Ex-FBI translator's case may reveal Plame's crucial CIA role

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Ex-FBI translator's case may reveal Plame's crucial CIA role
By Mike Mejia
Online Journal Contributing Writer

Dec 16, 2005, 00:52

For over a year, speculation has run rampant in the U.S. media and in the blogosphere about the CIA leak investigation being conducted by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.

The thought-provoking questions asked by journalists and bloggers alike are many and varied: Who, in addition to Scooter Libby and Karl Rove, was involved in leaking the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame to the media in order to punish her husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, for his refutation of President Bush's Niger uranium claim? What was the role of the White House Iraq Group (WHIG) in peddling Plame's name to the media? Who forged the Niger uranium documents? What secrets lay inside the eight redacted pages of material in Circuit Judge David Tatel's decision to overide his finding of a reporters' federal shield privilege "ere the leak at issue in this case less harmful to national security"? Was Plame's role at the CIA as a weapons of mass destruction expert critical, as old CIA hands like Larry Johnson contend, or was she just a paper pusher, as the pro-Bush crowd proclaims?

Although many of these questions about the Fitzgerald investigation have yet to be answered, a pair of little noticed but explosive articles authored by Christopher Deliso of antiwar.com, "Plame, Pakistan a Nuclear Turkey and the Necons" and "Lesser Neocons of L'Affaire Plame", go a long way to solving the mystery of Valerie Plame's mission at the agency and may henceforth reveal what likely lies in those mysterious eight redacted pages of Tatel's.

According to Deliso's two sources, the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet and former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, the outing of Valerie Plame may have severely damaged a CIA operation to monitor a nuclear black market faciliated by the shadowy but well-connected Washington lobby group, the American Turkish Council (ATC). (Those familiar with the Sibel Edmonds case will know the ATC is the very same organization that the former FBI translator heard on wiretaps in connection with various alleged illegal activities, some connected to 9/11.) From Edmonds, Deliso obtained the following admission: "Plame's undercover job involved the organizations , the ATC (American-Turkish Council) and the ATA (American-Turkish Association) . . . the Brewster Jennings network was very active in Turkey and with the Turkish community in the U.S. during the late 1990s, 2000, and 2001 . . . in places like Chicago, Boston, and Paterson, N.J."

Such a stunning statement by the former FBI contract linguist could be dismissed by those not familiar with the whistleblower's well-established credibility were it not for the fact that Edmonds is, at least in part, corroborated by Ambassador Joseph Wilson himself. In his book the Politics of Truth, Wilson recounts on page 240 that he first met Valerie Plame in 1997, at a reception at the home of the Turkish ambassador which Wilson attended to receive an award from -- you guessed it -- the American Turkish Council. Wilson, of course, never explains in his book what brought Valerie Plame to attend this ATC-sponsored event, but since it is public information that Plame was an undercover CIA operative at the time, the simplest explanation is the most likely one: she was there as part of her Brewster Jennings & Associates cover. Although U.S. law prohibits the CIA from conducting espionage operations against U.S. citizens on American soil, nothing would have prohibited Plame from attending such an event in Washington.

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[Fridays Child]

1. It seems that Sibel Edmonds alluded to such a connection...

in an interview, some time ago. I got the impression from that interview that she wants people to understand how closely interwoven are all of the Bush scandals.

[Nickster]

2. That made me think of the first time that Fitzgerald and Miller tangled

Miller tipped off the Global Relief Foundation, which has offices in Turkey, before Fitzgerald could shut them down.

http://japan.usembassy.gov/e/p/tp-sec20021024a1.html

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3. When reading this, keep in mind the further cooperation of the media.

In addition to covering-up Edmonds, they went along with the plan to make the Plame outing all about Joe Wilson. Anyone reading the internet after first learning who Plame was would find out that Brewster-Jennings was involved in investigating the trafficking of wmds and nuclear parts and intelligence. Anyone reading the internet could find out that Cheney was involved with Khan - king trafficker.

Why would Libby and Rove relinquish their careers and face jail to smear a former Ambassador? They were out to take down Brewster-Jennings on behalf of our President and his VP or on behalf of the President's VP.

Did the media figure it out and bring the news to us?

The media is as culpable for the killing in Iraq and the ungodly profits for a few - as culpable as the Republican Party with some Dems and the media is not going to succeed because many are going to lose their positions and jobs - unless the Republican Party declares martial law first. How desperate are they.

Sadly, getting them out will do little good if you hold up Kissinger and other former criminals as a model. Kissinger - friend and in business with Malosevic. And still wheeling-dealing though unable to transit through certain countries because of State Dept and WH crimes against Chille.

Mainstream right wing media is cheating the citizens of this country and they are fellow killers.

We were warned over 200 years ago. U.S. citizens can't face the truth of the corruption because we were lied to as children. Our leaders killed our dreams or what they told us our dreams should be.

The world should not listen to us. There is no democracy or freedoms here. This is a corrupt country being led by corrupt leaders who are leading people who try really hard to follow the law, pay taxes, raise their familes, and do some good. We deserve better. We deserve better. We didn't do anything to deserve this except become complacent and place our hands over our ears.

Thanks you to the independent INVESTIGATIVE journalists and damn the networks, newspapers, and magazines who bring us only propagandists.

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