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Impressive research, Fedora. It's like one big incestuous family tree of intrigue. Whenever there's this much power and money involved, you can always do an easy 6 degrees of separation from (not Kevin Bacon) the Clintons.
It Takes A World (to satisfy both of their lusts)
Great stuff.
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That was a good read. Great research. Wilson sure has a lot of friends in interesting places.
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Just one Minute (a blog)
Posted by: The Kid | October 10, 2004 09:07 PM
Is it possible that Fitzgerald has moved past the Plame outing into something more serious?
Everyone assumes that Plame nominated her husband for the non-paying Niger trip out of dull domestic motives. It is further assumed that he misrepresented his findings because he's a politically motivated horse's ass. What if those assumptions are wrong?
The Niger documents found in Italy were forgeries. The forger says he created them for French Intelligence, with the expectation that they would be exposed and thus damage the Saddam/yellowcake link. In other words, the French - possibly with the connivance of others - ran a counterintelligence operation against the United States.
Joe Wilson's credentials for the Niger trip were weak. He was not an investigator. But because he was sent, a professional investigator was not. When his findings were ignored, he went public via the New York Times - with a claim that is now known to be false. Just as false as those Italian forgeries, in a distinctly similar way, with distinctly similar intent.
Wilson was not paid for the Niger trip but he does receive a paycheck from Arab sources. It would be easy to hide a payoff in plain sight. Has Fitzgerald found something suspicious? Is it possible that Wilson and his wife were part of the same operation that created the Italian forgeries?
Another post on this same blog, Just One Minute (Who are these people, they are very informed.
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...Actually , the real target of New Republic is probably the money man behind Joe Wilson --
Elias Aburdene.
I posted the following over on Roger L Simon's blog back in Oct 2003 (See http://rogerlsimon.com/archives/00000404.htm
and scan for my name )
More from, Just One Minute
Lest some of you don't get the point re Elias Abur
consider this blurb at the bottom of
an October 1997 article by
the "Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs" :
"National Association of Arab Americans (NAAA) President Khalil Jahshan and Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV) co-chaired a fact-finding visit to the Middle East between March 22 and April 5. The group, which also consisted of NAAA Board Chairman George Gorayeb
and Executive Vice-Chairman Elias Aburdene,
visited Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE, Lebanon and Syria, after which Jahshan went on his own to Jordan, Israel and Palestine....."
Ref: Bottom of page at
http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0697/9706014.htm
Those wanting to find out more about the National Association of Arab Americans are invited to Google. "
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I have never followed up on that, but...
I would think finding a connection between Wilson's group and the voucher recipients would be nightmarishly complex. And it is odd to think of Wilson being on Saddam's payroll, given their antagonistic history. But both were opposed to the war.
Posted by: TM | October 11, 2004 12:44 PM
A Don Williams left a similar trail at Roger Simons 10/1/03 and anotherat Calpundit 10/4/04
Take a look at this one.
New media at its best!
Thanks Fedora.
Thanks to all linkers/researchers.
BTTT.
Wow. Outstanding job. Let's see a DUer try to create such substance - with souces included.
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As I have noted in an earlier post on another thread, "What I find curious is why Wilson retired with only 22 years service, especially at a time when he was in his peak earning years and his career should have been in its ascendency. I suspect that his career was at a dead end either due to the role he played in the April Glaspie affair or his subsequent performance on the NSC. There must have been a cloud over his head, which "forced" him to get out. With his colossal ego, I doubt if finishing his career out as a bureaucrat stuffed into some cubicle was not acceptable.
I might have to revise that estimate somewhat about Wilson's early departure from the State Department at age 50 and 22 years of service. It may be a case of following the money.
... why Wilson and the CIAs investigation did not explore at least the possibility of the French-led company COGEMA covertly allowing Niger to sell uranium to Iraq.
bump- Someone needs to send this Rush, ASAP.
Fedora. I am reading this for the first time. It is a brilliant job.Hats off to you for it.
I missed this post first time around. Read on, and Joseph Wilson's motives become more clear.
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WOW! I was going thru my bookmarks looking for something entirely different and found that I had bookmarked this thread way back when you first posted it. I couldn't recall what the thread contained so I looked at it again just now. WOW! Fedora, you have collected some great references here!!
Ping to a few - just in case I'm not the only one who over-looked this great thread from the past