The Wilson-Kerry-NSC Axis Of Evil

There is more and more evidence that there was a lot of collusion between the Wilsons, people at the CIA and people at the State Department to put out a sham story on the Niger forgeries to help Kerry get elected. Here is the evidence (which somehow Inspector Clousseu Fitzgerald keeps missing).

(1) Wilson was working for the Kerry campaign when he started to tell his Niger forgery lie to Kristof, Pincus, Knight Ridder and the rest of the media. The fact is now well known the trip Wilson used as the lynch pin for the forgery sham had nothing to do with the forgeries.

(2) At the same time Wilson, by his own words, is calling the State Department, CIA and NSC about Niger, Rand Beers up and quits his job at NSC to go work for the Kerry campaign. Personally I think all those phone calls were to tell everyone to start implementing their plans.

(3) Rand Beers, per his own words, knows about Valerie and her role as a member of the Kerry campaign prior to the Novak article. Beers is good friends with Clarke and Berger (Berger being another Kerry campaign member).

Of course.

The short answer would be to read the Pincus piece (one of the first to come out with Joe as a source (admitted by both parties, where he notes the docs are forged before they came out... since retracted two weeks ago in a column by Pincus (maybe he misheard him say the signatures weren't right and the officals were no longer in office there... ok), but you know that already. He also sourced David Corn and others in early June. On Joe's Politics of truth website he damns himself on the French forgeries once again.http://cryptome.org/rocco-martino.htm

Italian Ex-Spy Discusses Own Role in Iraq-Niger Uranium Traffic Hoax
Milan Il Giornale in Italian 21 Sep 04 p 4
IL GIORNALE
Tuesday, September 21, 2004

(snip)

(Martino) I did not know that it was a hoax, and there is proof of what I say. I have been engaged in intelligence (previous word in English in original) for many years, offering my cooperation to various intelligence services including the French, about whom a great deal has been said and about whom we will be talking later on. The hoax began one day when a Nigerian (as published) Embassy source who had proven to be reliable on previous occasions and who had contacts also with the collaborator of a SISMI (Intelligence and Military Security Service) aide, passed on to me a whole lot of information. It is true that that information included some references to a uranium traffic between Niger and Iraq. What did I do at that juncture? I passed it on to the French secret service, with which I am in touch and by which I was remunerated. I passed it on also to Panorama, which assessed it in order to study it, dispatching a reporter to Niger and turning the file over to the US Embassy in Rome for cross-checking.

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Just whom does Joseph Wilson work for? 2nd wife, Niger info
Posted: November 19, 2005
World Net Daily

One does not have to be a cynic to question Wilson's motives. He has had a long and deep involvement with French interests. In an article for the American Thinker, "Joseph Wilson IV: The French Connection," James Lewis makes a strong case for French manipulation of the entire Plame affair. He notes that Wilson met his first wife at the French Embassy in Washington, that his second wife was a "cultural attache" in Francophone Africa, that Niger's mines are owned by a French consortium, "which operates cheek-by-jowl with the Quai d'Orsay," and that Plame herself boasted of her husband's numerous "French contacts."

To be sure, the French government and hundreds of its key industries wanted to keep Saddam in power. Along with the Russians, they were the primary beneficiaries of the shamefully corrupt United Nations Oil-for-Food program. The Times of London estimated that from 1996 to 2003 French firms earned $3.7 ill-gotten billions from the program. As CIA chief weapons inspector Charles Duelfer would later report, Oil-For-Food kept Saddam awash in funds, corrupted the debates over Iraq, undermined sanctions and allowed Iraq to contemplate rebuilding its nuclear program. Even if Wilson had no involvement with the ill-concealed scandal, he had to know how it benefited his clients and potential clients.

The convergence of Wilson's business interests and political biases may have encouraged him to go public, but he would have remained a minor irritant were it not for an unusual sequence of events. These events began four days before the appearance of Wilson's initial anti-war article when Italian journalist Rocco Martino walked a set of documents into the American embassy in Rome. These documents detailed an Iraqi purchase of uranium from Niger. The embassy promptly turned them over to the State Department and the CIA. Although at least one analyst at the State Department suspected a forgery, no one at the CIA who saw the documents raised any objections.

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”Wilson provided misleading information to The Washington Post last June. He said then that he concluded the Niger intelligence was based on documents that had clearly been forged because 'the dates were wrong and the names were wrong.'" … Wilson “had never seen the CIA reports and had no knowledge of what names and dates were in the reports.”

http://ombudsgod.blogspot.com/2004_07_01_ombudsgod_archive.html#108946833365789702

Snips to tie it together:

1988 to 1991: Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. During "Desert Shield" he was the acting Ambassador and was responsible for the freeing of several hundred American hostages. He was the last official American to meet with Saddam Hussein before "Desert Storm. He was number two, in charge of administrative matters, to April Glaspie, the career diplomat who it seems in July 1990 made Saddam think the U.S. would not mind if he invaded Kuwait and has not held an ambassador-level job since. She left on vacation later that month, leaving Wilson in charge, and after Saddam invaded Kuwait a few weeks later she didn't return to Iraq. The Air Phase of the First Gulf War started in January 1991.

After only one year in the job Wilson decided to retire and go into the private sector because "we wanted to have kids, and felt that it had become very difficult to live off two government salaries." He set up a consultancy, J. C. Wilson International Ventures, with an office in downtown Washington at the headquarters of the Rock Creek Corporation, an investment firm of which little is known. Wilson's right-wing critics have been quick to condemn the affiliation as "murky," though Wilson does not work for Rock Creek and merely rents space and facilities there.

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Plame also told Wilson that she'd be moving with him into the new house only as his wife. Records show that Wilson and his second wife, Jacqueline, to whom he was married for 12 years, were divorced in 1998. By the mid-90s, Wilson says, that relationship had pretty much disintegrated. "Separate bedrooms-and I was playing a lot of golf," he says. (the 90s)

Wilson also came back to Washington, as a senior director for African affairs at the National Security Council, where, according to the Reagan administration's assistant secretary of state for African affairs, Chester Crocker, he was the most effective person in that job during the Clinton administration. (Oops)

Personal note: Jacqueline is the ex-wife that works at the French embassy and is a friend of Rocco Martino who 'received' the Niger documents which originated from France... not really Italy. Everything started from France... (God forbid you stop that Oil For Food money).

Note: He spent days in France when investigating.

"I have a number of clients, and basically we help them with their sort of investments in countries like Niger," explains Wilson. "Niger was of some interest because it has some gold deposits coming onstream. We had some clients who were interested in gold.... We were looking to set up a gold-mine company out of London."

BTW, his investment company dealt with more than gold mines... but also hooking up clients with Niger for something in other mines... want to guess what that was?
Uranium.

Coincidence?

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