Posted on 07/09/2003 4:04:00 PM PDT by Doug Thompson
Somebody set me up the post! *grin*
October -- Congress gives the President authority to wage war in Iraq.
January -- In the SOTU, the President utters those sixteen words. Nothing happens.
Early March -- The "Niger documents" are revealed to be forgeries. Nothing happens.
Late June -- Joseph Wilson op-ed is published in the New York Times. He claims he had been sent to Niger in February, interviewed the proper officials and sundry baggage agents, all of whom protested their innocence, and he had reported accordingly to the CIA. Nothing happened then. It turns out, in fact, that his report never got beyond his superior's desk. And nothing happened after his Times expose' either.
July 8 -- Based on the statements of one Terrence J. Wilkinson, who purported to "be there" when Wilson's memo was presented in the Oval Office, Doug Thompson publishes his J'Accuse in CHB. Quickly, Wilkinson's story (as well as Wilkinson himself) is proven a complete lie. But, now and only now, all hell breaks loose!
With the impetus that the President had forcibly dismissed a CIA-commissioned report, the story races around the world. Every major network, newspaper and news magazine hops on the story -- there is virtually no attribution to CHB and NO mention of Terrence J. Wilkinson. When CHB backtracks and retracts, the story shifts and the original inflammatory accusations are edited out. Instead, they begin to report response to the original report...and momentum gathers behind "Bush lied".
In other words, in my opinion, the whole escapade was a carefully planned agitprop operation in which Doug Thompson and CHB were unwitting tools. After over three months of lying fallow, somebody (employed by someone) found a way for the Niger operation to gain traction. Without Terrence J. Wilkinson, none of this would've happened!
It was a major operation bent on one purpose -- breathing life into what was a dead story.
Doug, any idea on who he was? Or, more importantly, who he was working for? The DNC? The Clintons? Russia? France? China...???
William, have you turned up anything yet?
Wilson, imo, is the part of this same effort.
Wilson, imo, is the part of this same effort.
Both of his [Terrence J Wilkinson] phone numbers have Los Angeles area codes but an identity check through Know-X today revealed no record of anyone named Terrance J. Wilkinson ever having lived in LA or surrounding communities.
His email address turns out to be a blind forward to a free email service where anyone can sign up and get an email account. Because it was not one of the usual "free" services like Hotmail, Yahoo or such, I did not recognize it as one (although you'd think that someone like me would have known better).
When I looked up truthout.org (the website who sent your work to JapanToday) on a whois type search engine, I was given this:
Organization:
Marc Ash
Marc Ash
767 S San Pedro St
Los Angelos, CA 90014
US
Phone: 213-489-1971
Email: admin@artfix.com
Registrar Name....: Register.com
Domain Name: TRUTHOUT.ORG
Created on..............: Mon, Sep 10, 2001
Expires on..............: Wed, Sep 10, 2003
Record last updated on..: Mon, Nov 25, 2002
A.NS.INTERLAND.NET 64.226.28.33
B.NS.INTERLAND.NET 66.111.73.173
C.NS.INTERLAND.NET 64.77.127.42
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Notice that Marc Ash of TRUTHOUT.ORG lists their organization as having a Los Angeles addy. Look it up on your own and see if you recognize any of those phone numbers.
As I already pointed out, look at the registration date which is a day prior to the attacks on the US.
Note also that "Marc Ash" has a nontypical way of spelling "Los Angeles." He, she or it spelled it Los Angelos. The same spelling quirk occurs onhis older ArtFix.com web site whois registration info.
The odd spelling isn't all that unusual, but it is not the way we spelled it in school. Is this odd spelling indicitave of "Marc Ash" being Latin/Hispanic?
Just curious.
Novak published the information, but, as far as I know, it was Corn who first pointed out that Plame's cover had been revealed, that a crime may have been committed, and that something strange might have been going on. I think Corn's article is what triggered the media extravaganza we're currently seeing.
Wolfstar analyzes Corn's article on a thread entitled :
Set up? Anatomy of the contrived Wilson "scandal"
...and raises some good questions about where Corn got his info.
I'm just curious if Doug's mysterious source has the same phone number as Marc Ash.
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