Posted on 07/26/2005 9:47:23 PM PDT by SolidSupplySide
The special prosecutor in the CIA leak probe has interviewed a wider range of administration officials than was previously known, part of an effort to determine whether anyone broke laws during a White House effort two years ago to discredit allegations that President Bush used faulty intelligence to justify the Iraq war, according to several officials familiar with the case.
Prosecutors have questioned former CIA director George J. Tenet and deputy director John E. McLaughlin, former CIA spokesman Bill Harlow, State Department officials, and even a stranger who approached columnist Robert D. Novak on the street.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I'm sure that Fitzgerald has or will call most of the people you've named, but Thompson? He's crazy and has been for a long time.
Washington Abuzz Over a New Kind of Scandal [Yep, Plame Worked With Foley!]
Vincent Cannistraro, the ABC flak who was described as "the head of the CIA's counter-terrorism centre" during the 1988 Lockerbie investigation and as a " CIA intelligence advisor to the National Security Council" during the Okalahoma City bombing investigation, is always and everywhere quoted by the liberal media, and what he has to say is revealing:
"The leak was to punish Wilson, to disparage him with the suggestion of nepotism," he said. In other words, he suggested, the leaker was arguing that Wilson's report should not be taken seriously because he only got the job through his wife's intercession. (Wilson says his wife was not the person responsible for sending him to Africa.)
--- LA Times, 10/1/03
"…the former head of CIA's counter-terrorism, Vince Cannistraro, said, "Basically cooked information is working its way into high-level pronouncements and there's a lot of unhappiness about it in intelligence, especially among analysts at the CIA."
--- "White House 'exaggerating' Iraqi threat," The Guardian, October 9, 2002
[NOTE the date of this Guardian article--this was well before Bush's 2003 SOTU--Fedora]
"Vince Cannistraro, a former CIA counterterrorism chief, said he saw little chance of CIA analysts going public to contradict the Bush administration. "Sure, there's a lot of disagreement among analysts in the intelligence community on how things are going to be used (by policy-makers)," he said. "But you are not going to see people making public resignations. That would mean giving up your career."
--- ABC News, March 14, 2003.
"Vincent Cannistraro, former head of anti-terrorism operations and analysis at the CIA., says the neocon "cabal" leading the administration has "never been able to coalesce as they have now. September 11th gave them the opportunity, and now they're in heaven. They believe the intelligence [justifying war on Iraq] is there. They want to believe it. It has to be there."
---Counterpunch, July 26, 2003
"That he (Saddam) was promoting al-Qaeda is absurd," Cannistraro said.
--- USA Today, July 13, 2003
And here's Vinnie singing a different tune during the Clinton administration:
"It's clear that the Iraqis would like to have bin Laden in Iraq. The Iraqis have all the technological elements, the tradecraft that bin Laden lacks, and they have Abu Nidal."
--- Vincent Cannistraro quoted in "Some Analysts Fear a bin Laden, Saddam Pairing," by John Walcott, The Charlotte Observer, February 14, 1999.
49 posted on 10/01/2003 3:17:03 PM CDT by browardchad
The documents were just what Administration hawks had been waiting for. The second former official, Vincent Cannistraro, who served as chief of counter-terrorism operations and analysis, told me that copies of the Burba documents were given to the American Embassy, which passed them on to the C.I.A.’s chief of station in Rome, who forwarded them to Washington. Months later, he said, he telephoned a contact at C.I.A. headquarters and was told that “the jury was still out on this”—that is, on the authenticity of the documents.
Italy blames France for Niger uranium claim (Update II)
During the next few weeks a documentary will be released in the US in which, alongside American diplomats that have served in Niger, a number of ex-CIA agents appear. The common objective that unites them is an attempt to demonstrate the role and responsibility of Bush in the dirty affair. No small coincidence this: those involved, as we have already indicated, are the movers and shakers behind a strategy put in place to favour the rise of JF Kerry. Amongst those involved is Vincent Cannistraro, ex-CIA and subsequently a security advisor to the Vatican. Its rather odd that Cannistraro, who in public conferences tried to convince the Americans of the dangers of the Iraqi nuclear threat, is now placing the blame for the false documents on the Italians.
That was David Kelly, who went missing the evening of July 17, 2003 and was found dead 18 hours later, a few days after Novak's 7/14/2003 article mentioning Plame came out, and while Kelly was under consideration as a possible suspect in a leak to reporter Andrew Gilligan regarding the British investigation of the origin of the Niger forgeries. One of the last people Kelly talked to before he died was Judith Miller, a close friend of his from their mutual work in WMD-related investigations.
"During the next few weeks a documentary will be released in the US in which, alongside American diplomats that have served in Niger, a number of ex-CIA agents appear."
This is "Uncovered" a wannabe Fahrenheit 911 that Moveon.org paid for (meaning Soros, too).
I've posted about it elsewhere. Joe Wilson, Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern and the rest of the usual traitors all appear:
UNCOVERED: The War on Iraq - interviews
http://www.truthuncovered.com/interviews.php
The fact that Cannistraro labels the other CIA agents as a "neocon cabal" , pigeon holes Cannistraro as a far left radical. I think that pretty much sums up the situation at the CIA
"The fact that Cannistraro labels the other CIA agents as a "neocon cabal" , pigeon holes Cannistraro as a far left radical. I think that pretty much sums up the situation at the CIA."
As you know Joe Wilson, Larry Johnson, Ray McGovern--they all talk like this.
Wilson's piece for The Nation back in March 2003 was quite outrageous. It was a rant about neocon imperialism.
I'm convinced they are anti-Semites--in addition to be traitors.
Thanks for the info
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on that and how you reached your conclusions. From what I've read about the crime scene, the position of the body (first two, volunteer witnesses report finding body propped up against tree, after period of 25-30 minutes where body was under supervision of three investigators who were in the area all subsequent witnesses report body found flat on its back, autopsy indicates victim died lying on back) and the nature of the fatal wound (severing of ulnar artery without severing of radial artery) suggest a possible homicide. However I haven't seen a good discussion of this presenting the other side of the argument, so I'd like to hear other viewpoints.
Isn't anti-Semiticism de riguer when you are working for Islamists?
It sure seems to help.
Thanks for the link. Interesting cast of characters in that video for sure.
I know the left is fond of hyperbolic, intemperate remarks, but at the time that was pretty over-the-top, even for them ... unless Wilson knew that Rove had been involved in the story. If Wilson did know that, then exactly how did he know that? Were the reporters talking to Rove also talking to Wilson? Or, worse, was this coordinated as a means to both discredit the Bush Admin AND take out key members of the investigation by setting them up to talk on background to reporters? The major parties involved in this on the left are just too desperate to attack Rove before the final report comes out - if they knew he had done something wrong, I think they would be content to wait for the report to come out. But if they know that THEY did something wrong, then they have to re-spin the investigation so they can claim it's a cover-up or partisan counterattack when the whip comes down on their hides.
It will be interesting to see if there are any conspiracy charges that come out of Fitzgerald's investigation.
Thank you.
Have to back to: follow the $$. Who was funding Kerry, moveon, etc. .. ANY movement taking action to oust Bush?
He made the comment in 2003, right? They had to get Rove out of there before the election. They believed Bush would go down in 2004 without Rove at the helm.
Niger's main exports are cowpeas, goats, and uranium. So I guess we're now supposed to believe his undercover wife secretly recommended him for a CIA-backed trip to Niger so he could investigate illicit cowpea or goat sales to Iraq?
Shouldn't she have told her hubby that he as being sent to investigate "other matters," since even he was apparently under the mistaken impression that he was sent to investigate Iraqi attempts to purchase uranium?
Maybe he was supposed to look for glow-in-the-dark goat droppings?
Ted Koppell's probably editing now ..;)
I still think it indicates that Wilson had some foreknowledge at the time that Rove was involved. I know the Dems blame everything on Rove, but this was a bit over the top even for them ... unless he knew something. And if he did, HOW did he know it?
I have a feeling that's part of what Fitzgerald is investigating.
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