Please help me with my list of people who are linked to Plame

[Botany]

Dick Cheney
Scooter Libby
Karl Rove
Hadley
Bolton
Warmus
Novak
Miller
Gannon
Ari

Hmmmmm some name seems to be missing. I wonder who it could
be? please help .......

I wonder is it ____?

:popcorn:

[madeline_con]

1. Does it start with DUH-bya?

:bounce:

[hootinholler]

2. Ok, here's a few...

A: Players:

1: Oval Office
1.1: Bush
1.1.1: Rove
1.1.1.1: Plame leak source? - doubtful, more likely second or
confirmed Plame.

1.1.2: Rice - National Security advisor

1.2: WHIG - White House Iraq Group
Systematic coordination began in August, when Chief of Staff
Andrew H. Card Jr. formed the White House Iraq Group, or WHIG, to
set strategy for each stage of the confrontation with Baghdad. A
senior official who participated in its work called it "an
internal working group, like many formed for priority issues, to
make sure each part of the White House was fulfilling its
responsibilities."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A39500-2003Aug9¬Found=true

1.2.1: The group met weekly in the Situation Room. Among the regular
participants were Karl Rove, the president's senior political adviser;
communications strategists Karen Hughes, Mary Matalin and James
R. Wilkinson; legislative liaison Nicholas E. Calio; and policy
advisers led by Rice and her deputy, Stephen J. Hadley, along with
I. Lewis Libby, Cheney's chief of staff.
1.2.2: Participants:
1.2.2.1: Karl Rove (1.1.1)
1.2.2.2: Karen Hughes
1.2.2.3: Mary Matalin - James Carville's wife?
1.2.2.4: James R. Wilkinson
1.2.2.5: Nicholas E. Calio legislative liaison
1.2.2.6: Condoleeza Rice National Security Advisor
1.2.2.7: Stephen J. Hadley, Rice's deputy
1.2.2.8: I. Lewis Libby, Cheney's chief of staff.
1.2.2.9: Andrew H. Card Jr. WH Chief of staff

1.3.1: Press Secretary
1.3.1.1: Ari Fliescher
1.3.1.2: Scott McClellan

1.4: Defense Counsel
1.4.1: Jim Sharp

2: VP Office
2.1: Cheney
2.1.1: Libby
2.1.2: JINSA (11.5)
2.1.3: David Wurmser
David Wurmser replaced Eric Edelman as Principal Deputy Assistant to
the Vice President for National Security Affairs in the Office of Vice
President Dick Cheney in early September 2003
2.1.4: Cheney raised the alarm about Iraq's nuclear menace three times
in August. He was far ahead of the president's public line. Only Bush
and Cheney know, one senior policy official said, "whether Cheney was
trying to push the president or they had decided to play good cop, bad
cop."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A39500-2003Aug9¬Found=true

2.2: Defense Counsel
2.2.1: Terrence O'Donnell

3: State
3.1: Powell
3.1.1: Yellcake memo on African trip?
3.1.2: Richard Armitage
When Mr. Wilson's Op-Ed article appeared on July 6, 2003, a Sunday,
Richard L. Armitage, then deputy secretary of state, called Carl
W. Ford Jr., the assistant secretary for intelligence and research, at
home, a former State Department official said. Mr. Armitage asked
Mr. Ford to send a copy of the memorandum to Mr. Powell, who was
preparing to leave for Africa with Mr. Bush, the former official
said. Mr. Ford sent it to the White House for transmission to
Mr. Powell. It is not clear who asked for the memorandum,.

3.1.3: Bolton - Undersecretary of state for Arms Control
3.1.3.1: During the vote count of the 2000 election in Florida a man burst
through the door and yelled that the count had to stop. That man was
John Bolton.
Later it was said that Cheney told him he could 'have anything he
wanted' for what he did in Florida.
Well, he wanted Condi's job as National Security Advisor, but was told
that the job was already Hadley's and he said he wanted Hadley's old
job and Hadley said no.
Think about this. Can you just imagine Bush, Cheney, Condi and Hadley
in a room and dying laughing about appointing him US ambassador and
sending this asshole up there, especially in light of how they all
hate the UN?

3.1.3.2: By then, Wurmser had moved on to a post as senior adviser to
Undersecretary of State John Bolton
http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/mideast/iraq/1448.html

3.1.4: Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR)
3.1.4.1:Carl W. Ford jr.
assistant secretary for intelligence and research

3.1.4.2:Sources said the CIA is angry about the circulation of a
still-classified document to conservative news outlets
suggesting Plame had a role in arranging her husband's trip to
Africa for the CIA. The document, written by a State
Department official who works for its Bureau of Intelligence
and Research (INR), describes a meeting at the CIA where the
Niger trip by Wilson was discussed, said a senior
administration official who has seen it.

CIA officials have challenged the accuracy of the INR document, the
official said, because the agency officer identified as talking about
Plame's alleged role in arranging Wilson's trip could not have
attended the meeting.
-Wash Post

3.1.4.3: October 9-16, 2002
After the documents arrive in Washington, they are reviewed by the
State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) and
within days its analysts conclude that the papers might be fakes. On
October 16, the INR distributes the documents to the CIA and several
other US intelligence agencies with the caveat that the documents are
of dubious authenticity. . . .
. . . the CIA quickly saw that the documents were not authentic. A
senior Central Intelligence Agency official will tell Knut Royce of
Newsday that the CIA had serious questions about from day one.
The agency had accounts of them and that was close enough. We
didn't take it that seriously to begin with. ... We didn't put a lot
of stock in these reports from Niger. We didn't rush around to get the
actual documents. Likewise, a US intelligence official will tell
the New York Times that CIA officials were always suspicious of the
Niger documents. And Hersh's anonymous CIA source also says the papers
were quickly assessed as fakes. Everybody knew at every step of
the way that they were false until they got to the Pentagon, where
they were believed.


3.2: Rice

3.3: Micheal Ledeen - Consultant???


4: DOD
4.1: Rumsfeld
4.1.1: Wolfowitz
While the CIA and other intelligence agencies concentrated on Osama
bin Laden's Al Qaeda as the culprit in the 9/11 attacks, Wolfowitz and
Feith obsessively focused on Iraq.
http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/mideast/iraq/1448.html

4.1.2: Richard Perle
4.1.2.1: International lawyers and anti-war campaigners reacted with
astonishment yesterday after the influential Pentagon hawk Richard
Perle conceded that the invasion of Iraq had been illegal.

In a startling break with the official White House and Downing Street
lines, Mr Perle told an audience in London: "I think in this case
international law stood in the way of doing the right thing."

But Mr Perle, a key member of the defence policy board, which advises
the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, said that
"international law ... would have required us to leave Saddam
Hussein alone", and this would have been morally
unacceptable.
http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/000795.php

4.1.3: Deputy Undersecretary of Defense William Luti
Together, she says, Luti and Shulsky (4.2.6) turned cherry-picked pieces of
uncorroborated, anti-Iraq intelligence into talking points, on
issues like Iraq's WMD and its links to Al Qaeda. Shulsky
constantly updated these papers, drawing on the intelligence unit,
and circulated them to Pentagon officials, including Rumsfeld, and
to Vice President Cheney. "Of course, we never thought they'd go
directly to the White House," she adds.
http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/mideast/iraq/1448.html

4.2: OSP - Office of Special Plans
Indeed, the Bush team at the Pentagon hadn't even been formally
installed before Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of Defense, and
Douglas J. Feith, undersecretary of Defense for policy, began putting
together what would become the vanguard for regime change in Iraq.
http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/mideast/iraq/1448.html

4.2.1: Douglas Feith -
a former aide to Richard Perle at the Pentagon in the 1980s Heads OSP
4.2.1.1:
4.2.1.2: The unofficial, off-site recruitment office for Feith and
Rhode was the American Enterprise Institute

4.2.2: Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski (USAFR)
observed how the Pentagon's Iraq war-planning unit manufactured scare
stories about Iraq's weapons and ties to terrorists. "It wasn't
intelligence-it was propaganda," she says. "They'd take a little bit
of intelligence, cherry-pick it, make it sound much more exciting,
usually by taking it out of context, often by juxtaposition of two
pieces of information that don't belong together." It was by turning
such bogus intelligence into talking points for
U.S. officials-including ominous lines in speeches by President Bush
and Vice President Cheney, along with Secretary of State Colin
Powell's testimony at the U.N. Security Council last February-that the
administration pushed American public opinion into supporting an
unnecessary war.
http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/mideast/iraq/1448.html

4.2.3: Harold Rhode - (4.5)
4.2.3.1: did he work for Perle? or did they both work for someone
else?

4.2.4: Michael Rubin
4.2.5: David Wurmser
4.2.5.1: Micheal Maloof -
4.2.5.1.1: Clearance revoked Dec 01 (over security leak to press
allegations). worked for Wurmser
4.2.6: Abram N. Shulsky - director when unit formed
4.2.7: Colonel Bruner -Chalabi's 'handler'
4.2.8: Larry Franklin - patsy?


4.3: OSI - Office of Strategic Influence

4.4: U.S. Army
4.4.1: 75th Exploitation Task Force in Iraq
4.4.1.1: Mobile Exploitation Team Alpha (META), which was charged with
examining potential Iraqi weapon sites after the war.
4.4.1.1.1: Allegedly tasked by Miller (8.1)
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1984429
4.4.1.2: Richard McPhee, commander
4.4.1.2.1: Eugene Pomeroy - public-affairs officer

4.5: Office of Net Assessment
Rhode, seen by many veteran staffers as an ideological gadfly, was
officially assigned to the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment, an
in-house Pentagon think tank headed by fellow neocon Andrew Marshall.
http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/mideast/iraq/1448.html
4.5.1: Andrew Marshall
4.5.1.1: Harold Rhode
Rhode refused to be interviewed for this story, saying cryptically,
"Those who speak, pay."
http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/mideast/iraq/1448.html

5: Justice
5.1: Ashcroft
5.1.1: Actions
5.1.1.1: Obstructs/Punishes Sibel Edmonds
5.1.1.2: Recuses self from Plame investigation

5.1.2: James Comey - Deputy AG
5.1.2.1: Appoints Fitzgerald Special Prosecutor in Plame case
5.1.2.2: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON, D.C. - Deputy Attorney
General James B. Comey announced
today that he intends to resign his position at the Department of
Justice and return to the private sector this fall. Comey has
served as the Deputy Attorney General since December 2003,
following his nomination by President George W. Bush and his
confirmation by a unanimous Senate. As Deputy Attorney General,
Comey led the Justice Department's enormously successful Corporate
Fraud Task Force, created Violent Crime Impact Teams in cities
around the nation to rid the streets of violent criminals, and
oversaw the day to day operation of the Department of Justice, and
its more than 104,000 men and women, under two Attorneys General.
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/ohs/Press/04-20-05.htm

5.2: Gonzales

5.3: FBI
5.3.1: Sibel Edmonds
5.3.1.1: FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, gagged
by Attorney General John Ashcroft, said in her
testimony to the 9/11 Commission that if what she
knows is revealed, it could lead to charges of
TREASON being leveled against elected officials at
top levels of the U.S. government, Certain elected
officials will stand trial and go to prison.

5.4: Patrick Fitzgerald - Special Prosecutor Plame case

6: CIA
6.1: George Tenet
6.1.1: September 24, 2002
George Tenet briefs the Senate Intelligence Committee on the 2002
National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq (see October 1, 2002). In
his summary of the document, he includes the allegation that Iraq
attempted to obtain uranium from Niger. He mentions that there are
some doubts about the reliability of the evidence, but he does not say
that the CIA had sent former diplomat Joseph C. Wilson as an envoy to
Niger in February (see Late February 2002) and that the former
ambassador's conclusion had been that the claims were bogus.

6.2: Operatives
6.2.1: Plame
6.2.1.1: Brewster Jennings - Cover company
6.3: Alan Foley, CIA expert on weapons of mass destruction

7: INC - Iraqi National Congress
The INC had begun as an umbrella organization, cobbled together by the
CIA to corral a disparate band of anti-Saddam forces into an effective
opposition.

7.1: Ahmad Chalabi
At the start, Chalabi had been a functionary in this group, arranging
logistics for Iraqi politicians visiting officials in Washington. But
with his charming persona, he quickly became the group’s public
face an ascent that alienated many of the groups he claimed to
represent.

7.1.1: As a banker in Amman, he had been a source of gossip about
intrigue in King Hussein’s palace. Reporters including Judy Miller
turned to him for dirt.


8: NYT
8.1: Miller
8.1.1: WMD Articals:
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1984429

Jun, 2004:
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/features/9226/index.html -:
During the winter of 2001 and throughout 2002, Miller produced a
series of stunning stories about Saddam Hussein’s ambition and
capacity to produce weapons of mass destruction, based largely on
information provided by Chalabi and his allies almost all of which
have turned out to be stunningly inaccurate.

-also-

Her Iraq coverage didn’t just depend on Chalabi. It also relied
heavily on his patrons in the Pentagon. Some of these sources, like
Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz, would occasionally talk to her on
the record. She relied especially heavily on the Office of Special
Plans, an intelligence unit established beneath Undersecretary of
Defense Douglas Feith. The office was charged with uncovering evidence
of Al Qaeda links to Saddam Hussein that the CIA might have missed. In
particular, Miller is said to have depended on a controversial neocon
in Feith’s office named Michael Maloof. At one point, in December
2001, Maloof’s security clearance was revoked. In April, Risen
reported in the Times, Several intelligence professionals say he
came under scrutiny because of suspicions that he had leaked
classified information in the past to the news media, a charge that
Mr. Maloof denies. While Miller might not have intended to march
in lockstep with these hawks, she was caught up in an almost
irresistible cycle. Because she kept printing the neocon party line,
the neocons kept coming to her with huge stories and great quotes,
constantly expanding her access.

8.1.1.1: On Dec. 3, 2002, Miller aired in the Times the allegations
of an "unnamed informant" who said that a deceased Russian scientist
("Madam Smallpox") might have given Iraq a virulent strain of
smallpox. Nine months later, Dafna Linzer of the Associated Press
authoritatively reported: "U.S. Weapons Hunters Find No Evidence Iraq
Had Smallpox" (Sept. 18).

8.1.1.2: April 21 "baseball cap" story - unidentified source wearing
cap discloses WMD processing locations - pegged bogon detector.

8.1.1.3: And, most memorably, she co-wrote a piece in which
administration officials suggested that Iraq had attempted to
import aluminum tubes for nuclear weapons. Vice-President Dick
Cheney trumpeted the story on Meet the Press, closing the
circle.
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/features/9226/index.html -:

8.1.1.4: One incident that still rankles happened last April, when
Miller co-bylined a story with Douglas Jehl on the WMD search
that included a quote from Amy Smithson, an analyst formerly at
the Henry L. Stimson Center. A day after it appeared, the Times
learned that the quote was deeply problematic. To begin with, it
had been supplied to Miller in an e-mail that began, Briefly
and on background a condition that Miller had flatly
broken by naming her source. Miller committed a further offense
by paraphrasing the quote and distorting Smithson’s
analysis. One person who viewed the e-mail says that it
attributed views to Smithson that she clearly didn’t hold. An
embarrassing correction ensued. And while the offense had been
entirely Miller’s, there was nothing in the correction
indicating Jehl’s innocence.
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/features/9226/index.html -:

8.1.2: (4.4.1.1) Mobile Exploitation Team Alpha (META)

8.1.2.1: "General Judith Miller" -- as Shafer has dubbed her -- was
accused by a half dozen officers of intimidating soldiers
searching for WMD. An Army officer told Kurtz: "Judith was always
issuing threats of either going to The New York Times or to the
Secretary of Defense." Another charged: "She ended up almost
hijacking the mission" of the Mobile Exploitation Team Alpha
(META), which was charged with examining potential Iraqi weapon
sites after the war.
Her journalistic coup lay, rather, in talking her way into getting
clearance from the Pentagon and being allowed to embed with the
75th. As Drogin told Layton, "she was in a great position to get
the initial confirmation in the field" when WMD were found. But
they were not found, despite her best efforts to make readers
think that they were or were about to be.

8.1.2.2: Eugene Pomeroy, public-affairs officer for MET Alpha
According to Pomeroy, as well as an editor at the Times,
Miller had helped negotiate her own embedding agreement with the
Pentagon an agreement so sensitive that, according to one Times
editor, Rumsfeld himself signed off on it.
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/features/9226/index.html -:

8.1.3: Pals with Chalabi (7.1)
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/features/9226/index.html -:

8.1.4: Pals with King Hussein
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/features/9226/index.html -:
As a correspondent for The Progressive and National Public Radio, she
turned her academic interest into a professional one, traveling to the
region and cultivating a network of highly placed sources. Nina
Totenberg, a colleague from NPR, recalls a party in the mid-seventies
at which Jordan’s King Hussein caught a glimpse of Miller across the
room and howled, Juuuuddddy!

Kiiiinnnggg, she responded.

8.1.5: Pals with:
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/features/9226/index.html -:
Miller had ready access to many Mideast potentates. As she shuttled
between meetings with Hussein, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, and
Palestinian Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat in 1984, her
colleagues joked about the Miller Plan for peace.
and
From her first day at the Times, Miller’s life and work have been hard
to separate, which for a reporter is both a strength and a
weakness. She’s a passionate person she gets caught up in her
sources passionately, one of her Times colleagues told me. Friends
from her earliest days in Washington noted that she didn’t surround
herself with people her own age. She sought out the best and brightest
at the city’s highest levels, dating Larry Sterne, the Washington
Post’s foreign editor, and hanging out with the defense gurus Richard
Perle and Walter Slocum. These people were powerful. But they were
also interesting, and Judy liked talking to them. She is curious and
enthusiastic, says one friend from this period.

8.1.6: Jeffery Goldberg
Remember, everyone was obsessed with the White House sex story, says
New Yorker writer Jeffrey Goldberg, who was invited by the paper to
join Miller in an investigation unit to examine Al Qaeda. Goldberg
found her an impossibly difficult colleague. But he also realized her
value. She happened to be prescient about the rise of the global
jihad. And it was her unpleasant hyper-aggressiveness that enabled her
to help force a very important story the possibility of a marriage
between WMD proliferators and global jihadists closer to the top of
the agenda.


8.2: Cooper
8.2.1: So did Rove leak Plame's name to me, or tell me she was covert?
No. Was it through my conversation with Rove that I learned for the
first time that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA and may have been
responsible for sending him? Yes. Did Rove say that she worked at
the "agency" on "WMD"? Yes. When he said things would be
declassified soon, was that itself impermissible? I don't know. Is
any of this a crime? Beats me. At this point, I'm as curious as
anyone else to see what Patrick Fitzgerald has.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1083870,00.html

9: Industry
9.1: Halliburton
9.1.1: News records show that in 1995, Vice President
Cheney(2.1), then CEO of Halliburton, was fined
$1.2 million for illegal sales of dual-use nuclear
components to Libya.
Having trouble finding this, but:

FACT CHECK: Edwards made several allegations about what Cheney
had done as CEO of Halliburton. We can only give Edwards
partial credit for his Halliburton attack, however. He implied
that Cheney was in charge of the company when it did business
with Libya in violation of US sanctions, but that happened long
before Cheney joined the company. Edwards was also slightly off
when he said Halliburton paid millions in fines " while Cheney
was CEO." He meant that it paid fines for matters that took
place while Cheney was in charge. And in fact, the SEC
announced Aug. 3 that Halliburton will pay $7.5 million to
settle a matter that dates back to 1998, when Cheney was CEO.
Source: Edwards-Cheney debate analysis (Ad-Watch by
FactCheck.org)
http://www.issues2000.org/Archive/Edwards_Cheney_Corporations.htm

9.1.2: The Atomic Energy Commission has said a North
American company is one of 20 being investigated
for black-market sales of WMD materials.
9.1.3: Still, "companies are playing fast and loose," says Adam Pener
of Conflict Securities Advisory Group, a D.C.-based consultancy to
multinational businesses. Halliburton, for example, manages to do
business with Iran obliquely. Its Dubai-based affiliate, Halliburton
Products & Services Ltd., allegedly has no Americans on staff; the
Houston oil services company claims it has no direct ownership of the
operation. Nevertheless, FORBES has obtained documents showing how
Kala Ltd., the British arm of the National Iranian Oil Co., solicited
at least 17 separate bids from the affiliate during 1997 and 1998
(when Vice President Cheney was Halliburton's chief executive). A few
bids include handwritten notes that say "FOB Dubai
Airport" or "FOB Dubai port"--meaning that the U.A.E. was just a way
station between Halliburton and Tehran. Halliburton would not comment
on the bids. In any event, earlier this year the Treasury Department
reopened a 2001 inquiry into Halliburton's Iran operations and its
Dubai-based partner.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2004/0412/086_print.html
9.1.4: Weak!: Court to Hear Motions in Roswell Multi-Missile Case, By Richard
Benke, The Associated Press, August 11, 2003 (for personal use only)
With a co-defendant's guilty plea, the focus of a federal weapons case
shifts back to its key figure, David Hudak, accused of amassing
thousands of warheads and training foreign troops in counterterrorist
strategies in Roswell. Hudak, president of Roswell-based High Energy
Access Tools Inc., or HEAT, and co-defendant Michael Payne were
arrested one year ago when the missiles were found. Payne pleaded
guilty last month, acknowledging that he helped train soldiers from
the United Arab Emirates in marksmanship and counterterrorism. A
motions hearing in Hudak's case was set here Monday morning in the
federal courtroom of Senior Judge John Conway. And the two sides have
already exchanged memorandums disagreeing over the relevance of
Houston-based Halliburton Corp., where U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney
had been chief executive. Hudak was indicted on charges of having
about 2,400 shoulder-launched missile warheads, of illegally exporting
military services and of using explosive materials while committing a
felony. Hudak, a Canadian, was also accused of several firearms
violations. He has claimed the sale of warheads was initiated by
Halliburton.

Payne, the co-defendant and former Special Forces instructor, may
re-emerge in the case - he agreed to testify for the prosecution when
he pleaded guilty. In negotiating for Payne's guilty plea, the
government promised to recommend a shorter prison term. Payne
acknowledged violations of the Arms Export Control Act. Payne, 39, who
began working for Hudak in 1999, became program manager for an
instructional course for the Special Operations Command of the United
Arab Emirates, according to court documents. Most of the training
allegedly came from Army Special Forces Advanced Reconnaissance, where
Payne had been a noncommissioned officer involved in running the
training program, according to the document.
http://www.uga.edu/cits/documents/html/xcnews33.htm

9.1.5: Yes, we ought. Let's start by looking at the problem of Cheney
and Halliburton. During the VP's time at the company helm, the number
of Halliburton subsidiaries registered in tax-friendly locations
ballooned from nine in 1995 to 44 in 1999. The result? A dramatic drop
in Halliburton's federal taxes, which fell from $302 million in 1998
to less than zero - to wit, an $85 million rebate - in 1999.
http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=637&fcategory_desc=Halliburton

10: PNAC
10.1: Cheney
10.2: Rumsfeld
10.3: Wolfowitz
10.4: Richard Perle

11: JINSA
www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3021cheney_halli.html
11.1: JINSA was founded by three of Israeli intelligence's leading
agents in America: Dr. Stephen Bryen, who was investigated for passing
classified information to the Israelis from the Senate in 1978;
Richard Perle; and Michael Ledeen. All three JINSA big-wigs were named
as members of the circle known as the "X Committee" behind the
espionage of the convicted spy for Israel, Jonathan Jay Pollard."
11.2: Dr. Stephen Bryen
11.3: Richard Perle
11.4: Michael Ledeen
11.5: Cheney - "After he left the position of Secretary of Defense in
the Bush "41" Administration, Cheney again hooked up with the
Libby/Wolfowitz circle, joining the International Advisory Board of
JINSA.

12: AEI American Enterprise Institute
12.1: Michael Ledeen
12.1.1: And that's where Michael Ledeen is mentioned. "In an interview
published April 7, 2005, Cannistaro (the former head of
counterterrorism operations at the CIA and the intelligence director
at the National Security Council under Ronald Reagan) was asked by Ian
Masters what he would say if it was asserted that the source of the
forgery was former National Security Council and State Department
consultant Michael Ledeen. (Ledeen had also allegedly been a
liaison between the American Intelligence Community and SISMI (Italian
military intelligence agency) two decades earlier.) Cannistraro
answered by saying: "you'd be very close."
www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Yellowcake-forgery
12.1.2: Ledeen has a colorful track record, which has produced
substantial grist for the conspiracy mill: He was allegedly tied to
the Italian P2 Masonic Lodge, a violent right wing group that was
involved in a number of terrorists attacks in Italy in the 1970s the
1980s; in the late 1970s, while P2 was doing its dirty work, Ledeen
was working as a consultant to Italian intelligence on terrorism
issues; as a consultant to the National Security Council in the 1980s,
Ledeen acted as a go-between for Oliver North in the early stages of
the Iran-Contra affair, working with the Israeli spy David Kimche to
gain the release of U.S. hostages in Beirut through an Iranian arms
dealer, Manucher Ghorbanifar; he helped promote the "Bulgarian
Connection" theory that the KGB was behind the assassination attempt
on the pope in 1981; and, more recently, the Sydney Morning Herald
reported (August 8, 2003) that Ledeen worked with Pentagon staffers to
redevelop the channel to arms dealer Ghorbanifar in support of
resistance efforts in Iran. Reported the Herald: " Rhode recently
acted as a liaison between Feith's office, which drafted much of the
Administration's post-Iraq planning, and Ahmed Chalabi, a former Iraqi
exile groomed for leadership by the Pentagon. Mr. Rhode is a protege
of Michael Ledeen, who was a National Security Council consultant in
the mid 1980s when he introduced Mr. Ghorbanifar to Oliver North, a
NSC aide, and others in the opening stages of the Iran-Contra
affair. It is understood Mr. Ledeen reopened the Ghorbanifar channel
with Mr. Feith's staff." (9, 10)
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/ledeen/ledeen.php

13: SISMI (Italian military intelligence agency)
13.1: Fall 2001
The Italian intelligence agency, SISMI, provides the CIA with a report
on a 1999 trip to Niger made by Wissam al-Zahawie (see February 1999),
Iraq's former ambassador to the Vatican. The report suggests that the
trip's mission was to discuss the future purchase of uranium oxide,
known as yellowcake. According to sources later interviewed by
New Yorker's Seymour Hersh, the report is dismissed as amateurish
and unsubstantiated by US intelligence.


13.2: Ledeen - liason?

14: AIPAC American Israel Public Affairs Committee
14.1: Larry Franklin passes intel (arrested march 05)

15: UAE - United Arab Emerates
15.1: Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
15.1.1: Apparent ruler
15.2: Article mentions
15.2.1: So what's Uncle Sam's excuse when it comes to cracking down on
nuclear proliferation? Can't we persuade the United Arab Emirates to
police their middlemen? Apparently much of it comes down to docking
privileges for U.S. forces and American arms sales ($8.1 billion from
1995 to 2002) to the U.A.E. Forcing the issue "would be incredibly
stupid," says a source at the U.S. Embassy in the U.A.E. "This is the
one friend we have in the Gulf, except Kuwait."
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2004/0412/086_print.html

16: Pakistan
16.1:
16.2: Abdul Qadeer Khan
16.2.1: That is particularly odd in light of the recent revelations of
the region's pivotal role in the spread of weapons of mass
destruction. A Dubai-based computer firm arranged for Malaysian- and
European-made gas centrifuge components, used to enrich uranium, to be
sent on to Libya. The firm was part of a vast network devised by Abdul
Qadeer Khan, Pakistan's own Edward Teller.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2004/0412/086_print.html
16.3: Evidence discovered in a probe of Iran's secret nuclear program
points overwhelmingly to Pakistan as the source of crucial technology
that put Iran on a fast track toward becoming a nuclear weapons power,
according to U.S. and European officials familiar with the
investigation.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A18170-2003Dec20¬Found=true

17: National Security Council (NSC)
17.1: Robert G. Joseph, director for nonproliferation
17.1.1: "Robert G. Joseph, director for nonproliferation at the
National Security Council (NSC), telephones senior CIA official Alan
Foley and argues that the Africa-uranium claim should be included in
Bush's upcoming State of the Union address. When Foley warns that the
allegation has little evidence to support it, Mr. Joseph instead
requests that the speech include a remark saying that the British had
learned that Iraq was seeking uranium in Africa, leaving out the bit
about Niger and the exact quantity of uranium that was allegedly
sought."
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10B11FC3B580C7B8DDDAE0894DB404482


*: Others
**: Gannon
**: Armstrong Miller
**: Richard Armitage
**: Elliott Abrams
**: Zalmay M. Khalilzad
**: King Hussein (Jordan)
**: Jeffery Goldberg
**: Les Aspen - Miller Lover? Clinton's Sec. Of Defense
**: Rep Waxmann - This report, which was prepared at the request of
Rep. Henry A. Waxman, is a comprehensive examination of the
statements made by the five Administration officials most responsible
for providing public information and shaping public opinion on Iraq:
President George Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and
National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. It finds that the five
officials made misleading statements about the threat posed by Iraq
in 125 public appearances.
The report and an accompanying database identify 237 specific misleading
statements by the five officials.

**: Bolton - If I'm not mistaken, Carl Ford Jr was the guy who gave
the damaging testimony at Bolton's hearing about Bolton's
strong-armed tactics used against one of Ford's colleagues. Is it
possible that Bolton asked for the memo described above - and that
the classified information being sought by Dems in the Bolton
confirmation hearings is the smoking gun?????

**: Rocco Martino - No attempt was ever made to interview the
documents peddler at the center of the story -- Rocco Martino --
even though he was twice brought to the United States in the summer
of 2004 after his identity as the purveyor of the documents had
already been publicly revealed. (Niger yellowcake forgeries)

**: Elizabetta Burba, the Italian journalist who brought the forgeries
to the American Embassy in Rome. (Niger yellowcake forgories)

**: Asher Karni: The alleged shipper, an Israeli national named Asher Karni, was
arrested in December at Denver International Airport. He awaits
trial in the U.S. for conspiring to export goods without a license,
a crime that could result in a ten-year sentence and $250,000 fine
per count. Neither Emirates Airlines nor the U.A.E. has been
criticized publicly--let alone blacklisted--by U.S. officials.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2004/0412/086_print.html

**: A federal judge has thrown out the eight-year-old convictions of
two defense company executives who sold technology that helped India
build better nuclear missiles, finding that even though their
conduct was "reprehensible," it was not criminal. In a stunning
finale to a decade-long drama, US District Court Judge Douglas
Woodlock overturned the jury convictions last month of Walter
Lachman of Concord and Maurice Subilia of Kennebunkport, Maine,
http://www.uga.edu/cits/documents/html/xcnews33.htm

[shraby]

3. Wurmser

Hannah, Rice, Matalin, Hughes.