"EXPLOSIVE DOCS-MEMO IS ONE MORE NAIL IN COFFIN FOR BUSH!": LARRY JOHNSON

[kpete]

April 18, 2006
The State INR Memo on Plame
by
Larry C Johnson

If you have not seen the copy of the State Department memo detailing what State knew (or did not know) about Joe Wilson's efforts to determine if Iraq was trying to buy uranium from Niger, check it out. Those not familiar with the format should pay attention to some particulars:

1. A paragraph is classified based on the information it contains. For example, if it is "Official" information but not classified the author could label it "FOUO" (which means, For Official Use Only) or "LOU" (Limited Official Use).

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5. The really exposive news are the six documents listed as "Attachments". This provides the first comprehensive list of the different documents that discounted attempts by Iraq to buy uranium from Niger. Remember, Joe Wilson said in his op-ed from July 2003 that there were at least four documents that dealt with this issue. Once again, Joe is wrong. THERE WERE SIX!

This memo is one more nail in the coffin containing the lies Bush told to take us to war. The memo vindicates Joe Wilson and should remind the public that his wife's identity was a SECRET. That is why the paragraphs with her name and/or identity are classified as SECRET.

more at:
http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/04/the_state_inr_m.html#more
Memo: http://www.nysun.com/pics/31062_2.php

[C_U_L8R]

1. Question about the blacked out sections..

Do these in themselves constitute a cover-up?

[kpete]

4. #s 2,3,4

2. When a paragraph is labeled S/NF (Secret/No Forn) that means the information is SECRET and not to be shared with foreigners. The mere mention of Valerie Wilson's name required that the paragraph be classified. If she was not undercover, the paragraph could have (and should have) been classified as LOU or FOUO. The New York Sun editors are morons.They don't even understand this basic point.

3. On the second page of the State Department memo we encounter a blacked out section in the third paragraph from the top. Looks like the words, "Exlusive Dissemination" were excised. I would also note that the term, "ORCON", means "Originator Controlled". In other words, the person who wrote the intel controls the classificaion of it as well as its dissemination.


4. The last paragraph on page four indicates that the forged documents were brought to the United States through Defense Department (not State Department) channels. This helps explain how the documents found their way into the Office of the Vice President.
http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/04/the_state_inr_m.html#more

[NewJeffCT]

2. nice article - and a question

Johnson has had some great articles over the past 6 months or so.

My question - since the neocons are so fond of the "Unitary Executive" theory, can't we claim that since Bush is the unitary executive, the memo is his responsibilty 100%. Since it came from the executive branch, he must have known about it, and therefore knowingly lied.

[lyonn]

21. Add to that "the Decider." n/t

[ContraBass Black]

3. As many nails as that coffin has,

The pallbearers need a forklift.

[0rganism]

5. No kidding -- every time I see that metaphor applied to bush...

...I get this mental image of a coffin FILLED WITH NAILS. I mean, filled to overflowing with everything from tacks and brads to 40-penny spikes. And Dems are dancing all around this thing, pointing at it, laughing, getting everyone to notice, but no one can lift the dang thing up to drop it in the grave where it belongs. Too many nails.

[ContraBass Black]

6. Amen.

[niallmac]

9. I get an image of Dracula.n/t

[lonestarnot]

11. touche!

:rofl:

[AnnieBW]

7. Another Day, Another Nail

And our Democratic "leadership" keeps hammering their thumbs instead of the nails.

[Name removed]

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[The Backlash Cometh]

10. There are so many nails in that coffin, that if it fell overboard,

it would sink to the bottom.

[Mabus]

12. There are so many nails in that coffin it should be considered

an environmental hazard. *rim shot*

Thank you. Thank you very much.


Sorry. I couldn't help myself. :blush:

[Canuckistanian]

13. Sorry, but what are these "attachments"?

Are all of them from Joe Wilson? Or are there others? Maybe from the State Dept?

[kpete]

14. from

The State Department

[EVDebs]

15. Bush's license to out our own agents, BrewsterJennings/Plame

should have expired by now due to Congressional action. Instead we get a do-nothing Congress run by R's.

[progressoid]

16. OK, how many f*cking nails does it take?

[malmapus]

17. The freaking coffin is made of nails, every one holding it together

Least that's the way it feels to me. I wonder how many of the f*cking things it is going to take.

[Imagevision]

18. really! what's Bush gotta do? blow someone's brains out on live tv

to get booted from office!

[eppur_se_muova]

19. Nails, nails, nails!

EDIT to add "the champ"

[glitch]

22. The problem is we need stakes, not nails.

Remember who(what) we're dealing with here.

[Initech]

20. The coffin is probably pure nails at this point!