The Niger / Cheney / Plame / Brewster-Jennings connection [View All]

[Junkdrawer]

Considerable effort was put into claiming that no one in the White House saw Wilson's report. I think that's nonsense. Here's why and why I think that's important.

Many, many respectable reporters have commented on how Cheney personally reached around (or Stove-piped) the CIA hierarchy and tried to "fix the intelligence" on the WMD issue. We have credible reports of Cheney visiting the CIA in person during the Iraq war run-up. The Downing Street Memos talk all about this.

Now here comes this phony "Niger Yellow-cake" story. The honest part of the CIA (including Brewster-Jennings) goes to the trouble of sending Joe Wilson to Niger to debunk the story. Do we really believe this was never told to Cheney and Libby?

And if it was, wouldn't the effort to find out who in the CIA was "with the program" begin then and more likely, even earlier. And wouldn't that make Brewster-Jennings a target?

I think the timeline is now clicking into place...

1.) Cheney/Libby put pressure on the CIA to confirm Niger Story.

2.) The honest part of the CIA decides to send Joe Wilson because they know he'll tell the truth.

3.) Bush/Cheney/Libby/Rice decide to ignore Wilson and put the "16 words" in the State of the Union. Investigation begins in Cheney's office to see who did send Wilson. The answer comes back - it's their old Nemesis, Brewster-Jennings et al. And they find Wilson's wife Plame works for Brewster-Jennings.

4.) Wilson publishes the column.

5.) Tweety asks: "If they went to the trouble to sending Joe Wilson all the way to Africa to find out whether that country had ever sold uranium to Saddam Hussein, why wouldn't they follow-up on that?"http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5221932&mesg_id=5221932">Link

6.) Libby sees his chance. He can kill Brewster-Jennings by "correcting the record". He'll blame Wilson on Plame and thus out Plame as a CIA Agent and destroy Brewster-Jennings in the process.

Perhaps this is why Fitz is so interested in the phony Niger documents?