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BREAKING: Conned big time "CIA Witness" to White House Lying about Intel story found to be FRAUD
Capitol Hill Blue ^ | July 9, 2003 | Doug Thompson
Posted on 07/09/2003 4:04 PM PDT by Doug Thompson

Damn, I hate it when I've been had and I've been had big time...

CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread

[RedWhiteBlue]

"Great job" bump.

[Dont Mention the War]

Why not ask Aaron Brown why he said what he said when he knew it wasn't true, and refuses to retract it? Aaron.Brown@turner.com

[Nick Danger]

My sense is that the Jayson Blair fiasco, the Capitol Hill Blue fiasco, and Ann Coulter's discovery of the amazing Man-On-Every-Street, one Greg Packer, might be the opening bars of a very long symphony.

Packer and Blair are instances of people who like to see their name in the paper. Blair went so far as to actually worm his way onto the staff, but when you listen to the noises he makes, his motivations are not all that different from Packer's. He just loved waking up in the morning to see those Jayson Blair bylines on the front page of the New York Times. Where Greg Packer would place himself where he knew he could get interviewed, Blair made stuff up to make sure his stories would get placed.

This "Wilkinson" character sounds to me like the same kind of guy, except he got his jollies being taken seriously by Important People. To get into the room with the Big Shots, he would make up any damned thing: CIA agent, NSA spook, former Green Beret... who knows what else he's told other people over the years.

There are thousands of such people out there. In any society with 300 million people, you're going to get some nuts of every kind.

Seymour Hersh is a guy who probably has four or five of these clowns feeding him absolute crap. He has no clue. Robert Novak probably has some. Every one of these well-known pundits and reporters is a target for this kind of nut. We may have even had our own right here on FR, the mysterious Quidam. Our media could be full of quotations from absolute frauds.

What makes Doug Thompson so special that he's the only guy who has collected one of these bogus 'experts' among his trusted sources? I'll bet journalism is full of them. Matt Drudge probably gets 50 emails a week from 'secret whistleblowers' telling him the inside scoop from deep inside the Pentagon or the White House... all of it crap. But you can bet that there are one or two that he's never published, but that have been right about a couple of things, and if they keep that up, one of these days....

One would like to think that the Jayson Blair thing scared the bejeezus out of editors across the country. If it could happen at the New York Times, they probably have one or two in their place.

And now they need to start looking for this, too. My fear is that because Capitol Hill Blue is not exactly the epitome of mainstream journalism, the story of what happened here could sink before it has a chance to do some good. Doug Thompson knows far better than I where the platforms are where he should be screaming about this, but I hope he will do so. There's no reason to believe that he's the only person in journalism that has a publicity-seeking nut in his Rolodex.

[LibWhacker]

Outstanding work and fascinating read, WM, thanks. Please keep pinging me to any further developments, Sabertooth.

[Neets]

You coulda pinged me to this Bill...we only went to the Vet!!!

[Copernicus]

Posted to *CCRM

[MeekOneGOP]

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my General Interest ping list!. . .don't be shy.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Wilkinson approached him first when we worked for former Congressman Manuel Lujan

Is that a typo? Who's "we"?

[piasa]

Does anyone know of any connections between truthout.org and David Lytel, the former Clinton WH computergeek (see Oracle, etc.) who was so hot to smear Microsoft? (Note that one of the other folks out to nail Microsoft was a top dog at Intel and is now an apologist and PR man for one of the Intel's former employees out in the NOrthwest, Mike Hawash ) there was some very fishy fundraising going on with Democrats.com, and the other election night/post election mystery telemarketers who called suggestive unemployed senile aim-impaired Floridians telling them they might have voted for Buchanan by mistake...

I found on Greg Palast's site (a guy who writes for the lefty Observer in the UK and guess who, the master of misinformation, the BBC) links to two articles, one from Lytel's and Fertik's site DemocRATS.com interviewing Palast and another from Truthout.org interviewing Palast.

DEMOCRATS.COM CHAT WITH GREG PALAST
Democrats.com
Friday Mar 8, 2002 Hosted by Bob Fertik with David Lytel

TRUTHOUT'S MARC ASH INTERVIEWS GREG PALAST
T r u t h o u t - truthout.com
Saturday Feb 2, 2002
Well, we have a president that thinks he can take office without being elected. There are not many limits on what he thinks he can get away with, including, for example, handing out pieces of American policy to his donors. It's serious business. It's a serious business when the votes don't count in this country. So, what I was trying to do, what I had done for BBC and when I expanded the book to include a report that I had never previously published is to show exactly how Bush, the Bush family, stole the presidential vote -- and the republicans of Florida. And what we do is provide evidence which I did for investigations for BBC television and for The Guardian newspaper of Britain -- a shame that it had to be British media which had to find out who got elected president -- but you'll see that information in there, the material I have yet to broadcast and publish.

http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:1MwBlnkFnkMJ:www.gregpalast.com/columns.cfm%3Fsubject_id%3D21%26subject_name%3DInterviews%2520%2526%2520Chats+truthout,org+%22david+lytel%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

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They're all as incestuous as Arkansas hillbilly hippies on Viagra. Wonder what role Mr. Palast has had this week in playing the press in the UK?

[gitmo]

Excellent work! I hope someone will bring this to the forefront of the nation's attention.

[PhiKapMom]

Using the Bush-Cheney '04 ping list because you all need to read this and help out with the research.

This whole deal smells and now we have to wonder how many anonymous sources quoting White House or other Administration sources are bogus. How many meetings they are discussing with quotes from the participants have been bogus?

[randog]

Dude, you rock! I've been e-mailing your links to all my liberal friends that have been hyperventilating about this "Bush Lied" lie. They're awfully quiet now.

[MJY1288]

Excellent job William McKinley, The situation was explained very clear and precise

Thanks a million

[Chad Fairbanks]

Excellent summation! I have a couple of fairly-well placed relatives at the Pentagon who are, as we speak, looking for everything and anything about this Wilkinson character, but so far - nothing...

I am, to put it bluntly, beginning to doubt his existance, and so are they...

Great job, man...

[onyx]

You've done such a fabulous job and, here I'm worn-out from all of it! :-)

I hope all of the "alphabet" agencies have hold of this, including, but not limited to, the RNC and the FBI.

Serious stuff, trying to bring-down POTUS by smearing him with a phantom source.

Thanks for the pings...I hope I mentioned all pingers!

[nana4bush]

On Free Republic, a website where conservatives dissect and debate the news...

You are certainly a master of dissection. This has been a amazing specimen of deception you have presented to us. Thank you for your service.