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CIA Plame Leak Case
Expands To Pentagon

By Wayne Madsen
10-18-5
 
It has also been revealed that New York Times reporter Judith Miller was granted a Secret Department of Defense clearance while she was embedded with a U.S. military unit in Iraq searching for weapons of mass destruction (weapons that were non-existent). Although the identification of Joseph Wilson's wife as a CIA agent (contained in a State Department memorandum carried aboard Air Force One on a trip to Africa in July 2003) was classified Secret, Miller would not have had a need to know for that information.
 
CIA Leakgate may be part of a larger intelligence war between the CIA and Pentagon. Miller's status as a security cleared Defense Department embedded reporter adds to the mix of intrigue
 
The involvement of the Pentagon in Miller's aspect of the CIA leak matter may indicate that senior Pentagon officials have also been called before the Grand Jury. As previously reported by WMR, the Fitzgerald case has, for quite some time, dovetailed with the case by Federal prosecutor Paul McNulty against Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin and officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). The AIPAC case continues with other Pentagon officials, Israeli government officials, and a "senior fellow at a Washington think tank [specializing on Iran]" still under investigation. Franklin is now a cooperating witness having agreed to a plea bargain with McNulty. The links between the White House and Pentagon neocon cells, as well as others within the U.S. government, may be what Libby referred to in his letter to Miller: "They [the aspen trees] turn in clusters, because their roots connect them."
 
WMR can also report that CIA personnel like Valerie Plame and her Brewster Jennings & Associates non-official cover (NOC) team were not the only intelligence personnel targeted by the neo-con cells in the White House and Pentagon. The Middle East group in the National Security Agency's Signals Intelligence Directorate -- a group of Arabic speaking linguists and area specialists involved in collecting and analyzing signals intelligence from Iraq and other countries in the region -- saw a number of its analysts and linguists purged by NSA security on trumped up charges, simply because they knew there were no WMDs in Iraq and they had access to intercepts proving collusion between senior Bush administration and military officers in the run up to the war.
 
If Fitgzerald's indictments include charges that White House personnel violated the civil rights of Ambassador and Mrs. Wilson, expect a deluge of civil suits being filed against the government by well over a hundred intelligence, diplomatic, and military personnel targeted for harassment and retaliation.
 
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