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| 2005-08-04 |
| Interesting tidbits about Joe Wilson's not quite undercover wife, Valerie Plame Wilson. Hat tip NRO: I'm just a regular working mom, says America's most famous spy 10/07/2005 - America's most famous spy was doing her best to stay out of the unwelcome limelight last week. "I'm just a mom getting dinner ready for my kids," Valerie Wilson said with a smile at her hilltop home in one of Washington's best neighbourhoods. "You better talk to my husband." Blah, blah, now the interesting item: While Miller languishes in jail, Mrs Wilson has quietly returned to work at the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Virginia, after a year's unpaid leave. Her work remains classified, although she is no longer a covert operative. She spent much of her enforced leave of absence helping to counsel women suffering from postnatal depression, a condition that strikes an estimated one in 10 new mothers and which Mrs Wilson herself experienced. "years unpaid leave" and "enforced leave of absence" sounds a lot like what we'd normally call a "suspension", doesn't it? Novak wrote about Plame in July 2003. If the Telegraph is correct, she was not put on âunpaid leave of absenceâ until a full year later, about July of 2004. That would be around the same time as this: Spy's Notes on Iraqi Aims Were Shelved, Suit Says WASHINGTON, July 31 - The Central Intelligence Agency was told by an informant in the spring of 2001 that Iraq had abandoned a major element of its nuclear weapons program, but the agency did not share the information with other agencies or with senior policy makers, a former C.I.A. officer has charged. In a lawsuit filed in federal court here in December, the former C.I.A. officer, whose name remains secret, said that the informant told him that Iraq's uranium enrichment program had ended years earlier and that centrifuge components from the scuttled program were available for examination and even purchase. The officer, an employee at the agency for more than 20 years, including several years in a clandestine unit assigned to gather intelligence related to illicit weapons, was fired in 2004. Say, doesn't Valerie work in the WMD section? In his lawsuit, he says his dismissal was punishment for his reports questioning the agency's assumptions on a series of weapons-related matters. Among other things, he charged that he had been the target of retaliation for his refusal to go along with the agency's intelligence conclusions. Now the CIA wouldn't do anything like that, would they?His information on the Iraqi nuclear program, described as coming from a significant source, would have arrived at a time when the C.I.A. was starting to reconsider whether Iraq had revived its efforts to develop nuclear weapons. The agency's conclusion that this was happening, eventually made public by the Bush administration in 2002 as part of its rationale for war, has since been found to be incorrect. I see three posibilities, 1 - this guy is lying to cover his ass, 2 - the CIA missed the clue Iraq was dropping their nuclear program and are practicing CYA, or 3 - CIA knew Iraq was dropping the program, but covered it up and gave Bush the wrong data to damage him at a later date. What did Valerie know, and when did she know it? Interesting |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #1 Cue 007 Theme Plame, Valerie Plame and this is my past prime husband, Wison, Joe Wilson.... fade 007 theme |
| Posted by: Mister Federal Reserve 2005-08-04 13:24 |