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Botany (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 09:01 PM Original message |
Please help me with my list of people who are linked to Plame |
Dick Cheney
Scooter Libby Karl Rove Hadley Bolton Warmus Novak Miller Gannon Ari Hmmmmm some name seems to be missing. I wonder who it could be? please help ....... I wonder is it ____? :popcorn: |
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madeline_con (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 09:03 PM Response to Original message |
1. Does it start with DUH-bya? |
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hootinholler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 09:05 PM Response to Original message |
2. Ok, here's a few... |
A: Players:
1: Oval Office 1.1: Bush 1.1.1: Rove 1.1.1.1: Plame leak source? - doubtful, more likely second or confirmed Plame. 1.1.2: Rice - National Security advisor 1.2: WHIG - White House Iraq Group Systematic coordination began in August, when Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. formed the White House Iraq Group, or WHIG, to set strategy for each stage of the confrontation with Baghdad. 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." http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A39500-2003Aug9¬Found=true 1.2.1: The group met weekly in the Situation Room. Among the regular participants were Karl Rove, the president's senior political adviser; communications strategists Karen Hughes, Mary Matalin and James R. Wilkinson; legislative liaison Nicholas E. Calio; and policy advisers led by Rice and her deputy, Stephen J. Hadley, along with I. Lewis Libby, Cheney's chief of staff. 1.2.2: Participants: 1.2.2.1: Karl Rove (1.1.1) 1.2.2.2: Karen Hughes 1.2.2.3: Mary Matalin - James Carville's wife? 1.2.2.4: James R. Wilkinson 1.2.2.5: Nicholas E. Calio legislative liaison 1.2.2.6: Condoleeza Rice National Security Advisor 1.2.2.7: Stephen J. Hadley, Rice's deputy 1.2.2.8: I. Lewis Libby, Cheney's chief of staff. 1.2.2.9: Andrew H. Card Jr. WH Chief of staff 1.3.1: Press Secretary 1.3.1.1: Ari Fliescher 1.3.1.2: Scott McClellan 1.4: Defense Counsel 1.4.1: Jim Sharp 2: VP Office 2.1: Cheney 2.1.1: Libby 2.1.2: JINSA (11.5) 2.1.3: David Wurmser David Wurmser replaced Eric Edelman as Principal Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs in the Office of Vice President Dick Cheney in early September 2003 2.1.4: Cheney raised the alarm about Iraq's nuclear menace three times in August. He was far ahead of the president's public line. Only Bush and Cheney know, one senior policy official said, "whether Cheney was trying to push the president or they had decided to play good cop, bad cop." http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A39500-2003Aug9¬Found=true 2.2: Defense Counsel 2.2.1: Terrence O'Donnell 3: State 3.1: Powell 3.1.1: Yellcake memo on African trip? 3.1.2: Richard Armitage When Mr. Wilson's Op-Ed article appeared on July 6, 2003, a Sunday, Richard L. Armitage, then deputy secretary of state, called Carl W. Ford Jr., the assistant secretary for intelligence and research, at home, a former State Department official said. Mr. Armitage asked Mr. Ford to send a copy of the memorandum to Mr. Powell, who was preparing to leave for Africa with Mr. Bush, the former official said. Mr. Ford sent it to the White House for transmission to Mr. Powell. It is not clear who asked for the memorandum,. 3.1.3: Bolton - Undersecretary of state for Arms Control 3.1.3.1: During the vote count of the 2000 election in Florida a man burst through the door and yelled that the count had to stop. That man was John Bolton. Later it was said that Cheney told him he could 'have anything he wanted' for what he did in Florida. Well, he wanted Condi's job as National Security Advisor, but was told that the job was already Hadley's and he said he wanted Hadley's old job and Hadley said no. Think about this. Can you just imagine Bush, Cheney, Condi and Hadley in a room and dying laughing about appointing him US ambassador and sending this asshole up there, especially in light of how they all hate the UN? 3.1.3.2: By then, Wurmser had moved on to a post as senior adviser to Undersecretary of State John Bolton http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/mideast/iraq/1448.html 3.1.4: Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) 3.1.4.1:Carl W. Ford jr. assistant secretary for intelligence and research 3.1.4.2:Sources said the CIA is angry about the circulation of a still-classified document to conservative news outlets suggesting Plame had a role in arranging her husband's trip to Africa for the CIA. The document, written by a State Department official who works for its Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), describes a meeting at the CIA where the Niger trip by Wilson was discussed, said a senior administration official who has seen it. CIA officials have challenged the accuracy of the INR document, the official said, because the agency officer identified as talking about Plame's alleged role in arranging Wilson's trip could not have attended the meeting. -Wash Post 3.1.4.3: October 9-16, 2002 After the documents arrive in Washington, they are reviewed by the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) and within days its analysts conclude that the papers might be fakes. On October 16, the INR distributes the documents to the CIA and several other US intelligence agencies with the caveat that the documents are of dubious authenticity. . . . . . . the CIA quickly saw that the documents were not authentic. A senior Central Intelligence Agency official will tell Knut Royce of Newsday that the CIA had serious questions about from day one. The agency had accounts of them and that was close enough. We didn't take it that seriously to begin with. ... We didn't put a lot of stock in these reports from Niger. We didn't rush around to get the actual documents. Likewise, a US intelligence official will tell the New York Times that CIA officials were always suspicious of the Niger documents. And Hersh's anonymous CIA source also says the papers were quickly assessed as fakes. Everybody knew at every step of the way that they were false until they got to the Pentagon, where they were believed. 3.2: Rice 3.3: Micheal Ledeen - Consultant??? 4: DOD 4.1: Rumsfeld 4.1.1: Wolfowitz While the CIA and other intelligence agencies concentrated on Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda as the culprit in the 9/11 attacks, Wolfowitz and Feith obsessively focused on Iraq. http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/mideast/iraq/1448.html 4.1.2: Richard Perle 4.1.2.1: International lawyers and anti-war campaigners reacted with astonishment yesterday after the influential Pentagon hawk Richard Perle conceded that the invasion of Iraq had been illegal. In a startling break with the official White House and Downing Street lines, Mr Perle told an audience in London: "I think in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing." But Mr Perle, a key member of the defence policy board, which advises the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, said that "international law ... would have required us to leave Saddam Hussein alone", and this would have been morally unacceptable. http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/000795.php 4.1.3: Deputy Undersecretary of Defense William Luti Together, she says, Luti and Shulsky (4.2.6) turned cherry-picked pieces of uncorroborated, anti-Iraq intelligence into talking points, on issues like Iraq's WMD and its links to Al Qaeda. Shulsky constantly updated these papers, drawing on the intelligence unit, and circulated them to Pentagon officials, including Rumsfeld, and to Vice President Cheney. "Of course, we never thought they'd go directly to the White House," she adds. http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/mideast/iraq/1448.html 4.2: OSP - Office of Special Plans Indeed, the Bush team at the Pentagon hadn't even been formally installed before Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of Defense, and Douglas J. Feith, undersecretary of Defense for policy, began putting together what would become the vanguard for regime change in Iraq. http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/mideast/iraq/1448.html 4.2.1: Douglas Feith - a former aide to Richard Perle at the Pentagon in the 1980s Heads OSP 4.2.1.1: 4.2.1.2: The unofficial, off-site recruitment office for Feith and Rhode was the American Enterprise Institute 4.2.2: Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski (USAFR) observed how the Pentagon's Iraq war-planning unit manufactured scare stories about Iraq's weapons and ties to terrorists. "It wasn't intelligence-it was propaganda," she says. "They'd take a little bit of intelligence, cherry-pick it, make it sound much more exciting, usually by taking it out of context, often by juxtaposition of two pieces of information that don't belong together." It was by turning such bogus intelligence into talking points for U.S. officials-including ominous lines in speeches by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, along with Secretary of State Colin Powell's testimony at the U.N. Security Council last February-that the administration pushed American public opinion into supporting an unnecessary war. http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/mideast/iraq/1448.html 4.2.3: Harold Rhode - (4.5) 4.2.3.1: did he work for Perle? or did they both work for someone else? 4.2.4: Michael Rubin 4.2.5: David Wurmser 4.2.5.1: Micheal Maloof - 4.2.5.1.1: Clearance revoked Dec 01 (over security leak to press allegations). worked for Wurmser 4.2.6: Abram N. Shulsky - director when unit formed 4.2.7: Colonel Bruner -Chalabi's 'handler' 4.2.8: Larry Franklin - patsy? 4.3: OSI - Office of Strategic Influence 4.4: U.S. Army 4.4.1: 75th Exploitation Task Force in Iraq 4.4.1.1: Mobile Exploitation Team Alpha (META), which was charged with examining potential Iraqi weapon sites after the war. 4.4.1.1.1: Allegedly tasked by Miller (8.1) http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1984429 4.4.1.2: Richard McPhee, commander 4.4.1.2.1: Eugene Pomeroy - public-affairs officer 4.5: Office of Net Assessment Rhode, seen by many veteran staffers as an ideological gadfly, was officially assigned to the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment, an in-house Pentagon think tank headed by fellow neocon Andrew Marshall. http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/mideast/iraq/1448.html 4.5.1: Andrew Marshall 4.5.1.1: Harold Rhode Rhode refused to be interviewed for this story, saying cryptically, "Those who speak, pay." http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/mideast/iraq/1448.html 5: Justice 5.1: Ashcroft 5.1.1: Actions 5.1.1.1: Obstructs/Punishes Sibel Edmonds 5.1.1.2: Recuses self from Plame investigation 5.1.2: James Comey - Deputy AG 5.1.2.1: Appoints Fitzgerald Special Prosecutor in Plame case 5.1.2.2: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON, D.C. - Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey announced today that he intends to resign his position at the Department of Justice and return to the private sector this fall. Comey has served as the Deputy Attorney General since December 2003, following his nomination by President George W. Bush and his confirmation by a unanimous Senate. As Deputy Attorney General, Comey led the Justice Department's enormously successful Corporate Fraud Task Force, created Violent Crime Impact Teams in cities around the nation to rid the streets of violent criminals, and oversaw the day to day operation of the Department of Justice, and its more than 104,000 men and women, under two Attorneys General. http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/ohs/Press/04-20-05.htm 5.2: Gonzales 5.3: FBI 5.3.1: Sibel Edmonds 5.3.1.1: FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, gagged by Attorney General John Ashcroft, said in her testimony to the 9/11 Commission that if what she knows is revealed, it could lead to charges of TREASON being leveled against elected officials at top levels of the U.S. government, Certain elected officials will stand trial and go to prison. 5.4: Patrick Fitzgerald - Special Prosecutor Plame case 6: CIA 6.1: George Tenet 6.1.1: September 24, 2002 George Tenet briefs the Senate Intelligence Committee on the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq (see October 1, 2002). In his summary of the document, he includes the allegation that Iraq attempted to obtain uranium from Niger. He mentions that there are some doubts about the reliability of the evidence, but he does not say that the CIA had sent former diplomat Joseph C. Wilson as an envoy to Niger in February (see Late February 2002) and that the former ambassador's conclusion had been that the claims were bogus. 6.2: Operatives 6.2.1: Plame 6.2.1.1: Brewster Jennings - Cover company 6.3: Alan Foley, CIA expert on weapons of mass destruction 7: INC - Iraqi National Congress The INC had begun as an umbrella organization, cobbled together by the CIA to corral a disparate band of anti-Saddam forces into an effective opposition. 7.1: Ahmad Chalabi At the start, Chalabi had been a functionary in this group, arranging logistics for Iraqi politicians visiting officials in Washington. But with his charming persona, he quickly became the group’s public face an ascent that alienated many of the groups he claimed to represent. 7.1.1: As a banker in Amman, he had been a source of gossip about intrigue in King Hussein’s palace. Reporters including Judy Miller turned to him for dirt. 8: NYT 8.1: Miller 8.1.1: WMD Articals: http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1984429 Jun, 2004: http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/features/9226/index.html -: During the winter of 2001 and throughout 2002, Miller produced a series of stunning stories about Saddam Hussein’s ambition and capacity to produce weapons of mass destruction, based largely on information provided by Chalabi and his allies almost all of which have turned out to be stunningly inaccurate. -also- Her Iraq coverage didn’t just depend on Chalabi. It also relied heavily on his patrons in the Pentagon. Some of these sources, like Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz, would occasionally talk to her on the record. She relied especially heavily on the Office of Special Plans, an intelligence unit established beneath Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith. The office was charged with uncovering evidence of Al Qaeda links to Saddam Hussein that the CIA might have missed. In particular, Miller is said to have depended on a controversial neocon in Feith’s office named Michael Maloof. At one point, in December 2001, Maloof’s security clearance was revoked. In April, Risen reported in the Times, Several intelligence professionals say he came under scrutiny because of suspicions that he had leaked classified information in the past to the news media, a charge that Mr. Maloof denies. While Miller might not have intended to march in lockstep with these hawks, she was caught up in an almost irresistible cycle. Because she kept printing the neocon party line, the neocons kept coming to her with huge stories and great quotes, constantly expanding her access. 8.1.1.1: On Dec. 3, 2002, Miller aired in the Times the allegations of an "unnamed informant" who said that a deceased Russian scientist ("Madam Smallpox") might have given Iraq a virulent strain of smallpox. Nine months later, Dafna Linzer of the Associated Press authoritatively reported: "U.S. Weapons Hunters Find No Evidence Iraq Had Smallpox" (Sept. 18). 8.1.1.2: April 21 "baseball cap" story - unidentified source wearing cap discloses WMD processing locations - pegged bogon detector. 8.1.1.3: And, most memorably, she co-wrote a piece in which administration officials suggested that Iraq had attempted to import aluminum tubes for nuclear weapons. Vice-President Dick Cheney trumpeted the story on Meet the Press, closing the circle. http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/features/9226/index.html -: 8.1.1.4: One incident that still rankles happened last April, when Miller co-bylined a story with Douglas Jehl on the WMD search that included a quote from Amy Smithson, an analyst formerly at the Henry L. Stimson Center. A day after it appeared, the Times learned that the quote was deeply problematic. To begin with, it had been supplied to Miller in an e-mail that began, Briefly and on background a condition that Miller had flatly broken by naming her source. Miller committed a further offense by paraphrasing the quote and distorting Smithson’s analysis. One person who viewed the e-mail says that it attributed views to Smithson that she clearly didn’t hold. An embarrassing correction ensued. And while the offense had been entirely Miller’s, there was nothing in the correction indicating Jehl’s innocence. http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/features/9226/index.html -: 8.1.2: (4.4.1.1) Mobile Exploitation Team Alpha (META) 8.1.2.1: "General Judith Miller" -- as Shafer has dubbed her -- was accused by a half dozen officers of intimidating soldiers searching for WMD. An Army officer told Kurtz: "Judith was always issuing threats of either going to The New York Times or to the Secretary of Defense." Another charged: "She ended up almost hijacking the mission" of the Mobile Exploitation Team Alpha (META), which was charged with examining potential Iraqi weapon sites after the war. Her journalistic coup lay, rather, in talking her way into getting clearance from the Pentagon and being allowed to embed with the 75th. As Drogin told Layton, "she was in a great position to get the initial confirmation in the field" when WMD were found. But they were not found, despite her best efforts to make readers think that they were or were about to be. 8.1.2.2: Eugene Pomeroy, public-affairs officer for MET Alpha According to Pomeroy, as well as an editor at the Times, Miller had helped negotiate her own embedding agreement with the Pentagon an agreement so sensitive that, according to one Times editor, Rumsfeld himself signed off on it. http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/features/9226/index.html -: 8.1.3: Pals with Chalabi (7.1) http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/features/9226/index.html -: 8.1.4: Pals with King Hussein http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/features/9226/index.html -: As a correspondent for The Progressive and National Public Radio, she turned her academic interest into a professional one, traveling to the region and cultivating a network of highly placed sources. Nina Totenberg, a colleague from NPR, recalls a party in the mid-seventies at which Jordan’s King Hussein caught a glimpse of Miller across the room and howled, Juuuuddddy! Kiiiinnnggg, she responded. 8.1.5: Pals with: http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/features/9226/index.html -: Miller had ready access to many Mideast potentates. As she shuttled between meetings with Hussein, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, and Palestinian Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat in 1984, her colleagues joked about the Miller Plan for peace. and From her first day at the Times, Miller’s life and work have been hard to separate, which for a reporter is both a strength and a weakness. She’s a passionate person she gets caught up in her sources passionately, one of her Times colleagues told me. Friends from her earliest days in Washington noted that she didn’t surround herself with people her own age. She sought out the best and brightest at the city’s highest levels, dating Larry Sterne, the Washington Post’s foreign editor, and hanging out with the defense gurus Richard Perle and Walter Slocum. These people were powerful. But they were also interesting, and Judy liked talking to them. She is curious and enthusiastic, says one friend from this period. 8.1.6: Jeffery Goldberg Remember, everyone was obsessed with the White House sex story, says New Yorker writer Jeffrey Goldberg, who was invited by the paper to join Miller in an investigation unit to examine Al Qaeda. Goldberg found her an impossibly difficult colleague. But he also realized her value. She happened to be prescient about the rise of the global jihad. And it was her unpleasant hyper-aggressiveness that enabled her to help force a very important story the possibility of a marriage between WMD proliferators and global jihadists closer to the top of the agenda. 8.2: Cooper 8.2.1: So did Rove leak Plame's name to me, or tell me she was covert? No. Was it through my conversation with Rove that I learned for the first time that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA and may have been responsible for sending him? Yes. Did Rove say that she worked at the "agency" on "WMD"? Yes. When he said things would be declassified soon, was that itself impermissible? I don't know. Is any of this a crime? Beats me. At this point, I'm as curious as anyone else to see what Patrick Fitzgerald has. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1083870,00.html 9: Industry 9.1: Halliburton 9.1.1: News records show that in 1995, Vice President Cheney(2.1), then CEO of Halliburton, was fined $1.2 million for illegal sales of dual-use nuclear components to Libya. Having trouble finding this, but: FACT CHECK: Edwards made several allegations about what Cheney had done as CEO of Halliburton. We can only give Edwards partial credit for his Halliburton attack, however. He implied that Cheney was in charge of the company when it did business with Libya in violation of US sanctions, but that happened long before Cheney joined the company. Edwards was also slightly off when he said Halliburton paid millions in fines " while Cheney was CEO." He meant that it paid fines for matters that took place while Cheney was in charge. And in fact, the SEC announced Aug. 3 that Halliburton will pay $7.5 million to settle a matter that dates back to 1998, when Cheney was CEO. Source: Edwards-Cheney debate analysis (Ad-Watch by FactCheck.org) http://www.issues2000.org/Archive/Edwards_Cheney_Corporations.htm 9.1.2: The Atomic Energy Commission has said a North American company is one of 20 being investigated for black-market sales of WMD materials. 9.1.3: Still, "companies are playing fast and loose," says Adam Pener of Conflict Securities Advisory Group, a D.C.-based consultancy to multinational businesses. Halliburton, for example, manages to do business with Iran obliquely. Its Dubai-based affiliate, Halliburton Products & Services Ltd., allegedly has no Americans on staff; the Houston oil services company claims it has no direct ownership of the operation. Nevertheless, FORBES has obtained documents showing how Kala Ltd., the British arm of the National Iranian Oil Co., solicited at least 17 separate bids from the affiliate during 1997 and 1998 (when Vice President Cheney was Halliburton's chief executive). A few bids include handwritten notes that say "FOB Airport" or "FOB Dubai port"--meaning that the U.A.E. was just a way station between Halliburton and Tehran. Halliburton would not comment on the bids. In any event, earlier this year the Treasury Department reopened a 2001 inquiry into Halliburton's Iran operations and its Dubai-based partner. http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2004/0412/086_print.html 9.1.4: Weak!: Court to Hear Motions in Roswell Multi-Missile Case, By Richard Benke, The Associated Press, August 11, 2003 (for personal use only) With a co-defendant's guilty plea, the focus of a federal weapons case shifts back to its key figure, David Hudak, accused of amassing thousands of warheads and training foreign troops in counterterrorist strategies in Roswell. Hudak, president of Roswell-based High Energy Access Tools Inc., or HEAT, and co-defendant Michael Payne were arrested one year ago when the missiles were found. Payne pleaded guilty last month, acknowledging that he helped train soldiers from the United Arab Emirates in marksmanship and counterterrorism. A motions hearing in Hudak's case was set here Monday morning in the federal courtroom of Senior Judge John Conway. And the two sides have already exchanged memorandums disagreeing over the relevance of Houston-based Halliburton Corp., where U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney had been chief executive. Hudak was indicted on charges of having about 2,400 shoulder-launched missile warheads, of illegally exporting military services and of using explosive materials while committing a felony. Hudak, a Canadian, was also accused of several firearms violations. He has claimed the sale of warheads was initiated by Halliburton. Payne, the co-defendant and former Special Forces instructor, may re-emerge in the case - he agreed to testify for the prosecution when he pleaded guilty. In negotiating for Payne's guilty plea, the government promised to recommend a shorter prison term. Payne acknowledged violations of the Arms Export Control Act. Payne, 39, who began working for Hudak in 1999, became program manager for an instructional course for the Special Operations Command of the United Arab Emirates, according to court documents. Most of the training allegedly came from Army Special Forces Advanced Reconnaissance, where Payne had been a noncommissioned officer involved in running the training program, according to the document. http://www.uga.edu/cits/documents/html/xcnews33.htm 9.1.5: Yes, we ought. Let's start by looking at the problem of Cheney and Halliburton. During the VP's time at the company helm, the number of Halliburton subsidiaries registered in tax-friendly locations ballooned from nine in 1995 to 44 in 1999. The result? A dramatic drop in Halliburton's federal taxes, which fell from $302 million in 1998 to less than zero - to wit, an $85 million rebate - in 1999. http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=637&fcategory_desc=Halliburton 10: PNAC 10.1: Cheney 10.2: Rumsfeld 10.3: Wolfowitz 10.4: Richard Perle 11: JINSA www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3021cheney_halli.html 11.1: JINSA was founded by three of Israeli intelligence's leading agents in America: Dr. Stephen Bryen, who was investigated for passing classified information to the Israelis from the Senate in 1978; Richard Perle; and Michael Ledeen. All three JINSA big-wigs were named as members of the circle known as the "X Committee" behind the espionage of the convicted spy for Israel, Jonathan Jay Pollard." 11.2: Dr. Stephen Bryen 11.3: Richard Perle 11.4: Michael Ledeen 11.5: Cheney - "After he left the position of Secretary of Defense in the Bush "41" Administration, Cheney again hooked up with the Libby/Wolfowitz circle, joining the International Advisory Board of JINSA. 12: AEI American Enterprise Institute 12.1: Michael Ledeen 12.1.1: And that's where Michael Ledeen is mentioned. "In an interview published April 7, 2005, Cannistaro (the former head of counterterrorism operations at the CIA and the intelligence director at the National Security Council under Ronald Reagan) was asked by Ian Masters what he would say if it was asserted that the source of the forgery was former National Security Council and State Department consultant Michael Ledeen. (Ledeen had also allegedly been a liaison between the American Intelligence Community and SISMI (Italian military intelligence agency) two decades earlier.) Cannistraro answered by saying: "you'd be very close." www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Yellowcake-forgery 12.1.2: Ledeen has a colorful track record, which has produced substantial grist for the conspiracy mill: He was allegedly tied to the Italian P2 Masonic Lodge, a violent right wing group that was involved in a number of terrorists attacks in Italy in the 1970s the 1980s; in the late 1970s, while P2 was doing its dirty work, Ledeen was working as a consultant to Italian intelligence on terrorism issues; as a consultant to the National Security Council in the 1980s, Ledeen acted as a go-between for Oliver North in the early stages of the Iran-Contra affair, working with the Israeli spy David Kimche to gain the release of U.S. hostages in Beirut through an Iranian arms dealer, Manucher Ghorbanifar; he helped promote the "Bulgarian Connection" theory that the KGB was behind the assassination attempt on the pope in 1981; and, more recently, the Sydney Morning Herald reported (August 8, 2003) that Ledeen worked with Pentagon staffers to redevelop the channel to arms dealer Ghorbanifar in support of resistance efforts in Iran. Reported the Herald: " Rhode recently acted as a liaison between Feith's office, which drafted much of the Administration's post-Iraq planning, and Ahmed Chalabi, a former Iraqi exile groomed for leadership by the Pentagon. Mr. Rhode is a protege of Michael Ledeen, who was a National Security Council consultant in the mid 1980s when he introduced Mr. Ghorbanifar to Oliver North, a NSC aide, and others in the opening stages of the Iran-Contra affair. It is understood Mr. Ledeen reopened the Ghorbanifar channel with Mr. Feith's staff." (9, 10) http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/ledeen/ledeen.php 13: SISMI (Italian military intelligence agency) 13.1: Fall 2001 The Italian intelligence agency, SISMI, provides the CIA with a report on a 1999 trip to Niger made by Wissam al-Zahawie (see February 1999), Iraq's former ambassador to the Vatican. The report suggests that the trip's mission was to discuss the future purchase of uranium oxide, known as yellowcake. According to sources later interviewed by New Yorker's Seymour Hersh, the report is dismissed as amateurish and unsubstantiated by US intelligence. 13.2: Ledeen - liason? 14: AIPAC American Israel Public Affairs Committee 14.1: Larry Franklin passes intel (arrested march 05) 15: UAE - United Arab Emerates 15.1: Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum 15.1.1: Apparent ruler 15.2: Article mentions 15.2.1: So what's Uncle Sam's excuse when it comes to cracking down on nuclear proliferation? Can't we persuade the United Arab Emirates to police their middlemen? Apparently much of it comes down to docking privileges for U.S. forces and American arms sales ($8.1 billion from 1995 to 2002) to the U.A.E. Forcing the issue "would be incredibly stupid," says a source at the U.S. Embassy in the U.A.E. "This is the one friend we have in the Gulf, except Kuwait." http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2004/0412/086_print.html 16: Pakistan 16.1: 16.2: Abdul Qadeer Khan 16.2.1: That is particularly odd in light of the recent revelations of the region's pivotal role in the spread of weapons of mass destruction. A Dubai-based computer firm arranged for Malaysian- and European-made gas centrifuge components, used to enrich uranium, to be sent on to Libya. The firm was part of a vast network devised by Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistan's own Edward Teller. http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2004/0412/086_print.html 16.3: Evidence discovered in a probe of Iran's secret nuclear program points overwhelmingly to Pakistan as the source of crucial technology that put Iran on a fast track toward becoming a nuclear weapons power, according to U.S. and European officials familiar with the investigation. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A18170-2003Dec20¬Found=true 17: National Security Council (NSC) 17.1: Robert G. Joseph, director for nonproliferation 17.1.1: "Robert G. Joseph, director for nonproliferation at the National Security Council (NSC), telephones senior CIA official Alan Foley and argues that the Africa-uranium claim should be included in Bush's upcoming State of the Union address. When Foley warns that the allegation has little evidence to support it, Mr. Joseph instead requests that the speech include a remark saying that the British had learned that Iraq was seeking uranium in Africa, leaving out the bit about Niger and the exact quantity of uranium that was allegedly sought." http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10B11FC3B580C7B8DDDAE0894DB404482 *: Others **: Gannon **: Armstrong Miller **: Richard Armitage **: Elliott Abrams **: Zalmay M. Khalilzad **: King Hussein (Jordan) **: Jeffery Goldberg **: Les Aspen - Miller Lover? Clinton's Sec. Of Defense **: Rep Waxmann - This report, which was prepared at the request of Rep. Henry A. Waxman, is a comprehensive examination of the statements made by the five Administration officials most responsible for providing public information and shaping public opinion on Iraq: President George Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. It finds that the five officials made misleading statements about the threat posed by Iraq in 125 public appearances. The report and an accompanying database identify 237 specific misleading statements by the five officials. **: Bolton - If I'm not mistaken, Carl Ford Jr was the guy who gave the damaging testimony at Bolton's hearing about Bolton's strong-armed tactics used against one of Ford's colleagues. Is it possible that Bolton asked for the memo described above - and that the classified information being sought by Dems in the Bolton confirmation hearings is the smoking gun????? **: Rocco Martino - No attempt was ever made to interview the documents peddler at the center of the story -- Rocco Martino -- even though he was twice brought to the United States in the summer of 2004 after his identity as the purveyor of the documents had already been publicly revealed. (Niger yellowcake forgeries) **: Elizabetta Burba, the Italian journalist who brought the forgeries to the American Embassy in Rome. (Niger yellowcake forgories) **: Asher Karni: The alleged shipper, an Israeli national named Asher Karni, was arrested in December at Denver International Airport. He awaits trial in the U.S. for conspiring to export goods without a license, a crime that could result in a ten-year sentence and $250,000 fine per count. Neither Emirates Airlines nor the U.A.E. has been criticized publicly--let alone blacklisted--by U.S. officials. http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2004/0412/086_print.html **: A federal judge has thrown out the eight-year-old convictions of two defense company executives who sold technology that helped India build better nuclear missiles, finding that even though their conduct was "reprehensible," it was not criminal. In a stunning finale to a decade-long drama, US District Court Judge Douglas Woodlock overturned the jury convictions last month of Walter Lachman of Concord and Maurice Subilia of Kennebunkport, Maine, http://www.uga.edu/cits/documents/html/xcnews33.htm |
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