Moore (*'s Brain) says Plame outing & Franklin (AIPAC) spy case connected

[Wordie]

Jim Moore (he wrote Bush's Brain about Karl Rove) thinks there may be a very big connection between the two.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-moore/the-most-important-crimin_b_9183.html
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... Fitzgerald has reportedly asked for a copy of the Italian government’s investigation into the break-in of the Niger embassy in Rome and the source of the forged documents. The blatantly fake papers, which purported to show that Saddam Hussein had cut a deal to get yellowcake uranium from Niger, turned up after a December 2001 meeting in Rome involving neo-con Michael Ledeen, Larry Franklin, Harold Rhodes, and Niccolo Pollari, the head of Italy’s intelligence agency SISMI, and Antonio Martino, the Italian defense minister.

If Fitzgerald is examining the possibility that Ledeen was executing a plan to help his friend Karl Rove build a case for invading Iraq? Ledeen has long ties to Italian intelligence agency operatives and has spanned the globe to bring the world the constant variety of what he calls “creative destruction” to build democracies. He makes the other neo-cons appear passive. He brought the Reagan administration together with the Iranian arms dealer who dragged the country through Iran-Contra and shares with his close friend Karl Rove a personal obsession with Machiavelli. Ledeen, who is almost rabidly anti-Arab, famously told the Washington Post that Karl Rove told him, “Any time you have a good idea, tell me.”

This article may finally hold the key to the entire convoluted mess of Treasongate. All the seemingly disparate pieces seem to fall into place after reading this article. And, it would explain why Miller's reports of what she said to the grand jury seemed to leave so many unanswered questions (that she claims she "forgot" about)...

[file83]

1. broken link - please fix !

[Wordie]

2. It works now...thanks for letting me know.

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3. This is discussed in the new film "Rove's War" and was on Malloy's show

last night. Trying to get the DVD through NetFlix right now.

[Wordie]

9. It seems HUGE to me. This is what could tie all those loose ends together!

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7. Help! How do I delete these duplicate posts?

DU apparently went down for about 5 minutes and when the system came back up, this post got repeated twice. Thanks.

[Fridays Child]

6. Sibel Edmond said so, too.

Hmm....

[Wordie]

8. And Raimondo goes even further...

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"The Israeli penetration of our national security has been put in the spotlight, lately, by the indictment – and guilty plea – of former Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin on charges of spying for Israel. During his tenure as the Pentagon's top Iran specialist, when he worked for Doug Feith, Franklin was caught red-handed funneling highly classified information to Steve Rosen, AIPAC's chief lobbyist, and Keith Weissman, AIPAC's top foreign policy analyst, who then passed the stolen secrets on to the Israeli embassy. The interconnectedness of the investigation into AIPAC's treason with Fitzgerald's probe is underscored by the following passage from Franklin's indictment:

"On or about June 3, 2003, Franklin met with FO-3 at the POAC , and the discussion centered on a specific person, not in the United Status government, and her thoughts concerning the nuclear program of the Middle Eastern country and, separately, certain charity, efforts in Foreign Nation A."

If Franklin and his Israeli handler – a nuclear weapons specialist – were talking about a woman whose "thoughts concerning the nuclear program" of a certain "Middle Eastern country" had some significance, then surely Judith Miller is a likely candidate. When we add in the business about "certain charity efforts in Foreign Nation A," the identification becomes even more credible: "Foreign Nation A" is Israel, the "charity efforts" consist of work on behalf of the Iraqi Jewish Archive, a joint project undertaken by Miller, Harold Rhode (Franklin's associate – and fellow suspect – in Feith's policy shop), and Ahmed Chalabi. It might be said that these efforts on behalf of the Archive are not taking place "in Israel," as the wording of the indictment puts it, but the ultimate location of the archives is uncertain, and surely Israel is one very possible destination. In any case, it can safely be said that this is a project undertaken on Israel's behalf.


http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7717

[Wordie]

10. Kick so the day shift can read this...This is AMAZING!