Keeping the Plame Alive

Christopher Deliso over at Antiwar.com continues the Plame outing saga with two articles, November 21 and November 24. (Please click here for a little theme music to read by.)

In the 11/21 article Deliso repeats the overused phrase "Plame was an NOC (non-official cover) agent, meaning that she had "little or no protection from the U.S. government if she got caught." Real spy stuff, get it?

"And, while the front company by which she was ostensibly employed as an energy consultant, Brewster Jennings & Associates, may indeed have been little more than a "telephone and post office box" in Boston, Plame and her colleagues were using this ruse as a means of getting important information and undertaking delicate missions abroad."

He continues : "Novak's revelation of July 2003 thus did not just affect Plame. It affected all of us." Damn! Endangered all of us maybe ?

The usual anonymous source verifies that Plame's job was "top secret", taking her far and wide in the world on spy missions and such. Really wow.

And ""[P]lame and other employees of Brewster & Jennings, the CIA's fake energy consulting firm, used to visit the International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA, located in Vienna] frequently. They used to attend the meetings and undertake deliberate operations to get 'targeted names' on their side.

"Plame and other 'energy consultants' used to continue with follow-up meetings for those persons whom they had contacted in Vienna, in Istanbul. … Plame met with foreign dignitaries who are in charge of nuclear weapons in their countries and scientists in Turkey, where she has visited several times as an 'energy consultant.'"

Independently of this, former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds told me recently that "Plame's undercover job involved the organizations [the FBI had been investigating], the ATC (American-Turkish Council) and the ATA (American-Turkish Association)."

Further, she adds, "the Brewster Jennings network was very active in Turkey and with the Turkish community in the U.S. during the late 1990s, 2000, and 2001 … in places like Chicago, Boston, and Paterson, N.J." These disclosures make it clear that nuclear trafficking was one of the widespread illegal activities enjoyed by government officials, foreign agents, rogue businessmen, and terrorists under surveillance prior to and during Ms. Edmonds' time at the FBI."

My problem with the above : Plame/Brewster Jennings having little more than a "telephone and P.O. box" doesn't work guys. These foreign dignitaries, officials, businessmen have at least sufficient funds and US contacts to peek in on that Boston office building of Brewster Jennings. Plame wasn't dealing in back alleys, but with high level foreign government figures. You think they won't run a background check on a US company they may do rogue business with?

And isn't it odd how Sibel, former FBI, knows so much about Plame's CIA job? Who said the two agencies don't work together. This message will self-destruct in five seconds.