- Porter Goss's CIA is also continuing to deny that the
outing of Valerie Plame Wilson and her Brewster Jennings Non-Official Cover
(NOC) company resulted in severe damage to America's clandestine intelligence
gathering capabilities. Two former CIA officials, obviously coached by
the Bush administration, told the San Francisco Chronicle that the damage
was not all that severe. Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former CIA case officer
who is currently with the neo-con American Enterprise Institute, said of
the leak, "that kind of thing has happened innumerable times with
journalists. This has really been blown egregiously out of proportion."
Andre Le Gallo, a former CIA Operations Directorate official and the current
head of the San Francisco chapter of the Association of Former Intelligence
Officers (AFIO), said of the violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection
Act, "If he [the leaker, note the singular use] said it like, 'I think'
'Wilson's' 'wife works in the agency,' without knowing if she's in science
or technology or a logistics expert, that's a pretty tough call."
LeGallo is a former competitive analysis executive for Enron, the energy
company that collapsed following its massive financial and logistics support
for the Bush 2000 campaign in history's costliest corporate failure.
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- Ex-CIA officers who are downplaying White House leak
damage have interesting employers
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- It is also noteworthy what Al Kamen in his "In the
Loop" column revealed in yesterday's Washington Post about the connections
between the Goss CIA and the Bush White House. Goss spokeswoman Jennifer
Millerwise Dyck, who worked for Goss at the House Permanent Select Committee
on Intelligence (HPSCI) and for Cheney and Libby in the Vice President's
office before she joined the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign staff, is married
to Paul B. Dyck, a former associate political director Karl Rove who now
works for Condoleezza Rice at State.
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- Millerwise's name first surfaced at HPSCI after she suddenly
disappeared from the staff as public affairs spokesperson after the suspicious
June 2000 suicide in a seedy motel in Fairfax, Virginia of HPSCI Executive
Director John Millis, a veteran CIA clandestine officer. Millis was known
to have worked on a HPSCI study of charges that the CIA was involved in
transporting drugs into south central Los Angeles during the 1980s and
early 1990s. Goss was trying to divert Millis's investigation away from
implicating the CIA in the drug business. Consequently, Millis clashed
with Porter Goss, the then-chairman of the HPSCI and before his death he
delivered a blistering attack on then-CIA Director John Deutch at a public
speech at the Smithsonian. Millis maintained close links to ranking HPSCI
member Julius Dixon and Clinton White House Counsel Charles Ruff. Both
Ruff and Dixon died of heart attacks at the end of 2000.
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- Millerwise Dyck's sister, Molly Millerwise, works in
the public affairs office at Treasury. Both Millerwise sisters worked as
aides on the Bush 2000 presidential campaign and are close to former White
House Press secretary Ari Fleischer, who remains under investigation concerning
his July 2003 conversation with the White House from Africa-bound Air Force
One in which he is believed to have revealed the contents of a Secret State
Department report on Mrs. Wilson's CIA status. Millerwise Dyck was also
interviewed by the Special Prosecutor concerning what she knew about the
leak while she worked for Cheney and Libby.
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- http://waynemadsenreport.com/
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