Did Capitol Hill Blue Post An Article With Fabrications?

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[William McKinley]

In this article on Capitol Hill Blue, there are the following lines:

"The report had already been discredited," said Terrance J. Wilkinson, a CIA advisor present at two White House briefings. "This point was clearly made when the President was in the room during at least two of the briefings."

Bush's response was anger, Wilkinson said.

"He said that if the current operatives working for the CIA couldn't prove the story was true, then the agency had better find some who could," Wilkinson said. "He said he knew the story was true and so would the world after American troops secured the country."

Serious allegations. But I notice it is a single source. Being a conservative, I value the lessons of experience, and experience has told me that single sources are to be treated with skeptism. When I see one, I want to know more about the source quoted so as to establish if I should treat that source as credible.

So what about "Terrance J. Wilkinson"?

A Google search for "Terrance J. Wilkinson" found no results (which will change when Google picks up the Capitol Hill Blue article).

Google suggested that the name might be Terrence. But a Google search on "Terrence J. Wilkinson" also produced no hits.

Perhaps the middle initial is the problem. Alas, a Google search on "Terrence Wilkinson" CIA gave no hits, and a Google search on "Terrance Wilkinson" CIA also yielded no hits.

A Google news search on Terrence Wilkinson comes up with nothing relevant. So does a Google news search of Terrance Wilkinson.

A Google search on one of the phrases from one of the quotations comes up empty.

I would anticipate a 'CIA advisor' who attends the same briefings as the President to live somewhere near D.C. But there are no listings according to Anywho for a Terrance or Terrence Wilkinson in D.C., Maryland, or Virginia.

A Google search on "CIA Advisor" Wilkinson also comes up empty.

Perhaps Capitol Hill Blue would be better served by providing some more information about the person quoted so that others can judge his credibility. That is, if he exists.

[Cicero]

I would have said that the usual spelling of the name is Terence. There's a Terence Wilkinson who is an executive at Well Cluff Mining. Here's a reference:

http://www.mips1.net/mgcl.nsf/0/85256BEA0026513A42256BED0029390E?OpenDocument

I don't find any other Terence Wilkinsons, except a Terence Samuel Wilkinson who appears to be dead.

[woodyinscc]

"I just did a dogpile search for Wilkinson -- zero, zip, nada! If he is an advisor to the CIA, he should be listed with some firm!">p?There is really something wrong here, apparently he is supposed to have enough stature to attend President Bush's briefings!!!

[PhiKapMom]

Makes no sense no sense to me -- a firm with an advisor to the CIA I would think would be touting that too.

[Nick Danger]

Thanks for the ping.

Yes, this has happened before. Somewhere on this forum, and I don't know how to find it now, there is another article from Capitol Hill Blue that tripped my crap detector in the same way. I don't even remember what it was about, but it quoted some "Republican organizer" by name, and another figure that I can't recall. I went out and tried to find other things these people might have said, so as to get an idea of where they were on the political spectrum. There was no evidence that either one existed. And these were supposedly big-shot figures who had been around a while. Neither of them had left any tracks whatsoever, either on the web (via Google) or in a Lexis-Nexis search. I concluded they were bogus.

Within a week or two they did it again. The next time they came up with one of these sources saying something that had the ring of crap to it, I was already suspicious from the first one, and so hunted that guy down too. Once again, every indication was that the person had been fabricated.

This is many months ago now, but it was around the time that Capitol Hill Blue was sold, if anyone wants to try to hunt those threads down.

[Luis Gonzalez]

I almost got him, but he's a crafty one this "Wilkinson", here's the best picture I could find of him, it may yield some clues. I believe that's Terrence on the left of the picture.

Nice work BTW.

[onyx]

Can you get this to Hugh Hewitt or to generallissimo? (I've tried various spellings of generalleeseemo to no avail). Remember, he's a FReeper?

[Mo1]

If I recall correctly, but hasn't CB had a bug up their butts about President Bush for some time now?

[swheats]

Doesn't finding centrifuges buried under rose bushes and admissions that Saddam waited for the right timing to continue the process debunks the article?

CIA finds papers, parts in Iraq for enriching uranium

CHB appears to be adding more hash for reporters to throw Bush off his stride during Q & A's in Africa.

[PhiKapMom]

Like Thompson hates the Bush's to the delight of some Freepers!

[Poohbah]

Can you get this to Hugh Hewitt or to generallissimo? (I've tried various spellings of generalleeseemo to no avail). Remember, he's a FReeper?

hugh@hughhewitt.com

[rwfromkansas]

I am going to make at least one call.

[Mo1]

Something like that

[justshe]

If I recall correctly, but hasn't CB had a bug up their butts about President Bush for some time now?

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From what I have read on these threads, the answer appears to be "yes".

[justshe]

Suggest you forward your investigative work to Brit Hume
at special@foxnews.com along with a link to the original article. Fox News is still reporting incorrectly.

[onyx]

Thanks, I've sent this here thread to Hugh! :-)

[Mo1]

That is what I thought

[rwfromkansas]

Alright, both the CIA and Whitehouse offices are closed, so I will try to contact Doug Thompson.

[rwfromkansas]

I have to use WHOIS to find the number for Doug though (apparently, for a "news" organization, CHB doesn't really like anybody to contact them).

[ArneFufkin]

Thompson calls Wilkinson an "intelligence consultant" and a "CIA advisor" in the piece, but states also that Wilkinson "resigned two weeks later".

That's an interesting disparity, because most CIA employees are called "analysts" or "officials", not "consultants." Yet, Thompson indicates his source "resigned" - presumably from The Agency - soon after his warnings went unheeded by the hotheaded POTUS.

There's a stench here, that's for sure.

[CyberAnt]

Maybe it's WILKINSEN OR WILKENSON OR WILKENSEN