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Did John Bolton Out Valerie Plame? | 20 comments (20 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Did John Bolton Out Valerie Plame? (4.00 / 3)

This is one of the best diaries I've seen about the State Dept. branch of the CIA leak affair.

What was the relationship between the top leadership of the State Dept (Powell and Wilkerson) and the evil clan described in this diary? Did Bolton and Powell talk much?

Halliburton: the bucks stop there.

by YankInDC on Fri Oct 28th, 2005 at 08:38:20 PM EST

Re: Did John Bolton Out Valerie Plame? (none / 1)

Well, Wilkerson was a member of the White House Iraq Group. Perhaps that is what turned him. It became pretty clear via leaks during Bolton's hearings that Powell held Bolton in pretty low esteem.

jpol

by jpol on Fri Oct 28th, 2005 at 09:15:40 PM EST
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Re: Did John Bolton Out Valerie Plame? (4.00 / 3)

Wilkerson, to the best of my knowledge, was not a member of WHIG.

He was Colin Powell's Chief of Staff.

James WILKINSON -- note the close name resemblance -- was a member of WHIG.

From my story on WHIG -- just a snippet -- there's much more:

former director of strategic communications for General Tommy R. Franks, and deputy national security advisor for communications as of December 2003. (Sourcewatch)
Dish -- Talk about Dish!
(SIGH -- Jim looks like SUCH A NICE YOUNG MAN -- especially in those MANLY CAMOUFLAGE FATIGUES that he wears to work!):
"Former Bush campaign aide Jim Wilkinson, (forever seared into the American psyche as the spokesman for GOP Miami-based protesters clamoring to stop the Florida ballot re-count during the 2000 election) has been hired as Tommy Frank's top spokesperson at the media center, and will be responsible for overseeing 42 military public affairs officers charged with managing hundreds of international correspondents covering the war. ... (Sourcewatch)
"Wilkinson first left his mark on the 2000 Presidential race in March 1999, when he helped package and promote the notion that Al Gore claimed to have 'invented the Internet.' Then the Texan popped up in Miami to defend Republican protesters shutting down a recount: 'We find it interesting that when Jesse Jackson has thousands of protesters in the streets, it's O.K., but when a small number of Republicans exercise their First Amendment rights, the Democrats don't seem to like it,' he told the Associated Press." (Sourcewatch)
In Qatar, he became the point man on the rescue of Pvt. Jessica Lynch and delivered the most memorable and sellable quote of Gulf War II: 'America doesn't leave its heroes behind,' he told reporters at a late-night briefing." (Sourcewatch)

Hickok: "You know the sound of thunder. Can you imagine that sound if I ask you to? Ma'am, listen to the thunder."

by susanhu (susanhuatearthlinkdotnet) on Fri Oct 28th, 2005 at 09:29:44 PM EST
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thanks (none / 1)

Susan, thanks for the clarification. Wilkerson claimed back in May that Richard Armitage, Powell's Deputy Secretary of State, often clashed with Bolton--yet still endorsed him for UN Embassador. link

Here's a quote from a May WaPo article that clarifies the relationship betweeen Bolton and Wilkerson. Really makes you wonder if the documents that Bush wouldn't give up during the Bolton nomination would have somehow revealed Bolton's role in CIA leak:

link

In Bolton's case, the tension was particularly acute because he was often the odd man out in Colin L. Powell's State Department. Bolton pushed policies aggressively that were supported by some of State's bureaucratic rivals, such as the Defense Department, but were disliked inside State.

"It is clear that he made a lot of people unhappy in the State Department," said Richard R. Burt, who was at the center of several policy battles while a senior State Department official in Republican administrations. "He was a true believer. He was fighting the good fight against the forces of darkness as he saw it."

Bolton's style at times became an issue in the State Department. Larry Wilkerson, Powell's chief of staff, told investigators that all but one of the personnel complaints that came across his desk involved Bolton. He said that a stream of assistant secretaries or their deputies would come into his office and say they had to leave.

"What's the problem?" Wilkerson said he would ask. "Bolton" would be the answer, he said.

Even Novak reported that Wilkerson endured frequent Bolton headaches

Halliburton: the bucks stop there.

by YankInDC on Fri Oct 28th, 2005 at 10:13:26 PM EST
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Re: thanks (none / 1)

I haven't seen Wilkerson's speech last week. I caught snippets of it on Jon Stewart the other night -- Stewart poked some fun because Wilkerson did get a bit overwrought.

But it seemed that Wilkerson was unleashing so much pent-up frustration and rage.

I also need to read his piece in the LAT.

Hickok: "You know the sound of thunder. Can you imagine that sound if I ask you to? Ma'am, listen to the thunder."

by susanhu (susanhuatearthlinkdotnet) on Fri Oct 28th, 2005 at 10:18:45 PM EST
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Wilkerson (none / 1)

On Thursday he participated on a radio discussion about Iraq on The Diane Rehm show. He was harsh on the administration--releasing much pent up frustration and rage--but he thinks that withdrawing our troops now would be a disaster.

Halliburton: the bucks stop there.

by YankInDC on Fri Oct 28th, 2005 at 10:46:49 PM EST
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