Joseph Wilson on ABC’s This Week.
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For all the latest PlameGate news, legal documents, timelines and other key materials (including Wilson’s original NY Times op-ed), see:
April 9th, 2006 at 1:53 pm“The PlameGate Scandal Resource Center.”
Well worth a peek, the photo is well done.
April 9th, 2006 at 2:19 pm‘Oh I de-classified that,so I broke no laws’…..(bush/cheney slapping the knees and laughing at us.)
April 9th, 2006 at 2:28 pm.
WHAT THEY ARE NOT TELLING YOU ABOUT PLAMEGATE
Leaking Valerie Plame’s name took a valuable resource out of the REAL war on terror. This action approved by the President and Vice President has endangered the lives of every American citizen, both at home and abroad.
Leaking Plame’s name also blew her front cover employer, Brewster Jennings & Associates. It was Robert Novak, American traitor, and political commentator hack, who in collusion with Bush and Cheney, first published the highly classified information.
It has been suggested that there were other resources within the CIA who were also working undercover as non-official cover operative” (NOC) as employees of Brewster Jennings. It has also been suggested that once their undercover status was compromised, they were quickly captured and eliminated, thus multiplying the damage done to the CIA’s ability to gather valuable information in the Mid East.
The outing of Plame destroyed all trust the CIA had for the Bush/Cheney administration. Why would they now put their lives on the line as NOCs knowing that at any time, their cover could also be blown for political gain, thus ending their careers and possibly ending their lives as well?
But there’s more!
Plame… ‘was a long-term proprietary and deep-cover NOC – well established and consistently producing “take” from ARAMCO (and who knows what else in Saudi Arabia). It was destroyed with a motive of personal vengeance (there may have been other motives) by someone inside the White House.
From the CIA’s point of view, at a time when Saudi Arabia is one of the three or four countries of highest interest to the US, the Plame operation was irreplaceable.
Almost the entire Bush administration has an interest in ARAMCO.
The Boston Globe reported that in 2001 ARAMCO had signed a $140 million multi-year contract with Halliburton, then chaired by Dick Cheney, to develop a new oil field. Halliburton does a lot of business in Saudi Arabia. Current estimates of Halliburton contracts or joint ventures in the country run into the tens of billions of dollars.
So do the fortunes of some shady figures from the Bush family’s past.
As recently as 1991 ARAMCO had Khalid bin Mahfouz sitting on its Supreme Council or board of directors. Mahfouz, Saudi Arabia’s former treasurer and the nation’s largest banker, has been reported in several places to be Osama bin Laden’s brother in law.
ARAMCO is the largest oil group in the world, a state-owned Saudi company in partnership with four major US oil companies.
Another one of Aramco’s partners is Chevron-Texaco which gave up one of its board members, Condoleezza Rice, when she became the National Security Advisor to George Bush.
All of ARAMCO’s key decisions are made by the Saudi royal family while US oil expertise, personnel and technology keeps the cash coming in and the oil going out. ARAMCO operates, manages, and maintains virtually all Saudi oil fields – 25% of all the oil on the planet.’
http://www.oilempire.us/plame.html
Also, let’s not forget the long term friendship and business partnerships between the Bush family and the bin Laden family.
Knowing all of this, how can anyone in their right mind approve of Bush and Cheney’s treasonous behavior of outing Valerie Plame and Brewster Jennings for political gain?
April 9th, 2006 at 3:27 pm.
If other CIA operatives were put at risk by the actions of the white house,
April 9th, 2006 at 4:06 pmthen it puts a new seriousness on this episode. It really needs to be
investigated by a special council and congress. Could be treason.
Lizz, You’re right — great picture – worth the peek.
April 9th, 2006 at 4:17 pmJust read this little tidbit:
April 9th, 2006 at 4:30 pmhttp://www.gregpalast.com/printerfriendly.cfm?artid=490
IMHO this whole thing was set up by people at the CIA who had had it with the Vice President abrogating the CIA for his own foreign policy agenda.Think about it , did not Bob Novak call the CIA and tell them he was going to run this story? Why did the CIA not tell him no with enough credibility and emphasis , well if you do your ass will go to jail?The only reason I can think of is that they thought Cheney would eventually get pinned with the disclosure. And this is where we are now.What happened to the administrations line that she sent him? Well because at least 2 other people had to sign off on him going that had nothing to do with her. My next question , why did the administration try to amend FISA in July of 03? Why was JOhn Ashcroft paid a visit in the hospital/ Really if this was about countering a political opponent wasn’t Judy Miller’s reporting enough?What was the Harriet Meieres nomination about? These guys think 20 steps out, why did they feel that Joe Wilson was such a threat that they felt it necessary to can a working operation so sensitive and certainly related to Iraq. The only time I can possibly percieve the President refered to as Chimpy is this situation and all I acan think of is the story about that little monkey trying to shove the cork back in the elephant’s ass. Yes and for all of this kerfuflle, as the National Review calls it, you and I as taxpayers are fronting this. “Wtf”
April 9th, 2006 at 9:17 pmJoe Wilson is a career Washington insider who took an opportunity for self-aggrandizement. He feeds a couple of reporters including Walter Pincus (how’s that nuclear scientist cae going Walter? Revealed your sources yet?) a few puffed up stories,then writes an op-ed piece in July of 03 about his visit to Niger in Feb. 02 ands says the President shouldn’t have included the 16 words. The IAEA had done the work,Joe wanted some of the credit.
April 9th, 2006 at 9:46 pmWhy didn’t he write the op-ed in Jan. 03 right after the speech? Did something happen in the 6 months to make him speak out?
He’s a bum. Bush is too. Get both out of the limelight.
#9 Joe Wilson spoke out against the President and because of that, the Administration took it upon themselves to violate him and his wife by outing her as a
CIA agent, with help from the media,of course.
He was expressing his concern about the President’s state of mind, not trying to make himself important. What should Joe Wilson have done, kep his mouth shut? I don’t think so. He expressed and opinion. It’s something that we as Americans used to do in public before Bubble Boy and the fourth reich took control.
So while I agree that Bush is a bum, don’t count Joe Wilson as one of them. He and his wife are victims of an arrogant administration with no ways of reining themselves in or preventing some homeland security officials from having perverted fantasies about children.
April 9th, 2006 at 10:42 pmgreat interview and boy is Joe Wison smart and easy on the eyes. He could talk forever. No wonder the Bush people don’t like him he’s so smart they can’t stand it. He would blow them out of the water. Bush played a Nixon ” do what ever it takes to clean up this”. So Rove/Cheney knew the only way to hurt Joe Wison was to attack his wife and put her life in danger. Joe could take anything these guys put out but not an attack on his wife.
April 9th, 2006 at 11:38 pmi like it
April 10th, 2006 at 12:49 amPlamegate may not be good news for the Bushitters, but they’d much rather talk about this than be forced to deal with oil and why we have to steal it in the mideast (like Sutton supposedly said about why he robbed banks: because that’s where the money is), and we may well not limit ourselves to the mideast because there is a ripe olive in Venezuela also.
Leaking, classifying things which shouldn’t be, declassifying things which shouldn’t be, all that will pale into insignificance once the cat is out of the bag about our coveting, lying, murdering, and stealing to get mideast oil, because someone will eventually get around to wondering why we have to steal oil if we can buy it, and finally figure out that we cannot buy it; we HAVE to steal it.
April 10th, 2006 at 9:26 am