TPM Cafe: DID CONDI PUSH THE "WILSON'S WIFE SENT HIM STORY"?

[Goldmund]

Check this out -- it's vewy intewesting:

http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/7/20/16340/8649

Press gaggle transcripts show that it was Condoleezza Rice, not Ari Fleischer, who was pushing the press to look into the reasons the CIA sent Wilson to Niger.

[jsamuel]

1. here is the beef

Q Dr. Rice, when did you all find out that the documents were forged?
DR. RICE: Sometime in March, I believe. Is that right?
MR. FLEISCHER: The IAEA reported it.
DR. RICE: The IAEA reported it I believe in March. But I will tell you that, for instance, on Ambassador Wilson's going out to Niger, I learned of that when I was sitting on whatever TV show it was, because that mission was not known to anybody in the White House. And you should ask the Agency at what level it was known in the Agency.
Q When was that TV show, when you learned about it?
DR. RICE: A month ago, about a month ago.
Q Can I ask you about something else?
DR. RICE: Yes. Are you sure you're through with this?

[understandinglife]

2. Some additonal comments on this crucial issue:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4148545&mesg_id=4151353

And, let us all do whatever we can to get an answer to the question: "Was Judith Miller one of the reporters on Bu$h's Africa trek on July 7-13, 2003?"

WATCH IT; SPREAD IT http://www.bushflash.com/right.html

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - How ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists their cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[kevinmc]

3. Is that who Judith Miller is protecting? n/t

[emulatorloo]

4. FINEMAN - CONDI had a TV appearance briefing book marked TOP SECRET

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8600327/site/newsweek/page/3/

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Meanwhile, in transatlantic secure phone calls, the message machinery focused on a crucial topic: who should carry the freight on the following Sunday's talk shows? The message: protect Cheney by explaining that he had had nothing to do with sending Wilson to Niger, and dismiss the yellowcake issue. Powell was ruled out. He wasn't a team player, as he had proved by his dismissive comments about the "sixteen words." Donald Rumsfeld was pressed into duty, as was Condi Rice, the ultimate good soldier. She was on the Africa trip with the president, though, and wouldn't be getting back until Saturday night. To allow her to prepare on the long flight home to D.C., White House officials assembled a briefing book, which they faxed to the Bush entourage in Africa. The book was primarily prepared by her National Security Council staff. It contained classified information—perhaps including all or part of the memo from State. The entire binder was labeled TOP SECRET.

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[blm]

5. Kicking, cuz Condi is a cover up artist for BushInc. Always was. Always

will be.