Reply #34: Side Issue in the Plame Case: Who Sent Her Spouse to Africa?

[understandinglife]

Thought it useful to provide the link to Walter Pincus' article in in the context of this thread and to quote a segment of it:

Side Issue in the Plame Case: Who Sent Her Spouse to Africa?

by Walter Pincus

August 11, 2005

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After he went public in 2003 about the trip, senior Bush administration officials, trying to discredit Wilson's findings, told reporters that Wilson's wife, who worked at the CIA, was the one who suggested the Niger mission for her husband. Days later, Plame was named as an "agency operative" by syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak, who has said he did not realize he was, in effect, exposing a covert officer. A Senate committee report would later say evidence indicated Plame suggested Wilson for the trip.

Over the past months, however, the CIA has maintained that Wilson was chosen for the trip by senior officials in the Directorate of Operations counterproliferation division (CPD) -- not by his wife -- largely because he had handled a similar agency inquiry in Niger in 1999. On that trip, Plame, who worked in that division, had suggested him because he was planning to go there, according to Wilson and the Senate committee report.

The 2002 mission grew out of a request by Vice President Cheney on Feb. 12 for more information about a Defense Intelligence Agency report he had received that day, according to a 2004 report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. An aide to Cheney would later say he did not realize at the time that this request would generate such a trip.

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Link:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/10/AR2005081001918_pf.html

There's that name Cheney again ...... and no matter how they try to suppress the role he has played in all of these disasters ....

I think this Horsey cartoon offers a fitting analogy:



Keep swat'n, Dickie boy ...


Peace.