Posted on 04/21/2006 12:01:43 PM PDT by Howlin
Edited on 04/21/2006 12:47:23 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Just breaking on Fox...
No details, but the agent was caught dead to rights leaking....
Update: CIA Officer Fired for Leaking Classified Info to Media
WASHINGTON — A CIA officer has been relieved of his duty after being caught leaking classified information to the media.
CIA officials will not reveal the officer's name, assignment, or the information that was leaked. The firing is a highly unusual move, although there has been an ongoing investigation into leaks in the CIA.
One official called this a "damaging leak" that deals with operational information and said the fired officer "knowingly and willfully" leaked the information to the media and "was caught."
Wilsongate: Motive, Means, and Opportunity
Active in encouraging speculation against Berlusconi and Blair were former US intelligence agents linked to VIPS who shuttled between the US and European media. Former CIA agent Vince Cannistraro, who in retirement had gone to work as a security advisor for the Vatican and an intelligence consultant for ABC News (where Morton Halperin’s son Mark Halperin served as Political Director) had been serving since the Clinton administration as a frequent source for US correspondents of Britain’s Guardian, which was also quoting Valerie Plame’s former CIA colleague Larry Johnson (later of VIPS) by September 2002. Cannistraro also served as a source for the Italian media. Although during the Clinton administration various articles had quoted Cannistraro linking Iraq to Al Qaeda, from about September 2002 on Cannistraro began telling US and European reporters that there was no evidence of a link between Iraq and Al Qaeda. He also began complaining, as he expressed it to the Guardian on October 9, 2002, “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.” Cannistraro elaborated to the Washington Post on October 25, 2002, “they are undertaking a campaign to get George Tenet. . .fired because they can't get him to say what they want on Iraq.” Later Cannistraro would claim that Saddam Hussein used him to make peace overtures to the US via Iraqi agent Tahir Habbush in December 2002, when Hussein was reportedly sending similar messages through channels such as former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter--an antiwar propagandist financed by Iraqi agent Shakir Al-Khafaji--to sympathetic world leaders such as Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Nelson Mandela. Meanwhile as Cannistraro was serving as Saddam Hussein’s courier and discrediting Bush’s war effort in the European media, the German TV show Panorama broadcast a similar message from VIPS’ Ray McGovern and David MacMichael, along with Bob Baer and former UN weapons inspector David Albright, in an episode which aired March 6, 2003, a day before Mohamed ElBaradei of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA, headquartered in Vienna, Austria) first publicized the Niger forgeries. Later Germany’s ZDF Television, which been airing interviews about the forgeries with ElBaradei, Baer, and Seymour Hersh, supplied a video of the Niger forgeries to ABC News for a July 15, 2003 show which quoted Cannistraro blaming the forgeries on Italian intelligence: “The Italians, as a NATO ally, thought they had some valuable information that played into current NATO requirements as well as U.S. and U.K. requirements about Iraq and Saddam Hussein, and they passed it on.”71
SNIP
On February 4, the day before Powell’s UN speech, someone briefed Baute on the Niger forgeries and provided him with copies. Who provided the briefing and forgeries to him and where they did so have been reportedly differently by different sources. According to Baute’s account as reported by Seymour Hersh, he was briefed by the US mission in Austria while aboard a plane en route from IAEA headquarters in Vienna to UN headquarters in New York, and upon reaching New York he was provided with copies of the documents by the US.174 What the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s report says regarding this is censored at a key point, reading, “On February 4, 2003, the U.S. Government passed electronic copies of the Iraq-Niger documents to [3/4 line deleted] the IAEA. Because the Director of the IAEA’s INVO [Iraq Nuclear Verification Office] was in New York at the time, the U.S. Government also provided the documents to him in New York.”175 So far this seems consistent enough. But slightly at variance with these accounts is a July 18, 2003 article by Walter Pincus and Dana Priest which depicts the briefing occurring in Vienna rather than on the plane from Vienna: “On Feb. 4, the U.N. inspectors' Iraq team was called to the U.S. mission in Vienna and verbally briefed on the contents of the documents. A day later, they received copies, according to officials familiar with the inspectors' work.” A couple weeks earlier, Pincus and Richard Leiby had reported that the copies of the forgeries the inspectors received came from the CIA: “In early February, the CIA received a translation of the Niger documents and in early March, copies of the documents, which it turned over to the International Atomic Energy Agency.”176 A seemingly different account is found in a March 8, 2003 article by Ian Traynor, stating that Britain provided the documents to the IAEA in Vienna: “British officials named the state of Niger as the source of the uranium and passed their evidence to the UN nuclear watchdog, the international atomic energy agency, in Vienna.” Hans Blix curiously stated as reported in an April 22, 2003 article by Sally Bolton, “The CIA say they got a copy of the document from the UK.”177 This is contradicted by a September 2003 British Parliamentary investigation which states, “In February 2003 the International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA) received from a third party (not the UK) documents that the party had acquired in the autumn of 2002 and which purported to be evidence of Iraq’s attempts to obtain uranium from Niger. In March 2003 the IAEA identified some of the documents it had received as forgeries and called into question the authenticity of the others.” Britain’s July 2004 Butler Report similarly though somewhat more vaguely states: “it was not until early 2003 that the British Government became aware that the US (and other states) had received from a journalistic source a number of documents alleged to cover the Iraqi procurement of uranium from Niger. Those documents were passed to the IAEA. . .”178
Dana Priest’s Husband Gets Joe Wilson Media Gigs
Posts 47 and following.
Meant to ping you to #2343 :-)
I NEVER bought into the 5th Columnist/Shadow Party BS until today....
The Links that are being exposed here are utterly ASTOUNDING....
An entire MACHINE dedicated to bringing down the US Government, and installing Globalists...
This is the stuff of movies, but the bad guys were ALWAYS Republicans according to Hollywood........
Fedora,
For historical refrence see my post #1701 (re Vince C.)
April 23, 2006 -- THE best prop at the party for Sen. Ted Kennedy and his new book, "America, Back on Track," was a special clock historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. showed to former President Bill Clinton that counts down the days, hours and minutes until President Bush leaves office.
Clinton entertained a circle of Dems at the Parker Meridien Hotel by announcing there were about a thousand days "left to suffer." All three of Kennedy's sisters - Jean Kennedy Smith, Eunice Shriver and, in a wheelchair, ailing Patricia Lawford - made a rare appearance together and joined the cheering when Ted, who rushed in after taping Larry King and Jon Stewart, said, "I've been a senator for 44 years and will stay till I get the hang of it."
He said he was a "politician of hope, and the current Rove White House is all about the politics of fear, and it is all eventually catching up with them."
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and Kennedy's wife, Vicky, hosted such guests as former Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin, George Stevens, Joe Armstrong, Bob Schrum and Sen. John Kerry."
When I read that I thought who is Morton Halperin. Like a good little Freeper I goolged him. WOW Check this out!
Morton H. Halperin is the Director of U.S. Advocacy for the Open Society Institute. Halperin oversees all policy advocacy on U.S. and international issues, including promotion of human rights and support for open societies abroad.
Halperin has a distinguished career in federal government, having served in the Clinton , Nixon and Johnson administrations. In the Clinton administration, Halperin was Director of the Policy Planning Staff at the Department of State (1998-2001), the Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Democracy at the National Security Council (1994-1996), and consultant to the Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (1993). He was nominated by the President for the position of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Democracy and Peacekeeping. During the first nine months of the Nixon administration, Halperin was a Senior Staff member of the National Security Council staff with responsibility for National Security Planning (1969). In the Johnson Administration, Halperin worked in the Department of Defense where he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (international Security Affairs), responsible for political-military planning and arms control (1966-1969).
Halperin also has a long record as a Washington advocate on national and international issues. He spent many years at the American Civil Liberties Union, serving as the Director of the Washington Office from 1984 to 1992, where he was responsible for the national legislative program as well as the activities of the ACLU Foundation based in the Washington Office. Halperin also served as the Director of the Center for National Security Studies from 1975 to 1992, where he focused on issues affecting both civil liberties and national security.
Halperin has been associated with a number of think tanks and universities including Harvard University where he taught for six years (1960-66) and the Council on Foreign Relations. He has been widely published in newspapers and magazines across the world, and has authored, coauthored and edited more than a dozen books. The recipient of numerous awards, Halperin also serves as the Senior Vice President and Director of Fellows at the Center for American Progress. He is Chairman of the Board of the Democracy Coalition Project. He is also the Chairman of the Board of the Health Privacy Project at Georgetown University. He serves on the boards of DATA and The Constitution Project, and is the chair of the Advisory Board of the Center for National Security Studies.
Halperin holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Yale University . He received his B.A. from Columbia College.
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/washington/about/staff_bios#halperin
Wikipedia says this: Morton H. Halperin (born June 13, 1938) is an American expert on foreign policy and a minor figure in the Nixon administration Watergate scandal. Halperin was listed on Nixon's enemies list.
SNIP And this:
He was a friend of Daniel Ellsberg. When Ellsberg was investigated in connection with the Pentagon Papers, suspicion fell on Halperin, who some Nixon aides believed had kept classified documents when he left government service. John Dean claimed that Jack Caulfield had told him of a plan to fire-bomb the Brookings Institution, Halperin's employer, to destroy Halperin's files.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Halperin
MORE INCEST! These people are unbelievable! Such a tangled web.
Do you have a Link or ANYTHING on that??
That would ABSOLUTELY HUGE if it's true........
Bookmarked
No, but I saw a post on here that makes the same mention.
I heard only a portion of the FNC talking head and I haven;t heard it repeated, which makes me think it was 'speculation.'
This would be ABSOLUTELY HUGE, and would change the ENTIRE tenor of the discussion....
CIA Prisons is one of the major points Libs are pointing to justifying impeachment. Add the exposure of this cross-linked leftist anti-war network, supporting Clintonistas, and you have a recipe to bring down the entire washington establishment of the Limo Lib cabal!!!!!
Another Africa link ... MacTraitor's boss in the IG office, John Helgerson:
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John L. Helgerson
Mr. Helgerson received his B.A. degree in Political Science from Saint Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
Mr. Helgerson served in the late 1960s as a Research Affiliate in the University of Zambia in Lusaka. Before joining the CIA in 1971, he was Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati, specializing in International Relations. His academic publications were in the fields of legislative behavior and African politics.
During his career at CIA, Mr. Helgerson worked primarily in the Agency's analytic components, focusing on the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. He served as Assistant National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia, Deputy Director of Near Eastern and South Asian Analysis, and Director of African and Latin American Analysis.
In more recent years, Mr. Helgerson served as Associate Deputy Director for Intelligence, Director of Congressional Affairs, and-from 1989 to 1993-Deputy Director for Intelligence.
Central Intelligence Agency CIA Briefings of Presidential Candidates 22 May 1996
A flow chart and a time line of the Coup's planning and execution of their planned coup would be great.
I'm not good at setting up these flows/time lines.
Rat traitors don't believe that their actions of treason and sedition are treason and sedition.
They are so mentally ill, they see their acts of treason and sedition as acts of patriotism.
They have been getting by with these mentally ill acts of treason and sedition since John Kerry committed his acts of treason and sedition on his return from Nam. Kerry like most of the rats was rewarded politically and power wise for his acts of treason.
I absolutely loathe these people. They remind me of high school losers who never outgrew the fact that they didn't get the best girl.
I'm going to get a D- on this story; I'm that far behind and feel I can't get caught up to speed, but I do appreciate the pings and attempts to make sure we see the more salient points to this story.
I think the only name we haven't seen with regard to Mary is Kennedy :-).
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