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		<title>By: Shelby S. Corbin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Shelby S. Corbin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2006 05:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>18 Oct 2005




You are chasing the wrong rabbit

Joe Wilson is an egomaniac and his wife is a fraud.  I kept notes on the entire incident his wife was not a covert agent period.  The following is the truth it is as true now as it was two years ago.


1.	Joe Wilson is a liar.  He has contradicted himself in public more than once.
The biggie is when he publicly stated that Dick Chaney sent him on a fact finding trip to Niger.


2.	Joe Wilson is a grandstanding cowboy that sees himself far more important than he actually is. Check out his shanagins at the American embassy in Iraq just before the first Gulf war.


3.	Joe Wilson is a career diplomat, he thinks it is like a Supreme Court justice he thinks he has been appointed for life.  The question is by whom.  Who is he to undermine the policy set forth by the President of the United States?  Back in George Washingtonâ€™s day his actions would be called treason.


4.	Joe Wilson should have had his clearance pulled a long time ago. Because he divulged classified information when he outed the information in his trip report to Niger.  If this trip was an official trip sanctioned by the CIA there had to be a written trip report. That trip report and any information therein would have to beâ€classifiedâ€.


5.	Joe Wilson is guilty of conflict of interest he has used the taxpayers money to promote his personal political agenda or the political agenda of others not in accordance with the official policy of the US government.  He is clearly guilty of defrauding the taxpayer.  His trip to Niger and his lame report are nothing but democratic propaganda for the stupid and weak minded.  Says a lot for the media in Washington that fell for it hook line and sinker.  I had hoped some of you were smarter than that.  Besides if this trip was legitimate and something other that an attempt to embarrass the Administration. Then George Tenant was responsible for its content.  Joeâ€™s alleged Secret Agent wife is also culpable in this fraud and deceit.  The way to correct this fraud is to fire Joeâ€™s wife and take away Joeâ€™s pension for freeloading on taxpayerâ€™s money his entire career. 
6.	Then bill Terry Mc Califf and the DNC for Joeâ€™s trip and expenses.  President Bush finally canned the incompetent George Tennant he just did not do it quickly enough (big mistake).
George Bush may be a Cowboy but sometimes he ainâ€™t too quick on the draw.

Note:  The divulging of information to the enemy or the public, that embarrasses the United States during a time of war is an act of treason. 

The need for containment of such information is one of the primary reasons for classifying such information Secret.   I would think someone in Washington would understand the importance of such data. It seems like media wonks do not understand the meaning of classified information.

It was pretty clear what Joeâ€™s agenda was when he said that he wanted to see Carl Rove shackled and frog marched to jail.  Sounds like a real dedicated honorable public servant who represents the utmost in integrity and political detachment. 

I live in San Antonio Texas and I knew when Joe got married his wife worked at the CIA. 
And was in pretty high in a staff position.   I also know she was no covert agent or even a control for covert operations.  She was reported to be an analyst. Ha!  There are about 35,000 employees in NSA at fort George Meade Maryland and at least 25,000 are analysts. (Better not repeat this it might still be classified.) You too can go to jail.  

You can bet good money that any intelligence service in the world worth a spit knows who Valerie Plame is and was a long time ago. If they did not know they donâ€™t matter. She appeared on embassy staff rosters for Christâ€™s sake. Who are they trying to kid?  I guess it works in Washington some of the people there need to breathe some clean air.
It is like the Military AttachÃ© in the Russian embassy in Washington was never a KGB officer.

Now to the real fly in the ointment. Joe reported he went to Niger at the request of the administration and found out there was no basis to the rumor that Sadam was trying to buy more yellow cake.  Joe says he had a few cups of mint tea with old friends there and they said that all reports were false.  (I donâ€™t trust men that sit around and drink mint tea)

Now as I understand the situation Niger had a political coup in 1999 and has a new dictator. I am curious, is Joe old friends with this new head of state? 

90% percent of the total revenue for the government of Niger comes from the sale of Yellowcake.  Now are you telling me that ole Joe has access to the mining companyâ€™s shipping records?  Is the mining company owned by the people of Niger?  I think not, the company is French and the only people that know who buys what is the French. And I will bet a thousand dollars that the French intelligence or the mining company did not tell ole Joe shit.


Now ima gonna do some cowboy sepculatinâ€™

I suspect that the paper about the yellowcake was French Intelâ€™s way of telling the British that Sadam was interested in reviving his pursuit of a nuclear bomb. The document may have been a forgery but it served a greater purpose than deceiving the US Government.
I suspect the truth was well known before ole Joe made his trip and is at a much higher classified level than ole Joe has access to.

Sadam did not need more yellowcake in Iraq he had 750 tons of the stuff.  Iraq also has its own uranium mines within its own borders. The problem is that he had no way to refine it so why in the hell would he want to buy more?  ---------unless ????

Hans Blick said he discounted the report from Italy from the start, he did not say that it was false but he knew Sadam could not use it.  He also knows that the original 750 tons of the stuff is still there!

The situation is pretty obvious to some redneck out here in Texas.  Too bad you liberal gurus cannot see beyond the Beltway.

 Who in the Islamic world had the biggest laundered money cash flow in the world?
Sadam Hussein, oil for food right?  Who wanted a bomb the most Sadam or the Iranians or the Taliban?  Could you buy the technology?  Hell yes! But who could get away with it first?  Could you buy the weapons grade uranium or plutonium?  No! This is the most difficult problem. If North Korea comes on line then it is possible! 

There are a handful of countries that can refine uranium:  The US, Great Briton, France Russia, South Africa, China and maybe Pakistan and India. So who is buying all of the yellowcake from Niger? France of course and Libya of course.  Bye the way Libia is next door to Niger and there is a road across the border (imagine that).  Was Kadfy buying yellowcake? Was Kadfy setting up a refining plant? Were the French helping Kadfy? Were the French helping Sadam? Who was supplying Kadfy with his money? We know who his agent was.  Why did Kadfy throw in the towel when Sadam went under and he knew the French had been busted by the Bush administration? 

The bottom line is that Kadfy was Sadams plan for the yellowcake. And he was paying his fair share.  The so called â€œfake memoâ€ was the French Intelâ€™s way of letting us know what to look for. This was claimed to be the work of the British and they still stand by their info

Iâ€™ll bet that the French Intel boys got a good laugh at ole Joeâ€™s op-ed piece.  The French   have been amazed for years at how inept our CIA seems at times and still marvel at our success rate. It simply defies reason.  Our intelligence is compromised by ingrates and mentally challenged because of their elite arrogance like Joe Wilson and some of our liberal politicians. 
The CIA is now the largest monolithic bureaucracy in the world, the only one even close is the US State Department but it is less dangerous.  Before the fall of the Soviet Union we were second, now were are first. The big difference was the Soviet Union was more corrupt but the KGB was much more effective.

Thank God we still have some functional sections in the lower echelons hard at work. By the way French intelligence is on par with MI-6 and the French soldiers are some of the best in the world. It is the politicians and liberals in France that tarnish their reputation.

You should try to verify what I have said and I think you will find a lot of the truth.


SSC</description>
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<p>You are chasing the wrong rabbit</p>
<p>Joe Wilson is an egomaniac and his wife is a fraud.  I kept notes on the entire incident his wife was not a covert agent period.  The following is the truth it is as true now as it was two years ago.</p>
<p>1.	Joe Wilson is a liar.  He has contradicted himself in public more than once.<br />
The biggie is when he publicly stated that Dick Chaney sent him on a fact finding trip to Niger.</p>
<p>2.	Joe Wilson is a grandstanding cowboy that sees himself far more important than he actually is. Check out his shanagins at the American embassy in Iraq just before the first Gulf war.</p>
<p>3.	Joe Wilson is a career diplomat, he thinks it is like a Supreme Court justice he thinks he has been appointed for life.  The question is by whom.  Who is he to undermine the policy set forth by the President of the United States?  Back in George Washingtonâ€™s day his actions would be called treason.</p>
<p>4.	Joe Wilson should have had his clearance pulled a long time ago. Because he divulged classified information when he outed the information in his trip report to Niger.  If this trip was an official trip sanctioned by the CIA there had to be a written trip report. That trip report and any information therein would have to beâ€classifiedâ€.</p>
<p>5.	Joe Wilson is guilty of conflict of interest he has used the taxpayers money to promote his personal political agenda or the political agenda of others not in accordance with the official policy of the US government.  He is clearly guilty of defrauding the taxpayer.  His trip to Niger and his lame report are nothing but democratic propaganda for the stupid and weak minded.  Says a lot for the media in Washington that fell for it hook line and sinker.  I had hoped some of you were smarter than that.  Besides if this trip was legitimate and something other that an attempt to embarrass the Administration. Then George Tenant was responsible for its content.  Joeâ€™s alleged Secret Agent wife is also culpable in this fraud and deceit.  The way to correct this fraud is to fire Joeâ€™s wife and take away Joeâ€™s pension for freeloading on taxpayerâ€™s money his entire career.<br />
6.	Then bill Terry Mc Califf and the DNC for Joeâ€™s trip and expenses.  President Bush finally canned the incompetent George Tennant he just did not do it quickly enough (big mistake).<br />
George Bush may be a Cowboy but sometimes he ainâ€™t too quick on the draw.</p>
<p>Note:  The divulging of information to the enemy or the public, that embarrasses the United States during a time of war is an act of treason. </p>
<p>The need for containment of such information is one of the primary reasons for classifying such information Secret.   I would think someone in Washington would understand the importance of such data. It seems like media wonks do not understand the meaning of classified information.</p>
<p>It was pretty clear what Joeâ€™s agenda was when he said that he wanted to see Carl Rove shackled and frog marched to jail.  Sounds like a real dedicated honorable public servant who represents the utmost in integrity and political detachment. </p>
<p>I live in San Antonio Texas and I knew when Joe got married his wife worked at the CIA.<br />
And was in pretty high in a staff position.   I also know she was no covert agent or even a control for covert operations.  She was reported to be an analyst. Ha!  There are about 35,000 employees in NSA at fort George Meade Maryland and at least 25,000 are analysts. (Better not repeat this it might still be classified.) You too can go to jail.  </p>
<p>You can bet good money that any intelligence service in the world worth a spit knows who Valerie Plame is and was a long time ago. If they did not know they donâ€™t matter. She appeared on embassy staff rosters for Christâ€™s sake. Who are they trying to kid?  I guess it works in Washington some of the people there need to breathe some clean air.<br />
It is like the Military AttachÃ© in the Russian embassy in Washington was never a KGB officer.</p>
<p>Now to the real fly in the ointment. Joe reported he went to Niger at the request of the administration and found out there was no basis to the rumor that Sadam was trying to buy more yellow cake.  Joe says he had a few cups of mint tea with old friends there and they said that all reports were false.  (I donâ€™t trust men that sit around and drink mint tea)</p>
<p>Now as I understand the situation Niger had a political coup in 1999 and has a new dictator. I am curious, is Joe old friends with this new head of state? </p>
<p>90% percent of the total revenue for the government of Niger comes from the sale of Yellowcake.  Now are you telling me that ole Joe has access to the mining companyâ€™s shipping records?  Is the mining company owned by the people of Niger?  I think not, the company is French and the only people that know who buys what is the French. And I will bet a thousand dollars that the French intelligence or the mining company did not tell ole Joe shit.</p>
<p>Now ima gonna do some cowboy sepculatinâ€™</p>
<p>I suspect that the paper about the yellowcake was French Intelâ€™s way of telling the British that Sadam was interested in reviving his pursuit of a nuclear bomb. The document may have been a forgery but it served a greater purpose than deceiving the US Government.<br />
I suspect the truth was well known before ole Joe made his trip and is at a much higher classified level than ole Joe has access to.</p>
<p>Sadam did not need more yellowcake in Iraq he had 750 tons of the stuff.  Iraq also has its own uranium mines within its own borders. The problem is that he had no way to refine it so why in the hell would he want to buy more?  &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;unless ????</p>
<p>Hans Blick said he discounted the report from Italy from the start, he did not say that it was false but he knew Sadam could not use it.  He also knows that the original 750 tons of the stuff is still there!</p>
<p>The situation is pretty obvious to some redneck out here in Texas.  Too bad you liberal gurus cannot see beyond the Beltway.</p>
<p> Who in the Islamic world had the biggest laundered money cash flow in the world?<br />
Sadam Hussein, oil for food right?  Who wanted a bomb the most Sadam or the Iranians or the Taliban?  Could you buy the technology?  Hell yes! But who could get away with it first?  Could you buy the weapons grade uranium or plutonium?  No! This is the most difficult problem. If North Korea comes on line then it is possible! </p>
<p>There are a handful of countries that can refine uranium:  The US, Great Briton, France Russia, South Africa, China and maybe Pakistan and India. So who is buying all of the yellowcake from Niger? France of course and Libya of course.  Bye the way Libia is next door to Niger and there is a road across the border (imagine that).  Was Kadfy buying yellowcake? Was Kadfy setting up a refining plant? Were the French helping Kadfy? Were the French helping Sadam? Who was supplying Kadfy with his money? We know who his agent was.  Why did Kadfy throw in the towel when Sadam went under and he knew the French had been busted by the Bush administration? </p>
<p>The bottom line is that Kadfy was Sadams plan for the yellowcake. And he was paying his fair share.  The so called â€œfake memoâ€ was the French Intelâ€™s way of letting us know what to look for. This was claimed to be the work of the British and they still stand by their info</p>
<p>Iâ€™ll bet that the French Intel boys got a good laugh at ole Joeâ€™s op-ed piece.  The French   have been amazed for years at how inept our CIA seems at times and still marvel at our success rate. It simply defies reason.  Our intelligence is compromised by ingrates and mentally challenged because of their elite arrogance like Joe Wilson and some of our liberal politicians.<br />
The CIA is now the largest monolithic bureaucracy in the world, the only one even close is the US State Department but it is less dangerous.  Before the fall of the Soviet Union we were second, now were are first. The big difference was the Soviet Union was more corrupt but the KGB was much more effective.</p>
<p>Thank God we still have some functional sections in the lower echelons hard at work. By the way French intelligence is on par with MI-6 and the French soldiers are some of the best in the world. It is the politicians and liberals in France that tarnish their reputation.</p>
<p>You should try to verify what I have said and I think you will find a lot of the truth.</p>
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		<title>By: truth seeker</title>
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		<dc:creator>truth seeker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The war in Iraq was illegal.. therefore all those supporting it and sending our military there should immediately be arrested, put in cuffs, have their mugshot taken in jail, issued a jumpsuit not a suit like &quot;delay&quot; had on and smiling..  For WAR ATROCITIES to mankind--the killing of innocent people Americans and IraqiS, and therefore must release Hussein as bad as that may be and leave the country..</description>
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		<title>By: mike</title>
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		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Where is the outrage over the leak of the secret CIA prison&#039;s overseas???  Seems all the liberals got the grizzles over Valerie Plame, but can&#039;t be bothered demanding who leaked the story to the Washington Post.

Typical....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Where is the outrage over the leak of the secret CIA prison&#8217;s overseas???  Seems all the liberals got the grizzles over Valerie Plame, but can&#8217;t be bothered demanding who leaked the story to the Washington Post.</p>
<p>Typical&#8230;.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=222281', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: LH ROobinson</title>
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		<dc:creator>LH ROobinson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What about this new smear from The Daily Standard:

&quot;...After returning to the United States, the envoy reported to the CIA that the uranium-purchase story was false, the sources said. Among the envoy&#039;s conclusions was that the documents may have been forged because the &quot;dates were wrong and the names were wrong,&quot; the former U.S. government official said.

There is one problem with this: It&#039;s wrong. Wilson lied and lied repeatedly. His central contention--that he had seen documents about the alleged sale and determined that they were forgeries--was a fabrication. We know this because Wilson took his trip in February 2002 and the U.S. government did not receive those documents until October 2002. It could not have happened the way Wilson described it to Pincus.&quot;

Here is the link to the essay: http://news.yahoo.com/s/weeklystandard/20051027/cm_weeklystandard/theincredibles

If this were true, wouldn&#039;t it have been heavily publicized before now?  My sense is that the wingnuts are grasping at straws. But stuff like this, no matter how crazy, should be rebutted with facts.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What about this new smear from The Daily Standard:</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8230;After returning to the United States, the envoy reported to the CIA that the uranium-purchase story was false, the sources said. Among the envoy&#8217;s conclusions was that the documents may have been forged because the &#8220;dates were wrong and the names were wrong,&#8221; the former U.S. government official said.</p>
<p>There is one problem with this: It&#8217;s wrong. Wilson lied and lied repeatedly. His central contention&#8211;that he had seen documents about the alleged sale and determined that they were forgeries&#8211;was a fabrication. We know this because Wilson took his trip in February 2002 and the U.S. government did not receive those documents until October 2002. It could not have happened the way Wilson described it to Pincus.&#8221;</p>
<p>Here is the link to the essay: <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/weeklystandard/20051027/cm_weeklystandard/theincredibles" rel="nofollow">http://news.yahoo.com/s/weeklystandard/20051027/cm_weeklystandard/theincredibles</a></p>
<p>If this were true, wouldn&#8217;t it have been heavily publicized before now?  My sense is that the wingnuts are grasping at straws. But stuff like this, no matter how crazy, should be rebutted with facts.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=191928', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Turk Fowler</title>
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		<dc:creator>Turk Fowler</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#1Jay- you SAY you&#039;re sorry but you&#039;re not serious. Us Repugs are heart broken, our world is falling a part and our illusions are being shattered by the superior intellect of lefties who hate hypocrisy and injustice and SUV&#039;s....(damn, I&#039;m using the wrong bait. He&#039;s gonna believe me.....damn it)
#10- Call PETA, those cats should never have been in any bag. Further evidence that republi-cons are evil and don&#039;t floss.....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#1Jay- you SAY you&#8217;re sorry but you&#8217;re not serious. Us Repugs are heart broken, our world is falling a part and our illusions are being shattered by the superior intellect of lefties who hate hypocrisy and injustice and SUV&#8217;s&#8230;.(damn, I&#8217;m using the wrong bait. He&#8217;s gonna believe me&#8230;..damn it)<br />
#10- Call PETA, those cats should never have been in any bag. Further evidence that republi-cons are evil and don&#8217;t floss&#8230;..<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=190660', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Potemkin</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree that all the claims are false, but I also thing that there could be better facts on some of the rebuttals.  For example, the claim about LEAKING CLASSIFIED INFORMATION IS NO BIG DEAL, the fact is a quote by GHWB, which is not really a fact, it is more opinion.  A better fact would be to point out the US Code that makes it illegal, thus making it a big deal.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree that all the claims are false, but I also thing that there could be better facts on some of the rebuttals.  For example, the claim about LEAKING CLASSIFIED INFORMATION IS NO BIG DEAL, the fact is a quote by GHWB, which is not really a fact, it is more opinion.  A better fact would be to point out the US Code that makes it illegal, thus making it a big deal.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=179900', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>... And how do the babbling boobs ( aka neocons ) feel about the countless lives put at risk when BushCo. blew the &#039; cover &#039; of the company Plame worked for ? Our agents and allies in the field - don&#039;t their lives matter , neoconnies ? I guess in this adSINastration , a few lives lost aren&#039;t nearly as important as &#039; payback &#039; for questioning &quot; Dear ( in the headlights ) Leader &quot; , let alone pointing out the obivious - Bush KNEW his &#039; facts &#039; were FAR from factual ! ... ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230; And how do the babbling boobs ( aka neocons ) feel about the countless lives put at risk when BushCo. blew the &#8216; cover &#8216; of the company Plame worked for ? Our agents and allies in the field &#8211; don&#8217;t their lives matter , neoconnies ? I guess in this adSINastration , a few lives lost aren&#8217;t nearly as important as &#8216; payback &#8216; for questioning &#8221; Dear ( in the headlights ) Leader &#8221; , let alone pointing out the obivious &#8211; Bush KNEW his &#8216; facts &#8216; were FAR from factual ! &#8230; ;)<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=179616', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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