WMD intel) of the Brits' top WMD expert, David Kelly, in England--and his outing (to the press, by his government) and strange death, in the middle of all this. Late May: Kelly starts whistleblowing. Early July: He is interrogated at a "safe house." July 14: Plame outed. July 18: Kelly found dead, under highly suspicious circumstances; his office and computers are searched. July 22: Novak ADDITIONALLY names the Brewster-Jennings front company in his column (greatly exacerbating the danger to covert agents/contacts in Plame's network). If Kelly knew about a weapons-planting scheme (one part of this theory), and Blair told Bush around July 7 (when Blair would have found out--according to the Hutton Report), then the Bushites would have had even more reason to panic. How far had their dirty secret gotten? Who all knew? Was exposure imminent?
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