Media looks for people with
names like Miller and Rove
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Media looks for people with names like Miller and Rove
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October 12, 2005 -- A familiar scene at the US District Court House in Washington, DC. We've seen it before in this town -- the media camped out in the courtyard in front of the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Court House, between the U.S. Capitol and the White House off Pennsylvania Avenue. The media has been there before, during the Watergate and Iran-Contra scandals, and the more recent non-scandal of Monica Lewinsky/Whitewater. In the past, the media anxiously awaited for the arrivals and departures of people with names like Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Liddy, North, Poindexter, Secord, McFarlane, Tripp, Curry, and Hubbell.
Now, the media looks for people with names like Miller and Rove to enter and exit the famous court house. Although the court house is now ringed with construction barriers, the preponderance of satellite dishes, microwave "trees," and entrepreneurial hot dog vendors all point to an impending scandal of Watergate and Iran-Contra proportions.
he tell tale signs of an impending Washington scandal. Media trucks near US Court House in DC during Miller testimony this morning
New York Times reporter Judith Miller made her second appearance before the Grand Jury this morning. She departed the court house at approximately 10:35 am EDT. Karl Rove is expected to make his fourth Grand Jury appearance on Friday, October 14. The word is that the criminal probe is focusing beyond the CIA leak of the identities of Valerie Plame Wilson and her Brewster Jennings & Associates non-official cover colleagues and on to the wider role of senior White House officials in a conspiracy to attack Ambassador Joseph Wilson and lie about the reasons the United States used to go to war in Iraq. The focus of the probe on the White House Iraq Group (WHIG) not only would focus on Rove, Scooter Libby, and Ari Fleischer (names that have already been mentioned by informed sources as likely targets) but also Vice President Cheney, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, International Public Diplomacy chief Karen Hughes, and Chief of Staff Andrew Card. President Bush, himself, could also be a subject of the criminal probe for conspiracy. The turning up of the heat on Bush's closest aides has also resulted in a barrage of criticism for Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald from the typical right wing noise machines, including propaganda outlets on the web and cable television.
The Grand Jury in CIA Leakgate is sitting behind these doors between the US Capitol and the White House. Hopefully, this will put to rest uninformed rumors and disinformation that Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has involved Federal judges and jurors in Chicago in his probe of the CIA leak. Those reports are simply not true.
There are indications that the CIA's Counter Proliferation efforts in Iraq prior to the war may have also been compromised by the outing by the White House of Valerie Plame Wilson and Brewster Jennings & Associates. Iraqi assets in a position to know about the destruction of Iraqi WMDs by 1995 may have been executed by remnants of Iraq's security services and other paramilitaries working for the U.S. in order to silence them as witnesses to Iraq's WMD disarmament eight years prior to the U.S. invasion.
October 12, 2005 -- Former UN weapons inspector speaks his mind on Iraq War. Speaking at the National Press Club this morning, former UN weapons inspector and Marine Corps officer Scott Ritter said that the recent release of a CIA report on pre-war analysis of Iraq bolsters his claims that senior Bush administration policy makers ignored all the intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Ritter said it was the policy of three successive U.S. administrations (Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II) to use WMDs as a ruse to carry out regime change in Iraq. Ritter contends that evidence shows that Iraq eliminated all of its WMDs between 1991 and 1995.
In response to a question posed by this editor about what the U.S. was hiding about its own deals with Iraq during the Reagan-Bush administration and the Iran-Iraq war, Ritter said that the U.S. had good reason to not disclose information released by Saddam Hussein to the UN prior to the outbreak of the war in 2003. Ritter said a set of compact disks contained blueprints for producing WMDs, including sarin/VX and anthrax. Ritter maintained it would have been dangerous to release such information.
However, the other set of Iraqi WMD information withheld by the Bush administration was more problematic -- it dealt with U.S. computer and engineering support businesses that had close business dealings with Saddam Hussein in the 1980s. The U.S. opening to Iraq occurred after Reagan Special Envoy Donald Rumsfeld met with with Saddam in 1984. The Reagan administration also provided Saddam with agricultural subsidies, funds that were later diverted by Baghdad for WMD production.
During 2004, in preparation for his recently-released book Iraq Confidential and an article he was writing for Harper's, Ritter had planned to go to Iraq to interview former members of the Iraqi Mukhabarat intelligence service and other official of the former regime. Although Ritter's travel plans had been cleared with the Coalition Provisional Authority, he received a credible threat that members of the Sh'ia Badr Brigades, then tasked by the Bush administration to arrest or "eliminate" Baathists, were going to target Ritter with assassination. Canceling his trip to Iraq, Ritter instead decided to meet some of his Iraqi contacts in Jordan.
Scott Ritter speaks out
Ritter also revealed that the Clinton and the G. W. Bush administration conducted secret talks in Jordan with representatives of Saddam's government. Saddam even reached out to a neo-con arch enemy, Rumsfeld's Defense Policy Board chairman Richard Perle, prior to the outbreak of hostilities. Ritter said that nothing Saddam did would change the ultimate goal of the Bush and Blair governments: regime change in Iraq.
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October 12, 2005 -- A familiar scene at the US District Court House in Washington, DC. We've seen it before in this town -- the media camped out in the courtyard in front of the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Court House, between the U.S. Capitol and the White House off Pennsylvania Avenue. The media has been there before, during the Watergate and Iran-Contra scandals, and the more recent non-scandal of Monica Lewinsky/Whitewater. In the past, the media anxiously awaited for the arrivals and departures of people with names like Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Liddy, North, Poindexter, Secord, McFarlane, Tripp, Curry, and Hubbell.
Now, the media looks for people with names like Miller and Rove to enter and exit the famous court house. Although the court house is now ringed with construction barriers, the preponderance of satellite dishes, microwave "trees," and entrepreneurial hot dog vendors all point to an impending scandal of Watergate and Iran-Contra proportions.
he tell tale signs of an impending Washington scandal. Media trucks near US Court House in DC during Miller testimony this morning
New York Times reporter Judith Miller made her second appearance before the Grand Jury this morning. She departed the court house at approximately 10:35 am EDT. Karl Rove is expected to make his fourth Grand Jury appearance on Friday, October 14. The word is that the criminal probe is focusing beyond the CIA leak of the identities of Valerie Plame Wilson and her Brewster Jennings & Associates non-official cover colleagues and on to the wider role of senior White House officials in a conspiracy to attack Ambassador Joseph Wilson and lie about the reasons the United States used to go to war in Iraq. The focus of the probe on the White House Iraq Group (WHIG) not only would focus on Rove, Scooter Libby, and Ari Fleischer (names that have already been mentioned by informed sources as likely targets) but also Vice President Cheney, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, International Public Diplomacy chief Karen Hughes, and Chief of Staff Andrew Card. President Bush, himself, could also be a subject of the criminal probe for conspiracy. The turning up of the heat on Bush's closest aides has also resulted in a barrage of criticism for Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald from the typical right wing noise machines, including propaganda outlets on the web and cable television.
The Grand Jury in CIA Leakgate is sitting behind these doors between the US Capitol and the White House. Hopefully, this will put to rest uninformed rumors and disinformation that Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has involved Federal judges and jurors in Chicago in his probe of the CIA leak. Those reports are simply not true.
There are indications that the CIA's Counter Proliferation efforts in Iraq prior to the war may have also been compromised by the outing by the White House of Valerie Plame Wilson and Brewster Jennings & Associates. Iraqi assets in a position to know about the destruction of Iraqi WMDs by 1995 may have been executed by remnants of Iraq's security services and other paramilitaries working for the U.S. in order to silence them as witnesses to Iraq's WMD disarmament eight years prior to the U.S. invasion.
October 12, 2005 -- Former UN weapons inspector speaks his mind on Iraq War. Speaking at the National Press Club this morning, former UN weapons inspector and Marine Corps officer Scott Ritter said that the recent release of a CIA report on pre-war analysis of Iraq bolsters his claims that senior Bush administration policy makers ignored all the intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Ritter said it was the policy of three successive U.S. administrations (Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II) to use WMDs as a ruse to carry out regime change in Iraq. Ritter contends that evidence shows that Iraq eliminated all of its WMDs between 1991 and 1995.
In response to a question posed by this editor about what the U.S. was hiding about its own deals with Iraq during the Reagan-Bush administration and the Iran-Iraq war, Ritter said that the U.S. had good reason to not disclose information released by Saddam Hussein to the UN prior to the outbreak of the war in 2003. Ritter said a set of compact disks contained blueprints for producing WMDs, including sarin/VX and anthrax. Ritter maintained it would have been dangerous to release such information.
However, the other set of Iraqi WMD information withheld by the Bush administration was more problematic -- it dealt with U.S. computer and engineering support businesses that had close business dealings with Saddam Hussein in the 1980s. The U.S. opening to Iraq occurred after Reagan Special Envoy Donald Rumsfeld met with with Saddam in 1984. The Reagan administration also provided Saddam with agricultural subsidies, funds that were later diverted by Baghdad for WMD production.
During 2004, in preparation for his recently-released book Iraq Confidential and an article he was writing for Harper's, Ritter had planned to go to Iraq to interview former members of the Iraqi Mukhabarat intelligence service and other official of the former regime. Although Ritter's travel plans had been cleared with the Coalition Provisional Authority, he received a credible threat that members of the Sh'ia Badr Brigades, then tasked by the Bush administration to arrest or "eliminate" Baathists, were going to target Ritter with assassination. Canceling his trip to Iraq, Ritter instead decided to meet some of his Iraqi contacts in Jordan.
Scott Ritter speaks out
Ritter also revealed that the Clinton and the G. W. Bush administration conducted secret talks in Jordan with representatives of Saddam's government. Saddam even reached out to a neo-con arch enemy, Rumsfeld's Defense Policy Board chairman Richard Perle, prior to the outbreak of hostilities. Ritter said that nothing Saddam did would change the ultimate goal of the Bush and Blair governments: regime change in Iraq.
MORE: http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
Wayne Madsen Report
c/o The Front Desk
National Press Club
529 14th St., NW
Washington, DC 20045
Email: waynemadsendc@hotmail.com
