MSNBC confirms: Outed CIA agent was working on Iran

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http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/MSNBC_confirms_Raw_Story_report_Outed_0501.html

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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.

RAW STORY's Larisa Alexandrovna broke the story earlier this year, which went unnoticed by the mainstream media (Read our full story).

According to current and former intelligence officials, Plame Wilson, who worked on the clandestine side of the CIA in the Directorate of Operations as a non-official cover (NOC) officer, was part of an operation tracking distribution and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction technology to and from Iran.

Reports Shuster in this rush transcript: "INTELLIGENCE SOURCES SAY VALERIE WILSON WAS PART OF AN OPERATION THREE YEARS AGO TRACKING THE PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS MATERIAL INTO IRAN. AND THE SOURCES ALLEGE THAT WHEN MRS. WILSON'S COVER WAS BLOWN, THE ADMINISTRATION'S ABILITY TO TRACK IRAN'S NUCLEAR AMBITIONS WAS DAMAGED AS WELL."
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1. I thought we knew this a while ago?

Is this just the "official" acknowledgment?

Doesn't matter.
Shrub could rape a child on prime-time and his freeper base would blame the child.

[Ian David]

4. WE knew this... but THEY buried it. n/t

[antonialee839]

5. No, they wouldn't blame the child, they'd blame Clinton.

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7. true

[Ian David]

2. Halliburton secretly doing business with key member of Iran's nuclear team

Halliburton secretly doing business with key member of Iran's nuclear team

By Jason Leopold
Online Journal Contributing Writer

August 6, 2005— Scandal-plagued Halliburton, the oil services company once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, was secretly working with one of Iran's top nuclear program officials on natural gas related projects and, allegedly, selling the official's oil development company key components for a nuclear reactor, according to Halliburton sources with intimate knowledge into both companies' business dealings.

Just last week a National Security Council report said Iran was a decade away from acquiring a nuclear bomb. That time frame could arguably have been significantly longer if Halliburton, which just reported a 284 percent increase in its fourth quarter profits due to its Iraq reconstruction contracts, was not actively providing the Iranian government with the financial means to build a nuclear weapon.

Now comes word that Halliburton, which has a long history of flouting U.S. law by conducting business with countries the Bush administration said have ties to terrorism, was working with Cyrus Nasseri, the vice chairman of Oriental Oil Kish, one of Iran's largest private oil companies, on oil development projects in Tehran. Nasseri is also a key member of Iran's nuclear development team.

"Nasseri, a senior Iranian diplomat negotiating with Europe over Iran's controversial nuclear program is at the heart of deals with US energy companies to develop the country's oil industry," the Financial Times reported.

More:
http://www.onlinejournal.org/Special_Reports/080605Leopold/080605leopold.html

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3. which should be the lead story for every news outlet

but do you think we'll see that? I hightly doubt it. :eyes:

:puke:

[papau]

6. Colbert was spot on as far as our RW controlled National Media

Sadly there are way too many of these non-reporting or late reports that confirm his comments about our media.

[Supersedeas]

8. more perverts of the day, more celebrity news, more shark attacks