Wilson, Plame, Cooper... Don't Forget the Back Story!

Charles Goyette Show
Wilson, Plame, Cooper... Don't Forget the Back Story!
AUDIO:
http://www.apfn.org/audio/2005-10-11-Charles-03.mp3

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The Joseph and Valerie Wilson Legal Support Trust
http://www.wilsonsupport.org/

LEAKGATE:

WHITE HOUSE IRAQ GROUP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Iraq_Group

Members

The members of the White House Iraq Group include: [8][9][10]

* Karl Rove
* Karen Hughes
* Mary Matalin
* Andrew Card
* James R. Wilkinson
* Nicholas E. Calio
* Condoleezza Rice
* Stephen Hadley
* I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby
* Michael Gerson

[edit] Response to Yellowcake Forgery Issue

In response to the Yellowcake forgery issue, the White House Iraq Group devised this strategy[11] to combat critics:

"There is a strategy now, devised by White House communications director Dan Bartlett, Mary Matalin, a former aide to Vice President Cheney, and former Bush aide Karen Hughes. Both advise the White House as a consultants to the Republican National Committee.

The plan: Release all relevant information. Try to shift attention back to Bush's leadership in the war on terrorism. Diminish the significance of that single piece of iffy intelligence by making the case that Saddam was a threat for many other reasons. Put Republican lawmakers and other Bush allies on TV to defend him.

Most important: Question the motives of Democrats who supported the war but now are criticizing the president."

From British Report:

From our examination of the intelligence and other material on Iraqi attempts to buy uranium from Africa, we have concluded that:

a. It is accepted by all parties that Iraqi officials visited Niger in 1999.

b. The British Government had intelligence from several different sources indicating that this visit was for the purpose of acquiring uranium. Since uranium constitutes almost three-quarters of Niger's exports, the intelligence was credible.

c. The evidence was not conclusive that Iraq actually purchased, as opposed to having sought, uranium and the British Government did not claim this.

d. The forged documents were not available to the British Government at the time its assessment was made,and so the fact of the forgery does not undermine it.

[edit] CIA leak scandal

Records and notes of White House Iraq Group activities were subpoenaed by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald as part of the investigation into the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Iraq_Group

PBS FRONTLINE: The Dark Side
On 9/11, deep inside a White House bunker, Vice President Dick Cheney was ordering U.S. fighter planes to shoot down any commercial airliner above America. At that moment, CIA Director George Tenet was meeting with his counterterrorism team in Langley, Va. Both leaders acted fast to prepare their country for a new kind of war. But soon a debate would grow over the goals of the war on terror, and the decision to go to war in Iraq.
After 9/11, Vice President Richard Cheney seized the initiative. He pushed to expand executive power, transform America's intelligence agencies and bring the war on terror to Iraq. But first he had to take on George Tenet's CIA for control over intelligence.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/
FRONTLINE: the dark side: watch online | PBS
Watch the Video: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/view/

05/22/06 C-Span with Reporter Anne Marie Squeo re: CIA Leak Summary
http://media.putfile.com/52206-Audio-CIA-Leak-Summary (11.3MB)

CIA LEAK... 6/9/06... KOS CONFE....
THE BEST BLOGGERS ON THE CIA LEAK STORY:
Audio: http://media.putfile.com/6906-Audio-THE-BEST-BLOGGERS-ON-THE-CIA-LEAK-STORY

Firedoglake.com...Legal Bloggers on Grand Jury
and what's happening in the CIA Leak case!
Audio: http://media.putfile.com/Legal-Bloggers-on-Grand-Jury-CIA-Leak-Case

GOOGLE NEWS UPDATES: CIA LEAK

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/leakgate8.htm

Documents Reveal Karl Rove as Source in Plame Case
http://www.apfn.org/leak-gate/rove.htm