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Flatly refuted Wilson's claim of smear campaign. He said leak was not intentional and leak was not given to him by a "political heavy hitter". Also said Rove only discussed Wilson with him for 20 seconds. Rove said "You know that too?" Novack also said he confirmed with someone in the Navy and that Wilsons wife was not a field operative. Sorry for sloppy writing.
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He disclosed the name because he was told "it was very unlikely she would ever go to Europe." Novack "No one in the admin. ever said anything critical to him about Wilson."
No report was ever written about Nigeria trip. And Wilson's wife suggested he be sent to Nigeria. The disclosure that his wife was a CIA agent was a throw away line in response to Novack asking why Wilson had been picked to go to Nigeria.
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Bill Harlow said Plame would never go overseas again. How was vhere life in danger. Novack- no one from the admin. ever initiated contact with him concerning this issue. Why the special prosecuter for this non-event?
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At the time, all IC analysts interviewed by Committee staff considered this initial report to be very limited and lacking needed detail. CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and Department of Energy (DOE) analysts considered the reporting to be "possible" while the Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) regarded the report as "highly suspect," primarily because INR analysts did not believe that Niger would be likely to engage in such a transaction and did not believe Niger would be able to transfer uranium to Iraq because a French consortium maintained control of the Nigerien uranium industry.
Only the CIA wrote a finished intelligence product on the report (Senior Executive Intelligence Brief [SEIB], Iraq: Nuclear-Related Procurement Efforts, October 18, 2001). Regarding the Niger reporting the SEIB said:
According to a foreign government service, Niger as of early this year planned to send several tons of uranium to Iraq under an agreement concluded late last year. Iraq and Niger had been negotiating the shipment since at least early 1999, but the state court of Niger only this year approved it, according to the service.
# There is no corroboration from other sources that such an agreement was reached or that uranium was transferred.
( )Officials from the CIA's DO Counterproliferation Division (CPD) told Committee staff that in response to questions from the Vice President's Office and the Departments of State and Defense on the alleged Iraq-Niger uranium deal, CPD officials discussed ways to obtain additional information. who could make immediate inquiries into the reporting, CPD decided to contact a former ambassador to Gabon who had a posting early in his career in Niger.
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I'm telling ya , one time Hannity po'd me so much i was boxing the screen! LOL
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On March 1, 2002, INR published an intelligence assessment, Niger: Sale of Uranium to Iraq Is Unlikely. The INR analyst who drafted the assessment told Committee staff that he had been told that the piece was in response to interest from the Vice President's office in the alleged Iraq-Niger uranium deal. The assessment reiterated 1NR's view that France controlled the uranium industry and "would take action to block a sale of the kind alleged in a CIA report of questionable credibility from a foreign government service." The assessment added that "some officials may have conspired for individual gain to arrange a uranium sale," but considered President Tandja's government unlikely to risk relations with the U.S. and other key aid donors. In a written response to a question from Committee staff on this matter, the Department of State said the assessment was distributed through the routine distribution process in which intelligence documents are delivered to the White House situation room, but State did not provide the assessment directly to the Vice President in a special delivery.
( ) In early March 2002, the Vice President asked his morning briefer for an update on the Niger uranium issue. In response, on March 5, 2002, WINPAC analysts sent an analytic update to the briefer which noted that the government of Niger said it was making all efforts to ensure that its uranium would be used for only peaceful purposes. The update said the foreign government service that provided the original report "was unable to provide new information, but continues to assess that its source is reliable." The update also noted that the CIA would "be debriefing a source who may have information related to the alleged sale on March 5."
) The intelligence report based on the former ambassador's trip was disseminated on March 8, 2002. The report did not identify the former ambassador by name or as a former ambassador, but described him as "a contact with excellent access who does not have an established reporting record.
no reports were written? LOL
the Veep had to know his intel was bad.. Bush may not have been breifed...
if he wasn't? Tennet was working both sides of the fence tho...
Cheney and Tennet suposedly hated each other...
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beginning to see why France was so skeptical about the war? The assessment reiterated 1NR's view that France controlled the uranium industry and "would take action to block a sale of the kind alleged in a CIA report of questionable credibility from a foreign government service."
they KNEW the nuke stuff was lies... they control the uranium industry...
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Does W hunt with Cheney/ Thats quite an apple on Colter, didn't you say that? confirmed!
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Doesn't matter. Novack said no admin. smear tactics, Rove was not involved, the Libby deal has already been in the headlines. Off the table now as a campaign issue, no way to spin negatively without Novack's words stopping dem's. Right or wrong, more to the story or not, no headline grabber here. Stick a fork in this one boys.
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Rove told MSNBC's Chris Matthews that Plame was fair game, even as White House spokesman Scott McClellan was denying any White House role in the leak. "I'm telling you flatly that that is not the way this White House operates," the spokesman told reporters July 22. McClellan was usually careful to stress involvement in any illegal leak, though his public statements clearly left an impression of a White House aloof to the affair.
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e-mails surrendered by Time Inc., which are largely between Cooper and his editors, show that one of Cooper's sources was White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove, according to two lawyers who asked not to be identified because they are representing witnesses sympathetic to the White House. Cooper and a Time spokeswoman declined to comment. But in an interview with NEWSWEEK, Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, confirmed that Rove had been interviewed by Cooper for the article. It is unclear, however, what passed between Cooper and Rove.
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Novak is a lot like dubya. You can tell when he's about to lie by watching for his lips to move.
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Come on now, everyone that believes Fox News is even honest, let alone fair and ballanced, stand up and wave your hands in the air, if you aren't driving. If you are driving, honk your horn so we will know you have had your daily ration of wild cherry.
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Befor I go ahead and just assume Novack, to my knowledge one of the most respected of the media, pulled a Cronkite or even a Rather, is there any history of NOvack doing something like this? Or even a history of Bush favoritism in his articles? I've never read much of his writings but he sure has been around a while. Also why would Rove tell some no name from Time but not Novack? That's like holding a press conference on CNBC instead of going ABC. Because Novack is much more known and respected. Is anyone aware if I can get a transcript of Rove saying fair game? I would like to see context. Also can someone speak to Novack's motive? Why would he risk his career? He's on Meet the Press every week, doesn't need more exposure.
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