Posted on 11/11/2010 10:49:15 PM PST by fight_truth_decay
How did Sean Penn find time to make a movie when he has so much on his plate as the new President of Haiti?
Vanity Fair magazine ‘’revealed’’ that she worked for the CIA. Betha you won’t find a copy of that issue anywhere.
Read it while its still there
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2004/01/plame200401
Best films the two first stories in the Stieg Larsson's "trilogy" of "Girl with the Dragon-Tattoo" series in subtitles. Called on of the Best books to films made. Waiting for the third film to be released. The third is the court trial where intelligence/mafia run by a select few government insiders risk being exposed. Journalists are killed who try to investigate [timely]. Plus, the last manuscript or book 5 (more fun to write than book 4 was the understanding) uncovered by family after the writers death at 50[editor and had worked in Swedish intelligence] will be out in book form to add to the stories. If a collector of signed books released posthumously and therefore translator signed -worth a boat load of money already—that shows the importance:value of these works. Intrigue, knowledge of KGB operatives aka mafia after the fall of the "axis of evil" and the secret inner workings of the Intel/mafia within the Swedish government-the secrets that could prove to destroy gov leaders..
The films are excellent will be a Hollywood remake whereas the present casting has already sealed its failure, in my opinion, IF you have already witnessed the real art of film making and not the dumbed down version. R-Depicts violent acts against a woman.
Or that in Jan-Feb 2003, Wilson was making the lecture rounds on college campuses asserting that the US should not invade Iraq because Saddam did indeed possess WMD...and he would use them.
It was not until Wilson attended a meeting with the Kerry campaign staff in March, 2003 that he changed his story.
Joe Wilson = LIAR
Joseph Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame, in Washington, D.C., on November 8, 2003. When they met at a reception, in February 1997, it was love at first sight. “She did not let anyone into the conversation, and I did not let anyone into the conversation,” he says. Photograph by Jonas Karlsson
"Though Wilson was carrying out what was, in effect, a confidential mission for the CIA, he was not even required to sign a confidentiality agreement, an odd oversight for an agency usually obsessed with operational security. This preoccupation with security was especially prescient in the context of the Iraq-Niger connection, an area of interest that was protected by the highest levels of official secrecy available within the intelligence community. Perhaps, as has been suggested, some in the Agency hoped Wilson would act exactly how he eventually did: divulging his knowledge in such a biased and outrageous fashion that it would seriously damage the President, a goal that many CIA officials were obviously working towards in the lead-up to the war in Iraq.
"An additional mystery surrounding Wilson’s mission was the impetus behind it. In an interview with Wolf Blitzer, Wilson identified an infamous set of forged documents -- provided to the British and the CIA by a dubious “stringer” -- as the sole basis for his trip:[snip]the forged documents would not be in the hands of the intelligence community until seven months after he had been sent to Niger, a fact which directly contradicts his public assertions. When interviewed on the matter by staffers of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in 2004, Wilson admitted to being the source of a front-page June 12, 2003 Washington Post story, written by Walter Pincus, in which Wilson -- referred to as a “retired American diplomat” -- stated that he knew the documents were false because “the dates were wrong and the names were wrong.” Senate investigators reminded Wilson it was simply impossible for him to have seen the documents, considering he had never been allowed access to them. Wilson later admitted that he may have “misspoken.”
"Wilson could only suggest that Agency “sources” -- which he was unable to identify -- had given him his information."
"Wilson’s brief -- which he never saw fit to write down -- actually confirmed the Niger-Iraq connection in the eyes of the CIA officers who heard it."
The Lies continue:
"Wilson’s resume reveals that he possesses no background whatsoever in weapons of mass destruction. Why then, observers wondered, did the Counter-Proliferation Division (CPD) of the CIA’s Directorate of Operations see fit to send him to Niger in the first place?"
"Finally, a full year after the controversy first erupted, the Senate Select Committee report provided some answers. Its findings indicated that Wilson had lied to reporters and interviewers, as his wife was shown to have played an instrumental role in procuring the assignment for her husband."
"The Senate report, which stated, “it was unfortunate, considering the significant resources available to the CIA,” that Wilson “was the only option available.”
" She told Wilson in early February that there was a “crazy report” that connected Iraq to the Niger’s uranium mine. This sort of prefacing of intelligence by a high-ranking analyst, similar to the disbelief voiced by U.S. Ambassador Owens-Kirkpatrick, represents direct violation of the basic analytical skill-set..."
New York Times columnist Nicolas Kristof, who used Wilson’s leaks as the basis for his May 6, 2003 column which quoted an unnamed source as telling him, “In February 2002, according to someone present at the meetings, that envoy reported to the CIA and State Department that the information was unequivocally wrong and that the documents had been forged.”
"The New Republic, which on June 19 published a piece quoting “a former ambassador” -- Wilson -- as suggesting that the Bush administration “knew the Niger story was a flat-out lie.” As would be borne out in later investigations, Wilson’s comments to Kristof and The New Republic were blatant falsehoods."
"Wilson finally put a name to his op-ed for the New York Times on July 7, 2003. Entitled “What I Didn’t Find in Africa,...
”July 2004, the British government released a report on the accuracy of pre-war intelligence. Chaired by Lord Butler, formerly the Cabinet Secretary in Great Britain, the committee’s report was largely critical of British and American intelligence concerning Iraq’s supposed WMD arsenals. On the Niger episode, however, the Butler committee stated categorically:
“The British government had intelligence from several different sources indicating that this visit [a reference to the 1999 visit of Iraqi officials that even Wilson had reported] was for the purpose of acquiring uranium. Since uranium constitutes almost three-quarters of Niger's exports, the intelligence was credible.”...issued within days of the Butler report -- found that President Bush had been fully justified in including the intelligence in his speech.
"Wilson claimed in his 2004 book -- The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity: A Diplomat's Memoir -- to have won an award for truth-telling. He neglected to mention that the honor came (in October 2003) from the hard-left journal The Nation."
"Later that same month, Wilson publicly suggested that “neo-conservatives and religious conservatives have hijacked this [Bush] administration and I consider myself on a personal mission to destroy both.” He took to calling the Bush administration “a radical regime".
"he lamented that he was “ashamed” to see that his country had turned into “just another imperial power who has unleashed the dogs of war.”
"Wilson soon became a fixture of the leftist media circuit, giving interviews to such outlets as AlterNet and delivering speeches at MoveOn.org gatherings. In addition, Wilson cooperated with faux documentarian Robert Greenwald in the latter’s Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War."
"Wilson’s “27 months of hell” also proved to be quite profitable, as his autobiography reaped a seven-figure sum. Moreover, he earned thousands of dollars on the speaking circuit and through media appearances">
December 3, 2005, Wilson stunned political observers with a series of statements that entirely contradicted his previous anti-war proclamations. "There was a lot of reason to be concerned about weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Saddam Hussein," he said in an interview with WABC Radio's Mark Simone. "I always thought that he probably had chemical and biological weapons and biological precursors as well."
July 5, 2005 New York Times piece, "after his tangle with the current administration, [Wilson] admits 'it will be a cold day in hell before I vote for a Republican, even for dog catcher.'" On July 16, 2007, Wilson endorsed Hillary Clinton for U.S. President.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2064
Puts the Plame-Wilson story to bed. Wilson lied, the Brits exposed him for what he was just like they now continue to uncover those who wish to attack the United States. Without Scotland Yard and related intel resources across the pond--I don't want to think what could have been..
That first paragraph is right out of Vince Flynn’s new book: American Assassin (a fantastic book, BTW)
How about another crazy report?
Did anyone ever ask where Libya's yellowcake uranium came from?
Half of it was smuggled in from Niger and then later reported to IAEA.
Half of it was then smuggled in from Niger after that and never reported to anyone.
It seems that, in their effort to hide something that was not even controversial, the known fact that Saddam sent his team to Niger, they overlooked something rather important. That Libya was smuggling uranium from Niger. Had Plame Wilson been doing their jobs we might have picked up on this a bit sooner. As it was we had to wait for Libya to call us up and confess. No thanks to "experts" Plame & Wilson.
US removes Saddam’s yellowcake uranium — from first Gulf War-Ed Morrissey
Saddam's Yellowcake -- A Fitting Resolution -- To Some A Bridge Too Far
Which leads us to:
Investigation Into Uranium Pursuits and Indigenous Production Capabilities
One commment:
"..the IAEA did “put the seal on” 500 tons of yellowcake at Al—Tuwaitha. When our boys arrived, there was 488 tons of Yellowcake and 1.8 tons of enriched U stored separately."... "Perhaps fairies broke in and put 22 tons of Yellowcake into the machinery (centrifuges) to make the 1.8 tons of enriched-U?".... "Allah, if you update this post, how bout showing your readers what an actual UN/IAEA “seal” looks like (and also note that the “seal” on one set of doors was undermined by the open air shafts and the other doors left open/unsealed/unmonitored (we even have film of trucks going into and out of the “sealed” bunker)."....
"I’m just much more interested in how 22 tons under UN/IAEA seal turned into 1.8 tons of enriched-U."
Bush was said to be "accidentally correct".
“cast”
I don’t see anyone listed as Armitage or Novak on that list. There is a Scooter Libby, of course. And I would’ve assumed there was a Cheney, but there is a Karl Rove, so I guess he’s the one who’ll get to yell, “I don’t care how you do it. Heck, out his wife if you have to. Joe Wilson cannot be allowed to win. WE NEED THAT OIL!!!”
And what's his face is not in demand anymore, became too controversial, too political. I guess Harvey Milk was the last thing he was in and one writer/director, Van Sant [gay], walked off the set.
GI.. What made you walk off the Harvey Milk movie? Did dropping out of it create bad blood between you and Warner Brothers?
GVS... The script lacked humanity. It was too like a circus, a regular Hollywood script. I needed more time with it. The Randy Shilts book didn’t do the kind of things you want to have happen in a movie. Harvey wasn’t funny in the script; in real life he was hilarious. He was corny. He had a lot of depth. I couldn’t personally do that script; the film would have been a cliché."[aren't they all]
The Wilsons "reinforced their patriotism to Hollywood" not the USofA.
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