Conspriacy!
Judith Millers Testimony
I recall that Mr. Libby was angry about reports suggesting that senior administration officials, including Mr. Cheney, had embraced skimpy intelligence about Iraq's alleged efforts to buy uranium in Africa while ignoring evidence to the contrary. Such reports, he said, according to my notes, were "highly distorted."
More below
Mr. Libby said the vice president's office had indeed pressed the Pentagon and the State Department for more information about reports that Iraq had renewed efforts to buy uranium. And Mr. Cheney, he said, had asked about the potential ramifications of such a purchase. But he added that the C.I.A. "took it upon itself to try and figure out more" by sending a "clandestine guy" to Niger to investigate. I told Mr. Fitzgerald that I thought "clandestine guy" was a reference to Mr. Wilson - Mr. Libby's first reference to him in my notes.
"pressed the Pentagon and State" Let me clarify for you Libby, you were circumventing the CIA because the intelligence you wanted came from sources the CIA wouldn't deal with, because they were frauds.
What was evident, I told the grand jury, was Mr. Libby's anger that Mr. Bush might have made inaccurate statements because the C.I.A. failed to share doubts about the Iraq intelligence.
"No briefer came in and said, 'You got it wrong, Mr. President,' " he said, according to my notes.
Oh really, gee I don't think that is right
Oct. Memos Raised Doubts on Iraq Bid
By Dana Milbank and Walter Pincus
The Washington Post
Wednesday 23 July 2003
The CIA sent two memos to the White House in October voicing strong doubts about a claim President Bush made three months later in the State of the Union address that Iraq was trying to buy nuclear material in Africa, White House officials said yesterday.
The officials made the disclosure hours after they were alerted by the CIA to the existence of a memo sent to Bush's deputy national security adviser, Stephen J. Hadley, on Oct. 6. The White House said Bush's chief speechwriter, Michael Gerson, on Friday night discovered another memo from the CIA, dated Oct. 5, also expressing doubts about the Africa claims.
Back to Judith's testimony
As I told Mr. Fitzgerald and the grand jury, Mr. Libby alluded to the existence of two intelligence reports about Iraq's uranium procurement efforts. One report dated from February 2002. The other indicated that Iraq was seeking a broad trade relationship with Niger in 1999, a relationship that he said Niger officials had interpreted as an effort by Iraq to obtain uranium.
Mr. Libby also told me that on the basis of these two reports and other intelligence, his office had asked the C.I.A. for more analysis and investigation of Iraq's dealings with Niger.
Libby you sick fuck! The 2002 report was a DIA product produced by your Neo Con guys at the Pentagon. The substance of which probably came from the Rome Meeting with Ledeen, Rhode, Franklin, Ghorbanifar, and others. Don't pretend that it just floated onto your desk, you procured it.
Since the neo cons had the head of SISMI at the Rome meeting when recieving this dubious intelligence, SISMI put's out a report to all western intelligence agencies, including the CIA. Therefore it's laundered from dubious intelligence to legitimate intelligence. Thus the DIA analysts who knew first hand about the contents of this intelligence produces a report and attributes it to the foreign service and CIA.
from the Senate Intelligence committee report on Iraq's WMD
Based on information from the CIA report from the foreign service, on February 12, 2002, the DIA wrote a finished intelligence product titled Niamey signed an agreement to sell 500 tons of uranium a year to Baghdad (NMJIC [National Military Joint Intelligence Center] Executive Highlight, Vol 028-02, February l2, 2002). The product outlined the details in the DO intelligence report, namely, that Niger had agreed to deliver 500 tons of yellowcake uranium to Iraq . The piece concluded that "Iraq probably is searching abroad for natural uranium to assist in its nuclear weapons program." The product did not include any judgments about the credibility of the reporting.
( )After reading the DIA report, the Vice President asked his morning briefer for the CIA's analysis of the issue. In response, the Director of Central Intelligence's (DCI) Center for Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation, and Arms Control (WINPAC) published a Senior Publish When Ready (SPWR021402-05), an intelligence assessment with limited distribution, which said, "information on the alleged uranium contract between Iraq and Niger comes exclusively from a foreign government service report that lacks crucial details, and we are working to clarify the information and to determine whether it can be corroborated." The piece discussed the details of the DO intelligence report and indicated that "some of the information in the report contradicts reporting from the U.S. Embassy in Niamey.
And don't pretend that you wanted to get to the bottom of whether Iraq was trying to purchase Uranium from Niger. You asked the CIA briefer what they knew, just to verify that they couldn't refute the intelligence, which allowed you to go public with insinuations of mushroom clouds, in an attempt to begin a war as soon as the War Plans were updated by Rumsfeld and Franks, which they were fervently working on. That was the plan all along after 9-11 Rumsfeld works on the War Plans, Cheney works on the war drum.
Back to Judith's testimony.
Mr. Libby told me that the resulting cable - based on Mr. Wilson's fact-finding mission, as it turned out - barely made it out of the bowels of the C.I.A
Wow, "Barely" is the key word so Cheney did know of Wilson's trip and that the Niger/Iraq claim was dubious. I bet the cable is sitting in Cheney's file cabinet right now, if he hasn't destroyed it.
As I told Mr. Fitzgerald, Mr. Libby also cited a National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, produced by American intelligence agencies in October 2002, which he said had firmly concluded that Iraq was seeking uranium.
Oh my god what a fucking farse. From the National Intelligence Estimate.
Finally, the claims of Iraqi pursuit of natural uranium in Africa are, in INR's assessment, highly dubious.
Except somebody put this key passage in the wrong place in the report...Who would do that???
Oh now it is getting good,
In my grand jury testimony, Mr. Fitzgerald repeatedly turned to the subject of how Mr. Libby handled classified information with me.
Mr. Fitzgerald asked me to examine a series of documents. Though I could not identify them with certainty, I said that some seemed familiar, and that they might be excerpts from the National Intelligence Estimate of Iraq's weapons. Mr. Fitzgerald asked whether Mr. Libby had shown any of the documents to me. I said no, I didn't think so. I thought I remembered him at one point reading from a piece of paper he pulled from his pocket.
Mr. Fitzgerald asked me if I knew whether I was cleared to discuss classified information at the time of my meetings with Mr. Libby. I said I did not know.
Interesting...something tells me we will hear a lot more about these "documents"...Judith you are complicit...I could speculate further but I won't. My money is on Cheney going down.
I need a drink