Libby & Destruction of CIA Counter-Proliferation

seemslikeadream

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Sun Feb-11-07 07:23 PM
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Libby & Destruction of CIA Counter-Proliferation

Edited on Sun Feb-11-07 07:23 PM by seemslikeadream

Thanks Mark :hi:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0702/S00072.htm

All the while that OSP worked with Israeli intelligence, the FBI was watching as part of an ongoing surveillance of suspected espionage going back decades. Among OSP staff and consultants, a startlingly large percentage had previously been fired from government posts, lost security clearances or otherwise disciplined for unauthorized contacts with Israeli officials. That group included Feith, Richard Perle, and Harold Rhode.

On May 26, 2005, a 20-page indictment was handed down by the US District Court in Alexandria, VA against USAF Lt. Col. Larry Franklin, the OSP Iran desk officer, on espionage charges. Also indicted were two Iran experts, working for the American-Israel Political Affairs Council (AIPAC), one of whom had been observed communicating with Israeli officials since 1999. As news of the FBI investigation was leaked to Leslie Stahl, Naor Gilon, the Mossad Chief of Station in DC, and several Israeli military intelligence officers hastily slipped out of the country. The indictment lists 14 times between August 15, 2002, and June 23, 2004, that Mr. Franklin met with Mr. Gilon. See, http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/8
As the OSP-AIPAC Grand Jury deliberated, a related investigation across the Potomac River pushed into high gear.

On October 28, 2005, a Grand Jury returned an indictment against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby on six felony charges of perjury and Obstruction of Justice. Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald announced that figures in the White House and Vice President�s office was the subject of a previously quiet investigation into the outing of Plame.

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seemslikeadream

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Sun Feb-11-07 07:24 PM
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1. Israel's Mole Inside the Pentagon

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blm

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Sun Feb-11-07 07:27 PM
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2. I have to agree. This is the backstory that corpmedia is AFRAID to touch.

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Gabi Hayes

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Sun Feb-11-07 07:34 PM
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3. they're not afraid to touch it.

they don't even conSIDER touching it

the occasional reporter might stumble onto something, but he/she is soon disabused of looking into it. that's usually enough, but not always. almost, though

ask Robert Parry

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seemslikeadream

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Sun Feb-11-07 07:40 PM
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4. I think Josh Marshall knows about it also

and alluded to it in June 04 but has not spoke of it since, that I know of

www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_06_13.php#003068

In June, Josh Marshall Talking Points

A few points before signing off, though. You may have noticed a slight down-tick in the frequency of posts of late. And that�s for a few different reasons. But a principal one is that I and several colleagues have been working on a story that, if and when it comes to fruition � and I�m confident it shall � should shuffle the tectonic plates under that capital city where I normally hang my hat. So that�s something to look forward to in the not too distant future. And that�s taken some of my time away from TPM and prevented me from sharing with you some delectable tidbits which otherwise I would have loved to have done.

I�ve spent so much time over the last several months reporting on a project that has to do with classified materials that I�m embarrassed to say that I don�t know just what the rules are for taking notes of such classified documents in secure reading rooms.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4002813

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blm

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Mon Feb-12-07 10:55 AM
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10. That's the problem - more know but WON'T talk about it because anyone who does

talk about it becomes a target, or are demoted, roundly ostracized and ignored.

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bleever

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Sun Feb-11-07 08:17 PM
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5. Recommended.

:thumbsup:

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Mon Feb-12-07 06:24 AM
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6. morning kick

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H2O Man

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Mon Feb-12-07 06:41 AM
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7. Nominated.

Thank you.

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Mon Feb-12-07 09:03 AM
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8. K&R

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9. kick

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