Plame and Brewster Jennings Assoc. and PEAK OIL:

Perhaps Plame/BJA via CIA were outsiders meddling wth Big Oil/Cheney’s bedfellow Saudi Arabia? If so, then outting Plame/BJA would destroy those meddlers.

It is a given that Saudi’ supergiant, old Ghawar field [abt 5 Million bbl/day] impacts global oil production more than any other. Far more. Ghawar production status is unknown WRT whether it has gone into decline…bec, of all 1 Million bbl/day fields, it is the ONLY one not admitted to be in decline, even though there is strong reason to believe it has recently started declining output.

SA will not release any raw data, just obfuscation and generalities. If it is declining, then in fact Peak Oil has already been reached and it is GAME OVER for my lifestyle and yours.

Has the possible Plame/BJA connection with ferreting Saudi production data been vetted on this thread? It is a vital matter. There are internet links pointing in that direction, but I have no personal knowledge. Just GOOGLE ‘ Plame oil’ , or BJA, or somesuch..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_RoveWh ile the breaking of Valerie Plame’s cover as a NOC operative of the CIA may be regarded as serious in and of itself, there has been some speculation that the damage caused by the leak may extend in very specific directions related to Plame’s work with her cover company, Brewster Jennings & Associates. While the majority of commentators felt that her husband was the target for the smear, a body of evidence points to another motive for the leak. The leak may have been instigated as a move to end Plame’s work spying on the Saudi royal family, and more specifically her investigation into whether the Saudi oilfields had passed their peak of productivity (see peak oil). In this view (found for example in Michael Ruppert’s From The Wilderness news service) the leak was an attempt to silence and/or discredit Plame’s findings on the state of the world’s oil supply, thereby impairing the functioning of the CIA’s ability to inform the administration, in turn reducing its ability to act usefully.

From a blogger:
Plame was apparently operating a CIA fronted business intended to inflitrate the Saudi oil industry. From what was reported about Plame and her company, the CIA operation was long in the making and apparently very successful, and ultimately infiltrated numerous energy sectors in the ME and possibly elswhere. Its been awhile since I’ve read these articles.

form a blogger at Juan Cole website
…This “cover company” was known as Brewster, Jennings & Associates (BJA). It took years for this cover company to really start paying off as far as intel, since it took time for the foreign countries and companies they worked with to start trusting them. A key company BJA worked with was ARAMCO – Saudi Arabia’s national oil company, which supplies somewhere around 12% of global oil production.

http://wid.ap.org/documents/li…..DX1030.pdf

http://wid.ap.org/documents/li…..DX1031.pdf

eRiposte, kinda on a wee bit of a sidetrack here, but do you have any thoughts on the amazing coincidence of the timing of in these 2 thingies:

1. June 12 2003 – Grossman tells Libby of Plame’s role at CIA. Per Emptywheel’s timeline.
2. June 13 2003 – Armitage tells Woodward of Plame’s role at CIA. Per Woodward’s Grand Jury testimony.

Isn’t that coincidental timing of folks finding out Valerie Plame’s name and job responsibility just amazing?

I mean, information is passed to A (Libby) on one day, and the very next day that very same information is found in the hands of C (Armitage).

Just how did that information get from A to C? Was there a B involved, do ya’ think?

Did Grossman of the CIA, realizing that he had some doozy tittle-tattle, suddenly decide to call up DC’s top gossip, Armitage, and spill the CIA beans? I’m betting the answer is no.

Did Libby suddenly call up Armitage and excitedly tell him “Hey Chuckles, guess who works at the CIA?? Again, I’m betting the answer is no.

And if neither of these 2 methods of transmission occurred, then I kinda think logic dictates that there is a 3rd Mystery critter.

The 3rd person (B) who did indeed get the information about Valerie Plame’s name and occupation, and that person passed it from Libby (A) Armitage (C).

Perfect! A to B to C. Again, who could B be? *g*

Well we do know that Libby had a meeting with Armitage on June 6th (according to Libby’s schedule and Fitz’s GJ questioning). Which also coincides with the overwritten date on the Cheney “phone call” IMO.

According to the Transcript of the Grand Jury…Libby was told by the PRESIDENT of his interest in the SOTU criticisms in the Kristof article on June 9th, 2003.On or about June 10th Libby requested and the INR prepared a summary report from the Early 2003 CIA memo on “the reliable sources” trip to Niger from Hannah via Eric Edelman [a report BTW that had been sent to the Intelligence Committees of Congress on in April 2003]. These are the documents that bear Libby’s scrawl “Wilson”…and above that in hand-printed decipherment “WILSON”, as well as a second appended 2002 “cable (actually the debriefers report)” with Cheney’s handwriting “Wilson”.

Also recall that Libby asserts that he first learned from Cheney…and then he later says that it was Grossman who, in a joke told him that the ambassadors wife worked in CPD at the CIA. o he “forgot” this meeting too…until he was compelled by Fitz to “recall” it…in great detail!

Lying would not be the term I would use to describe the Scooter’s recall on the uranium intelligence. I think that Scooter really drank the koolaid – there is a world view (VP right, CIA bad, paranoia etc) that Scooter has bought into – and the facts in his head were twisted to fit the reality.

I find it positively creepy that he is continuing to try and spin the WMD story in March 2004 to a federal prosecutor. Only an individual who has to some extent been brainwashed and is now struggling to cope with his own culpability in the US’s largest foreign policy blunder EVER would do so.

Noriega is due to be released from jail in September.

Chimpy’s adversaries are all dead.

-GSD

P.S. I am excluding Bin laden and Zawhiri.

eRiposte, kinda on a wee bit of a sidetrack here, but do you have any thoughts on the amazing coincidence of the timing of in these 2 thingies:

1. June 12 2003 – Grossman tells Libby of Plame’s role at CIA. Per Emptywheel’s timeline.
2. June 13 2003 – Armitage tells Woodward of Plame’s role at CIA. Per Woodward’s Grand Jury testimony.

Isn’t that coincidental timing of folks finding out Valerie Plame’s name and job responsibility just amazing?

I mean, information is passed to A (Libby) on one day, and the very next day that very same information is found in the hands of C (Armitage).

Just how did that information get from A to C? Was there a B involved, do ya’ think?

Did Grossman of the CIA, realizing that he had some doozy tittle-tattle, suddenly decide to call up DC’s top gossip, Armitage, and spill the CIA beans? I’m betting the answer is no.

Did Libby suddenly call up Armitage and excitedly tell him “Hey Chuckles, guess who works at the CIA?? Again, I’m betting the answer is no.

And if neither of these 2 methods of transmission occurred, then I kinda think logic dictates that there is a 3rd Mystery critter.

The 3rd person (B) who did indeed get the information about Valerie Plame’s name and occupation, and that person passed it from Libby (A) Armitage (C).

Perfect! A to B to C. Again, who could B be? *g*

Probably came out in a senior staff meeting that included Bush.

Ya know, it is funny that the Washington Post gives space to two right wing editorials slamming the Libby leak case in the weekend before the case goes to the jury. I guess “The Good Leak” editorial wasn’t enough, and Fred Hiatt and the rest of the neocons on the WP editorial board are trying to skew the jury.

The fact that all but one jury member wore the Valentine shirt is a real cool sign.
Jerks.

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Here is the security amendment

http://www.fas.org/sgp/bush/eoamend.html

Does it prove that BUSH KNEW?

What do you think he knew? Could you be more specific?

I meant for him to change things because of the leak, he had to have known, although Mcclellan said he knew nothing. Sorry it took so long–I’m cooking chicken parm and baked ziti for dinner and I got carried away with the cheese. Anyhow, I now see this has been discussed before. I guess I was earning it all over again, as if it was new. :))