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Cheney's role in outing of CIA agent under examination

Postby seemslikeadream » Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:45 pm

Cheney's role in outing of CIA agent under examination, sources close to prosecutor say<br>Jason Leopold<br><br><br>Cheney's role in CIA outing not known<br><br>Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is trying to determine whether Vice President Dick Cheney had a role in the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame-Wilson, individuals close to Fitzgerald have confirmed. Plame’s husband was a vocal critic of prewar intelligence used by President George W. Bush to build support for the Iraq war.<br><br>The investigation into who leaked the officer's name to reporters has now turned toward a little known cabal of administration hawks known as the White House Iraq Group (WHIG), which came together in August 2002 to publicize the threat posed by Saddam Hussein. WHIG operated out of the Vice President’s office and was chaired by Karl Rove, Bush's senior advisor.<br><br>Fitzgerald’s examination centers on a group of players charged with not only selling the war, but according to sources familiar with the case, to discredit anyone who openly “disagreed with the official Iraq war” story.<br><br>The group’s members included Deputy White House chief of staff Karl Rove, Bush advisor Karen Hughes, Senior Advisor to the Vice President Mary Matalin, Deputy Director of Communications James Wilkinson, Assistant to the President and Legislative Liaison Nicholas Calio, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby - Chief of Staff to the Vice President and co-author of the Administration's pre-emptive strike policy.<br><br>Rice would later became Secretary of State, and her deputy Hadley was appointed to National Security Advisor. Wilkinson left the group to become a communications strategist for the United States Central Command, and later became a spokesman for the Republican National Convention. Hughes was recently appointed Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy. <br><br>Several members of the group have testified before Fitzgerald’s Grand Jury.<br><br>Cheney’s role under scrutiny<br><br>Two officials close to Fitzgerald told RAW STORY they have seen documents obtained from the White House Iraq Group which state that Cheney was present at several of the group's meetings. They say Cheney personally discussed with individuals in attendance at least two interviews in May and June of 2003 Wilson gave to New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus, in which he claimed the administration “twisted” prewar intelligence and what the response from the administration should be.<br><br>Cheney was interviewed by the FBI surrounding the leak in 2004. According to the New York Times, Cheney was asked whether he knew of any concerted effort by White House aides to name Ms. Wilson.<br><br>Sources close to the investigation have also confirmed that special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is trying to determine Vice President Cheney's role in the outing of Mrs. Wilson, more specifically, if Cheney ordered the leak.<br><br>Those close to Fitzgerald say they have yet to uncover any evidence that suggests Cheney ordered the leak or played a role in the outing of Mrs. Wilson. Still, the sources said they are investigating claims that Cheney may have been involved based on his attendance at meetings of the Iraq group. Previous reports indicate Cheney was intimately involved with the framing of the Iraq war.<br><br>On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal confirmed that the Iraq group was under scrutiny.<br><br>“Formed in August 2002, the group, which included Messrs. [Karl] Rove and [Lewis] Libby, worked on setting strategy for selling the war in Iraq to the public in the months leading up to the March 2003 invasion,” the Journal reported. “The group likely would have played a significant role in responding to [former Ambassador Joseph] Wilson's claims” that the Bush administration twisted intelligence when it said Iraq tried to acquire yellow-cake uranium from Africa. <br><br>Rove's "strategic communications" task force operating inside the group was instrumental in writing and coordinating speeches by senior Bush administration officials, highlighting in September 2002 that Iraq was a nuclear threat.<br><br>Background<br><br>The White House Iraq Group operated virtually unknown until January 2004, when Fitzgerald subpoenaed for notes, email and attendance records.<br><br>Bush Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. created the group in August of 2002 to develop the Administration’s strategy leading up to the invasion of Iraq. “A senior official who participated in its work called it "an internal working group, like many formed for priority issues, to make sure each part of the White House was fulfilling its responsibilities," according to an Aug. 10, 2003, Washington Post investigative report on the group’s inner workings. <br><br>Senior Bush adviser Karl Rove chaired meetings of the group.<br><br>The group relied heavily on New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who, after meeting with several of the organization’s members in August 2002, wrote an explosive story that many critics of the war believe laid the groundwork for military action against Iraq. <br><br>On Sunday, Sept. 8, 2002, Miller wrote a story for the Times quoting anonymous officials who said aluminum tubes found in Iraq were to be used as centrifuges. Her report said the "diameter, thickness and other technical specifications" of the tubes -- precisely the grounds for skepticism among nuclear enrichment experts -- showed that they were "intended as components of centrifuges."<br><br>She closed her piece by quoting then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice who said the United States would not sit by and wait to find a smoking gun to prove its case, possibly in the form of a “a mushroom cloud." After Miller’s piece was published, administration officials pursued their case on Sunday talk shows using Miller’s piece as evidence that Iraq was pursuing a nuclear bomb, even though those officials were the ones who supplied Miller with the story and were quoted anonymously.<br><br>Rice's comments on CNN’s “Late Edition” reaffirmed Miller’s story. Rice said that Saddam Hussein was "actively pursuing a nuclear weapon" and that the tubes -- described repeatedly in U.S. intelligence reports as "dual-use" items -- were "only really suited for nuclear weapons programs, centrifuge programs."<br><br>Cheney, on NBC's "Meet the Press," also mentioned the aluminum tubes story in the Times and said "increasingly, we believe the United States will become the target" of an Iraqi atomic bomb. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, on CBS's "Face the Nation," asked viewers to "imagine a September 11th with weapons of mass destruction.”<br><br>President Bush reiterated the image of Rice’s mushroom cloud comment in his Oct. 7, 2002 speech.<br><br>The International Atomic Energy Agency later revealed that Iraq’s aluminum tubes were never designed to enrich uranium.<br><br>In February of 2003, WHIG allegedly scripted the speech Powell made to the United Nations presenting the United States’ case for war.<br><br>Powell’s speech to the UN, United Press International reported, “was handled by the White House Iraq Group, which… provided Powell with a script for his speech, using information developed by Feith's group. Much of it was unsourced material fed to newspapers by the OSP. Realizing this, Powell's team turned to the now-discredited National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq. But some of Feith's handiwork ended up in Powell's mouth anyway.” <br><br>Miller appears in Jury room again<br><br>Miller’s second appearance before the grand jury investigating the CIA leak seems to be tied to her meeting and discussions in June of 2003 with I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, sources close to the investigation said. The meeting came one year before the New York Times printed a lengthy mea culpa discrediting a half-dozen of Miller’s prewar stories on the Iraqi threat. <br><br>Fitzgerald’s investigation resulted when allegations surfaced that Bush Administration officials had called reporters to circulate the name of the CIA officer, Valerie Plame-Wilson, in an attempt to discredit her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, a critic of the administration's Iraq policy. <br><br>Wilson went to Niger in 2002 at the request of the CIA to investigate reports that Iraq was trying to buy uranium "yellow cake" to develop nuclear weapons. He found that the reports were not credible.<br><br>Until now, Fitzgerald’s two-year investigation has focused on conversations Karl Rove and Lewis “Scooter” Libby have had with individual journalists, including Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper and New York Times reporter Judith Miller. <br><br>That has now changed. Fitzgerald has retraced his steps to an earlier period when he first began to examine the White House Iraq Group. <br><br>During its very first meetings, Card's Iraq group ordered a series of white papers showing Iraq’s arms violations. The first paper, "A Grave and Gathering Danger: Saddam Hussein's Quest for Nuclear Weapons," was never published. However, the paper was drafted with the assistance of experts from the National Security Council and Cheney's office. <br><br>“In its later stages, the draft white paper coincided with production of a National Intelligence Estimate and its unclassified summary. “But the WHIG, according to three officials who followed the white paper's progress, wanted gripping images and stories not available in the hedged and austere language of intelligence,” according to the Post.<br><br>Eight months later, Joseph Wilson began to question the veracity of the Bush administration’s prewar intelligence in private conversations with reporters. His talk threatened to undercut the administration’s successful marketing campaign: that Iraq was an imminent threat to the United States and its neighbors in the Middle East. <br><br>Wilson’s allegations threatened to chip away at the credibility of individuals such as Cheney, who, in dozens of speeches just a few months prior had said that Iraq was dangerously close to acquiring a nuclear weapon. It also threatened to ruin Miller’s credibility. It was then that Administration officials started to discredit Wilson. <br><br>Now Fitzgerald is trying to find out whether Cheney was involved. <br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Cheneys_role_in_outing_of_CIA_1012.html" target="top">rawstory.com/news/2005/Cheneys_role_in_outing_of_CIA_1012.html</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Cheney's role in outing of CIA agent under examination

Postby manxkat » Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:53 pm

Gotta love it. Now if only he'd indict Cheney for this AND 9/11. Hey, I can dream can't I? <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Cheney's role in outing of CIA agent under examination

Postby dbeach » Thu Oct 13, 2005 12:19 am

U MAY DREAM AWAY and the gods may hear your pleas for JUSTICE<br><br>Todays conspiracy is tomorrows reality..<br><br>Mr. Fitzgerald was presented with mts of evidnce on many cases....EVEN the indictment of rover,no small fish is HUGE..<br><br>Last yr as I woke to the bushevik reality..the bush criminals were INVINCEABLE<br><br>Today to see them squirm is quite rewarding..<br>2 C Rover roll over on his master would be<br>" indescriblably delicious" <p></p><i></i>
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rove is at the fed courthouse RIGHT now

Postby nashvillebrook » Fri Oct 14, 2005 12:39 pm

turning over on Cheney! pass the corn... <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Cheney's role in outing of CIA agent under examination

Postby antiaristo » Fri Oct 14, 2005 1:00 pm

Wasn't Cheney Sec Def during Bush I?<br>Lifted from the BCCI thread<br><br>Time to bring up the connection. This from a brilliant DU piece by Robert Paulsen on how Dick Cheney was the target of Valerie Plame's network.<br><br><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>3. B.C.C.I. - BCCI was the largest criminal corporate enterprise ever, the biggest Ponzi scheme, the most pervasive money-laundering operation in history, the only bank - so far as anyone knows - that <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>ran a brisk sideline business in both conventional and nuclear weapons</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, gold, drugs, turnkey mercenary armies, intelligence and counterintelligence, shipping, and commodities from cement in the Middle East to Honduran coffee to Vietnamese beans.<br><br>Though it was fundamentally a financial fraud, BCCI itself was not a bank in any conventional sense. Or, more precisely, banking was only a part of the global organism, the ingeniously constructed platform from which its other lines of business were launched....<br><br>This "bank" possessed its very own diplomatic corps, intelligence network, and private army, its own shipping and commodities trading companies. And BCCI itself was so thoroughly enmeshed in the official affairs of Pakistan that it was often impossible to separate the two.<br><br>BCCI was bigger even than that: It was the unsettling next-stage evolution of the multinational corporation, the one the theorists had been predicting for years but which never seemed to be able to shed its sovereign boundaries. (General Motors and Mitsubishi are both good examples of this - huge companies with holdings and operations all over the world that nonetheless persist in being fundamentally American and Japanese entities.) In taking that step, <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>BCCI became truly stateless and very nearly invisible to the authorities in each country where it did business.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>{BCCI founder} Abedi had money to spare to underwrite the protocol department: In 1981 Ghulam Ishaq Khan granted BCCI a special tax-free status allowing Abedi to avoid tens of millions of dollars in taxes and to pour his huge Pakistan profits into one of his front companies and <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>into Pakistan's atomic bomb project.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Most of the millions that flowed through the foundation went to two uses: first, to investments - patently noncharitable - in a company called Attock Cement, owned by Abedi's associate and U.S. front man Ghaith Pharaon. The second beneficiary was something called the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology. According to its brochures, the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute trains young scientists and engineers. The reality is a little more ominous . . .<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>The director of the institute is Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, the man most closely linked with Pakistan's efforts to develop nuclear weapons. Khan, a German-trained metallurgist, once worked as a classified enrichment plant in the Netherlands, where he gained access to key plans. So important is he to the Pakistani national interest that even his whereabouts are considered a national secret.(www.the-catbird-seat.net/BCCI.htm )<br><br>Right from its inception, the clandestine nuclear and missile projects in Pakistan were treated as a top secret intel op of the ISI to ensure deniability. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>All payments to the foreign suppliers were made not from the accounts of the Govt of Pakistan, but from private accounts in the BCCI</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, which collapsed in 1991, and other Dubai and Geneva based banks. These accounts were opened by the Gokul brothers of Geneva, one of whom was jailed for cheating in the UK after the collapse of the BCCI; Shaukat Aziz, Pakistan’s present Finance Minister, who was working in the Gulf for the Citibank in the 1990s; Dawood Ibrahim, the mafia leader who was designated by the US as an intl terrorist in Oct; Dubai-based Pakistani smugglers, and AQ Khan and other trusted Pakistani scientists.(www.kashmirherald.com/fea...learjih... ) <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Given that A.Q. Khan began his network from such sinister and corrupt beginnings, this next relationship should come as no surprise.<br><br>4. Osama bin Laden</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> – The following is an excerpt from an investigation by the Kashmir Herald into several of A.Q. Khan’s travels to Africa.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>www.democraticunderground...c_id=66773<br><br>There is a freeway connection between Plame/Wilson and Iran Contra - IF Paddy wants to take it.<br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Cheney's role in outing of CIA agent under examination

Postby dbeach » Fri Oct 14, 2005 1:09 pm

BCCI gave fame to Kerry but solved very lil.<br><br>how the crooks once they enter their crime syndicates are then blackmailed into producing and abetting MORE crimes<br>and the cycle of the same families and/or mentalitys continue to rule ..The spiders web connnects em all<br><br>ALL and ALL the way back to 11/2/63<br><br>next month is 42 yrs..he died at age 46.5 <p></p><i></i>
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Postby chiggerbit » Fri Oct 14, 2005 1:37 pm

<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>There is a freeway connection between Plame/Wilson and Iran Contra - IF Paddy wants to take it.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>HOT DAMN! I hope Fitzy does it! Justice delayed is still justice. It would be so good to see the old man in prison, along with all the others. Please let there be no statute of limitations. <p></p><i></i>
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Postby dbeach » Fri Oct 14, 2005 2:01 pm

SOL<br><br>Not for murdering JFK BK MLK.<br>IF the TRUTH gets out about the bush criminals and theri NAZI connections and I do specifically mean genuine NAZI's who have enjoyed the fat cat life in Uncle Sugars wonderful paradise ..well sorry to lecture BUT the busheviks are done..turn em over.. <p></p><i></i>
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Postby dbeach » Fri Oct 14, 2005 2:04 pm

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.new-enlightenment.com/cabal_index.htm">www.new-enlightenment.com..._index.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>"Sarah, if the American people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." <br><br>George Bush Senior speaking in an interview with <br>Sarah McClendon in December 1992<br><br>WHY did poppy o say that????? <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Cheney's role in outing of CIA agent under examination

Postby antiaristo » Fri Oct 14, 2005 3:17 pm

1/8/03 White House Reporter Sarah McClendon Dies "If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched." -- George Bush, cited in the June, 1992 Sarah McClendon Newsletter<br><br>dbeach,<br>He said it to somebody else. Sarah overheard the remark. <p></p><i></i>
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Kerry blew BCCI - Let Bush walk bigtime

Postby Seventhson » Sat Oct 15, 2005 12:01 am

NOTHING in the BCCI report nails Bush I -- he GAVE him a walk, despite lots of other goodies, NOTHIUNG in his recommendations recommends pursuing then Prez, or VP Bush for his role.<br><br>Kerry's BCCI report was a total wehitewash for the Bushes (althoutgh he did get Democrat Clifford Clark nailed, hah hah)<br><br>Perfect Skull and Bones op.<br><br>I hope fitzgeraldis not such a plant. A pit bull Irish woman prosecutor nailed Governor Rowland in CT last year <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Kerry blew BCCI - Let Bush walk bigtime

Postby antiaristo » Sat Oct 15, 2005 7:06 am

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Perfect Skull and Bones op.<br><br>I hope fitzgeraldis not such a plant<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>seventh,<br>He may indeed be the opposite<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>While I don't think we should get into a cult of the personality, let me pass on the moment I decided Fitz was for real. I was reading about a prosecution in the garment trade. Apparently at one point Fitz stopped talking, reached down and rolled up his left trouser leg. Right in front of the grand jury! The author scribbled something about this being his way of showing deliveries had come up short. Yeah. Whatever.<br><br>This is a masonic conspiracy, and Her Majesty's point man is none other than Richard Cheney. "The highest ranking Freemason in American public service" (source: Harry S Truman Lodge).<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>BCCI was a British institution. It was based in London. The Bank of England was responsible for oversight and failed miserably. Who says all this? The British say it.<br>But it was all an innocent mistake (just like 9/11, Iraq, WMD, the outing of Plame etc) so we should all just forget about it, draw a line and move on.<br><br>Did yiou know that the Bank of England is being sued in a civil suit right now? Take a look at the Simon Bowers article in the thread Bank of England tries straw man defence. You can see how far the Bank leaned over backwards to keep BCCI out of the oversight net for more than ten years. All of this under thr personal protection of Her Majesty (see Treason Felony Act). And you might want to look at my January 6 2004 letter to Gordon Pollock QC in data dump.<br><br>Kerry, meanwhile has done very well FOR HIMSELF, hasn't he?<br><br>I've got to believe that James Comey, as a career Justice man, must have known where this would likely lead. He set Fitz up as a sovereign entity with unrestricted funding and told him to go "wherever the evidence takes him".<br><br>And the evidence is taking him in the direction of Cheney: the man who just happens to link the two scandals.<br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=antiaristo>antiaristo</A> at: 10/15/05 5:10 am<br></i>
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ok

Postby Homeless Halo » Sat Oct 15, 2005 7:18 am

Now everyone think really really hard about Dick's heart imploding...all together now... <p></p><i></i>
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Ah-Hah!

Postby antiaristo » Sat Oct 15, 2005 8:48 am

From fdl comments<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>In 1996, Fitzgerald became the <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>National Security Coordinator</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> for the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. There, he served on a team of prosecutors investigating <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Osama bin Laden.[</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->3] He served as chief counsel in prosecutions related to the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa.[4]<br>Arbogast | 10.15.05 - 1:23 am | #<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br><br>And he's only forty-three! <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Ah-Hah!

Postby dbeach » Sat Oct 15, 2005 10:50 am

S.& B. crowd is going for the whole planet this time even if it risks WW III with whomever.<br><br>Fitzgerald is the man of the hr..<br>the rendez vous with destiny is about to happen..rt soon in our lives..<br>The immovable force meets the irrestible object.<br><br>At least rover and libby are gonna get busted and maybe andrew card.also..with the possibility of a disgraced bushevik admin and much worse..<br><br>IF FITZ does NOT deliver..then I will assume that poppy o bought him.then the USA as we know it/knew it as a Decent Republic is DONE. From there is anybodys guess??<br>But I doubt IF I will be alive..nor few of U. <p></p><i></i>
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