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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (110042)	8/5/2003 3:19:00 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

I assume you understand that it quickly became 100% crystal clear that these documents were fakes.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (110042)	8/5/2003 9:20:59 AM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 281500

Right, Nadine. It's a conspiracy. Then there's this: "It's a shot across the bow to these people, that if you talk we'll take your family and drag them through the mud as well," he said in an interview. It was Wilson who started the controversy that has engulfed the Bush administration by writing in the New York Times two weeks ago that he had traveled to Niger last year at the request of the CIA to investigate reports that Iraq was trying to buy uranium there. Though he told the CIA and the State Department there was no basis to the report, the allegation was used anyway by President George W. Bush in his State of the Union speech in January. Wilson and a retired CIA official said Monday that the "senior administration officials" who named Plame had, if their description of her employment was accurate, violated the law and may have endangered her career and possibly the lives of her contacts in foreign countries. Plame could not be reached for comment. "When it gets to the point of an administration official acting to do career damage, and possibly actually endanger someone, that's mean, that's petty, it's irresponsible, and it ought to be sanctioned," said Frank Anderson, former CIA Near East Division chief. A current intelligence official said that blowing the cover of an undercover officer could affect the officer's future assignments and put them and everyone they dealt with overseas in the past at risk. nynewsday.com You're flacking for some pretty scummy people these days, Nadine. Not that that's unusual or anything.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (110042)	8/5/2003 4:27:00 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Message 19137497 Article by Mona Charen, posted om FADG,says: ..>>>>>>>>>It seems the CIA cannot independently confirm this information because the fellow they sent to check it out, Joseph C. Wilson IV, sat "drinking sweet mint tea" with several people in Niger but found no evidence. Mr. Wilson may not have tried very hard. As Clifford May documents in National Review Online, Mr. Wilson was a vociferous opponent of the war in Iraq, a contributor to the left-wing magazine the Nation and keynote speaker for the Education for Peace in Iraq Center, a group that opposed not only the war against Saddam but sanctions and the no-fly zones, as well. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<