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Uranium from Africa and the Aluminum Tubes - Some Observations on the Relevant Articles by Murray Waas (Part 3)
[PREFACE: This a long overdue post which I had not had time to post previously. Over the past couple of weeks, I've been reviewing my list of stories still left to cover at TLC on the Nigergate and Al tubes...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on December 15, 2006 07:39 AM
Treasongate: Libby and the "other White House officials"
A most curious statement from Patrick Fitzgerald, pages 29-30 (emphasis mine): Moreover, given that there is evidence that other White House officials with whom defendant spoke prior to July 14, 2003 discussed Wilson’s wife’s employment with the press both prior...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on April 6, 2006 10:39 PM
Treasongate: Libby and the NIE "key judgements"
UPDATE 2 (4/13/06): Fitzgerald posted a correction to his brief saying that Libby did not actually claim that the uranium allegation was part of the NIE's key judgements. Accordingly, I retract my charge that Libby et al. misrepresented the key...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on April 6, 2006 06:26 AM
WMDgate: Fixing Intelligence Around Policy, Part 5: The Anatomy of a Cover-Up
This post is part of a series (see Introduction and Parts 1, 2A-1, 2A-2, 2A-3, 2A-4, 2A-5, 2B-1, 2B-2, 2C, 3, 3A, 4A) focused on building a case to demonstrate the Bush White House's intelligence manipulation, fixing and misrepresentation, mostly...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on April 6, 2006 12:02 AM
Uranium from Africa and the Aluminum Tubes - Some Observations on the Recent Articles by Murray Waas (Part 2)
This is second part of a short series (see Part 1) discussing Murray Waas's recent articles in National Journal on the uranium/Nigergate/Plamegate matter and the aluminum tubes issue. In Part 1, I highlighted key pieces of information in Waas' recent...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on April 5, 2006 07:09 AM
Uranium from Africa and the Aluminum Tubes - Some Observations on the Recent Articles by Murray Waas (Part 1)
Murray Waas has been publishing a series of important articles in National Journal on the uranium/Nigergate/Plamegate matter and the aluminum tubes issue (note that others in the blogosphere have discussed his latest article). I am going to use this opportunity...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on April 3, 2006 07:49 AM
Treasongate: The Niger Forgeries v. the CIA Intel Reports - Part 7: The Case of the Fastidious Footnote
[This is part of my ongoing coverage on the uranium from Africa matter; click here to read a consolidated synopsis of my overall findings] This is an addendum to a series I published last year (see Introduction, Part 1, Part...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on March 6, 2006 06:50 AM
Uranium from Africa and the Niger Forgeries: When did the CIA first receive copies of the Niger uranium forgeries? - Part 2: The Dog That Did Not Bark, Again
[This is part of my ongoing coverage on this topic; click here to read a consolidated synopsis of my findings to-date] This is the next part of a series (Introduction, Part 1) focused on obtaining an answer to the question...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on March 3, 2006 07:24 AM
Treasongate: The Niger Forgeries v. INR Reports - "Global Support", Part B
In Part A, I used an INR analyst's observations on the "Global Support" Niger forgery to show that the CIA (and INR) must have had in their possession one or more forged Niger uranium documents that have not yet been...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on February 22, 2006 10:59 PM
Uranium from Africa and the Niger forgeries: Did Elisabetta Burba actually see the alleged uranium "Accord"?
In my post earlier this morning I briefly pointed out that Panorama reporter Elisabetta Burba, who received a bunch of documents from Rocco Martino on October 7, 2002, did not actually see the bogus document that was supposedly the Niger-Iraq...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on February 22, 2006 08:13 PM
Treasongate: The Niger Forgeries and the Bush Administration
In yesterday's post titled "Treasongate: The Niger Forgeries v. INR Reports - "Global Support", Part A" I used an INR analyst's observations on the "Global Support" Niger forgery to show that the CIA (and INR) must have had in their...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on February 22, 2006 01:41 AM
Treasongate: The Niger Forgeries v. INR Reports - "Global Support", Part A
One of the most interesting comments in the Senate (SSCI) Report comes from an INR analyst who had immediately reviewed the Niger forgeries when he received them (emphasis mine, through this post): ...The embassy faxed the documents to the State...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on February 21, 2006 06:20 AM
Treasongate: Libby and Uranium from Africa
Murray Waas has a story in the National Journal today (worth reading in full) which provides some additional, important, detail on a story which I had already discussed in a couple of posts at TLC last year - especially this...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on February 2, 2006 08:11 PM
Treasongate: The Niger Forgeries v. INR Intel Reports - The March 1, 2002 report
This post is partly related to my earlier series "The Niger Forgeries v. the CIA Intel Reports." My focus here is a recently declassified INR memo (Niger: Sale of Uranium to Iraq is Unlikely) discussing the uranium from Niger claim...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on January 20, 2006 08:51 AM
Uraniumgate and Treasongate update
As I have mentioned before, many readers have asked me to provide a synopsis of the various series I have published to date on the uranium from Africa hoax. I've now completed a first draft of such a synopsis and...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on January 4, 2006 06:05 AM
Treasongate: The Niger Forgeries v. the CIA Intel Reports - Post Script 2: The 6/20/03 IAEA Letter to Rep. Henry Waxman
This is a follow-up to my series (see Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Preliminary Conclusion and Post Script 1) focused on comparing the CIA (uranium) intel reports on Niger to the corresponding...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on December 1, 2005 07:58 AM
Treasongate: Rove and Ralston
In keeping with the blogosphere speculations about the significance of Viveca Novak's testimony on the Plame case, let's add this Raw Story report to the mix (emphasis mine): ...Rove’s former personal assistant, Susan B. Ralston -- who was also a...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on November 28, 2005 10:31 AM
Treasongate: The Niger Forgeries v. the CIA Intel Reports - Post Script 1: The 11/11/05 La Repubblica article
This is a follow-up to my series (see Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, and Preliminary Conclusion) focused on comparing the CIA (uranium) intel reports on Niger to the corresponding contents of the...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on November 14, 2005 07:09 AM
Treasongate: La Repubblica picks up Left Coaster finding on Niger forgeries
If some of you stopped by The Left Coaster on Friday, after seeing Josh Marshall's post which said this (among other things): Very interesting news out of Italy this morning, and news which appears to confirm a theory advanced recently...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on November 13, 2005 08:56 AM
Treasongate: The Niger Forgeries v. the CIA Intel Reports - Preliminary Conclusion: An Italian Job
This is a preliminary conclusion (pending further investigation) to a series (see Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6, as well as Post Script 1 and Post Script 2) focused on comparing the...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on November 7, 2005 08:38 AM
Treasongate: The Niger Forgeries v. the CIA Intel Reports - Part 6: The Role of Rocco Martino
This is the next part of a series (see Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5) focused on comparing the CIA intel reports on Niger to the corresponding contents of the relevant Niger documents (mostly...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on November 6, 2005 10:18 AM
Treasongate: A Reminder - The Niger Forgeries Were Obvious Fakes
Hold on. Don't post a comment about the apparent ludicrousness of the title of this post. Of course, you say, a forgery by definition is a fake. I know that. But that's not what I'm talking about here. Let me...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on November 5, 2005 11:22 AM
Treasongate: The Niger Forgeries v. the CIA Intel Reports - Part 5: The State Court of Niger
This is the next part of a series (see Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4) focused on comparing the CIA intel reports on Niger to the corresponding contents of the relevant Niger documents (mostly forgeries) to...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on November 4, 2005 05:41 AM
Treasongate: The Niger Forgeries v. the CIA Intel Reports - Part 4: Wissam Al-Zahawi and Uranium from Niger
This is the next part of a series (see Introduction, Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3) focused on comparing the CIA intel reports on Niger to the corresponding contents of the relevant Niger documents (mostly forgeries) to understand how...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on November 3, 2005 06:01 AM
Treasongate: The Niger Forgeries v. the CIA Intel Reports - Part 3: The "Nassirou Sabo" Letter
This is the next part of a series (see Introduction, Part 1 and Part 2) focused on comparing the CIA intel reports on Niger to the corresponding contents of the relevant Niger documents (mostly forgeries) to understand how the forgeries...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on November 2, 2005 06:10 AM
Treasongate: The Niger Forgeries v. the CIA Intel Reports - Part 2: The 1965* Niger Constitution
This is the third part of a series (see Introduction and Part 1) focused on comparing the CIA intel reports on Niger to the corresponding contents of the relevant Niger documents (mostly forgeries) to understand how the forgeries were "mainstreamed"...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on November 1, 2005 06:30 AM
Treasongate: The Niger Forgeries v. the CIA Intel Reports - Part 1: Claims and Documents
This is a series (introduced in this post) focused on comparing the CIA intel reports on Niger to the corresponding contents of the relevant Niger documents (mostly forgeries) to understand how the forgeries were "mainstreamed" and to what extent Italian...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 31, 2005 09:57 PM
Treasongate: The Niger Forgeries v. the CIA Intel Reports - Introduction
In a previous post, that focused on the findings of the Robb-Silberman Report (RSR, for short) in the context of the uranium from Africa issue, I pointed out that the CIA directly admitted what I had proven in previous posts...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 31, 2005 08:39 AM
Treasongate: Sounds familiar
Having read the Libby indictment and having read reactions and commentary around the blogosphere, there's only one post I would like to recommend to those who think it's all over. ArchPundit. Let me give you a sample, since I don't...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 28, 2005 07:38 PM
Treasongate: Uranium from Africa and the Robb-Silberman report
I just came across today, for the first time, the Report to the President of the United States of The Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction - also known as the Robb-Silberman...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 27, 2005 11:20 PM
Treasongate: The Real Significance of the Niger Uranium Forgery Stories in La Repubblica - Part II
In my previous post on La Repubblica's first two articles, I discussed their most significant aspects and how that supported my deduced theory of the mechanics of the bogus uranium from Africa claim. As of last night, three articles have...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 27, 2005 09:06 AM
Treasongate: "...the dates were wrong and the names were wrong..."
I have been meaning to do a detailed post debunking the false allegations against Joseph Wilson but haven't had an opportunity to do so yet. So, let me point readers to a few [*fourth link added] of my previous posts...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 27, 2005 07:22 AM
Treasongate: The Real Significance of the Niger Uranium Forgery Stories in La Repubblica
Laura Rozen at War and Piece has helpfully provided links to two blog posts that offer translated versions of the breaking stories on the forged Niger documents in the Italian paper La Repubblica. The Prospect has put on-line excerpts of...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 26, 2005 06:06 AM
Treasongate: About those bogus Niger documents
An important revelation today by an Italian newspaper, confirmed by the NSC per Laura Rozen in The American Prospect. As Rozen's article leads, "Italy's intelligence chief met with Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley just a month before the Niger...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 25, 2005 03:49 PM
Treasongate: Desperately Seeking (or Buying) Uranium
Having just returned from a nice talk by former Ambassador Joseph Wilson at Stanford University - with Dave Johnson of Seeing The Forest (who has a brief write-up on it) - this is perhaps an appropriate time for this post....
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 25, 2005 01:43 AM
Treasongate: Uranium from Africa in a Nutshell
[This post was updated with additional information on 12/25/05 and 1/1/06] PREFACE I've spent a considerable amount of time in the preceding months combing through the innards of the U.S. Senate (SSCI) Report [htm, pdf] and British Taylor and Butler...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 24, 2005 06:19 AM
There's No Rest For the Wicked
As we focus on Treasongate, the Far Right GOP running the country has been focused on its trademarked corporate cronyism and corporate welfare giveaways. Bob Geiger (Yellow Dog Blog) comments at length on the GOP-controlled Senate's shooting down of a...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 21, 2005 07:29 AM
Treasongate: The Truth About Judy
In my detailed post examining Judith Miller's mysterious "discovery" of "notes" leading to her second grand jury testimony, I showed how the facts make it quite clear that Miller must have misled or lied to the grand jury in her...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 20, 2005 11:39 PM
Treasongate: Kill the Fake Rumors
I am seeing rumors published in many blogs about indictments or what not - including stuff that is obviously fake. It is one thing to comment on a report from a news outlet (Raw Story included). It is another thing...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 20, 2005 08:25 AM
Treasongate: Victoria Wilson and Victoria Plame
In previous posts I commented on the strange "Valerie Flame" notation in Judith Miller's notebook. In this post I briefly comment on the other weird notation in Miller's notes: "Victoria Wilson". Notably, there are many instances reported in the blogosphere...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 20, 2005 07:14 AM
Treasongate: Valerie Flame, Take 2
In my previous post on this topic, I commented on the appearance of the name "Valerie Flame" in one of Bob Novak's articles as noted by AspTrader at Daily Kos. The fact that Judith Miller used the term "Valerie Flame",...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 20, 2005 07:08 AM
Treasongate: Valerie Flame
UPDATE: Please check out my updated post on this here. You all remember Judith Miller's famous "Valerie Flame" notation in her notebook and her deliberate obfuscation about not knowing the source for that name. Now, regardless of the source who...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 19, 2005 07:50 AM
Treasongate: The Final Solution?
Picking up on Steve's post below regarding the Washington Post piece by Jim VandeHei and Walter Pincus mentioning Fitzgerald's possible focus on Vice President Dick Cheney, may I point out that the most important part of the piece is near...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 17, 2005 11:12 PM
Treasongate: Et Tu Scooter?
It's time to review the impact of Judith Miller's testimony on Vice President Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Although Judith Miller has a history of making misleading statements (or flat out lying), we can focus on the...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 17, 2005 10:34 PM
Treasongate: Miss Run Amok - Arthur Sulzberger Jr.'s and Tom Friedman's Idea of a Great Journalist
Among Judith Miller's various claims is her astonishing lack of memory on most issues of importance in this investigation. Combine this with her lack of transparency, her recourse to misleading or false statements, her disregard for fellow journalists' time,...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 17, 2005 08:42 AM
Treasongate: Miller digs a deeper hole
Remember the story about Judith Miller not remembering who told her about "Valerie Flame"? Remember she said that she wanted very much to write about Plame before Novak came out with his article? Remember her annoyance at not being allowed...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 16, 2005 09:36 PM
Treasongate: Miller's aspens
UPDATE: I realize I didn't make the point this post clear. The point is whether this was just a convenient anecdote to take attention away from the "aspens turn in clusters" aspect of Libby's letter. Anyway, if it's a lame...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 16, 2005 05:14 PM
Treasongate: A Flame-ing Lie, It Seems
Picking up from my previous post on Miller-Times-gate, in her article Judith Miller said (emphasis mine):It is also difficult, more than two years later, to parse the meaning and context of phrases, of underlining and of parentheses. On one...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 16, 2005 10:11 AM
Treasongate: Miller and the NYT Fail to Come Clean
In today's articles by the New York Times (Don Van Natta, Jr., Adam Liptak and Clifford J. Levy) and Judith Miller, I was looking for clarity on two crucial aspects of the Valerie Plame case/expose. Will the NYT and Miller...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 15, 2005 07:13 PM
The Treasongate Disinformation Campaign Continues
Via Booman23 at Daily Kos, I see that Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Disinformation Standard has written a misleading and dishonest article (what's new) of the realities surrounding the uranium from Africa issue, the Joseph Wilson trip, his op-ed and...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 15, 2005 11:51 AM
Treasongate and Judith Miller - Plea Bargain (or) A Bargain?
[UPDATE 2 (10/13): Updated reports, more information and a response to Mark Kleiman's question in Appendix B. UPDATE: Two updates posted in section 3 which make it pretty much certain that Miller was not honest.] The issue of uranium from...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 11, 2005 10:54 PM
Treasongate probe widens?
Here's an update from tomorrow's Wall Street Journal (pwd required; some extracts with bold text being my emphasis): ...There are signs that prosecutors now are looking into contacts between administration officials and journalists that took place much earlier than previously...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 11, 2005 08:37 PM
Treasongate: Lewis Libby and Judith Miller
This weekend I decided to shift my sights back to Treasongate (from Miersmania) and I was sifting through some of the news from last week relating to Judith Miller and Lewis Libby's testimony. I discovered something that struck me as...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 10, 2005 07:44 AM
Treasongate and Jeff Gannon - Redux
UPDATE: Ron Brynaert at Why Are We Back in Iraq (who has done some exceptional research on Gannon's serial plagiarism in the past) offers a compelling argument that Gannon actually just plagiarized from the WSJ when he asked Mr. Wilson...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 8, 2005 11:18 AM
Treasongate: Rove's Fictions
Investigative journalist Murray Waas' latest article at National Journal is a must read because it elucidates not only some of the inaccurate statements that Rove made to the FBI and the grand jury (explaining his desperate plan to return to...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on October 8, 2005 07:56 AM
Uranium from Africa and the Valerie Plame expose (Treasongate): A Synopsis
[Last updated on 1/27/07, with further updates expected] Based on an extensive review and analysis of this topic, I have briefly summarized my main findings in the following sections. My body of work on this topic is extensive and I...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on August 17, 2005 07:09 AM
Treasongate update: Dems demand Justice Department Inspector General open investigation into John Ashcroft
Murray Waas has an update on his website, including some excerpts (a fraction of which I am reproducing below) from the letter from Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) and Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) that is expected to be released tomorrow: [W]e...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on August 16, 2005 06:19 PM
Q&A with former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV: Part 2
PREFACE Before reading Amb. Joseph Wilson's responses in this email interview/Q&A (Part 2), you might find it useful to read my introductory post: "Former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV: The significance of his July 2003 op-ed" and the Q&A with...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on August 16, 2005 08:08 AM
The uranium claim and the U.K. Butler Report - a second take
The main reason I delayed publication of the second part of my interview of Amb. Joseph Wilson was that I wanted to go back and do a more thorough analysis of the British claim about Iraq having sought uranium from...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on August 15, 2005 07:40 AM
Ashcroft's role in Treasongate: New story from Murray Waas
Investigative reporter Murray Waas kindly tipped me (and Jeralyn at Talk Left) to his new story in the Village Voice. In a nutshell, one of the reasons that Patrick Fitzgerald was appointed special prosecutor was because of concerns that then-Attorney...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on August 14, 2005 06:19 PM
Uranium from Africa and the Senate (SSCI) Report: Part 3A-6
This is a continuing series focusing on the findings on the "uranium from Africa" issue in the whitewash Senate Report - the report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI). [Previous parts: Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3,...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on July 28, 2005 10:09 PM
The color of treason
If Senator Pat Roberts (R-Ah-Luv-Treason) is really trying to set up Congressional hearings with a view of offering Karl Rove and Lewis Libby immunity from future prosecution in return for their, um, "valuable" testimony on Treasongate, about, um, themselves, then...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on July 27, 2005 10:33 PM
Uranium from Africa and the Senate (SSCI) Report: Part 3A-4 (Uraniumgate v2.0)
This is a continuing series focusing on the findings on the "uranium from Africa" issue in the whitewash Senate Report - the report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI). [Previous parts: Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3,...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on July 27, 2005 01:50 AM
The Anatomy of a (New) Scandal
Folks, by tomorrow morning you'll see an exclusive TLC story here that exposes a new* scandal linked closely to Treasongate, or Nigergate or Uraniumgate [*technically one may argue about how "new" it is, but let's just say it is new...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on July 26, 2005 09:05 PM
Uranium from Africa and the Senate (SSCI) Report: Introduction
With the continued limelight on Treasongate, I am starting a new series focusing on the findings on the "uranium from Africa" issue in the whitewash Senate Report - the report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) - that...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on July 24, 2005 07:34 AM
GOP Culture of Corruption Watch
The GOP's culture of corruption and immorality across the country marches on. OHIO The Toledo Blade has another report "Noe involved in 'absolute theft of funds,' Ohio's attorney general says" (via Daily Kos) in their continuing, excellent coverage of the...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on July 21, 2005 10:45 PM
Treasongate: For the Nth time, She Was Covert
In a previous post I mentioned the WSJ piece confirming the use of a special notation in the State Department memo to denote that Valerie Wilson's identity was a secret. Now, thanks to a heads-up from Ga6thDem, we have another...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on July 20, 2005 09:39 PM
Treasongate: Important Developments
I'm currently in the midst of studying the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) Report in the context of the uranium in Africa issue - so you'll probably not see a whole lot of posts from me on this matter...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on July 20, 2005 08:14 AM
Treasongate: Calculated
Robert Luskin, Karl Rove's attorney, earlier this month: According to Luskin, the fact that Rove did not call Cooper; that the original purpose of the call, as Cooper told Rove, was welfare reform; that only after Cooper brought the WMD...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on July 18, 2005 07:47 PM
Treasongate: The Plame Name Game
UPDATE: If this NYT report on Rove's alleged testimony to the grand jury is accurate, then Rove's claim of not knowing Plame's name before he spoke to Cooper is/was false. --- In one of the original pro-Rove leaks from the...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on July 18, 2005 08:49 AM
Treasongate: Classified Information
In an earlier post, I had noted that when Karl Rove leaked Valerie Plame's CIA identity to Matt Cooper of Time magazine, his statements to Cooper made it crystal clear that Rove knew that he was divulging classified information (no...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on July 18, 2005 08:12 AM
Treasongate (Part V), Addendum II: The Butler Report and uranium/Africa
[NOTE: This was originally posted on 7/18/05, significantly enhanced with a lot of additional information posted on 8/15/05, 12/2/05, 12/24/05 and 5/28/06] This is the next part of my examination of the reports claimed to have supported Bush's "uranium in...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on July 18, 2005 07:25 AM
Treasongate (Part V), Addendum I: ISG and uranium/Africa
I know that readers of this blog will not find anything surprising in this post, but I am on a bit of a mission here to more thoroughly expose the continued use of fictional "data" by Bush administration apologists to...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on July 17, 2005 10:29 AM
Judith Miller and Treasongate
Billmon has a thoughtful post on Judith Miller and journalist privilege and contempt of court. He cites this extract from Adam Liptak's NYT piece (bold text is my emphasis):Asked whether Ms. Miller provided information about Ms. Wilson's identity to the...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on July 16, 2005 04:33 PM
Treasongate (Part VII): Details, Details
The latest articles on Treasongate from yesterday are more than tantalizing. The question of whether the mysterious/disputed INR/State Department memo was the source used by the Bushies to out Wilson's wife (Steve has commented on this) is one part of...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on July 16, 2005 11:28 AM
WaPo Editorial on Treasongate
Steve pointed me to today's Washington Post editorial on Treasongate. While they rightly call out the Bush administration's misbehavior in parts, they carry just enough water for the administration's cooked-up theories (on their own uranium claims and against Joseph Wilson)...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on July 15, 2005 08:28 AM
Important Update
Mary has helpfully posted a link on the top right side of the blog - to my GOP/Rove lies debunking page on Treasongate. It's called "Debunking The Rove Lies". Make sure you check out the link over the next week...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on July 14, 2005 09:05 PM
Thinking the Unthinkable
Isn't it just possible Judy Miller is sleeping behind bars to protect a second source -- George W. Bush himself?
Posted by larre in The Left Coaster on July 13, 2005 02:02 PM
Treasongate (Part VI): Response to GOP/Neocon talking points on the Valerie Plame expose
[This page was last updated on 10/18/05] INTRODUCTION: The Bush White House, the GOP and their extended arms in the media have issued misleading and false talking points (example) to discredit Joseph Wilson, rather than take responsibility for illegally outing...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on July 13, 2005 08:30 AM
Making Judgements (a response to Bob Somerby)
Bob Somerby (The Daily Howler) says:Did King Karl know that Plame was covert? Let’s note one key point for the record: Under terms of the most relevant statute, it isn’t clear that Plame really was such an agent. (Under terms...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on July 12, 2005 10:55 PM
Treasongate (Part V): Flashback on Uranium and Africa
Newsweek has the bombshell Rove-related story in Treasongate, which makes it clear that Rove did in fact reveal that Valerie Plame was a CIA WMD expert to Time magazine's Matt Cooper - the legal significance of which is being discussed...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on July 11, 2005 09:11 AM
Treasongate (Part IV) - Jeff Gannon
UPDATE: OK, I just realized that the Senate Intelligence Committee report mentions "INR analyst". So, Gannon could conveniently point to that report to explain why he said "INR analyst" even though the WSJ article never revealed the agency that produced...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on July 6, 2005 08:46 AM
Treasongate and Karl Rove (Part III)
UPDATE: Make sure you read the excellent commentary/roundup by Swopa - here and here. Continuing from my previous post, the curious case of Time magazine's Matt Cooper and the New York Times' Judith Miller had me thinking quite a bit...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on July 5, 2005 10:01 PM
Treasongate and Karl Rove (Part II)
In my previous post, I argued that there is no evidence yet that Karl Rove leaked Valerie Plame's CIA identity to Time magazine's Matt Cooper. I also mentioned that "This clearly says nothing about how Rove was indeed part of...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on July 4, 2005 03:53 PM
Treasongate and Karl Rove (Part I)
Over the past few days, there's been a fair amount of blogosphere speculation on Karl Rove's role in Treasongate (the Valerie Plame expose); in the meantime, the Los Angeles Times and Newsweek have weighed in on this issue with comments...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on July 4, 2005 10:01 AM
Treasongate
I see that there is some buzz about Lawrence O'Donnell's claim that Time magazine journalist Matt Cooper's source (who outed Valerie Plame) was Karl Rove. The speculation is that the investigation on the Plame expose may have devolved to an...
Posted by eriposte in The Left Coaster on July 2, 2005 12:13 PM