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To: Ilaine who wrote (121577)	12/15/2003 8:05:54 AM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

It was found in Tuwaitha, when Saddam got it is kind of a minor thing. Kind of like arguing when a tree was planted, it's either there or it isn't. BTW, mentioning the yellow cake tripped someone's trigger. A poster, whom I assume is banned here, had filled my in box with PMs. Something about the birth defects of generations of democracy. I deleted them and hit ignore this person.

To: Ilaine who wrote (121577)	12/15/2003 10:39:08 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Vanity Fair has an article on the Plame/Wilson brouhaha. It is quite flattering to Wilson. Unfortunately, I can't find a way to post the text of the article online. If interested, buy the hard copy of the VF edition with Viggo Mortensen on the cover. Wilson is noted by "right wing activists" to have connections to a secretive investment group. The author says nothing about the Saudi connection to the group. This connection has been discussed here. The author reports that Wilson denies the charge, suggesting that he only rented office space from the group, whose name escapes me at present. Not a word about Wilson using the group's email address as his own. Wilson's denial sounds like BS to me. Why would Wilson lie about this? What does he have to lose? How hard is it to get an independent email address that doesn't tag into the group's network? Why does he have need for an office as he is retired and has a very large home from where he can conduct whatever business he needs to conduct? An expense, in other words, that a retired State Dep't official on a government pension with a government-employed wife clearly cannot afford. Wilson's denial indicates that he is trying to hide a conflict-of-interest problem for his wife. He conned the author, who was writing a puff piece. Don't understand why the CIA or the DOJ appears to be more interested in disclosure of a CIA agent's NOC identity than the potential conflict of financial interest. I thought that the CIA had learned the lesson that large-living agents can be a problem. Potomac fever. I might write a letter to the VF editor.

To: Ilaine who wrote (121577)	12/15/2003 3:22:32 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Great observation, CB...I just read the entire exchange from the start to the end...(for now..<g>) Isn't it odd how difficult it is for some folks to answer a simple "Yes OR No" ???? Or for some to do some major research on a 'sticky' issue...