Outed CIA officer was working on Iran, intelligence sources say

[julialnyc]

Outed CIA officer was working on Iran, intelligence sources say

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2005/Outed_CIA_officer_was_working_on_0213.html

The unmasking of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson by White House officials in 2003 caused significant damage to U.S. national security and its ability to counter nuclear proliferation abroad, RAW STORY has learned.

According to current and former intelligence officials, Plame Wilson, who worked on the clandestine side of the CIA in the Directorate of Operations as a non-official cover (NOC) officer, was part of an operation tracking distribution and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction technology to and from Iran.

Speaking under strict confidentiality, intelligence officials revealed heretofore unreported elements of Plame's work. Their accounts suggest that Plame's outing was more serious than has previously been reported and carries grave implications for U.S. national security and its ability to monitor Iran's burgeoning nuclear program.

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[DS1]

1. That's impossible!

She drove to work every day!

:sarcasm:

[julialnyc]

5. yeah.... no big deal

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her outing resulted in "severe" damage to her team and significantly hampered the CIA's ability to monitor nuclear proliferation.

Plame's team, they added, would have come in contact with A.Q. Khan's network in the course of her work on Iran.

[MadMaddie]

2. Of course....that would make sense....Valerie Plame was

investigating WMDs wasn't she....

That's their style...destroy whoever is actaully doing their job.....

I hate them so much...and they fired her a week before her retirement...sounds fishy to me....

[grasswire]

3. this provides a whole new motive for the outing

They outed her and destroyed her work in order to continue their plan to attack Iran.

My God. I'm sickened. It wasn't about Iraq. It was about war against Iran.

Oh my God.

[magellan]

9. It's been about Iran since the 70s

The neocon/PNAC pet project is Iran. Iraq and Afghanistan were just stepping stones.

[acmavm]

4. So, if Iran is sooooo dangerous, and she was working on Iran,

doesn't that mean someone should be lined up against a wall with a cigarette and blindfold?

[leftchick]

13. yep!

though I would use the cigarette in other ways. :grr:

[Ian David]

6. Halliburton Doing Business With the 'Axis of Evil'

Halliburton Doing Business With the 'Axis of Evil'

By Jefferson Morley
washingtonpost.com staff writer
Thursday, February 3, 2005; 8:00 AM

The award for oddest geopolitical couple of 2005 goes to the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Houston-based Halliburton.

You might not think that a charter member of President Bush's "axis of evil" could enlist the oil-services firm once run by Vice President Cheney to bolster its bargaining position with an international community intent on curbing its nuclear ambitions.

But that is apparently what happened last month.

The story began on Jan. 9 when the Iran News ran a Reuters story reporting that Halliburton "has won a tender to drill a huge Iranian gas field."

<snip>

Within days three hard-line members of the Iranian parliament attacked the deal. In an open letter they alleged the contract had been arranged by a businessman named Sirous Naseri, who also serves on the Iranian government team negotiating with European powers seeking limits on Iran's nuclear programs. The Halliburton contract, the parliamentarians complained, was "a threat to Iran's nuclear stance.

More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58298-2005Feb2.html

[grasswire]

7. the implications are staggering

I hope this makes LBN soon.

[NVMojo]

11. you got that right! Staggering in that they ruin anyone who can prove

what liars they really are with their hard-ons to benefit their corporate pals at the cost to US citizens in money and lives! I hate these mother Feckers!

[Ian David]

8. Vallerie Plame was under Non-Official Cover... she was "On the NOC List"

You all remember "The NOC List" from the movie Mission: Impossible?

Remember where the agency kept their copy of The Noc List?

[BuyingThyme]

10. This is old news, but better late I guess.

[julialnyc]

12. Well, it may be old, but there's an art of timing

for this to re-surface while Rove is back to testify helps people connect the dots.

[BuyingThyme]

15. Exactly.

[yodermon]

14. cue "American Judas"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=66773

.. in which it is argued that Dick Cheney outed Valerie Plame Wilson on Purpose because she and her front company, Brewster Jennings & assoc, were tracking Pakistani A.Q. Kahn's "Nuclear Walmart" right back to Big Dick himself. If Dick was profiting from this network, which has supplied Iran with parts/know-how for nukes, then there's your treason charge right there.