DAY 27: Claims That Plame Sent Wilson To Niger Was Untrue According to The CIA
August 11, 2005
MR. BUSH, TEAR DOWN THAT STONE WALL!
A daily service of the DNC, "Mr. Bush, Tear Down That Stone Wall!" will highlight a specific fact that has been revealed and what Americans deserve to know about the White House's involvement in the improper and possibly illegal disclosure of an undercover CIA agent's identity for political gain.
WHAT'S BEEN UNCOVERED
Claims That Plame Sent Wilson To Niger Was Untrue According to The CIA. "Over the past months, however, the CIA has maintained that Wilson was chosen for the trip by senior officials in the Directorate of Operations counter proliferation division (CPD) - not by his wife - largely because he had handled a similar agency inquiry in Niger in 1999. On that trip, Plame, who worked in that division, had suggested him because he was planning to go there, according to Wilson and the Senate committee report." [Washington Post, 8/11/05]
Novak Printed Plame Story After CIA Told Him It Was Not True. "Novak said he called the CIA on July 10, 2003, to get the agency's version. The then-CIA spokesman, Bill Harlow, told the columnist that the story he had gotten about Wilson's wife's role was not correct. Novak has written that Harlow said the CPD officials selected Wilson but that she 'was delegated to request his help.' Harlow has said that he told Novak that if he wrote about the trip, he should not mention Wilson's wife's name." [Washington Post, 8/11/05]
WHAT AMERICANS DESERVE TO KNOW
If the CIA was not claiming that Plame sent Wilson to Niger and told Novak that his story was wrong, then who told Novak that she had? Wouldn't this person have had to be a top Administration official? How high into the Administration does this cover-up reach?
27 Days
Since The American Public Learned That A White House Official With Security
Clearance Leaked The Identity Of A Covert Operative.
