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  • Introduction: Plamegate pages 1,  2345678  
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  • Radar Online July 08 story: "Did Scott McClellan Give Jeff Gannon Special Access? FRIEND OF SCOTTY'S? Gannon/Guckert James Guckert, who prefers the nom de plume of Jeff Gannon, is the ex-hooker and sometime White House "reporter " who got rejected for press credentials by Congress but somehow enjoyed extraordinary access to the Bush White House, where he was given daily passes to enter the White House press center on more than 200 occasions. Secret Service records released after a Freedom of Information lawsuit filed by Reps. Louise Slaughter and John Conyers showed that Guckert appeared at the White House on 24 days when no press briefings occurred; on 14 occasions, his entry or exit time was missing from the logs, and on one day, he actually checked in twice but never checked out."   MORE on White House Schedule, Secret Service access control logs.    and go to Gannon  Blackmail  page
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  • Flowchart   &   Libby indictment text   Judge Reggie Walton Watch 
  • Plamegate, Leakgate, Treasongate, Cheneygate...It's just a minor story mixed into the decades-long run-up to the Iraq invasion / occupation / Iran attack justification manipulation  ....   nuclear arms smuggling,  Bush neo-cons and WMD proliferation that Brewster Jennings & Associates (MORE), WMR  was investigating, 3 lost nuclear weapons that Valerie Plame (Brewster Jennings) discovered...and very much related to events surrounding detailed in the Downing Street Memo of July 23, 2002 and this comprehensive summary: Antiwar, 2007.  And see Kucinich Articles of Impeachment June 2008 ...  It's about the neo-con push to the Iraq War versus the 'old guard' CIA that wouldn't go along with the Bush administration intelligence manipulation...and see Judith Miller / WMD (Herbert L. Adams) .  It's about the neocon / Israeli push for regime change in Iran and influence in the Middle East.  See  Wilson's "What I Didn't Find in Africa", Common Dreams..... Wilson's "Politics of Truth" How does all this fit into the replacement of the 'communist' boogeyman with a 'Islamofascist boogeyman, and perpetual war, oil hegemony? Ledeen fascism,  and Waxman letter on Fitzgerald Dec. 2007 after McClellan revelations. See WMR. on  Scott McCellan: "It’s ... clear to me that Scooter Libby was guilty of the perjury and obstruction crimes for which he was convicted. When the president commuted Libby’s prison sentence and thereby protected him from serving even one day behind bars, I was disappointed. This kind of special treatment undermines our system of justice."  and  "But the other defining moment was in early April 2006, when I learned that the President had secretly declassified the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq for the Vice President and Scooter Libby to anonymously disclose to reporters. And we had been out there talking about how seriously the President took the selective leaking of classified information. And here we were, learning that the President had authorized the very same thing we had criticized."  
  • Damage assessment from Plamegate
  • Richard Dunham, who sponsored Jeff Gannon (National Press Club member) is no relation to Obama's mother  Ann Dunham of Kansas who met Barack Obama, Sr. at the University of Hawaii and married on February 2, 1961.  see Power and Pedophilia, sexual abuse of children, GOP, conservatism
  • Bush / Suadi financing of 911  Senate Intelligence Committee final report IIb
  • WMR "Plame leak damaged a major CIA investigation linking senior Bush administration officials to WMD proliferation. U.S. intelligence insiders have pointed out that the White House is using "Rovegate" and "Who in the White House said what to whom?" as a smoke screen to divert attention away from the actual counter-proliferation work Mrs. Wilson and her Brewster Jennings & Associates team were engaged in." and WMR Plame and Edmonds were looking at the same covert network
  • Kenneth Adelman involved in Plame outing  more below
  • INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY ANALYSIS OF IRAQ'S BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS PROGRAM  text file
  • 2007 articles:  LA Times Cheney role in leak Jan, 2007 copy and LA Times copy Cheney, Russert, Rove, Libby, Martin press manipulation. .. 
  • Washington Post Feb 2007, Journalism on Trial, Russert, Libby, lies.. file and AP Libby Trial final arguments file and San Francisco Chronicle and CBS / AP closing arguments. file  and  RawStory, National Journal Libby/Cheney connection, and Northern Star on John Hannah, El Paso Times: Plame Congressional testimony file. Truthout Libby Trial transcripts article and  NIE 2003, from FAS, Media Matters Plame was covert.
  • Bush, Cheney, Rove, Novak and Libby all lied about their roles in 'outing' Plame before the 2004 elections, Guardian July 2006, but the mainstream press did not report this until the fall of 2005. Mail & Guardian ... "The cover-up worked".   Washington Post (file)   The Libby indictment says he learned of Plame's id from Cheney in June 2003, but Cheney went on national TV in September of 2003 and said that he didn't know Wilson or who sent him to Niger. Mail & Guardian
  • AP missing tapes, CIA, investigation, Plame, Cheney Jan 2008
  • Curveball is Rafid Ahmed Alwan AP more at NFU and more
  • The journalism source id issue is just a smokescreen (although extremely important in free press issues).  Who (Libby?) was Judith Miller protecting and what facts are not (now) being revealed by her being in jail and released? Why was so much effort put into limiting Fitzgerald's questions to Miller to just her conversations with Libby? ..and ... See David Fiderer and "Abort the Plame
  •    Go to U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Phase II, final report, searchable text file and pdf. "Sadly, the Bush Administration led the nation into war under false pretenses.".
  • Continued Introduction, go to Timeline
  • New York Sun Apr 2006 "Bush Said to Have Cleared Early Release of Iraq Intelligence to Times ...I. Lewis Libby, testified to a grand jury that he gave information from a closely-guarded "National Intelligence Estimate" on Iraq to a New York Times reporter in 2003 with the specific permission of President Bush,  ...  the new disclosure could be awkward for the president because it places him, for the first time, directly in a chain of events that led to a meeting where prosecutors contend the identity of a CIA employee, Valerie Plame, was provided to a reporter ...and file
  • Bush ok's Libby leak: “Third Motion of I. Lewis Libby to Compel Discovery Under Rule 16 and Brady.” UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ) ) CR. NO 05-394 (RBW) v. )) I. LEWIS LIBBY, ) also known as “Scooter Libby” Case 1:05-cr-00394-RBW Document 80 Filed 04/05/2006 Page 1 of 39 file pdf
  • Drumheller, CIA, on Bush cherrypicking Iraq intelligence, CBS 60 minutes Apr 06
  • TruthDig "Alleged Armitage Leak is Biggest Irony of Plamegate from Aug 2006
  • see latest research on Ledeen / Fascism page.  Influence of Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss on neo-cons, GOP, Iraq War, Iran, Plamegate....how it all ties together. 
  • Cooperative Research "An unnamed high-ranking State Department official tips off members of a nuclear smuggling ring about a CIA operation to penetrate it, according to FBI translator Sibel Edmonds. Edmonds will later leave the FBI, becoming a whistleblower, and will say she knows this based on telephone conversations she translated. The ring is headed by Pakistani nuclear scientist A. Q. Khan, and includes Pakistan’s ISI intelligence agency, as well as Turkish and Israeli representatives. The official is said to tell a member of the ring that a company the ring wants to do business with, Brewster Jennings & Associates, is a CIA front company. Brewster Jennings & Associates is a front for Valerie Plame Wilson, who will later be outed as a CIA officer in 2003, and possibly other operatives. A group of Turkish agents come to the US on the pretext of researching alternative energy sources and are introduced to Brewster Jennings through a lobby group, the American Turkish Council (ATC). The Turks apparently believe Brewster Jennings are energy consultants and plan to hire them. According to Edmonds, the State Department official finds out about this and contacts a foreign target under FBI surveillance, telling him, “[Y]ou need to stay away from Brewster Jennings because they are a cover for the government.” The FBI target then warns several people about Brewster Jennings, including a person at the ATC and an ISI agent, and Plame Wilson is moved to another operation."
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  • WMR  "July 31, 2005/August 1, 2005 **** Plame leak damaged a major CIA investigation linking senior Bush administration officials to WMD proliferation. U.S. intelligence insiders have pointed out that the White House is using "Rovegate" and "Who in the White House said what to whom?" as a smoke screen to divert attention away from the actual counter-proliferation work Mrs. Wilson and her Brewster Jennings & Associates team were engaged in. The arrival of Timothy Flanigan as Patrick J. Fitzgerald's boss is likely related to the mountains of evidence Fitzgerald has now collected to indict senior White House officials, particularly, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, for criminal conspiracy in exposing a sensitive U.S. intelligence operation that was targeting some of their closest political and business associates. Libby, it will be recalled, was the attorney for fugitive global smuggler and Clinton-pardoned multi-billionaire Marc Rich, someone who has close ties to the Sharon government and Israeli intelligence. It is no coincidence that FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds uncovered nuclear material and narcotics trafficking involving Turkish intermediaries with ties to Israel at the same time Brewster Jennings and the CIA's Counter Proliferation Division was hot on the trail of nuclear proliferators tied to the Israeli government of Ariel Sharon and the A Q Khan network of Pakistan." and "November 11, 2005 -- New aspect of Valerie Plame/Brewster Jennings exposure revealed. According to U.S. intelligence sources, the White House exposure of Valerie Plame and her Brewster Jennings & Associates was intended to retaliate against the CIA's work in limiting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. WMR has reported in the past on this aspect of the scandal. In addition to identifying the involvement of individuals in the White House who were close to key players in nuclear proliferation, the CIA Counter-Proliferation Division prevented the shipment of binary VX nerve gas from Turkey into Iraq in November 2002. The Brewster Jennings network in Turkey was able to intercept this shipment which was intended to be hidden in Iraq and later used as evidence that Saddam Hussein was in possession of weapons of mass destruction. U.S. intelligence sources revealed that this was a major reason the Bush White House targeted Plame and her network." WMR
  • Jerusalem Post  How is this related? "...the arrest of Ben-Ami Kadish, the 84-year-old former US army engineer arrested in New York City on Tuesday (April 2008) on charges of passing classified information to Israel. Even assuming the charges have substance, the circumstances, and especially the timing of his arrest - 23 years after he allegedly last committed an act of espionage on behalf of Israel - raises puzzling and troubling questions" search terms: Israel denies spying after 1985, Kadish, former US Army engineer, passing nuclear weapons information, air defense, fighter jets, Patriot missile, 50-100 documents, (Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, Picatinny Arsenal) between 1979 and 1985, contact with Israeli official, reported to same official (CC-1 Co-conspirator) as Jonathan Pollard, Olmert office silent, Danny Yatom, head of Mossad, DOE, Israeli Aircraft Industries. CC-1an Israeli attache to the NY consolate, possibly Yossi Yagur, science attache, they talked in March of 2008, Israeli Aerospace Industry, ... and see Jewish Federation of Greater Middlesex County, all shows that Israel did not come clean about spies in 80s, dual loyalty,
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  •  Dissident Voice "Israeli-US Strategy: Lebanon and Iran ... Even as the bricks were still smoldering from 9/11, Israeli ideological point men, Senator Lieberman and Undersecretary for Defense Wolfowitz urged Washington to attack Iran by launching either simultaneous or sequential wars. In pursuit of Israel’s regional priorities, its representatives in the US Government, in the Pentagon (Wolfowitz, Feith and Shulsky), in the National Security Council (Abrams), in the Vice President’s Office (Libby) and in the President’s Office (Speech writer Frum) falsified intelligence, designed the propaganda (War Against Terror, Axis of Evil) and planned the War against Iraq, and with the Lobby secured near unanimous Congressional acquiescence. They then successfully secured a US boycott of Syria and support for Israel’s expropriation, annexation and settlement of Palestinian land in the West Bank and the destruction of Gaza. Even as the US invasion failed to secure control of Iraq, Israel’s representatives in the US Government did destroy Iraqi society and state, and its capacity to support the Palestinian resistance, increasing Israel’s regional power (at a very high cost to the United States)."  These indictments just a predictable course of events in the fascist neo-con plans for the Middle East." There are very few images of Harold Rhode on the internet.  
  •  Investigation Act" also known as "The Free Flow of Information Act"  In October of 2005 the surprise 'appearance' of Miller notes about her conversations with Libby in June of 2003 will that will unravel Miller's and Libby's credibility....and the surprise 'appearance' of the email (Newsweek) that sparked Fitzgerald's focus on Rove.....Miller connections to Whitehouse?  Can Fitzgerald turn Miller into a witness against others because he can show that she discussed classified information ....she was given a security clearance as an 'embedded' reporter.  Village Voice It will be revealed that Miller was a charter member of WHIG, funneled Chalabi news to NYTimes....and see Dick Cheney / Andrew Card role in Plame leak Information Clearinghouse, Asia Times file and Lockheed-Martin page
  • When the American public finally connects these three events: (1) Plamegate, the (2) AIPAC / Franklin / Rosen /Weissman  Pentagon mole indictment and (3) Bush's 2003 State of the Union lies and the real sources of Niger yellowcake forged documents, then finally we could see the impeachment of Bush.  and see Rosen / Weissman
  • Larry Franklin, AIPAC, Rosen, Weissman....links...to  Plamegate, Judith Miller ...links to OSP... Indymedia
  • Kwiatkowski: Israeli Military Generals were free to come and go at the Office Of Special Plans without the requirement to record evidence of their visits in the guest register log book. Links: ISPNews and Indymedia
  • Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982.     IIPA violation difficult to prove.  Common Dreams "How to Prosecute the Plame Case" and USA Today on Fitzgerald... 'Relentless'.... and Federal Judge Thomas F. Hogan.
  • On Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV and wife Valerie: see Vanity Fair (conservative) TruthOut         May 2006 theRawStory "On Chris Matthews' Hardball Monday evening, just moments ago, MSNBC correspondent David Shuster confirmed what RAW STORY first reported in February: that outed CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson was working on Iran at the time she was outed."
  • Guardian November 2006: "A senior al-Qaida operative deliberately planted information to encourage the US to invade Iraq, a double agent who infiltrated the network and spied for western intelligence agencies  ... The claim was made by Omar Nasiri, a pseudonym for a Moroccan who says he spent seven years working for European security and intelligence agencies, including MI5. He said Ibn Sheikh al-Libi, who ran training camps in Afghanistan, told his US interrogators that al-Qaeda had been training Iraqis.  ... more search terms: Security Council, Powell speech 2003, overthrow Hussein to use Iraq as a jihadist base, Finsbury Park mosque, Abu Hamza, Abu Qatada, MI5, French intelligence, Osama bin Laden,
  • Valerie Plame (Valerie Wilson) CIA 'operative', Bob Novak  'outed'  her in a Sun-Times article (see below), citing "two senior administration officials" as sources.  George Tenet asked the Justice Dept to review the matter, that is now a formal investigation.  Washington Post search Plame Wilson Rove.   more LATimes Feb.2007
  • WMR June 13, 2006, WMR reported: "There is also evidence that some of the highly classified CIA information convicted Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin passed through American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) staffers Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman to Israeli agents attached to the Israeli embassy in Washington dealt with Iranian nuclear development and that CIA sensitive sources and methods not disclosed by the outing of Plame Wilson/Brewster Jennings were discovered in the leak of the CIA documents to AIPAC and the Israelis."
  • Bush's 2003 State of the Union address, and the 16 words: "The British government has learned the Sadam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."  There is much speculation that members of the Bush administration is responsible for the forged document.  see Rosen / Weissman Niger, forgery page.  
  • Cheney chronology of falsely claiming link between Iraq and Al Queda, Village Voice
  • For two years the Whitehouse had insisted the Rove and Libby had no connection to the leak. NYTimes  And see "Did Time Intentionally Deceive its Readers in Plame Case? NewsWire fair use copy 
  • Both Rove and Libby told investigators the learned of Plame's id from reporters...will these statements be the basis of perjury investigations?  Libby did talk to Miller before Novak's outing.  How did Miller learn about Plame's CIA identity Wanniski Report  and 3rd source? Mediachannel
  • Cheney and the National Security Council, laundering leaks through Miller to to stop the work of Plame's Brewster and Jennings & Associates?  All the characters in Plamegate can be linked in some fashion to AIPAC / Franklin Pentagon mole case and the forged yellowcake document. Wayne Madsen Report and see CICentre also see list of books on Israeli intelligence.
  • Cheney Libby trial, Cathy Martin notes
  • Plame (Brewster Jennings & Associates) was not an unimportant operation and were like other units instrumental in exposing the Pakistani role in exporting nuclear technology to Libya.    Dissident Voice
  • There are many reports that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is investigating the source of the forged document that led to Bush's retracted statement in the SOTU about yellowcake, Niger, Sadam Hussein links.  'Rosen / Weissman
  • How significant is the State Dept memo to explaining how Whitehouse officials learned of Plame's id and when.   NYTimes and  Washington Post. (“ State Dept. memo gets scrutiny… ,” New York Times, July 16, 2005; “ Probe Centers on Rove, Memo, Phone Calls, ” Bloomberg.com, July 18, 2005; “ Plame’s Identity Marked as Secret, ” Washington Post, July 21, 2005).    Commondreams INR memo.  Is this how Rove learned of Plame's id?  There is ample evidence that Whitehouse officials could have learned about Plame's id before hearing about it from reporters.
  • Is there a connection (Was she being hyped to increase her 'credibility') between Miller getting an anthrax letter, her book release, her being in on all lead stories about WMD (based in part on Chalabi info), and being an embedded reporter in the invasion? on Mobile Exploitation Team MET Alpha during Iraq invasion,  and  Ahmed Chalabi relationship, more  NewYorkMetro and NY Times never really admits it was fooled by Chalabi.  Michael Maloof.  Office of Special Plans. Wolfowitz, Feith. and ('banana in your pocket').  and see  War promoting hirelings of Likud, compiled by Jeffrey Blankfort.
  • Does Rove have history of leaks to Novak? yes... see dirty tricks  to c
  • Brewster Jennings & Associates will uncover Bush connections to build up of Iraq War which will lead to Plame's outing?  and see Wayne Madsen Report  and  The Randi Rhodes Show
  • Leakers and Leak Launderers:  Is this story relevant to Plamegate:  In 2002 Fitzgerald had been investigating three Islamic charities accused of supporting terrorism (Wikipedia, Miller) the Holy Land Foundation, the Global Relief Foundation and the Benevolence International Foundation.  But just before his investigators could swoop in with warrants, two of the charities in question were tipped off and destroyed a lot of evidence.  Were Judith Miller and another New York Times reporter used to launder leaks about the investigations. Just one in a series of leaks that will all relate to Plamegate  Wikipedia Miller
  • Aug 2006 Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University "Kit Bond's anti-whistle blower, anti-accountability bill  ...   Senate Bill 3774 is the latest piece of legislation allegedly aimed at protecting national security. Introduced by Senator Kit Bond (R-MO), it would criminalize unauthorized disclosure of classified information. This bill is dangerously vague and provides virtually unlimited discretion to the Department of Justice in deciding whom to prosecute. It would be a catastrophe for reporters and the free press.  search AIPAC, Rosen, Weissman
  • Timeline                   flowchart  go to Latest timeline entries
  • 1953 US and British intelligence services help Iranian military depose PM Muhammad Mussadeq, leading exponent of nationalizing the oil industry.  BBC timeline.
  • 1953 See Conk Websearch, Encyclopedia entry on AIPAC, supporters, critics and quotations.  Original name was American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs...and see Franklin Rosen Weissman (indictment at Rosen / Weissman)  "Unnamed Woman" is Judith Miller?
  • 1954 Operation Suzannah, the Lavon Affair, Israel false flag operations, "In 1954, the Israeli government launched a secret operation of terror against the United States called Operation Suzannah. It plotted to murder Americans and blow up American installations in Egypt. Their plan was to leave false evidence that the Egyptians did it, so as to make America go to war against Egypt on the side of Israel. Jewish agents succeeded in blowing up some post offices and American libraries in Cairo and Alexandria. On the way to blow up an American movie house, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Theater, an Israeli's agent's bomb went off prematurely. Thankfully, for both Egypt and for America, the plot was then exposed and stopped in its early stages." from NewsMine and see Wikipedia
  • 1964  Gulf of Tonkin (justification for Vietnam War) study remains secret New York Times file  "The National Security Agency has kept secret since 2001 a finding by an agency historian that during the Tonkin Gulf episode, which helped precipitate the Vietnam War, N.S.A. officers deliberately distorted critical intelligence to cover up their mistakes".
  • 1970 Plamegate               TOP 
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  • 1970  Rove, dirty tricks start in Alan Dixon campaign, Illinois. "free beer, free food, girls and a good time for nothing" for all-comers at Dixon's headquarters.  Guardian
  • search net: Karl Rove, Nixon...Rove a Bush family insider since 1973,
  • Senior Bush was chairman of the Republican National Committee in the 1970s.  
  • On Karl Rove & Co, and Praxis List Company...and the Bush Texas re-election campaign, see Texas Observer
  • Michael Ledeen (Karl Rove's brain) was denied tenure at Washington University in St. Louis in 1972 for plagiarism Agonist  Ledeen also connected to Iran-Contra, Iran war mongering, and Judith Miller     see NFU Michael Ledeen, fascism   and links to Abramoff, Florida casinos, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, escorts, blackmail
  • 1972 "Reporters have no intrinsic right to keep their sources secret, under a ruling laid down by the Supreme Court in 1972, and that has not been threatened (by Plamegate)".  Guardian Oct 2005
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  • 1980's Early corruption: Both BCCI and Saudi Arabia's Mahfouz have historical connections the the Bush family, also InterMaritime Bank, bailed out Harken Energy in 1987 with $25 million.  Harken Energy then got a no-bid oil lease in 1991, George W. Bush promptly sold his shares and made a small fortune....
  • 1983 "Marc Rich, .... He's the American financier who skipped out of the United States in 1983, one step ahead of a $48-million tax bill and a 51-count indictment for various skullduggeries, including trading with Iran amidst the American hostage crisis" Newsday  Libby was his attorney. see docs Findlaw  Rudolf Giuliani was the prosecutor Newsday.  Clinton eventually pardoned Rich...and then Bush / Cheney hired Libby in 2001.  go to NFU Bush / Clinton crime family
  • 1986 Rove Dirty Tricks continue: Office bugging issue in Rove's work for Governor Bill Clements  1986 campaign against Governor Mark White, the Democratic incumbent.  Rove smeared  White into the bugging of his office...completely unsubstantiated.  Texas Observer and Guardian
  • In Texas, Rove oversaw both of George W. Bush's campaigns for governor and both of his runs for the presidency.
  • Also see BuzzFlash: "The Truth is Puttin’ on its Shoes: An Inquiry Into the "Innocent" Mr. Rove" search" John  Weaver, Texas, disgusting rumors, and leading to: "Weaver became the lead political strategist to Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign"  
  • 'Spin' ..."the word was first discussed by Nixon speech writer-cum-journalist William Safire in a 1986 New York Times column" Kenneth Hicks, Rogers State U.  
  • 1986 Miller (Wikipedia) was previously the subject of controversy when in 1986 she wrote numerous articles on Libya, thus contributing to a massive disinformation campaign on Muammar al-Qaddafi (Wikipedia) which was coordinated by Admiral John Poindexter (Iran-Contra scandal) of the Reagan administration.  and see Guardian
  • See Rosen / Weissman for Israeli spy operations in the U.S. in the 1980's and how they changed after Jonathon Pollard.  Israeli spies in the Pentagon existed to facilitate Middle East regime change policy.  Planning for the invasion of Iraq started in the 90's and was carried out by a joint Bush / Israeli effort.  AIPAC Rosen / Weissman knew that Iraqi WMD was not a credible threat. Asia Times file and Lockheed-Martin page
  • And.. Texas Observer article: Bush's Hit Man,  Karl Rove wins...by any means necessary. by Louis Dubose
  • 1988 search AIPAC, ex-Jerusalem Post reporter) Barbara Amouyal, Jesse Jackson, CBS, 60 Minutes
  • 1988  WMR has reported on the explosive information from two Iraqi War Army counter-intelligence veterans that they uncovered materials and documents proving that some of Saddam Hussein's chemical and biological weapons were provided in 1988 by The Carlyle Group, through Spanish and French intermediaries. WMR has learned that pre-cursor and recombinant chemicals used in Iraqi WMDs were provided by a Texas petrochemical company and a chemical/biological toxin firm in which George H. W. Bush held and continues to hold a financial stake.  search terms: aerial bombs, chemical and biological, Al Bakr Air Base north of Baghdad, Dave Debatto, Operation Desert Storm, hidden from inspectors, Rep. Henry Gonzalez, investigation, House Banking Committee Chairman, Gulf War Syndrome lawsuits, US companies supply WMD to SH, Rumsfeld intermediary,  Phillips Petroleum, Conoco Phillips, Tanox Biosystems, EX-IM Bank, Phillip Merril, full article.
  • 1989  WMR "The discovery of Carlyle documents with WMD components at Al Bakr by US Army counter-intelligence agents closes the loop on the involvement of Bush I and Baker in supplying Saddam Hussein with his deadliest weapons. Bush and Baker are reportedly shareholders in Houston-based Tanox Biosystems, sued by Gulf War Syndrome sufferers for shipping deadly biological agents to Iraq before Desert Storm. Tanox has also been accused of infecting death row inmates at the Texas State Prison in Huntsville with Mycoplasma fermentans (incognitus), eventually passing the results if the tests to the U.S. Army's Fort Detrick bio-weapons laboratory. Another defendant in the Gulf War veterans' suit is Rhone-Poulenc, headquartered in Shelton, Connecticut, and operator of a chemical plant in Houston. (After merger with Hoetsch, Rhone-Poulenc is now known as Aventis). DeBatto's discovery that the Carlyle shipment of the chem-bio weapons was made through Spanish and French intermediaries is bolstered by the fact that two firms identified by Gulf War plaintiffs, one Spanish -- Cades -- and the other French -- Rhone Poulenc -- are identified as pass through firms for U.S. shipments of nerve and mustard gas agents to Saddam in the 1980s.    ...............     A number of the plant's offices, which possibly contained documents that could have been of use to Federal investigators, were totally destroyed. Gonzalez and Senate Banking Committee investigators constantly complained that Bush I administration officials covered up every aspect of the Reagan-Bush secret arming of Iraq with WMDs. With no definite finding of what caused the Pasadena explosion, there is a possibility that more innocent Americans paid with their lives for the myriad crimes of the Bush Family" full article
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  • 1990-2005  AfroCubaWeb, Israeli Spying Chronology, 1990-2005 
  • 1990 When Hussein invaded Kuwait, Cheney was secretary of Defense and Libby was a deputy to Paul Wolfowitz, then undersecretary of Defense for policy.  Cheney and Libby were skeptical of the CIA.    
  • 1990 David Safavian worked with Abramoff at Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds (lobbying).  David Safavian - head of the Office of Management and Budget - will be arrested in Sept 2005 for lying to investigators about relationship with Abramoff.  Washington Post Bloomberg.  Abramoff will be arrested in 2005 for Indian land grab fraud.  Tom Delay and Jack Abramoff...close ties.  and see Forward and Commondreams.  see Janus-Merritt Strategies LLC and Williams Mullen for Norquist Safavian connections.  
  • 1991  Cheney / Libby clashed with CIA over credibility of Chalabi and INC Asia Times file and Lockheed-Martin page
  • 1991 ".. someone broke into the Nigerien Embassy in Rome. Reportedly, nothing was taken except paper - official letterhead of the Republic of Niger.   Christian Science Monitor Nov 2005
  • 1990 Mylroie and Miller co-authored "Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf"
  • 1990   WMR Neo-confederates as part of the neo-conservatives, ...but take Nancy Dorn, served as Cheney's legislative affairs assistant, ...But its Dorn's connection to the neo-confederate movement that is most interesting. While serving as Assistant Secretary of the Army, she signed off on funding for Confederate memorials, according to John Edward Hurley, President of the Confederate Memorial Association. House Speaker Hastert, Dorn's old boss, also arranges every January 19 for the Robert E. Lee ceremony to be held in the Capitol's Statuary Hall, the future home of the statue for the recently deceased civil right pioneer Rosa Parks. While Assistant Army Secretary, Dorn oversaw annual ceremonies at the Confederate memorial in Arlington Cemetery.  Hurley also said that Dorn has close links to Richard T. Hines, the neo-confederate GOP lobbyist and one-time assistant editor for the clearly racist Southern Partisan magazine, which routinely attacks Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president. It was Hines who attacked Sen. John McCain in the GOP primary for McCain's failure to support the flying of the Confederate flag over the state capitol in Columbia.  more search terms: Iran, , Sadam Hussein, Hooper, Owen, Gould & Winburn, Li Ka-shing, Hutchison Whampoa, Pakistan, Kazakstan, Azerbaijan and Coastal Corporation....  Dorn was busy in Western Asia, .... then Charles Duelfer, oil-for-food, human shields freed, but Bush indicted Wyatt,  and funding of the Ahghan mujaheddin, ... and MAK, Saudi Arabia, controlled by Osama bin Laden, then .... as Deputy Director of OMB,  then GE, then full circle back to funding for Confederate Memorials.  full article
  • 1992 Rove fired from 1992 Bush Sr. presidential campaign after he tried to smear Bush's fund raising chief Robert Mosbacher Jr ).  Planted false raising fund dissatisfaction story on Robert Novak.  Clark    copy 
  • Search: Ann Richards, Rep. Garnet Coleman, Mario Gallegos, Jr., Tom Paulken, Warren Chisum, George Shipley, Robert Bryce, Texas Rangers, SCI, Jim Hightower, 76 in 96, 8 in 98, Associated Republicans in Texas, Susan Weddington, caucus system over party primary,  Texas Observer, Clark   
  • 1994 see push-polling: "In its last days, the 1994 campaign also turned nasty. Texan voters began receiving calls from "pollsters" asking questions such as: "Would you be more or less likely to vote for Governor Richards if you knew her staff is dominated by lesbians?" ...only circumstantial evidence links this to Rove. Guardian
  • 1994  Brewster Jennings & Associates (Valerie Plame) became active.  Wayne Madsen Report 
  • 1994  Israel Hernandez (White House Bush aide) begins working for Bush, Texas, gubernatorial campaign. Will appear before Plamegate grand jury.
  • 1994  Hollinger International Wikipedia Richard Perle Miller path thru Sun Times, Burt boy toy.  search Fitzgerald, Hollinger, Radler
  • 1995  "THE REED-ABRAMOFF CONNECTION:...Abramoff often turned to a longtime friend and business associate whose ties....to Karl Rove--were far better than his: former Christian Coalition executive director Ralph Reed, who TIme declared "the Right Hand of God." TIME: An Unholy Alliance?" TIME: An Unholy Alliance? and Christian Coalition (founded by Ralph Reed) "Stand for Israel.... Aims to Activate Fervent Evangelical Support for the Jewish State".
  • 1996  William Luti, Office of House Speaker Newt Gingrich: Congressional Fellow 
  • 1996 John Deutch, misuse of classified data APFN  Clinton appointed him to WMD commission 1997
  • 1996 "Wurmser, whose Israeli-born wife Meyrav is director of the Center for Middle East Policy at the neoconservative Hudson Institute, is the principal author of .... 1996 policy paper, "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," prepared for then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by the Jerusalem-based Institute for Advanced Strategic Political Studies."  Antiwar 
  • 1996. Report: why removal of Saddam is crucial to Israel. Written by Feith, Wurmser and Fairbanks. Delivered in person by Perle to the Israeli Prime Minister.  Zfacts
  • May  Mega Israeli spy United Jersalem investigation quietly dropped. see Franklin, Rosen, Weissman indictment  
  • 1997  Search terms: Robert Luskin (Karl Rove's attorney), precious-metals dealer client convicted of money laundering for Colombian drug cartels paid Luskin $505,000 in gold bars later seized by feds.  Luskin: "I was completely obtuse on the optics of the situation".  Newsweek   and WMR: "Luskin also serves as an approved "special internal prosecutor" under the aegis of the Department of Justice, a position he has held since the Clinton administration. Attorneys General under Bill Clinton and George Bush have permitted Luskin to serve in his position despite the clear conflicts of interests during the investigation by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald during the investigation of Rove for outing CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson and the current investigation of Rove's involvement in the prosecution of former Alabama Democratic Governor Don Siegelman."  and search terms: mob-infested Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA), LIUNA president Arthur A. Coia, Coia is a close ally of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Attorney General Janet Reno, sweetheart deals ("internal prosecutor, in-house prosecutor") to take over union control in lieu of RICO,  but Luskin just perpetuated the corruption.  Clean up mob influence with 'operating agreement', civil complaint, La Cosa Nostra, Teamsters, mob-infested, Clinton, 1994 deals with unions, prosecutors, Harold Ickes involved (now deputy chief of staff to Hillary's campaign), NLPC called reforms a sham,  Luskin was Coia's personal attorney, conflict of interest, Luskin charged with illegally receiving 45 gold bars (Sheldon Whitehouse), money laundering, Patriarca, Saccoccia, Heritage Loan and Investment, North American Laborers Defense League, collapse of Rhode Island banking system, Switzerland wire transfers, Luskin as Rove's attorney, collusion with Patrick Fitzgerald, file   and more
  • 1997 ...2005...Wilson and his wife may file a civil lawsuit against Bush, Cheney and others seeking damages for the alleged harm done to Plame's career.  If they do so, ... Bush and Cheney will face questioning under oath -- while they are in office. The reason for that is a unanimous 1997 U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that Paula Jones' sexual harassment suit against then-President Bill Clinton could go forward immediately, a decision that was hailed by conservatives at the time.   Bloomberg
  • 1997. PNAC founded. Principles signed by: Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Libby, Abrams.  Zfacts
  • 1997 (Feith, OSP) "published a lengthy article, "A Strategy for Israel",... where Feith argued that Israel should repudiate the Oslo accords and move to re-occupy those parts of the West Bank and Gaza that had been transferred to the Palestinian Authority Asia Times file and Lockheed-Martin page
  • 1998  "Judith Miller apparently knew David Kelly rather well. She had quoted him in several of her earlier articles going back to 1998, and according to the Globe article referenced above, Kelly had helped her write her book about Weapons of Mass Destruction published several years before"  Dailykos  Miller seems to have attempted to minimize her contacts with David Kelly....curious?
  • 1999. Neocon book on U.S./Israeli strategic interest in Iraq "Iraq also has large, proven oil reserves, water, ..." —Wurmser PNAC Memo: "Above all, only ground forces can remove Saddam."  Zfacts
  • 2000 Plamegate                                       TOP   page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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  • 2000 Indyk, stripped of security clearance?  What are Rove, Novak ties to Rosen? 
  • Indyk  Miller connections?
  • Mid 2000 Able Danger, Zaman Two out of three 9/11 terrorist cells identified one year before 9/11 event, according to Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, but Pentagon lawyers cancelled meetings to report the info. 9/11 Commission ignored Able Danger reports.  Zaman
  • Sept 26, 2000 The day in history that the New York Times it admitted it hyped a story.  Wen Ho Lee, Los Alamos, China spy story  Press Think.   search net "Wen Ho Lee" Chalabi 
  • Oct 11, 2000 USS Cole bombing, Stephen Hadley (Karl Rove July 2003 email, Plamegate, WHIG, OSP) is also implicated in Able Danger deleted Mohammed Atta files.... in October 2005, see Curt Weldon on Able Danger program warning on USS Cole bombing. Times-Herald file
  • Nov 1, 2000 DOJ  "...indictment charged Misbah Khan of Karachi, Pakistan with hacking into AIPAC's computer server in Silver Spring, Maryland on November 1, 2000."
  • Rosen & Weissman say she was their informant
  • 2001 Plamegate                                       TOP   page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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  • 2001 William Luti, served as Special Adviser to VP Cheney for National Security Affairs (Middle East)
  • 2001. War selling by PNAC Sept. 15. At Camp David, Wolfowitz made the case for action against Iraq. Sept. 19. Rumsfeld called a meeting which proposed invading Iraq even if it was not linked to 9/11 in a letter focused mainly on Israel’s security needs, not bin Laden.  Zfacts
  • January 20,  2001  January 20, 2001.....defendant I. LEWIS LIBBY, also known as "SCOOTER LIBBY," was employedas Assistant to the President of the United States, Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States, and Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs    indictment
  • January 23,  2001 January 23, 2001, LIBBY executed a written "Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement,"  indictment
  • Feb 2001 Another hype by the New York Times that may be related to Plamegate?, Rosen / Weissman? via Bush / Rove / Cheney / Libby? The case of  Wen Ho Lee, search terms: Los Alamos, reliance of stories content on government leaks and stories, Energy Department, Notra Trulock, right wing organization Free Congress Foundation, W-88 warhead,  The Nation Feb 2001.
  • Jul, Aug 2001 John O'Neill (New York FBI Counterterror chief, died in WTC 9/11), reported to be under investigation for misplacing a briefcase, later found but big splash in headlines. Why?   And controversy with Bin Laden investigation in Yemen.
  • Sept 2001 Jack Abramoff connections to the Whitehouse.  search terms: Daved Safavian - former official of the Office of Management and Budget OMB- will be arrested in 2005.  Also, Safavian worked with Abramoff at __?__ and was a partner of Grover Norquist (Bush strategist).  and ..Safavin traveled to Scotland in 2002 with Abramoff, Rep. Robert Ney (Ohio), and Ralph Reed (2004 election campaign)  Bloomberg and Safavian links to Abramoff then to Bolton then to Judith Miller... then to Libby...then to Cheney.   Or another string or relationships starts with Abramoff to Ralph Reed (Christian Coalition) to Norquist's anti-tax group Americans for Tax Reform....and back to Safavian and Norquist at Janus-Merritt Strategies LLC.....put Tom Delay in the mix...with his relationship with Abramoff and bingo.  Bloomberg copy
  • Sept 1, 2001 DOJ Fitzgerald began serving as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois on 
  • Sept 4, 2001  John O'Neill, left FBI under a cloud, Judith Miller NYTimes propaganda campaign, see Vernon Loeb article Washington Post, search Yemen investigation, briefcase incident,  RexResearch 
  • Sept 11, 2001 WTC
  • Ted Olson, Bush Solicitor General, served as defense attorney for Jonathan Pollard. Pollard was convicted of spying for Israel. 
  • Soon after Sept 11, 2001, Libby "began routinely calling intelligence officials, high and low, to pump them for any scraps of information on Iraq", Interactive Investor
  • Oct, 2001 CIA received and dismissed forged report on Niger / Iraq yellowcake. A French consortium controlled the mines making the concept incredulous.  Elizabeth Burba of Panorama (Italian) magazine provided U.S. with docs.  Cheny and Bolton pushed it, Tenet tried to stop it.  Docs handled by SISMI or SISDE, Italy, but produced in U.S. Michael Leeden? (Iran-Contra, Israel, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA).  Other names: Harold Rhode (investigation into passing highly classified information to Israel.)  Anti-war, Christian Science Monitor
  • Oct 5, 2001 Bush disclosure order, that severely curtailed intelligence oversight by restricting classified information to just eight Congressional leaders.  Think Progress
  • Oct 21, 2001 DOJ  "...indictment charged Misbah Khan of Karachi, Pakistan with hacking into AIPAC's computer server in Silver Spring, Maryland on November 1, 2000."
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Mission to Niger, (fair use)
Robert Novak July 14, 2003  
Editor's Note: Robert Novak wrote a column on Oct. 1, 2003 <http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20031001.shtml> in response to the story that began to unfold three months after this column originally ran.

WASHINGTON -- The CIA's decision to send retired diplomat Joseph C. Wilson to Africa in February 2002 to investigate possible Iraqi purchases of uranium was made routinely at a low level without Director George Tenet's knowledge. Remarkably, this produced a political firestorm that has not yet subsided.

Wilson's report that an Iraqi purchase of uranium yellowcake from Niger was highly unlikely was regarded by the CIA as less than definitive, and it is doubtful Tenet ever saw it. Certainly, President Bush did not, prior to his 2003 State of the Union address, when he attributed reports of attempted uranium purchases to the British government. That the British relied on forged documents made Wilson's mission, nearly a year earlier, the basis of furious Democratic accusations of burying intelligence though the report was forgotten by the time the president spoke.

Reluctance at the White House to admit a mistake has led Democrats ever closer to saying the president lied the country into war. Even after a belated admission of error last Monday, finger-pointing between Bush administration agencies continued. Messages between Washington and the presidential entourage traveling in Africa hashed over the mission to Niger.

Wilson's mission was created after an early 2002 report by the Italian intelligence service about attempted uranium purchases from Niger, derived from forged documents prepared by what the CIA calls a "con man." This misinformation, peddled by Italian journalists, spread through the U.S. government. The White House, State Department and Pentagon, and not just Vice President Dick Cheney, asked the CIA to look into it.

That's where Joe Wilson came in. His first public notice had come in 1991 after 15 years as a Foreign Service officer when, as U.S. charge in Baghdad, he risked his life to shelter in the embassy some 800 Americans from Saddam Hussein's wrath. My partner Rowland Evans reported from the Iraqi capital in our column that Wilson showed "the stuff of heroism." President George H.W. Bush the next year named him ambassador to Gabon, and President Bill Clinton put him in charge of African affairs at the National Security Council until his retirement in 1998.

Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate the Italian report. The CIA says its counter-proliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him. "I will not answer any question about my wife," Wilson told me.

After eight days in the Niger capital of Niamey (where he once served), Wilson made an oral report in Langley that an Iraqi uranium purchase was "highly unlikely," though he also mentioned in passing that a 1988 Iraqi delegation tried to establish commercial contacts. CIA officials did not regard Wilson's intelligence as definitive, being based primarily on what the Niger officials told him and probably would have claimed under any circumstances. The CIA report of Wilson's briefing remains classified.

All this was forgotten until reporter Walter Pincus revealed in the Washington Post June 12 that an unnamed retired diplomat had given the CIA a negative report. Not until Wilson went public on July 6, however, did his finding ignite the firestorm.

During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, Wilson had taken a measured p