Editor & Publisher files story on Larisa Alexadrovna's Plame, Iran reports

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Editor & Publisher files story on Plame, Iran reports

Reports: Plame Was Monitoring Iran Nukes When Outed

By E&P Staff

Published: May 02, 2006 10:55 AM ET

NEW YORK What was Valerie Plame working on at the CIA when she was outed by administraton officials and columnist Robert Novak? MSNBC's David Schuster on Monday said he had confirmed an earlier report that she was helping to keep track of Iran's nuclear activity--not a front and center issue for the White House.

Earlier this year, Larisa Alexandrovna of the Web site RawStory.com, reported that Plame, whose covert status was compromised in the leak, was monitoring weapons proliferation in Iran. At the time, officials told her that Plame's outing resulted in "severe" damage to her team and "significantly hampered the CIA's ability to monitor nuclear proliferation."

On last night's Hardball, MSNBC correspondent Shuster reported that intelligence sources told him thatr Wilson was part of an operation three years ago "tracking the proliferation of nuclear weapons material into Iran." And the sources asserted, he said, "that when here Wilson's cover was blown, the administration's ability to track Iran's nuclear ambitions was damaged as well."

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002426164
via: http://www.rawstory.com/

[stepnw1f]

1. Bush Compromised National Security

and still pretends to be protecting us... hey assholes on the right? What don't you get, fuck-heads?!

[Clark2008]

2. Bravo for Larisa!

:applause:

(My real first name is that, as well. :) )

[drm604]

3. K&R for Larisa

:kick:

[Coexist]

4. Go Lala!!

How vindicated you are right now!

I am so happy for you.

[stop the bleeding]

5. Finally RS and Larisa get the recognition

that they deserve
:toast:

[renate]

6. so is THIS going to be the issue that drives approval into the 20s?

I don't see anything about Plame and Iran on the CNN home page or--even weirder, since David Shuster reported this--on MSNBC's.

For Bush or Cheney or their aides to have blown the cover of somebody tracking Iran's nuclear progress would seem to be--ironically--a bombshell.

[DemReadingDU]

7. K&R for Larisa and Raw Story!

[mom cat]

8. How does the timing of Plame's outing correlate with Cheney's

frequent visits to the CIA headquarters?

[EVDebs]

9. Outing Plame to cover up for the OSP's Iranian operation ?

Looks like our CIA/DIA et al were 'outsourced' to Chalabi. To what purpose ?

[roguevalley]

10. well done.

[formercia]

11. The White House didn't want Plame

to generate a report contradicting the Administrations arguments for war with Iran. Instead of Yellow Cake, its enriched Uranium, which, by the way, the Iranians said they wouldn't enrich beyond 5%.
There is also evidence that Halliburton was dealing in dual-use technology with Iran, something Cheney didn't want to see in any report.

[me b zola]

12. Bravo, Larisa!

:applause: