Prosecute Wilson? (Uhhh...YES!)

The Washington Times ^ | 7 Oct 03 | Greg Pierce

[.cnI redruM]

A leading New York congressman is calling for an investigation into whether former U.S. diplomat Joseph C. Wilson IV violated CIA secrecy when he blew the lid off his role in a February 2002 mission to determine whether Iraq had sought uranium from Niger.

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Civil Servants swear an oath. There is almost no way Wilson could have done what he did in good faith to that oath. He needs cell time.

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[cajungirl]

I am wondering if he blew the whistle on his wife to protect himself by putting the government on the defense. Sort of you can't get me cause I got you.

[BOBTHENAILER]

But Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican, said Sunday that it's Mr. Wilson who needs to be investigated — and even prosecuted if he violated CIA secrecy.

The Washington Times takes Grampa's suggestion from 10-01-03.

[.cnI redruM]

It's nice to see that Rep. King respects his elders.

[mewzilla]

I'm still wondering if Plame was the Beeb's CIA source...

[Grampa Dave]

The secrecy oath that should have been taken by Wilson before and after his trip to Niger is far beyond any oath that a common civil servant takes.

I posted a reply on 10/01 about this. Below is the link to that reply and my comments about the CIA secrecy oath:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/992865/posts?page=23#23

To: prognostigaator

Excellent questions.

I have another one.

Did he sign the usual secrecy forms one normally signs with the farm before and after they do a trip like this?

Those forms are very specific about not disclosing:

Where you went?
Who you saw?
What you discussed.

I wonder if Wilson killed any of our agents in Niger with his loose lips?

Then did the loose lips of the lunatic lefty mediots kill anyone?

Wilson and his buddies in bed with him are far more dangerous to our sources than anyone else on this planet.


23 posted on 10/01/2003 7:41 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (May our brave warriors kill all of the Islamokazis/facists/nazis to prevent future 9/11's.)

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[sheltonmac]

What exactly is so secretive about the operation now? The lid had already been blown off when it was discovered that the documents indicating that Iraq sought to purchase uranium from Niger were complete forgeries. How can you say Wilson is in violation of any oath of secrecy?

[.cnI redruM]

He reports for the CIA, not the New York Times.

[Grampa Dave]

Not only is Wilson probably guilty of violating the standard secrecy oath of the CIA on and after his trip to Niger, Plame's boss, Alan Foley is probably the bastard who set this entire fiasco up.

Here is what the mediots have hidden from America. The CIA boss of Plame has just recently retired/resigned.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/995426/posts?q=1&&page=44

AUGUST 29, 2003 : (ALAN FOLEY, HEAD OF THE WEAPONS INTELLIGENCE, NONPROLIFERATION, AND ARMS CONTROL CENTER ANNOUNCES HIS PLANS TO LEAVE THE CIA) A top CIA expert on weapons of mass destruction, who became embroiled in controversy over whether the White House stretched evidence about Iraq's programs, said he planned to leave the agency in October. Alan Foley, who heads the Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation, and Arms Control Center, told colleagues in a note dated Aug. 29 that he had been "thinking about life after the agency for some time" and decided to leave after 26 years to enter the private sector. ...While I can't prevent the inevitable speculation that will be generated by the timing of my decision, I want you to know that this is something that I decided entirely on my own," Foley said in the note, obtained by Reuters on Wednesday. "I can't deny that the pressures of the past few months have not weighed heavily in my mind, but there are many other aspects to my decision, not the least of which is that I'm intrigued by the prospect of trying my hand at a second career in the private sector," he said. - "Head of CIA Weapons Analysis Program Leaving," Reuters , 09-10-03
* Remember Joseph Wilson......this is his wife Valerie Plame's boss.2 posted on 09/10/2003 5:39 PM PDT by Dog
* Isn't it fascinating that we would have a new poster today talking about intelligence blunders and such? On the same day that Mr. Foley's resignation is made known. Quite a coincidence, isn't it?10 posted on 09/10/2003 6:21 PM PDT by Miss Marple
* Thanks for the ping, I believe Foley want's out before any investigation gets underway about Joseph Wilson & his wife's involvement in this whole Niger smear attempt 14 posted on 09/10/2003 6:35 PM PDT by MJY1288

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Here is a possible scenario of this mess. Foley, Plame and Wilson with the help of the Clintoons and ?, cooked up this non event trip to Niger for Wilson.

Tenet was not aware of it as he had more serious things to keep track of. Tenet saw the report when Wilson got back and basically said it had little value.

The Rats kept this report on their back burner until they released their Yellowcake Scam I in July. That failed thanks to the internet with the exact 16 words that GW used in his SOTU address.

So they put it back on the back burner and started Yellowcake II which is the non exposure of Plame, a very good friend of $inator Hildebea$t. They blogged this non exposure story until they needed it.

They needed it to distract from Kay's report and the fact that the muslim traitors in Gitmo had connections to American Muslims who had donated money to the Hildebea$t which helped her to become $inator Hildebea$t.

So they and their bed butt buddies, the mediots and videoits went whacko for the first time in their lives that there had been exposure of a really secret CIA agent.

Now we know that she was not an agent, and it was no secret around the DC area that she worked for the CIA.

I think that Alan Foley, the newly retiring/resigning boss of Plame is a very guilt person in this whole mess. He and Wilson planned Wilson's trip as a trip wire to harm GW at some later time.

Many of us feel that the two CIA agents in the BBC lies about Yellowcake were Wilson and Plame.


Posted on 10/07/2003 8:20 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Fight Liberalism 24/7/365 for only 17 cents / day. Donate $5 monthly to Free Republic.)

[Diogenesis]

Fudge-factor leaker and/or the dimest bulb in the company's drawer?

or DNC plants in both?
or were they themselves manipulated by the stolen unaccounted-for FBI files?

SO MANY POSSIBILITIES just on the short list.

[.cnI redruM]

We've crossed the River Ebro when it comes to government partisanship, and that will could have terrible consequences for the ability of The US Civil Service. If you think beaurocrats stink now, just wait until they are having departmental infights over which party which bean-counter votes for. This is a terrible precedent to have CIA agents so blatantly turning their jobs into platforms to help their favored party reach office.

[MJY1288]

I have said that Foley is the leaker since day one, Foley is exactly Novak would have gone to to find out why the CIA sent that flunkie Joe Wilson to Niger. Common sense would tell anyone that Novak would not have contacted the white house for why Wilson was sent to Niger.

The State Department is involved in this smear as well, Greg Theilman comes to mind

[Steve_Seattle]

It is unbelievable that Foley's retirement/resignation has been overlooked by the press.

[kitkat]

BUMP

[CMAC51]

>> What exactly is so secretive about the operation now? The lid had already been blown off when it was discovered that the documents indicating that Iraq sought to purchase uranium from Niger were complete forgeries. How can you say Wilson is in violation of any oath of secrecy? <<

You are attempting to perpetuate the myth that the forged documents were the only evidence being investigated. Vice President Cheney's inquiries about Niger, the purported reason for the mission, started prior to the forged documents surfacing. The British contend their source is not the forged documents. The mission was secret or not. One potential element becoming public does not unbind anyone who is legally held silent.

[Spirited]

This is absolutely the first rational thing I have seen expressed on the entire issue.

It is about time some in the GOP got enough in the way of "guts" to do something credible about the whole subject.

Clinton's group made the intelligence community a sieve through which anything passed back and forth and no note was even taken or breathed against that.

Here we have a "lesion" on the system stirring up a questionable (partisan motivated) issue with such success via the equally partisan media that it can damage the intelligence community farther than the "outing" of any one of it's employees possibly could, yet absolutely no entity has thought to hold the perpetrator to account for his action in the whole.

Now many of those who care will be able to see who, in political and media circles, will stand up to be enumerated among those with integrity and fortitude.

[Pres Raygun]

Wilson by his own admission met with the people in Niger who could have created the forged document. He met with both current and former Niger government officals, who he could have instructed to create the obviously phony document, which would surface at just the right moment to embarass the President.

[cardinal4]

I'm still wondering if Plame was the Beeb's CIA source...

After your post the other day, that idea has gone to the front of my mind. If thats the case, they both deserve to be prosecuted..

[Wolfstar]

Joseph C. Wilson wrote this in his New York Times piece outing himsef as the former ambassador who went to Niger:

"After consulting with the State Department's African Affairs Bureau (and through it with Barbro Owens-Kirkpatrick, the United States ambassador to Niger), I agreed to make the trip. The mission I undertook was discreet but by no means secret. While the C.I.A. paid my expenses (my time was offered pro bono), I made it abundantly clear to everyone I met that I was acting on behalf of the United States government."

By his own admission, Wilson has not been discreet about this mission from the very beginning. One wonders what on earth he expected people to tell him in Niger when he apparently was blabbing about his mission to everyone he met.

Sort of reminds me of Connie Chung's interview of Newt Gingrich's mom. There they are speaking on national TV, and Chung says, "Come on, you can tell me. It's just between you and me."