New Evidence Cheney Swayed Reaction to Leak (Obama still hunting)

Washington Post ^ | 7-3-09 | R. Jefferey Smith

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A document filed in federal court this week by the Justice Department offers new evidence that former vice president Richard B. Cheney helped steer the Bush administration's public response to the disclosure of Valerie Plame Wilson's employment by the CIA and that he was at the center of many related administration deliberations.

The administration's discussion of Wilson's link to the CIA was meant to undermine criticism by her husband of administration allegations that Iraq attempted to acquire uranium, a matter that her husband had probed for the CIA, according to testimony presented in a 2007 trial.

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He mentioned in particular Cheney's discussion of his conversation with then-CIA Director George J. Tenet about "the decision to send Ambassador Joseph Wilson on a fact-finding mission to Niger in 2002." Wilson is the former CIA operative's husband, and a report he filed after the trip cast doubt on claims that Iraq had purchased uranium from Niger for a nuclear weapons program.

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Right around the time this article was published Hillary had helped arrange - through Michèle Flournoy, then-President Barack Obama’s undersecretary of defense - a defense contract for a friend of Chelsea... named Newmyer, according to Judicial Watch.

JULY 19, 2009 : (HILLARY FOLLOWS UP ON THE ASSISTA CE OF CHELSEA CRIEND NEWMYER)
In numerous emails, Chelsea’s mom, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, actively promoted Newmyer and attempted to assist her in securing Defense Department contracts.
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Hillary followed up in a July 19, 2009 email, asking Newmyer, “By the way, did the DOD contract work out?”
ONA was supposed to work on complicated future warfare scenarios when it was originally set up in the 1970s.

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Sorry about the spelling bloopers. From the Daily Caller:

Jacqueline Newmyer, the president of a company called the Long Term Strategy Group

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We just filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit on behalf of former Pentagon analyst and White House National Security Council (NSC) senior director Adam S. Lovinger, whose security clearance was pulled after he raised concerns regarding lucrative government contracts awarded to Stefan Halper ( Adam S. Lovinger v. U.S. Department of Defense (No. 1:18-cv-01914)). Halper has subsequently been identified as being used an informant used by the Obama administration against President Trump’s campaign.
Mr. Lovinger also raised questions about Long Term Strategy Group, a consulting firm owned by Chelsea Clinton’s friend Jacqueline Newmyer Deal.
The Washington Times reported on the contracts in question: “According to USASpending.gov, Mr. Halper was paid $411,000 by Washington Headquarters Services on Sept. 26, 2016, for a contract that ran until this March.” Also, “a string of contracts totaling $11 million [was granted] to D.C. consulting firm Long Term Strategy Group. It is headed by Jacqueline Newmyer Deal, a self-described ‘best friend’ of Chelsea Clinton.”
Lovinger filed his complaint in the fall of 2016. In May 2017, Lovinger’s security clearance was initially suspended by Barbara Westgate, the Director of Washington Headquarters Services and an Obama appointee. A few months later, the Pentagon’s Consolidated Adjudications Facility (CAF) “issued an unfavorable clearance determination and Mr. Lovinger’s clearance was revoked,” a Defense Department spokesman informed The Washington Times . The CAF is part of the Washington Headquarters Services (WHS) and reports directly to Westgate. -—from Tom Fitton of JW

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Just redoing this without the goof.

JULY 19, 2009 : (HILLARY FOLLOWS UP ON HER ASSISTANCE OF CHELSEA FRIEND JACQUELINE NEWMYER DEAL)
In numerous emails, Chelsea’s mom, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, actively promoted Newmyer and attempted to assist her in securing Defense Department contracts.
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Hillary followed up in a July 19, 2009 email, asking Newmyer, “By the way, did the DOD contract work out?”
ONA was supposed to work on complicated future warfare scenarios when it was originally set up in the 1970s.

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Speaking of Jacquelines, I wonder what Joe Wilson’s French Jacqueline is up to, I think her pal Omar Bongo is room temp now.

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Also right around this time the article was published Joe Wilson’s ex wife Jacqueline’s pal Omar Bongo conveniently assumed room temperature....on June 8, 2009.

Omar Bongo | president of Gabon | Britannica
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Omar-Bongo

Omar Bongo, (El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba; Albert-Bernard Bongo), Gabonese political leader (born Dec. 30, 1935, Lewai, French Equatorial Africa [now Bongoville, Gabon]—died June 8, 2009, Barcelona, Spain), was president of Gabon for nearly 42 years, having risen to power in 1967; at the time of his death, Bongo was the longest-serving head of state in Africa and the longest-serving head of ...