[piasa]

JULY 9, 2003 : (CBS AIRS COMPLAINTS BY GREG THIELMAN, FORMER STATE DEPT DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC, PROLIFERATION AND MILITARY ISSUES OFFICE IN THE BUREAU OF INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH, AGAINST COLIN POWELL ) ... CBS itself featured the same basic charge from Thielmann back on July 9 and he leveled his allegations, against Powell and other Bush officials, during PBS’s June 13 Now with Bill Moyers. - October 16, 2003 CyberAlert, via "60 Minutes II Re-Runs Ex-Official’s Attack on Powell’s UN Case," by Brent Baker, Media Research Center , 2-5-04

* Note that this is the same day Japan Today is fed the Cap Hill Blue Story on fake CIA source "T J Wilkinson" :

JULY 9, 2003 : (JAPAN TODAY RECEIVES CHB "T J WILKINSON" STORY, BUT CREDITS THE STORY TO TRUTHOUT.ORG WHICH HAD SENT IT TO THEM) The genie was out of the bottle at this point. On July 9th, Japan Today published the same exact story as Capitol Hill Blue, verbatim, crediting the story to TruthOut. Within hours, the Google News compilation service had it as the head story in its grouping of the news reports about the White House admission that the Niger intelligence was unreliable. I contacted Japan Today, and in a series of emails with Mr. Betros, I informed him that Capitol Hill Blue had backed off of some of the assertions in the article, and further that there was reason to doubt the existence of the Mr. Wilkinson quoted in the story. This information was news to Mr. Betros, as he was completely unaware of Thompson and of Capitol Hill Blue. He informed me that Japan Today had obtained the story from TruthOut, to which his organization subscribes, and which had presented the story as their own. Betros acted quickly to verify what I was telling him, apparently realizing that the credibility of his news organization could be impacted.- "Games People Play," by William McKinley of FreeRepublic

[ravingnutter]

Yeah, I've had my eye on Thielmann too, just can't figure out how he is involved. He was the first one to get a "report" (synopsis) of the forgeries from Jeff Castelli, the CIA Station Chief in Rome. What is throwing me off is that he ignored it, as he said it was not credible. If he was deeply involved, he would have passed it on, but then again, maybe it was a timing issue. He was apparently in a pissing contest with Bolton over how reports were passed up the chain of command. Bolton makes a statement that:

“I found that there was lots of stuff that I wasn’t getting and that the INR analysts weren’t including,” he told me. “I didn’t want it filtered.

Could that have been this report? If Thielmann would have passed it on, it could have prevented this whole fiasco.