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Outed CIA agent lectures
Operative: Leak threatens nation
BRIAN MINK
Issue date: 4/17/08 Section: News
Plame Wilson spoke about Iraq, sometimes drawing applause from the audience as she condemned the administration's handling of intelligence.
It would be intellectually dishonest to say everyone always knew there were no WMDs, she said.
"Our job was to find out what [the Iraqis] were up to," she said. "I thought that the CIA failed deeply."
Following that lack of evidence, Plame Wilson said the administration manipulated intelligence to make a case for the War in Iraq.
The president's 2003 State of the Union speech initiated the manipulation, she said. President George W. Bush claimed the administration obtained intelligence that Saddam Hussein was trying to buy uranium from Niger, Plame told the audience at the Chapel.
A week later, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell made the administration's case to the United Nations, she said.
"What [Powell] was saying did not match up to the intelligence that I was privy to," Plame-Wilson said. "And I was privy to a lot."
It would be intellectually dishonest to say everyone always knew there were no WMDs, she said.
"Our job was to find out what [the Iraqis] were up to," she said. "I thought that the CIA failed deeply."
Following that lack of evidence, Plame Wilson said the administration manipulated intelligence to make a case for the War in Iraq.
The president's 2003 State of the Union speech initiated the manipulation, she said. President George W. Bush claimed the administration obtained intelligence that Saddam Hussein was trying to buy uranium from Niger, Plame told the audience at the Chapel.
A week later, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell made the administration's case to the United Nations, she said.
"What [Powell] was saying did not match up to the intelligence that I was privy to," Plame-Wilson said. "And I was privy to a lot."
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posted 4/17/08 @ 9:03 AM EST
Richard Armitage accidently revealed her covert status to Novak. This is a non-story by a woman who loves the media spotlight.
pd
posted 4/21/08 @ 6:31 PM EST
Ring. Your fifteen minutes of fame is up. Please sit down.
Give Me A Break
posted 4/22/08 @ 11:40 AM EST
It's true that Valerie Plame Wilson is just a pawn in a much larger game. But it is truly unbelievable that this issue, along with the faulty and dishonest rationale for the whole Iraq fiasco, did not become an even bigger issue for the Bush administration. (Continued…)
Peter Kauffner
posted 4/22/08 @ 12:52 PM EST
Joe Wilson was the leaker! He put her name into his "Who's Who" and also told David Corn she was a CIA agent long before Novak column was publish. She should sue him. (Continued…)
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