More Plame revelations: Received IRS audit in 2005 - Structural bolts from deck were removed

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http://allday.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/22/423569.aspx

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But when her husband angered the Bush administration by criticizing the war in Iraq, and she was "outed," it was tough. Wilson writes that the stress she and her husband faced almost ended their marriage. They were financially devastated when his consulting business dried up.

And scary things began to happen - scarier than being called names in the paper. She worried that al Qaeda might target her family. She got death threats and crank calls. She gives no details, but her former colleague, Larry Johnson, writes on his blog, NoQuarterUSA "in 2004 the FBI received intelligence that Al Qaeda hit teams were enroute to the United States to kill Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and Valerie Plame."

Wilson knew about the threat. Yet the CIA turned down her request for security for her children. She taught her nanny counter-surveillance techniques herself.

In her book, "FAIR GAME: MY LIFE AS A SPY, MY BETRAYAL BY THE WHITE HOUSE" (Read a Book Excerpt here) she also recounts being audited by the IRS in 2005 for the first time in her life, and the mysterious but alarming discovery that the structural bolts that had connected her elevated deck to the back of her house were all missing, one year after it was completely renovated.

She also believes the CIA went after her book more aggressively than the books of other ex-spies. Roughly 10% of it is "redacted" - here on page 50 and 51, all you can see are the periods. We'll probably never know what she wanted to tell us on that page, or many more.

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1. Conservative values activated when someone tells the truth

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2. Valerie

Too bad Valerie can't compare notes with Marvin Bush's deceased former housekeeper.

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3. Why would Al Qaeda target Plame?

The only reason I could think of is that the network she was tracking was involved in potentially (or actively *craps pants*) providing nuclear weapons to Al Qaeda. If this were true, then it means Cheney is culpable for Al Qaeda receiving a nuclear weapon.

This is a huge conclusion to jump to, but why else would Al Qaeda target her?

Edit: And was she ever sure the deck had the bolts in the first place? This stuff is sounding like tinfoil. Johnson et al need to really back up claims like these before we're talking about how the WTC was wired with explosives and there were no Jews in the WTC when it was hit.