The Raw Story Interview in which Ambassador Wilson ties the White House Iraq Group to the Plame leak and false intelligence about Iraq The Raw Story Interview with Ambassador Joseph Wilson is worth reading in full, but here's the exchange most applicable to the purpose of this blog, linking the White House Iraq Group to fixing of intelligence mentioned in the Downing Street Memo, and to the criminal public exposure of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson (in order to discredit the evidence that Ambassador Wilson found in Africa that cast doubt on their mushroom cloud fairy tales):

Ambassador Wilson:"...a meeting was held - sometime in March of 2003 - in the offices of the Vice President at which it was decided to do a "work up" on me. A work up means to run an intel op to glean all the information you can about me. My understanding is that at a minimum, [Cheney's chief of staff] Scooter Libby was at this meeting.
But in retrospect looking at this, the natural group [of people] who would meet to discuss something like this would be the White House Iraq Group (WHIG).

Raw Story: Right, and the group includes Karl Rove as part of that main group of six.

Wilson: Yes, that would include Rove. I believe it is Rove, Karen Hughes, Libby, and others.

Raw Story: Also: Andrew Card, Mary Matlin and James Wilkinson as well as others who advised then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and her deputy Stephen Hadley.

Wilson: That would be the natural group because they were constituted to spin the war, so they would be naturally the ones to try to deflect criticism. Now, some of those people would have very high security clearances....

Please read the whole interview between Larisa Alexandrovna and Joseph Wilson, because it reinforces a simple chronology of the events, and raises new questions about the possible roles of others, namely Judith Miller and John Bolton, in this affair.

TAGS:white house iraq group;WHIG;WHIGgate;Joseph Wilson  ¶ 8/03/2005 08:32:00 AM