Envision the headline -- Iraq WMD Lie: Cheney & Plame Clashed at CIA HQ

understandinglife

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Thu Nov-03-05 10:38 PM
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Envision the headline -- Iraq WMD Lie: Cheney & Plame Clashed at CIA HQ

When you think of all the trips Cheney is supposed to have made to CIA HQ.

When you think of how badly he, Bush and the neoconsters wanted to launch their imperialistic war on Iraq.

Think about the second, or third, or fourth trip -- he's being rebuffed; his efforts to "fix the intelligence" are being blocked.

The folk at CIA HQ are going to need to be digging deep to show Dickie boy that the facts are the facts; that they know folk have stolen stationary from the Niger Embassy in Rome; they know .... .

Cheney's freaking -- demanding as Vice President of the United States to be shown ALL the facts. Who's gathering, who's analyzing, what part of our WMD covert infrastructure is tracking all the players .... If he was applying the type of pressure people have alluded as VP of the USA, he's going to be sitting in secure room with the folk at CIA who are the undisputed experts; bona fides on the table. Who's going to be one of those experts?

The question Mr Fitzgerald wants Mr Libby to answer is -- "Did Vice President Cheney tell you that Valerie Plame/Wilson was a NOC?"

He might also have asked -- "Did Vice President Cheney tell you he had direct interactions with Valerie Plame/Wilson?" and "Were you present at any of the meeting(s) Vice President Cheney had (at CIA HQ or elsewhere) that included Valerie Plame/Wilson?"

So, here's a simple, testable hypothesis:

Several bloggers and folk have speculated as to why a "meticulous and intelligent" lawyer, i.e., Libby, would commit multiple felonies as part of a cover-up.

Perhaps it's simple - Libby knew Cheney had direct contact with Valerie Wilson at the CIA. Not tangential interaction, but direct. Perhaps Mrs Wilson was among those challenging the VP regarding any citation of the forged Niger documents.

A key aspect of this hypothesis is that TO THIS DAY, Mrs. Wilson would likely be prohibited by the "need to know" caveat, from discussing any such interactions with Cheney -- with anyone -- including her husband.

Ambassador Wilson would have no "need to know" regarding the activities of Mrs. Wilson's CIA division, particularly, any actions she may have had with the VP and his representatives (which would have included Libby and Hannah and others).

Amb. Wilson has been explicit that after Mrs. Wilson introduced him at CIA HQ she left the room and had no further dealings with his trip to Niger.

Thus, Mrs. Wilson would not have been able to prevent Amb. Wilson from publishing his Op-Ed by using the one piece of information that might have given him pause -- that she was a principal in the efforts of the CIA (all of which were classified) to keep the President from using the Niger reference in his October 7, 2002, speech in Cincinnati, and all subsequent efforts to prevent that information from being used to justify a war on Iraq.

Just an hypothesis -- but a testable one.

All Mr. Fitzgerald has to do, if he hasn't already, is ask Mrs. Wilson the question(s). And, he has both the security clearances and "need to know."

Sorry to be a bit of a pain on this one, but I would really appreciate it if all of you would send the URL of this OP to as many media and Congressional folk as you can.

Cheney must be asked this question. McClellan needs to be confronted with this question in repeated White House Press briefings.

I'd sure like to hear some reporters asking all these questions -- to Mr Fitzgerald, to the Vice President, to Mr Libby and to Mrs Wilson, just to get them out there. No expectation they would be answered, but to get them into the record and into the heads of all our fellow citizens.

It is not the least bit far fetched that Vice President Cheney and Mrs Wilson crossed each other's path on the Iraqi WMD issue. Did they?

We all need to know.

Thank you.

Peace.