Plame Hearing Is A Joke

[Bullypulpit]

I'm suggesting that the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation is correct, as reported in 2004. Plame is now lying / spinning to cover her tracks.

The panel found that Wilson's report, rather than debunking intelligence about purported uranium sales to Iraq, as he has said, bolstered the case for most intelligence analysts. And contrary to Wilson's assertions and even the government's previous statements, the CIA did not tell the White House it had qualms about the reliability of the Africa intelligence that made its way into 16 fateful words in President Bush's January 2003 State of the Union address.

Yesterday's report said that whether Iraq sought to buy lightly enriched "yellowcake" uranium from Niger is one of the few bits of prewar intelligence that remains an open question. Much of the rest of the intelligence suggesting a buildup of weapons of mass destruction was unfounded, the report said.

The report turns a harsh spotlight on what Wilson has said about his role in gathering prewar intelligence, most pointedly by asserting that his wife, CIA employee Valerie Plame, recommended him. ...(snip)...

The report states that a CIA official told the Senate committee that Plame "offered up" Wilson's name for the Niger trip, then on Feb. 12, 2002, sent a memo to a deputy chief in the CIA's Directorate of Operations saying her husband "has good relations with both the PM [prime minister] and the former Minister of Mines (not to mention lots of French contacts), both of whom could possibly shed light on this sort of activity." The next day, the operations official cabled an overseas officer seeking concurrence with the idea of sending Wilson, the report said.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39834-2004Jul9.html?referrer=emailarticle


If Fitzgerald had found that a crime were committed in outing Plame, why wasn't Armitage charged?

The "CIA official' cited in the WaPo article has long since recanted his testimony on the matter. Based on information that has now been shown to be erroneous, piece of 'news' is no longer news.

The nature of Armitage's possible revelation did not, from what I can tell, meet the standard for prosecution under FIPA nor did he, unlike Libby, lie to the grand jury or investigators about it.

 

[boedicca]

Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee dispute the validity of Plame's current claims. We do need to see the recommendation memo to know the full story - perhaps that will be made available.

Libby was convicted of perjury - not of outing Plame; so, try again.