What Valerie Plame Really Did at the CIA [Corn]

THE NATION ^ | 9-05-2006 | By David Corn

[johnny7]

In the spring of 2002 Dick Cheney made one of his periodic trips to CIA headquarters. Officers and analysts were summoned to brief him on Iraq. Paramilitary specialists updated the Vice President on an extensive covert action program in motion that was designed to pave the way to a US invasion. Cheney questioned analysts about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. How could they be used against US troops? Which Iraqi units had chemical and biological weapons? He was not seeking information on whether Saddam posed a threat because he possessed such weapons. His queries, according to a CIA officer at the briefing, were pegged to the assumptions that Iraq had these weapons and would be invaded--as if a decision had been made.

Though Cheney was already looking toward war, the officers of the agency's Joint Task Force on Iraq--part of the Counterproliferation Division of the agency's clandestine Directorate of Operations--were frantically toiling away in the basement, mounting espionage operations to gather information on the WMD programs Iraq might have. The JTFI was trying to find evidence that would back up the White House's assertion that Iraq was a WMD danger. Its chief of operations was a career undercover officer named Valerie Wilson.

[RexBeach]

Ah, yes, the continuing saga of the non-story.

[oceanview]

they can't let it go.

[dirtboy]

Its chief of operations was a career undercover officer named Valerie Wilson.

I guess they figure they can keep trying to sell this lie to the American public - that she was undercover.

[Darkwolf377]

Sorry, David--you're just creamed Corn now. ;)

[MAD-AS-HELL]

I wonder if Cornholio put in his book that her husband listed his NOC of a wife as HIS WIFE in the Who Blows, I mean Who's Who book in DC (or whatever they call the book he listed her in).

[martin_fierro]

[OldFriend]

She was under cover all right. Under the covers with Wilson on their first date.

[ASA Vet]

MI Ping

If the VP wanted an intel briefing he should have gotten it from a real intelligence agency, not one who only claims they are.

[Williams]

Well IF she played an important role in this, no wonder it was screwed up. No one could hold a candle to Valerie when it came to having an agenda.

[HardStarboard]

This guy is still buying the Wilson/Plame fabrications - lock stock and barrel. A last gasp attempt to retain some credibility for v]Valerie, Joe and their Democrat enalblers.

[johnny7]

I heard it was in his car...

[My2Cents]

His queries, according to a CIA officer at the briefing, were pegged to the assumptions that Iraq had these weapons

He did. Some weapons he destroyed, some of the chemicals he dumped in the Euphrates, some he sent to Syria, and some he probably hid.

[Suzy Quzy]

I'd rather know what george TENET REALLY did at the CIA!!! And Mary O. McCarthy...what did SHE really do at the CIA....I could go on and on.

[Mo1]

Check this out

[LIConFem]

I hear she worked at the commissary, screaming, "Do you want fries with that?!?!?" in perpetuity.

[massgopguy]

George Tenet was in charge of "Slam Dunks".

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Hubris contains new information undermining the charge that she arranged this trip. In an interview with the authors, Douglas Rohn, a State Department officer who wrote a crucial memo related to the trip, acknowledges he may have inadvertently created a misimpression that her involvement was more significant than it had been.

Ha! Who has time to add up all of the misimpressions surrounding this woman who lurks in the shadows?

[Williams]

The article says Cheney went there specifically to be briefed on a covert program that was designed to pave the way for any invasion. Then Corn says Cheney's questions were geared toward there being an invasion - well duh, that was the topic.

[crazyhorse691]

career undercover officer

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