- It has also been revealed that New York Times reporter
Judith Miller was granted a Secret Department of Defense clearance while
she was embedded with a U.S. military unit in Iraq searching for weapons
of mass destruction (weapons that were non-existent). Although the identification
of Joseph Wilson's wife as a CIA agent (contained in a State Department
memorandum carried aboard Air Force One on a trip to Africa in July 2003)
was classified Secret, Miller would not have had a need to know for that
information.
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- CIA Leakgate may be part of a larger intelligence war
between the CIA and Pentagon. Miller's status as a security cleared Defense
Department embedded reporter adds to the mix of intrigue
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- The involvement of the Pentagon in Miller's aspect of
the CIA leak matter may indicate that senior Pentagon officials have also
been called before the Grand Jury. As previously reported by WMR, the Fitzgerald
case has, for quite some time, dovetailed with the case by Federal prosecutor
Paul McNulty against Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin and officials of the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). The AIPAC case continues
with other Pentagon officials, Israeli government officials, and a "senior
fellow at a Washington think tank [specializing on Iran]" still under
investigation. Franklin is now a cooperating witness having agreed to a
plea bargain with McNulty. The links between the White House and Pentagon
neocon cells, as well as others within the U.S. government, may be what
Libby referred to in his letter to Miller: "They [the aspen trees]
turn in clusters, because their roots connect them."
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- WMR can also report that CIA personnel like Valerie Plame
and her Brewster Jennings & Associates non-official cover (NOC) team
were not the only intelligence personnel targeted by the neo-con cells
in the White House and Pentagon. The Middle East group in the National
Security Agency's Signals Intelligence Directorate -- a group of Arabic
speaking linguists and area specialists involved in collecting and analyzing
signals intelligence from Iraq and other countries in the region -- saw
a number of its analysts and linguists purged by NSA security on trumped
up charges, simply because they knew there were no WMDs in Iraq and they
had access to intercepts proving collusion between senior Bush administration
and military officers in the run up to the war.
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- If Fitgzerald's indictments include charges that White
House personnel violated the civil rights of Ambassador and Mrs. Wilson,
expect a deluge of civil suits being filed against the government by well
over a hundred intelligence, diplomatic, and military personnel targeted
for harassment and retaliation.
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