Reply #37: Wilson said in an interview (Raw Story maybe?) that he'd called Condi [View All]

Rice, to get the regime to disavow the Niger claim, and she told him (through intermediaries) that she was not interested in his information, but, if he was so concerned about it, why didn't he publish it?

That's almost word for word. So they were expecting publication, and were even baiting him. Maybe the whole Niger trip was a set-up.

But I think the critical thing is the immediate cause of the outing, which I think is indicated by this time-line:

May 22, 2003: David Kelly, Brits chief weapons inspector, starts whistleblowing to the BBC, after the invasion, about Brits "sexed up" Iraq intel.

June 10, 2003: Plame "top secret" memo composed--ends up on AF-1 on the Africa trip July 5-12. (They definitely had something planned for Wilson/Plame, but then...)

June 30, 2003: Brit intel finds out who is whistleblowing to the BBC (their chief WMD expert Kelly).

July 6, 2003: Wilson publishes.

July 7, 2003: After Kelly is interrogated, Blair is told that Kelly "could say some uncomfortable things"--"COULD say," not HAD said. (Hutton report.) Blair warns Bush (my guess).

July 5-12: Panic on AF-1 (my guess). Contact with at least SIX reporters, and involvement of many people inclu Rove and Libby back in U.S.--high risk of treason charges--"Call everybody you know! Get her outed NOW!" Scattershot effort: somebody, anybody.

July 14, 2003: Plame outed (Novak takes the bait).

July 18, 2003: Kelly found dead, under extremely suspicious circumstances; his office and computers searched.

July 22, 2003; Brewster-Jennings outed (by Novak)--disabling all CIA WMD monitoring projects--a 20 year effort--putting all covert agents and contacts at great risk, at even more risk of treason charges.

What did Kelly know? What were the "uncomfortable things" that Blair was warned Kelly "could say"?

I think that was the trigger for the Plame outing--and why they did it so precipitously and at high risk of treason charges, not Wilson's article, which they expected.

SOMETHING turned Kelly around about the war in April-May 2003. He had supported it; wanted Saddam ousted. Then he starts whistleblowing AFTER the invasion. I think it was this: a plot to PLANT nukes or other WMDs in Iraq for the enormous political gain. They had Judith Miller all primed for the "scoop"--running around Iraq with the US troops "hunting" for WMDs they all knew weren't there. Were they just waiting around, hoping some would be found? Not likely. They had them in motion through an illicit network to Iraq. Somebody foiled it, maybe Kelly himself. BJ/Plame found out, or might find out, or were involved in foiling their nefarious little scheme. (--content of Kelly's computers). That's why the BJ outing (much too excessive for "punishment" of Wilson).

The two plots intersected on July 7--Plame and Kelly. Long term plot to "get" the CIA. Short term panic at what Kelly "could say."

I've thought this one through from several angles--what I know of Miller (pheeuw! --old friend of Kelly's; maybe outed him to Brit intel; his last email to her about "the many dark actors playing games" etc, etc, etc, etc....); the details of Kelly's "suicide", character and state of mind (this "suicide" smells to high heaven); and other things, like the story that Wilson being married to a CIA WMD expert somehow taints or discredits him (doesn't make sense--it would seem to ENHANCE his ability to perform the Niger mission--concocted story); and the haste and stupidity of how they outed her--contact with 6 reporters, etc.

It holds up as a good working hypothesis, re: the immediate circumstances of "Treasongate" (--maybe "Murdergate"). And it certainly fits a general hypothesis that the Bush Cartel was protecting illicit arms deals, bin Laden, and a whole lot else along these lines, and that BJ was in a good position to detect their evil deeds.

My general theory now is that the "good CIA" (those who wouldn't drink the Bush Cartel koolaid) is trying to prevent the nuking of Iran and a holocaust in the Middle East (which, according to Carl Sagan, would be a holocaust for us all--i.e., "The Cold and the Dark"--which describes what even a limited nuclear exchange would do to the planet). I'm afraid that the Bush Cartel Republicans (the Saudi Arabian party) being in control of our nuclear arsenal and our armed forces is the blowback of all blowbacks. Maybe the "good CIA" can redeem the many evil deeds of the bad CIA. Let's hope so.

Meanwhile, election reform! Now!