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October 29, 2005 -- Indictment aftermath and review. The GOP spin machine is claiming that the indictment of Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff Lewis Libby is not a big deal because he was not indicted on the underlying charge of exposing a covert CIA agent to the media. To the contrary, prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald went to great lengths in the obstruction of justice count to explain in as much detail as possible Libby's damage to the national security of the United States.

Libby: There is more behind his motives than to politically retaliate against a Bush critic. It is Libby's background and network of associates that remains a major issue.

The prosecutor is also empanelling a new group of jurors in the grand jury process to investigate the motives behind Libby's and others' leaking of highly-sensitive classified information to the media. Karl Rove, Stephen Hadley, Cheney, and others remain under active investigation. When Fitzgerald said that the bulk of his investigation is over, he is correct. He and his team of Justice Department prosecutors and FBI special agents have investigated the leak and who was involved. They know the damage caused to a network of covert CIA operative engaged in sensitive counter proliferation tasks. All that remains is establishing the motives of the perpetrators (or should that be perpe-traitors?) The motives are where criminal conspiracy enters the fray. Fitzgerald supplemented his team with FBI agents from the counter-intelligence section of the bureau. They are looking into possible foreign entanglements of the perpetrators. This is a road that leads to cells of neo-con operatives across the Potomac at the Pentagon and in Rome, London, and Jerusalem. This is also where Fitzgerald's investigation dovetails with that of US Attorney for Eastern Virginia (and incoming Deputy Attorney General) Paul McNulty.

It is sad that President Bush uttered words of praise for Libby and his actions before he fled Washington for Camp David yesterday. Bush said Libby "sacrificed much, " serving the administration in “extraordinary times in our nation’s history.” What B.S.! Libby sacrificed our nation's national security on behalf of a shadowy political agenda crafted in right-wing funded think tanks in Washington and the back rooms of London, Rome, and Jerusalem. Libby and his co-conspirators are traitors in every sense of the term. Libby joins Aldrich Ames, John Walker, Robert Hanssen, Jonathan Pollard, and Benedict Arnold in the halls of treason. For Bush to praise such an individual is yet more proof that this swaggering dolt and failed human being is certainly no leader and is, in fact, traitorous to the United States as much as his top aides who remain under investigation. Bush and Cheney aided and abetted treason inside the White House. They should not only be impeached and tried by the Senate, but jailed for the rest of their lives as an example to future American leaders who believe it is proper to place the security of the nation in jeopardy for selfish political purposes. Bush should also be forewarned: any attempt to pardon Libby and others convicted for treason will mean the end of the Republican Party and the end of the Bush political dynasty.

There are several cross currents in the aftermath of the Libby indictment. One is that the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson's name and status to the media did not have a drastic effect on the CIA's counter-proliferation work. This is being spun by the stenographer-laden Washington Post and other apologists for the Bush administration. WMR can report that the damage to the CIA, as well as allied intelligence services, was "devastating" -- a term consistently conveyed by a number of CIA and intelligence community insiders. Not only did the White House leak put Mrs. Wilson and her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, in potential jeopardy but the entire Brewster Jennings & Associates non-official cover operation was "rolled up." The term "rolled up" has also been described to the editor by a number of current and former CIA sources. Foreign, including"denied nation," security services, even went to the lengths of checking out the hotels where Brewster Jennings employees stayed, when they stayed there, and what parties associated with their own nuclear programs stayed there at the same time. These individuals were identified and, in some cases, tortured and executed. Foreign security services had an easier time of checking attendee lists at various conferences to see whether their own officials and businessmen were in attendance with Brewster Jennings employees.

In addition to Brewster Jennings, a Boston-based brass plate firm, a predecessor CIA front company, Synergistic Technologies, Inc. -- its brass plate being based in Pittsburgh -- was also compromised. In the early 1990s, there was a nexus between the work of the two firms in their efforts to counter WMDs. That nexus was also compromised by the White House leak.

Bush's hand-picked CIA Director, Porter Goss, has just about completed his purge of the CIA's upper and mid-level management levels, replacing seasoned officers with Bush lickspittles. One of these is reportedly Burt Bechtel, the new head of the CIA's Counter Proliferation Division. Bechtel is spinning, along with Jennifer Millerwise Dyke (the CIA's public affairs spokeswoman who worked with Scooter Libby in the Vice President's office as press secretary and Porter Goss as spokesperson for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence) and Goss himself, the story that the Valerie Plame/BJ&A leak had little effect on the CIA's counter proliferation program. That will be news to the half dozen or so BJ&A non-official cover agents who were put in physical harm by the leak. It will also be news to the hundreds of people BJ&A had spotted and helped recruit into a complex global network of informants and agents who closely worked with CIA case officers -- from North Korea to Pakistan, Iran to South Africa, and Libya to Malaysia -- in identifying sources and destinations for nuclear materials and components. After the revelation of the identities of the CIA counter-WMD team, there were reverberations around the world -- in places with names like Natanz, Bushehr, Dayr al Hajar, Yongbyon, King Abdulaziz City of Science and Technology, Salaspils, Almaty, Chelyabinsk, Nilore, and Kahuta. Midnight knocks on doors, computer disk erasing, paper shredding and burning, quick get aways, and worse, were the order of the day. No big deal, according to the Bush apologists.

The indictment of Libby contains some interesting information if one reads between the lines. Click here for annotated copy of Count One (Obstruction of Justice).

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October 30, 2005 -- Judge assigned to Libby case has links to Republican Right. US District Judge for DC Reggie Walton has been assigned the Lewis Libby case. It is noteworthy to point out Walton's past and current links to the Republican Right and to elements in the Bush administration who have covered up important details about 911. Walton was appointed to the DC Superior Court in 1981 by Ronald Reagan. In 1989, he was appointed by George H. W. Bush as the deputy drug czar under Bill Bennett. Walton was reappointed to the DC Superior Court by the senior Bush. George W. Bush nominated Walton to the US District Court for DC in 2001. Walton was the judge who, under pressure from the Justice Department, placed a gag order on former FBI translator and whistleblower Sibel Edmonds and cleared his courtroom of the public and media in Edmonds' hearing in her case against the FBI. Edmonds brought to light important information about how the FBI failed to translate important wiretap intercepts before and after 911.

Judge Reggie Walton assigned to Libby case: Recusal of judge appointed to the bench by two Bush ptresidents should have been sought by prosecutor

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October 30, 2005 -- The Washington Punditocracy is Wrong As Usual. This morning, many pundits are spinning for the White House that Karl Rove, "Official A," in the indictment of Lewis Libby, is off the hook. Au contraire. One must look back at another Fitzgerald indictment and an "Individual A." In April 2003, prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald indicted two aides to Illinois Governor George Ryan for corruption. During his press conference announcing the indictments of the two corrupt aides, Fitzgerald would not comment on "Individual A" because he was not charged in the indictment. Fitzgerald said the same thing when asked about "Official A" in the Libby indictment. On December 17, 2003, former Governor Ryan was indicted by a grand jury in Chicago. It turned out that Ryan was "Individual A" cited in Fitzgerald's earlier indictment of the two Ryan aides. Fitzgerald started out his criminal investigation of corruption in the Ryan administration by one indictment. Ryan was Fitzgerald's 66th indictment in his criminal probe. No, Karl, you're not quite off the hook yet.

Gov. George Ryan ("Individual A") was 66th person indicted by Fitzgerald grand jury in Chicago. "Official A" (Karl Rove) is not off the hook yet

October 31, 2005 -- Last night, CBS 60 Minutes aired a story on the damage the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson and her Brewster Jennings & Associates non-official cover (NOC) firm caused for the ability of the United States to track weapons of mass destruction proliferation. Former CIA agents spoke about the severe consequences the leak caused for the CIA's Counter-Proliferation Division's official and non-official cover operations. New Jersey Rep. Rush Holt, a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, would not comment on whether CIA agents were arrested or executed as a result of the leak. WMR has previously reported that at least one NOC was executed in a Middle Eastern country as a result of the leak.

WMR can report that the leak damage also included exposure of covert agents, both official cover and NOCs, involved in a series of extremely sensitive maritime interdiction operations in Southeast Asian waters dating from the early 1990s. The editor was requested not to go into details to protect sources and methods.

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October 31, 2005 -- Did Rove cop a last minute deal with Fitzgerald? Newsweek is reporting some last-minute two-steps by Karl Rove and his attorney during the early morning of Oct. 28, just before Patrick Fitzgerald indicted Lewis Libby, Cheney's Chief of Staff. But none of this reportage should be taken that the storm at the White House has passed.

On Oct. 25, Fitzgerald and chief Leakgate FBI Special Agent Jack Eckenrode visited Rove's attorney Robert Luskin at his law firm Patton Boggs. Luskin apparently proffered some new evidence to Fitzgerald and Eckenrode. The new evidence, said to be a July 11, 2003 email from Rove to then-media aide Adam Levine, reportedly gave Fitzgerald "pause." The email, timed at 11:17 am, moments after Rove talked to Matt Cooper about Valerie Plame Wilson, asked Levine to come to Rove's office to discuss a "personnel issue." This email may be a red herring.

The question is why a relatively insignificant email that did nothing to absolve Rove, given to a hardened prosecutor who has taken down a GOP administration in Springfield, Illinois and who is going after the Daley machine in the Chicago City Hall and the corporate neo-con barons of Hollinger, would cause Fitzgerald to "pause?" There is an answer but hold on a second.

Early in the morning, Fitzgerald paid a visit to James Sharp, President Bush's personal attorney at his DC office. Newsweek is reporting that Fitzgerald told Sharp that Rove would not be charged.

The editor believes there is another explanation for these public Fitzgerald visits. During a week when Fitzgerald's every movement, including a visit to a shoeshine parlor, was being reported by the media, he had to realize that his visits to Luskin's office at Patton Boggs at 2550 M St. and Sharp's office at Sharp & Associates at 1215 19th St. -- -- both heart in the middle of Washington's "see and be seen" business area -- would be picked up by media outlets.

Unlike Newsweek, the editor believes that while Fitzgerald could have picked up the phone to talk to either Luskin or Sharp, he chose to pay personal visits to send a message to the media and to other targets. That message is that he has enough on Rove to engineer a cooperation agreement from Bush's "brain." Just as Fitzgerald convinced Lewis Libby's assistants John Hannah and David Wurmser to cooperate against the indicted former Chief of Staff, Rove is a target for outright indictment or cooperation in lieu of indictment. Newsweek, owned by the Bush-friendly Washington Post and home to Bush hand puppet Bob Woodward, is misreading the Fitzgerald visits to the two attorneys.

Now that Libby has been indicted, Fitzgerald's modus operandi will be to try and get even Libby to implicate others. That obviously includes the person whose criminal defense attorney -- Terrence O'Donnell of Williams and Connolly-- was not afforded a personal visit. O'Donnell's client is Cheney.

The GOP spinmeisters are claiming that the outing of a covert CIA agent and her network was not a conspiracy and was no big thing. However, a last minute visit by the prosecutor to the President's criminal defense attorney after Rove's attorney gave the prosecutor new evidence that caused him to "pause" means one thing -- Bush is also a target of the criminal probe. Bush's last words in Leakgate may very well be, "Et tu Karl?"

Bush's Supreme Court pick, Samuel Alito (or "Scalito," since he's an ideological twin of Opus Dei adherent Antonin Scalia), is engineered by Karl Rove as a way to change the songsheet in DC. Now there will be discussions about invoking the Senate "Gang of 14" to filibuster this extremely conservative 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals judge who is anti-Roe v. Wade, anti-privacy, anti-civil rights, and pro-corporation. However, the special prosecutor is singing from a different songsheet.

Another diversion, engineered by neo-con Minnesota Republican Senator Norm Coleman, was to recently refer Senate testimony by British MP George Galloway on the UN Oil-for-Food program to the Department of Justice, US Attorneys for DC and Manhattan, and the Manhattan District Attorney for criminal investigation. It would be surprising if any law enforcement official takes seriously Coleman's charges or those of former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker that Galloway benefited from oil concessions from Saddam Hussein. The "evidence" Coleman proffered was based on crude forgeries obtained from circles associated with bank embezzler and known prevaricator Ahmad Chalabi, who is now, not coincidentally, Iraq's Oil Minister. The neocons are still upset that Galloway trounced one of their own, Labor's Oona King, a pro-Likud shill, in east London's largely East Asian Bethnal Green and Bow constituency.



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November 1, 2005 -- WMR has obtained confidential version of the Mehlis Report on Hariri assassination. Strong likelihood that it was salted with disinformation by Bolton neocons at UN before its release.

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November 1, 2005 -- Bush White House Circling Wagons for a Long Siege. After being identified in the Patrick Fitzgerald indictment of Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff Lewis Libby, Cheney's counsel David Addington has been named as the replacement for Libby as Chief of Staff. Also, John Hannah, who is said to have been "flipped" as a cooperating witness early on by Fitzgerald, has been named as Libby's replacement as Assistant National Security Adviser to the Vice President. This "in your face" reaction to the Libby indictment indicates the White House is preparing for a continued investigation and are preparing a strategy to stonewall the prosecutor and the court that will deliberate the charges against Libby.

Addington was cited in the Fitzgerald indictment as follows:

"Also on or about July 8, 2003, LIBBY met with the Counsel to the Vice President in an anteroom outside the Vice President’s Office. During their brief conversation, LIBBY asked the Counsel to the Vice President, in sum and substance, what paperwork there would be at the CIA if an employee’s spouse undertook an overseas trip."

Hannah was likely one of the two "other officials" who accompanied Cheney and Libby on a trip to Norfolk:

On or about July 12, 2003, LIBBY flew with the Vice President and others to and from Norfolk, Virginia, on Air Force Two. On his return trip, LIBBY discussed with other officials aboard the plane what LIBBY should say in response to certain pending media inquiries, including questions from Time reporter Matthew Cooper.

Hannah has been linked to a discredited Iraqi defector tied to Ahmad Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress (INC) who fed bogus intelligence on Iraqi WMDs to the Vice President's office and the Pentagon. The CIA determined that the INC defector was a liar. Hannah was the chief interlocutor for the bogus intelligence in Cheney's office while then-Undersecretary of Defense for Policy and Plans Douglas Feith is believed to have served as the conduit at Defense. The bogus intelligence was transmitted via a Pentagon-funded program called the Information Collection Program. The program was used by the INC to channel bogus intelligence to the intelligence services of the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Germany, and Denmark.

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.

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.

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.

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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November 2, 2005 -- CIA leak opens U.S. intelligence up to disinformation. Intelligence insiders are reporting that the exposure of the CIA's Counter-Proliferation Division non-official cover (NOC) operations opened U.S. intelligence up to disinformation from foreign security services that discovered U.S. agents of influence and contacts and used them to feed false information to the CIA. The leak has blindsided U.S. intelligence in a number of critical areas of the world, including Central Asia, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, and Africa. Meanwhile, morale has never been so poor at CIA headquarters in Langley and stations around the world. Experienced case officers, area experts, and other seasoned agents are being purged and replaced by politicized personnel with primary loyalties to the Bush administration and the neo-con agenda.


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November 2, 2005 -- Yesterday's surprise Senate closed session invoked by the Democratic minority in a seldom-used parliamentary procedure is indicative of the frustration gripping Washington. The current anger is a result of the indictment of Lewis Libby, the ongoing criminal investigation by Patrick Fitzgerald, and more indications that the U.S. invaded Iraq based on a series of lies perpetrated by a criminal conspiracy within the highest levels of the Bush administration. There are more indications that this frustration continues to disable America's intelligence infrastructure. WMR is pursuing a number of leads in this respect. Developing...

November 3, 2005 -- The leak of information about a network of CIA-run secret prison camps ("black" sites) in a number of countries, including Afghanistan, Thailand, Cuba (Guantanamo Bay), and six Eastern European countries is another indication that the intelligence agency's rank-and-file are critical of draconian methods, including the CIA's "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques," to glean intelligence from suspected terrorists. The part of the CIA that has not yet been purged CIA Director Porter Goss is in open warfare against the neo-cons, according to one CIA agent who spoke on the condition of anonymity. U.S. officials claim the names of the Eastern European countries are being withheld because releasing them would hurt U.S. "counter terrorism" operations in the countries. The truth is that the names are being withheld to prevent an investigation by the European Court of Human Rights and European Union Human Rights Commission. Nevertheless, the European Union is now investigating the secret prisons. The likely locations of the secret prisons, according to informed sources, are Poland, Romania, Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, and Croatia.


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November 3, 2005 -- Beltway Dish -- Last night, while engaged at the National Press Club in a conversation about Karl Rove's treason and Scooter Libby's revolting novel about pedophilia and other perversion, your editor was confronted by a disagreeable sort who bellowed, "You're not a journalist!" I asked someone who the guy worked for. The reply, "Fox News."

Ex-KGB Tied to Sharon, NeoCons And Russian-Israeli Mafiya

By Wayne Madsen
11-4-5

The Israeli connection to the Niger and Congo uranium forgeries. The neo-cons who are behind the Niger forgeries that were used as justification for the war in Iraq have been aided by former KGB officers who honed their African forgery trade during the Cold War. A number of these KGB officers are now Israeli citizens who are working closely with a special activities unit in Ariel Sharon's office. The former KGB agents, having left the Soviet Union during the 1970s and 1980s when a neo-con cell first nested in Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson's office and then migrated to the Pentagon under Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, now work for Likud and specialize in creating forgeries, especially those attributed to African countries. These Israeli former KGB agents work closely with neocon units in Rome, Washington, and London. The State Department once maintained a full-time office dedicated to proving Soviet generated documents as forgeries. The documents were always easy to detect since the forgeries were crude and the information contained within them was capricious.

Example of KGB forgery purported to be from South African Foreign Minister to State Department official during Reagan administration. Some of these KGB agents now work for the neo-cons in Israel and the United States.

The Congo forgeries were overshadowed by the Niger forgeries

Although the focus is on the Niger forgeries, there was another case in which forgeries "proving" Iraq's nuclear ambitions were shopped by the neocons. It received little or no attention.

In July 2002, documents on CIA letterhead were "discovered" in a Nairobi hotel room. They described attempts by Mai Mai guerrillas in Bukavu in the DRC to negotiate the sale of uranium to Saddam Hussein's government. The discovery of the documents in Nairobi came after Wilson, CIA weapons of mass destruction experts -- including Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame Wilson -- the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the US ambassador to Niger, and the US European Command in Stuttgart concluded that there was no evidence to support the allegation that Iraq was shopping for nuclear materials in Africa -- a charge later leveled by President Bush in his January 2003 State of the Union address.

The "discovery" of the CIA documents -- clearly forgeries like the Niger documents -- were leaked to the press, including Le Soir in Belgium. Their leak was followed by the release of a British government dossier describing Iraq's attempts to obtain uranium in Africa. The DRC government later produced photocopies of original false Bukavu documents -- on which the bogus CIA documents were based -- offering Iraq (or any other high bidder) 9 kilograms of "superior quality" uranium from Mai Mai units in the eastern DRC. U.S. intelligence sources maintain that the Nairobi and Bukavu documents were crude forgeries produced after then-Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Walter Kansteiner III met with Rwandan President Paul Kagame in Kigali on January 15, 2002. The plan was to blame the DRC for providing uranium to Iraq in an attempt to destabilize Kabila and justify the continued presence of Rwandan troops in eastern DRC. Iraq's complicity in obtaining uranium in DRC would then be bolstered by the Niger "evidence" lending credence to Saddam's nuclear "ambitions."

Kansteiner was assisted in the operation by his deputy, Charles Snyder, a former US Special Forces officer who was involved in covert operations in Sierra Leone and is tied to the neo-conservative elements within the Pentagon. Kagame relies heavily on Israeli and Pentagon security advisers in his eastern Congo military operations.

Former KGB disinformation and forgery experts have also been behind illegal forgery operations tied to the Russian-Israeli Mafia's weapons, diamond, gold, platinum, uranium, and plutonium smuggling operations in other African countries, including Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Mozambique, Liberia, Congo (Brazzaville), and Benin.

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