According to U.S. intelligence sources, the White House exposure of Valerie Plame and her Brewster Jennings & Associates was intended to retaliate against the CIA’s work in limiting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. WMR has reported in the past on this aspect of the scandal. In addition to identifying the involvement of individuals in the White House who were close to key players in nuclear proliferation, the CIA Counter-Proliferation Division prevented the shipment of binary VX nerve gas from Turkey into Iraq in November 2002. The Brewster Jennings network in Turkey was able to intercept this shipment which was intended to be hidden in Iraq and later used as evidence that Saddam Hussein was in possession of weapons of mass destruction. U.S. intelligence sources revealed that this was a major reason the Bush White House targeted Plame and her network.(Update: Corrected link)
Friday, March 09, 2007
Randi Rhodes has been saying this for years
But the outing of Valerie Plame was also to take out her CIA company Brewster Jennings. Via Morse at Mock Paper Scissors:
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Ellroon - it was actually Morse who posted it at MPS. I cannot take credit for his brilliant work.
'Grain
Heavens! I forgot you guys are sharing. Will correct it immediately and my apologies, Morse!
Hmm. Maybe this is indeed the real motivation, and I can't say it isn't, but Ockham's Razor cuts the other way. The Bush administration's known motives to date have been the simplest and most banal possible. In this case, the simplest motive is the one we've all assumed to this point: revenge on Joseph Wilson for his article. Would a Bush administration figure (*cough* Cheney *cough*) really need more than that? And how sophisticated are they, anyway?
/adopts mystic tone of voice....They are everywhere and no where all at once. Anything evil is their doing, anything good happens in spite of their evil efforts....
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