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Dick Cheney Was Briefed by CIA on Niger
By Larry C Johnson, www.NoQuater.typepad.com
One of the peripheral benefits from the Scooter LIbby trial (apart from the pleasure of watching the Bush Administration lies exposed) is the release of documents that provide concrete evidence of the events that produced Nigergate (or, if you prefer, Plamegate). Scooter may be claiming a foggy memory but if you read and compare the new documents with previous material, such as the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Iraq released in the summer of 2004, the fog will lift and you'll glean some new insights.
We have known all along that Dick Cheney asked the CIA to follow up on a DIA report about Iraq's effort to get uranium from Niger. Thanks to the latest document dump we now know that Dick Cheney received a preliminary brief from the CIA and the the Senate Intelligence Committee, in its 2004, covered up this fact.
On a chilly Tuesday morning almost five years ago, February 12, 2002, Dick Cheney’s CIA briefer arrived with a piece of finished intelligence that set in motion a series of events the exposed the identity of a CIA undercover officer, destroyed a CIA front company and compromised its various assets, and sent Scooter Libby to trial for perjury and obstruction of justice.
Dick Cheney read an article written by an analyst at the Defence Intelligence Agency titled, "Niamey signed on agreement to sell 500 tons of uranium to Baghdad". This report was based on intelligence obtained by CIA field operatives and published as an intelligence report (i.e. TD) on 5 February 2002. The source, our buddies the Italians. Thanks to the CIA memo introduced during the first week of the Libby trial, the CIA reported that Iraq and Niger allegedly signed an agreement in July of 2000 to purchase uranium. This TD was a follow up to information the CIA obtained in October 2001, also from the Italian intelligence service, which claimed the negotiations had started in 1999 and came to fruition in 2000.
We know from the July 2004 Senate Intelligence Committee (SSCI) report that the CIA analysts viewed the October report as uncorroborated and noted that even if this was true Iraq had no capability to process the yellowcake (see p. 36 of the SSCI July 2004 report).
DIA was less skeptical than the CIA and left the impression that it was a done deal. As the Senate Intelligence Committee reported in 2004, Dick Cheney asked his briefer to find out what the CIA knew about this. When a Vice President or President asks a question or makes a substantive comment in response to the briefing material, the Briefer always goes back to CIA Headquarters and sits in on a morning meeting of Senior CIA officials. When the CIA briefer got back to Headquarters, he briefed the Director of Operations (or his Deputy) and the the Director of Intelligence (or his Deputy).
This led to two courses of action. First, the Director of Intelligence sent the rock rolling down the hill until it hit an analyst in WINPAC--the analytical shop in CIA tasked with monitoring Iraq's WMD program. According to the CIA memo released in the Libby trial, we now know that In response to this tasking the analyst produced a Senior Power Executive Intelligence Brief on 14 February 2002 that concluded:
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.
Now here is the bullshit. The Republican led Senate Select Intelligence Committee claimed in July 2004 that:
The CIA sent a separate version of the assessment to the Vice President which differed only in that it named the foreign government service.
BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT!!! No. Unlike the DIA analyst, who accepted the report at face value, the CIA expressed skepticism and clearly conveyed that the information was suspect. Moreover, the CIA morning briefer gave this information to Vice President Cheney on Thursday morning, 14 February 2002.
Second, on Tuesday morning, 19 February 2002, the CIA's Counter Proliferation Division chaired an interagency meeting to discuss whether to send Ambassador Joe Wilson to Niger. As noted in a previous post (see Joe Wilson Vindicated), Joe even tried to talk them out of sending him but, as a good American, accepted the so-called boondoggle to Niger. And, when he returned, an intelligence report was generated.
Be sure of this, Dick Cheney was briefed on the results of Joe's trip. He may not have remembered the substance because the report based on debriefing Joe Wilson told a story that Dick Cheney did not want to hear. There is no way that a CIA Briefer, who knew of the Vice President's keen interest in the issue of Iraq, Niger, and uranium, would not present a piece of raw intelligence to the Vice President that addressed Cheney's question. In fact, the Vice President received the report on March 8, 2002 or March 9, 2002. Look for yourself. On page DX64.4 of the CIA memo, paragraph 6, we are informed that the CIA's Directorate of Operations widely disseminated the report and that the sensitive source, Joe Wilson, is highly reliable.
Cheney was given an intelligence report in response to his original query on 12 February, 2002. The report made clear that Niger was playing ball with the U.S. and was not about to even meet with Iraqis, much less sell them uranium. But Cheney and Bush had other plans. They were going to go to war with Iraq regardless of what the intelligence said. But we now have a clear picture that the intelligence community was trying to tell them uncomfortable truths that Bush and Cheney did not want to hear. Just remember that as the U.S. death toll in Iraq continues to soar.
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now arrest cheney-pnac creeps before they are able to do iran
Good. Now will somebody please arrest Cheney and the PNAC creeps still in power before they are able to launch attacks on Iran ?
The media in my opinion is complicit in and to some degree responsible for all of the hundreds of thousands of deaths resulting from the Cheney-Rumsfeld-PNAC September 2000 plan to invade Iraq, set up a permanent military presense there, and then further attack Iran and Syria.
Damn those in the media who knew and did not report on it ! How many "other peoples kids" lives is a book deal worth ? Let's not forget that this Cheney-Rumsfeld-PNAC crew was on duty when our country was attacked on September 11th, 2001 ... you know, our "New Pearl Harbor" ... and if the corporate-owned media is to redeem itself somewhat with the American people, it had better start looking into why the Cheney-Rumsfeld-PNAC crew failed to protect our country on that day.
The corporate-owned media better start giving us the truth in a timely fashion, or they will have totally lost the American people. As things stand right now, the number of Americans who are discovering the 9/11 Truth movement and the PNAC connections to 9/11 is growing exponentionally ... it's now got a life of its own that can not be reversed. The corporate media and politicians with subpoena power (who to date have been avoiding using that subpeona power) might want to take note if they want to save any of their support.
There are already a helluva lot pissed off Americans (Gold Star Families, Disabled and Disillusioned Vets, Katrina victims, Citizens no longer benefiting from basic Domestic programs as the money went to the likes of Halliburton and GE, and other patriotic Americans who care about what's been done in our name) and as the "truth levees" begin to break as they are doing right now, the corporate media and the politicians who knew had better take note. The truth levees are about to burst ... and let's hope they do before Cheney gives the launch order.
Yellowcake with Frosting for Cheney
Poor Cheney! He's too busy to be taken away in handcuffs. There's still a lot of terror to be Vice-President of the war on.
--Shimmy
http://shimmykat.blogspot.com
RestinoP , incredible how they posted PNAC Sept 2000 plan on web
Kinda makes you wonder if PNAC gangsters were trying to incite and provoke the terrorists BEFORE Bush got into office, because they posted it on their web in Sept 2000, two months before the "selection" that year. We owe a lot to Neil MacKay of Scottish Sunday Herald, he was first English-speaking journalist to investigate and write about the PNAC's "Rebuilding America's Defenses" manifesto for public consumption. His article was published in Sept 2002, so Neil and his publisher tried everything to get the word out before the "shock and awe". But of course, American MSM (or should I say American YJ for Yellow Journalism) did not pick it up in time, so blood is on their hands.
Definitely , we need to see Cheney and PNAC gang arrested before their Phase II Iran Plan.
But not only that, we need to RICO all of these so-called "Non-Profit Organizations" that are really just front operations for "war mills". They aren't charities or community services, there is no doubt. So when they abuse NPO laws this way, they are also committing tax evasion.
That's how they nailed Al Capone!
IMPEACH PNAC> "OUT" THE CABAL !
http://tinyurl.com/a8uz9
PNAC, Iraq and Iran
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ETsnvGtDzY
AIPAC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae5t_55OWbo
This not just a NGO that doesn't pay taxes...we have to question how these organizations are using their tax benefits from the mega churches to lobbyist organizations
Mega Churches to lobbyist.org connections? Interesting
AIPAC is also in hot water with spy scandal .
AIPAC needs to register under FARA. It would then lose its tax exempt status and be under proper bureaucratic scrutiny as a foreign agent.
See www.stopaipac.org .
AIPAC is becoming a household word...like Enron was.
IMPEACH PNAC> "OUT" THE CABAL !
http://tinyurl.com/a8uz9
Bush did not lie
Why don't you terrorist appeasing liberals explain to me how President Bush lied about Saddam's WMDs? Charles Duelfer never said Saddam did not move his weapons out of Iraq and into Syria before the war started. He said there was hard evidence Saddam moved some type of materials out of the country before the war. Let me ask you libs this, what the hell do you think Saddam was removing from his country and into Syria, refrigerators and freezers, maybe spare parts for cars. Dear Jesus people, use some common sense if you have any which I don't think the liberals do. Georges Sada, who was the number two man in the Iraq air force under Saddam has stated Saddam moved his WMDs into Syria. He knows this because he helped the now deceased dictator. Read his book, Saddam's Secrets. I guess you will say General Sada lied too. Every intel agency in the world. Every country in the world including nations in the Arab world, and even the U.N. said Saddam had these weapons. Even Bill Clinton and his administration made this announcemt. Mr. Clinton went as far as to support preemptive military action. But it is only George Bush who lied. No, sorry, it is you liberals who lie by protecting tyrants like Saddam. All this amounts to is you people are still pissed off because you believe Mr. Bush stole the election in 2000 which is a total fallacy. So quit whining and crying about having the election stolen from you. Please don't give this crap...well Mr. Clinton didn't get us into war into Iraq. George Bush did. That excuse doesn't wash. But if you want to use that illogical reasoning, explain to me how you can justify Bill Clinton's invasion of Bosnia. This country never attacked and the late Slobodan Milosevic was never a threat to us. Those are the exact arguments you are using to vilify Mr. Bush going in Iraq. I don't hear you liberals raising hell about that now do we? We don't hear any name calling on Clinton do we? Instead of being called the democratic party. you should be called the Party of the Hypocrits.
Change Your Pseudonym
You may be "Bushbacker", but you would be better to term yourself
"BUSHWACKER".
Crawl back in your hole!
As for we "Liberals". we weren't the ones who supplied that sonofabitch with all the chemical and WND weaponry in the 80's. Your beloved Conservative actor hero Ronnie RayGun performed that little trick.
So don't hop on your right-wing high horse and try to shit all over the "Liberals". It has been documented in countless books and articles that your hero is a patholigcal liar as well as is the Creep, I mean Veep. Your neocon henchman like Rice, Wolfowitz, the departed Rummy and so many more have been spewing worthless bullshit for over 6 years in office and many years before that tanked in PNAC.
So, BUSHWACKER, you might be better served by posting on some website frequented by other Kool-Aide imbibers who are just as wacked as you are!
Bushbacker...
Terrorist appeasing? Prove it!
THE LIE
It is a felony for a President to present information to the Congress that is known to be a lie. Especially so if done so to influence Congressional votes, in this case it was for a case of war (permission to murder).
LOL... Charles Duelfer never said that Santa Clause was real either.
Your claims about Saddam... where's the proof?
Too bad the topic is about the Niger forgeries, NO?
What a sad country you live in Bushbacker. My America loathes terrorism, torture, unlawful imprisonment, upholds Habeas Corpus, protects privacy by ensuring wiretaps are done through a court order and Congressional review, doesn't open my mail or track my E-Mail. But since that all-mighty 9/11 your country has kept my country held hostage by your relentless fear.
Appeasement? You bet. It IS exactly what those 19 hijackers from Saudi Arabia and Egypt wanted. Our freedoms. And now your Decider, Educator and King have given them away so as to be "seen as tough" on terrorism.
Why does your America hate mine so much?
And, BTW, what is it with Clinton that he draws such ire from your countrymen? You Fascists hate him so much that you dig up stuff ten years old and attempt to smear the present happenings with it but refuse to see what your own Fuhrer has done in the last four.
Who's the hypocrite?
Who Is The Bigger Threat To Liberty, Truth And Justice, Friend?
Who is the bigger threat to Liberty, Truth, and Justice, friend?
Bushbacker writes:
"But it is only George Bush who lied. No, sorry, it is you liberals who lie by protecting tyrants like Saddam"
What REAL threat did Saddam pose to the United States of America? Seriously, I am a child of the Cold War and I saw some very organized and highly financed Soviet "Threats" to "Our Way Of Life" .. . so, Iraq and Saddam . . . well, really, what tangible threat vs. the "virtual as-if-real " mass media "FEAR conditioning" that folks like Rubert Murdoch and Bill "Right Man" O'Reilly have become quite rich doing 24x7 for the past several years. . .;-)
Cui bono? Who benefits?
Even if he did have all these massive stockpiles of weapons and delivery systems that Grown-Ups like Donald Rumsfeld assured we kidz he could lead us right to once the war started. . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MInHphR4zBg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkg_PYHaNHI
Of course, we are told by BushCo that Donald Rumsfeld never lied, either. . .nor Cheney, nor Libby, nor Rice . . . .
Saddam never signed into law The Patriot Acts I & II
Saddam never singed into law The Military Comissions Act (MCA)
Saddam never had General Michael "Fourth Amendment" Hayden turn the NSA's "Echelon" system against the American People for ILLEGAL Domestic Surveillance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGhcECnWRGM
Saddam never took an oath to defend the US Constitution and then betrayed his vow by authorizing Torture and the disregarding the Writ of Habeas Corpus
Saddam's supporters never shame-labeled me and wife with a NEO CON "Scarlet Letter" and branded us "LIBERALS" as one would mark crops or livestock for "culling" . .. or "purging for purity" . . . as if our socio-politico-economic models, ideas and ideals no longer have a place in this land of Liberty, Truth, and Justice. . .
. . .you know, silly "Liberal" things like Rule of LAW and THE US CONSTITUTION .. .
Saddam's supporters never "blacklisted" me from my professional industry thus prohibiting me from being able to support my family economically . . . thus costing me my farm and my home.
. . . and MOST importantly . . . SADDAM and Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11 . . . Can BushCo make the same claim, kidz?. . .;-)
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/9-11secretservice.html
I always thought it curious that the great usurper has repeatedly claimed to have seen the FIRST plane hit the WTC Towers . .. and the highly trained Secret Service did not remove him from a public venue while the country was being attacked by any "unknown enemy" on an "unknown scale" . . .
. . .and that the PNAC/AIPAC boyz, those disciples of cynic Leo Strauss, just happened to have a "plan" all ready to go . . .complete with the Patriot Act "in-the-can" . . .an Albert Pike/Issac Long wet dream of a manifesto against WE THE PEOPLE by Darwin's "Romans" if I ever did read one . . .;-)
Friend Bushbacker, I suspect "Brother Bushbacker" . .I'm sorry my Liberal "Scarlet Letter" that I wear confidently on my sleeve is such a "plank" in your eye, friend . . .I just don't buy into the jive of "Old World Solutions" for "New World Problems" . . .
. . .It's not that Leo Strauss and his school are just a bunch of elitist dicks that watched too much "Gunsmoke", "Perry Mason" and "Walker, Texas Ranger" . . . I just think their "Victorian Era Patriarchal Fascist Eugenics Science" model is flawed and outdated . . . ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfvzjE6ujfQ
. . but then again, I'm just an ol' fool from North Cackilacki . ..;-)
"Throughout the night they fashioned their might
With right on the side of the mighty.
They puzzled their minds plan upon plan
Man upon man
And at dying of dawn the great war began.
They met on the battlefield banner in hand.
They looked out across the vacant land.
And they counted the missing, one upon one,
None upon none.
The war it was over before it begun.
Two little kings playing a game.
They gave a war and nobody came.
And nobody came.
And nobody came."
- Zor and Zam by The Monkees
peace.
Larry Wilkerson said he unwittingly took part in a hoax on world
Don't know who Larry Wilkerson is? He's done interviews all over TV (PBS) and internet . You can find his eye-popping interview on PBS website . Larry was former assistant to Colin Powell. He said Powell was used by the 'cabal' (meaning Bushco PNAC Administration) to set forth a false presentation full of cherry-picked and false intel to the UN regarding Saddam Hussein's so-called "WMD". Larry witnessed Colin Powell being used and manipulated for the "cabal's" purposes and he said Powell was obviously NOT in the cabal's loop. Why do you think Colin Powell resigned? BTW, Larry is not a "lib"
IMPEACH PNAC> "OUT" THE CABAL !
http://tinyurl.com/a8uz9
Cheney Bribery?
http://www.worldreports.org/news/47_investigators,_cia_'
Can someone speak to the news in this link?
Thank you.
Tig
View my peace art at http://cafepress.com/peaceangel
Apparently Christopher Story is original source of Cheney/Wanta
Almost every source that I looked up on google refers back to worldreports.org . What a find, Tigana, keep digging!
yank :o)
"A wicked man accepts a bribe in secret to pervert the course of justice." Proverbs 17:23
IMPEACH PNAC> "OUT" THE CABAL !
http://tinyurl.com/a8uz9
Guilty Press
Novak, Times (Miller and others)should have been fired for their roles in outing Valerie, and beating the drums to war. Why haven't they been held accountable? Even if Novak was granted immunity, he still should have been fired for his deliberate role in outing a CIA operative.
When you own the information
When you own the information you can bend it all you want.
Section K. Niger Conclusions
"Section K. Niger Conclusions" of the "REPORT ON THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY'S PREWAR INTELLIGENCE ASSESSMENTS ON IRAQ" suggests that Bush didn't lie. If you care to read it: http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/congress/2004_rpt/iraq-wmd-...
Interesting...
I thought that the IAEA determined that the documents were forgeries.
HERE or HERE
Take your pick. I'm sure they are all wrong. RIGHT?
Can You Say "C O V E R - U P?
What is it about the concept of cover-up and bearing false witness that you do not understand?
Scooter and his "foggy memory"
I'm sure bloggers will be more than willing to assist him to "remember".
tee-hee, Internet sort of foils the old "denial factor"
Complicit Media
What do you expect from the media; look who controls the media:
http://www.nationalvanguard.org/printer.php?id=9910
Furthermore, many in congress and other powerful positions want permanent bases in Iraq, and they plan to have troops stay in Iraq and other counties until the oil runs out.
Ancient Chinese Proverb Spells Doom for Dick Cheney!!
Mr. Cheney may be unaware of the ancient Chinese proverb which pertains to the circumstances that presently await him. In case you don't remember it, it goes something like this: "He who puts LYE in YELLOW CAKE, ends up giving himself VERY BIG HEARTACHE!!!"
Gerald Pechenuk LaRouche PAC, Chicago cities12345@yahoo.com