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#22103874 at 2024-12-04 05:28:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27059: OnlyFrogs Edition

Hunter Biden can no longer plead the 5th before Congress - Buried lede from Tom Cotton

Hunter Biden's pardon is the latest in a long list of controversial White House immunity decisions.

Still, President Joe Biden's unconditional, full absolution of his son is different in one unprecedented way: No commander-in-chief has ever granted clemency to his child, according to experts.

While former President Bill Clinton pardoned his half-brother, Roger Clinton Jr., of a drug conviction on his last day in office in 2001 and President-elect Donald Trump did the same for his daughter Ivanka's father-in-law, Charles Kushner, of tax evasion and witness tampering convictions in the final days of his first term, Biden has broken new ground in presidential pardon history, experts told ABC News.

"This is a first," said Jeffrey Crouch, an assistant professor of American politics at American University and author of the book "The Presidential Pardon Power." "In terms of the legal side of things, the president has the power to grant clemency to just about anybody he wants."

What is a presidential pardon?
Under a section called the "Commander-in-chief clause," Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution says the president "shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment."

"The idea is that it's a check on decisions of the federal judiciary and the president is entrusted with this responsibility," Crouch told ABC News. "And the reason the President has the responsibility is because the framers of the constitution decided that the president should have this ability. It should be virtually unchecked and it should be part of the system of separated powers and checks and balances, and that the president should be able to unilaterally decide whether to shorten someone's punishment or to offer them a full pardon, or some variation of the options that are available."

Crouch said the only limit placed on a president's pardon power is that it must pertain to crimes committed against the United States, meaning only federal offenses.

"If someone commits a state offense, the state will have its own process that the person will need to go through, whether it's a parole board or a governor or whatever the case might be," Crouch said.

Hunter Biden pleaded guilty over the summer to federal charges of failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes from 2016 to 2020. In a separate case, he was convicted of making false statements on a federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives form when he purchased a handgun in 2018 and said he was not using drugs at that time.

Hunter Biden was scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 12 in the federal gun case in Delaware and on Dec. 16 in the tax evasion case in California.

Due to the pardons his father issued on Sunday, both convictions are expected to be thrown out.

President Biden issued the pardons despite repeatedly making public statements that he would not interfere with justice. In a statement, he called the prosecution of his son "a miscarriage of justice" by his own Department of Justice.

"From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department's decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted," Biden wrote.

He added, "Here's the truth: I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice – and once I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further. I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision."

A presidential pardon can't be overturned
The president's decision to pardon his son immediately provoked a backlash from Republicans and Democrats, who viewed it as an abuse of executive branch power and pointed out that arguments the president made of his son being the target of political prosecution are the same ones rejected by the courts handling his cases. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump called the pardon "an abuse and miscarriage of Justice."

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, condemned the pardon in an interview Monday on Fox News and issued a warning to President Biden.

"Joe Biden may come to regret this decision because, having given his son a blanket pardon of 11 years to include the time when Joe Biden was vice president, Hunter Biden now can't plead the fifth if he appears before Congress or appears before a grand jury," Cotton said.

He added, "He has to testify about exactly what he was up to, for instance, when he was traveling to China on Air Force Two and meeting with Chinese communist princelings, or why being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to sit on a Ukrainian energy company's board for which he had no qualifications. So, that may be one unintended consequence of the pardon that Joe Biden didn't fully think through."

The full pardon is not just for Hunter Biden's recent convictions but covers any crime he may have committed over a nearly 11-year span from Jan. 1, 2014, to Dec. 1, 2024.

"It's critical," Kim Wehle, a law professor and ABC News contributor, said of the time frame covered in the pardon.

She noted that Trump has picked Kash Patel as FBI director and Pam Bondi as Attorney General.

"These folks have publicly stated that they're on board with using the Justice Department as a mechanism of vengeance and retribution. So the breadth of that pardon suggests that President Biden understands that without that, Hunter Biden could be targeted for a vindictive prosecution," said Wehle, the author of "Pardon Power: How the Pardon System Works - And Why."

"He faced jail time with these two convictions and Donald Trump will be in charge of the federal Bureau of Prisons, so he would be in charge of Hunter Biden's day-to-day life," Wehle said. "I can understand why a president would not want his son to be put through that moving forward."

Crouch described the pardon as "extraordinarily broad" and said there are similarities to the pardon President Gerald Ford granted President Richard Nixon in 1974.

"It was not necessarily tied to specific offenses. It was tied to a time range and it covered Nixon's entire presidency," Crouch said. "So any federal offenses that Nixon committed or may have committed during his presidency were covered and the language of the Hunter Biden pardon seems a bit similar to that in terms of its breadth."

Asked if a presidential pardon can be overturned, Crouch said, "It's not possible." He said even the U.S. Supreme Court would not have a say in Hunter Biden's pardon.

Crouch said the closest a pardon has come to being overturned occurred in 2008 when then-President George W. Bush pardoned New York developer Isaac Robert Toussie for fraudulently obtaining federally insured mortgages. After facing criticism that Toussie's father was a big Republican donor, Bush took back the pardon, claiming it hadn't been completed.

"You can stop something that hasn't been completed, but you can't take back a pardon that's been completed," Crouch said. "And the Hunter Biden language in the pardon suggests any and all federal offenses is pretty broad and there's no taking that back."

Office of the Pardon Attorney
Crouch said most modern presidents have relied on the Office of the Pardon Attorney in the Department of Justice to investigate requests for pardons, but are not obligated to do so.

"It's designed to handle the bureaucratic side of that process, to take some of the burden off the president individually, and, frankly, to give the president someone to blame when things go awry. That's how most modern presidents approach clemency," Crouch said.

Biden didn't go through the Office of the Pardon Attorney before deciding to pardon his son. The president made the decision after discussing it with his family during their time together in Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News on Monday.

During Trump's first term, according to Crouch, he used the Office of the Pardon Attorney roughly 25 times for his 238 clemency grants.

"He had an internal process where, according to reporters, he would hear something on television, or someone would talk with him, or he'd read something, and those are the cases that would be considered for clemency," Crouch said of Trump.

Crouch said the Office of the Pardon Attorney rarely recommends granting pardons.

Can a president pardon himself?
During Trump's first term as president, he posted on social media, "As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the absolute right to PARDON myself, but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong?"

Crouch said that while legal scholars have debated whether a president can pardon himself, the question remains unsettled.

"The answer is nobody knows until somebody tries it. It's not really clear what would happen," Crouch said.

Asked if Biden could pardon Trump before leaving office, Couch said, "Biden can pardon anyone he would like."

"The question is what would be the benefit to doing that? It would be highly controversial," Crouch said. "And so when you look at highly controversial cases, you've got to think about why would the president do this?"

Other questionable presidential pardons
Crouch said there have been other controversial presidential pardons made in recent history.

Besides pardoning his brother, former President Clinton caused a firestorm in 1999 when he commuted the sentences of 16 members of the FALN, a Puerto Rican paramilitary organization that set offer bombs in the United States, mostly in New York and Chicago. Clinton agreed to grant the FALN members clemency in exchange for them renouncing violence.

In the last days of his presidency in 2001, Clinton pardoned financier and fugitive Marc Rich, whose ex-wife participated in Clinton's presidential campaigns and was a major donor to his presidential library. One of the critics to publicly condemn the Rich pardon was none other than then-Sen. Joe Biden.

"I think either the president had an incredible lapse in memory or was brain-dead when he did that one. I mean, I just think it's totally indefensible," Biden said in a Feb. 11, 2001, Fox News Sunday interview.

In 2007, then-President George W. Bush commuted the 31-month federal sentence for Scooter Libby, former chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, who was convicted of obstruction of justice, perjury and making false statements stemming from a White House leak that criminally exposed the covert identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson. Trump later granted Libby a full pardon.

In 1992, Bush's father, President George H.W. Bush, pardoned Caspar Weinberger, the former Secretary of Defense, and five others, absolving them from any further punishment for their illegal dealings in the Reagan-era Iran-Contra scandal. Critics argued that Bush Sr. granted the pardons at a time when he was a lame-duck president with no political consequences.

In 2017, Trump pardoned former Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was charged with criminal contempt of court for disobeying a federal judge's order to stop racially profiling in detaining individuals suspected of being in the country illegally. Trump also pardoned in 2020, former Gen. Michael Flynn, his first national security advisor, who was convicted of lying to FBI agents as part of special counsel Robert Muller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

"There's no limit on the number of pardons that a president can give," Crouch said. "The president can pardon as many people or as few people as you would like. He can do it at any time he would like."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hunter-biden-pardon-sparks-backlash-020927165.html

#18578654 at 2023-03-25 18:07:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22788: Comfy Rally Incoming Edition

9/21/17

American Jews Are Starting Wars, Jewish Former CIA Spy Valerie Plame Wilson Retweets

Updated | Valerie Plame Wilson landed herself in hot social media water when she tweeted out a link to a story titled "America's Jews Are Driving America's Wars" on Thursday without any commentary to explain why she was sharing it.

The article, published in The Unz Review, was published Tuesday by Philip Giraldi, a former CIA case officer and Army intelligence officer. Subtitled "Shouldn't they recuse themselves when dealing with the Middle East?," Giraldi argued that American Jews are pushing for war in the Middle East and pointed to Iran in particular, which he said "does not conceivably threaten the United States."

American Jews, according to Giraldi, are faking the threat and dragging politicians and the media down with them. American Jews with an attachment to Israel, he added, should not be allowed anywhere near positions where they might deal with Middle East policy because it would be a "conflict of interest."

So why doesn't anyone say anything? Giraldi has an answer for that too. And it involves a classic anti-Semitic trope about Jews running the media. "Any organization that aspires to be heard on foreign policy knows that to touch the live wire of Israel and American Jews guarantees a quick trip to obscurity," he wrote. "Jewish groups and deep pocket individual donors not only control the politicians, they own and run the media and entertainment industries, meaning that no one will hear about or from the offending party ever again."

The reaction to Wilson's tweet sharing the story was fast and furious. One user said, "Um, what is this? You're one of my heroes. Please tell me it's a mistake." Another pointed out the added insult of timing, since Thursday is the Jewish new year, one of the most important holidays for Jews: "Why the hell would you retweet this drivel? On #RoshHashana none the less. Do you really believe this?"

A third said, "Please tell me you were hacked or meant to quote tweet this anti-Semitic garbage with criticism." Another questioned, "You're seriously retweeting this? Btw, can be perceived like you wrote it until one clicks link. You actually support this?"

But Wilson was not deterred. She responded with a series of tweets:

1) First of all, calm down. Re-tweets don't imply endorsement. Yes, very provocative, but thoughtful. Many neocon hawks ARE Jewish.

2) Just FYI, I am of Jewish decent. I am not in favor of war with Iran, or getting out of the Iran nuclear treaty. There are simply

3) too many who are so ready to go to war. Haven't we had enough for a while?

4) Read the entire article and try, just for a moment, to

put aside your biases and think clearly.

https://www.newsweek.com/americans-jews-are-starting-wars-jewish-former-cia-spy-Valerie-Plame-Wilson-669118

#9103403 at 2020-05-10 02:12:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11652: Obama's Fucked Edition

Since Q used Valerie Plame today as an example of the overlap of [clowns] permeating the [shadow gov].
-(For newer anons to all this Q stuff)
- Here's some places to look.

(Valerie Plame Wilson) - [C_A] - clandestine service
( Joseph C Wilson) husband (deceased) - Foreign Service Diplomat
→ Both involved in the 1st Gulf War era = Iraq-Niger yellowcake uranium GWB WMD controversy.
* She and her husband had an estate in suburb of Santa Fe, NM.
* She is running her campaign for congress out of Santa Fe, NM.
* She is listed as a: Talent Scout for (The Santa Fe Institute).
* (Santa Fe Institute & Santa Fe, NM - Network) - Connects her to:
- Jeffrey Epstein
- Bill Richardson
- King family (former gov Bruce King) - connected to Epstein & Richardson
Which leads to connection:
- Beto O'Rourke's wife - Amy Sanders
- Amy Sanders' father - William Sanders
* William Sanders + Bill Richardson + Jeffrey Epstein - Real Estate & Ranches
Zorro Ranch & Sanders Cattle Co. - Adjacent to each other south of Santa Fe.
- Beto & Amy - Wedding at Sanders Cattle Co Ranch.
—
You can follow these various social connections in all directions.
It is quite the spider web.
That's why it's taking so long to dismantle the [Old Guard].
(This info is from previous diggz. Can be found at Qresear.ch)

#9098428 at 2020-05-09 20:47:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11646: Pepe Holding The Line Edition

Example of Plame's association w/ the [Shadow Gov Left].

Valerie Plame Wilson - Cosigner of: Open Letter that Concludes Russia & USA are Still Headed for Nuclear War.

(The Nation - Jul 11, 2018)

Common Ground: For Secure Elections and True National Security

An open letter by Gloria Steinem, Noam Chomsky, John Dean, Governor Bill Richardson, Walter Mosley, Michael Moore, Valerie Plame, and others.

End of this letter reads like it's still (1961).

(open letter conclusion)

The United States should implement a pronounced shift in approach toward Russia. No political advantage, real or imagined, could possibly compensate for the consequences if even a fraction of US and Russian arsenals were to be utilized in a thermonuclear exchange. The tacit pretense that the worsening of US-Russian relations does not worsen the odds of survival for the next generations is profoundly false. Concrete steps can and must be taken to ease tensions between the nuclear superpowers.

Andrew Bacevich, Professor Emeritus, Boston University

Rev. Dr. William Barber II, President and Senior Lecturer, Repairers of the Breach, and Visiting Professor of Public Theology, Union Theological Seminary

Phyllis Bennis, Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies

Noam Chomsky, Professor, Author, and Activist

Stephen F. Cohen, Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies and Politics, NYU and Princeton University, and Board Member, American Committee for East-West Accord

John Dean, Former Nixon White House Counsel

Phil Donahue, Journalist and Talk-Show Pioneer

Thomas Drake, Former NSA Senior Executive and Whistle-blower

Daniel Ellsberg, Activist, "Pentagon Papers" Whistle-blower, and Author of The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., Founder and President, Rainbow PUSH Coalition

Jack F. Matlock Jr., Former US Ambassador to the USSR and Board Member, American Committee for East-West Accord

Michael Moore, Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker and Best-Selling Author

Walter Mosley, Writer and Screenwriter

John Nichols, National Affairs Correspondent, The Nation

Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist

Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, CUNY Graduate School

Valerie Plame, Former Covert CIA Operations Officer and Author

Adolph Reed Jr., Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

Bill Richardson, Former Governor of New Mexico

Patricia Schroeder, Former Congresswoman

Norman Solomon, National Coordinator, RootsAction.org

Gloria Steinem, Writer and Feminist Organizer

Adlai Stevenson III, Former US Senator and Chairman, Adlai Stevenson Center on Democracy

Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor and Publisher, The Nation

Alice Walker, Writer, Poet, and Activist

Jody Williams, Professor and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

James Zogby, President, Arab American Institute

Signers have endorsed this Open Letter as individuals and not on behalf of any organization.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/common-ground-for-secure-elections-and-true-national-security/

#9097596 at 2020-05-09 19:51:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11645: The Great Awakening Habbenin Now WW Edition

Example of Plame's association w/ the [Shadow Gov Left].
Valerie Plame Wilson - Cosigner of: Open Letter that Concludes Russia & USA are Still Headed for Nuclear War.

(The Nation - Jul 11, 2018)
Common Ground: For Secure Elections and True National Security
An open letter by Gloria Steinem, Noam Chomsky, John Dean, Governor Bill Richardson, Walter Mosley, Michael Moore, Valerie Plame, and others.

End of this letter reads like it's still (1961).
(open letter conclusion)
The United States should implement a pronounced shift in approach toward Russia. No political advantage, real or imagined, could possibly compensate for the consequences if even a fraction of US and Russian arsenals were to be utilized in a thermonuclear exchange. The tacit pretense that the worsening of US-Russian relations does not worsen the odds of survival for the next generations is profoundly false. Concrete steps can and must be taken to ease tensions between the nuclear superpowers.

Andrew Bacevich, Professor Emeritus, Boston University

Rev. Dr. William Barber II, President and Senior Lecturer, Repairers of the Breach, and Visiting Professor of Public Theology, Union Theological Seminary

Phyllis Bennis, Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies

Noam Chomsky, Professor, Author, and Activist

Stephen F. Cohen, Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies and Politics, NYU and Princeton University, and Board Member, American Committee for East-West Accord

John Dean, Former Nixon White House Counsel

Phil Donahue, Journalist and Talk-Show Pioneer

Thomas Drake, Former NSA Senior Executive and Whistle-blower

Daniel Ellsberg, Activist, "Pentagon Papers" Whistle-blower, and Author of The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., Founder and President, Rainbow PUSH Coalition

Jack F. Matlock Jr., Former US Ambassador to the USSR and Board Member, American Committee for East-West Accord

Michael Moore, Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker and Best-Selling Author

Walter Mosley, Writer and Screenwriter

John Nichols, National Affairs Correspondent, The Nation

Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist

Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, CUNY Graduate School

Valerie Plame, Former Covert CIA Operations Officer and Author

Adolph Reed Jr., Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

Bill Richardson, Former Governor of New Mexico

Patricia Schroeder, Former Congresswoman

Norman Solomon, National Coordinator, RootsAction.org

Gloria Steinem, Writer and Feminist Organizer

Adlai Stevenson III, Former US Senator and Chairman, Adlai Stevenson Center on Democracy

Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor and Publisher, The Nation

Alice Walker, Writer, Poet, and Activist

Jody Williams, Professor and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

James Zogby, President, Arab American Institute

Signers have endorsed this Open Letter as individuals and not on behalf of any organization.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/common-ground-for-secure-elections-and-true-national-security/

#9090711 at 2020-05-09 07:22:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11636: MSM Assets Complicit? Edition

>>9090272
>>9090529
Q&A Cafe: Valerie Plame Wilson talks about the Farm

#8186597 at 2020-02-19 21:35:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10480: Assange & Blago Special Edition

Blago Case + Patrick Fitzgerald & James Corney + Valerie Plame [C_A] Hmm

- (Patrick Fitzgerald) - Special Prosecutor = Valerie Plame [C_A] "Leak" Case
→ (Who outed Valerie Plame [C_A] agent case)
- Reportedly a special prosecutor like Mueller (similar tactics - allegedly had specific targets & motives)
- Was appointed by [Corney] who was Acting AG at the time.

U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Patrick Fitzgerald was appointed Special Counsel on December 30, 2003.

Letter from James B. Comey, Acting Attorney General, to Patrick J. Fitzgerald, United States Attorney:

By the authority vested in the Attorney General by law, including 28 U.S.C. 509, 510, and 515, and in my capacity as Acting Attorney General pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 508, I hereby delegate to you all the authority of the Attorney General with respect to the Department's investigation into the alleged unauthorized disclosure of a CIA employee's identity, and I direct you to exercise that authority as Special Counsel independent of the supervision or control of any officer of the Department.
—
Significance of this degree of separation to ChicagoLand [Hussein][Corney][Clintons][DS] Corruption:
(freebeacon - Sep 21, 2017)
(Valerie Plame Wilson Fundraised for Clinton Campaign)

(Valerie Plame-Wilson) covert [C_A] at the time.
(Joe Wilson) - Plame's husband - Former Ambassador under [GHWB][WJC].
→ They were involved in the: "Does Saddam have WMD's/Yellowcake Uranium Affair" (2002) in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq.
- Wilson had met Saddam. Traveled to Niger (2002) to investigate Saddam yellowcake uranium situation.
- Both deeply connected to [Clintons]
- Valerie Plame now running for congress in New Mexico
- Patrick Fitzgerald currently representing [Corney].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_C._Wilson#Diplomatic_career
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair_grand_jury_investigation
https://freebeacon.com/politics/Valerie-Plame-Wilson-fundraised-clinton-campaign/

#7217541 at 2019-07-27 19:16:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9234: We know the Q! A: Corn Fest and 42! WWG1WGA! Edition

This seems a little coincidental. Just pulling on this thread to see what unravels and, voila.
David Corn
"Corn was personally involved in the early coverage of the controversy over leaks to the media of the name of CIA officer Valerie Plame. After Robert Novak revealed Plame's identity in his July 14, 2003, column, Corn was the first to report, three days later, that Plame had been working covertly;[14][15] and he raised the possibility that the leak of her identity violated the Intelligence Identities Protection Act.[16]

Novak, for his part, disputed that Plame had been a covert operative at the time her identity was revealed. He also objected to the negative portrayal of himself in Hubris, for which he blamed Corn more than Isikoff. He said of Corn, "Nobody was more responsible for bloating this episode." Novak felt that Corn was too close with former ambassador Joseph Wilson, Plame's husband and a key figure in criticism of the administration's arguments for invasion.[17]

However, in early 2007, an unclassified summary of Valerie Plame's employment history at the CIA was disclosed for the first time in a court filing and confirms that Plame was indeed a covert operative at the time her name was made public by Novak.[18]"
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Corn

Valerie Plame
"Valerie Elise Plame Wilson (née Plame, August 13, 1963), known as Valerie Plame, Valerie E. Wilson, and Valerie Plame Wilson, is a writer, spy novelist, and former officer who worked at the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). As the subject of the 2003 Plame affair, also known as the CIA leak scandal, Plame's identity as a CIA officer was leaked to and subsequently published by Robert Novak of the Washington Post.

In the aftermath of the scandal, Richard Armitage in the U.S. Department of State was identified as one source of the information, and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was convicted of lying to investigators. After a failed appeal, President George W. Bush commuted Libby's sentence and in 2018, President Donald Trump pardoned him. No one was formally charged with leaking the information."
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Plame

Richard Armitage (naval officer)
Richard Lee Armitage (born April 26, 1945) is an American former naval officer who served three combat tours of duty in the Vietnam War as an advisor in contexts of riverine warfare. This experience and his acquired fluency in Vietnamese made him useful to the United States Foreign Service after the war. A Republican, he was appointed the 13th United States Deputy Secretary of State at the State Department, serving from 2001 to 2005 under President George W. Bush.

Although Armitage was widely credited for a successful tenure as Deputy Secretary of State for Secretary Colin Powell, his tenure at State became overshadowed by allegations that he leaked classified information after Armitage acknowledged that he released information that Valerie Plame Wilson worked for the CIA, triggering the Plame affair.[1] His defense that it was inadvertent during an interrogational press interview was accepted.[2] After leaving the government service, Armitage went into the private sector. He serves on the board of directors for Caliburn International, a military contractor that oversees operations for Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children.[3][4]
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Armitage_(naval_officer)

#5975738 at 2019-03-30 09:15:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7642: End of the Week Wrapup Edition

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing on whether White House officials followed appropriate procedures for safeguarding the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson and how they responded to the leak of her identity once it occurred.

from john brennan wiki

Brennan became deputy executive director of the CIA in March 2001.He was director of the newly created Terrorist Threat Integration Center from 2003 to 2004, an office that sifted through and compiled information for President Bush's daily top secret intelligence briefings and employed the services of analysts from a dozen U.S. agencies and entities
…………

george tenet wiki

He officially left on July 11, exactly seven years after being appointed by Clinton. Former DCI Stansfield Turner said, "I think the president feels he's in enough trouble that he's got to begin to cast some of the blame for the morass that we are in in Iraq on to somebody else and this was one subtle way to do it." However, Bush voiced support for Tenet's efforts, stating, "I'm sorry he's leaving. He's done a superb job on behalf of the American people."

James Pavitt, his Deputy Director for Operations at the CIA, announced his resignation the following day. That led to speculation that the exit of both senior intelligence officials was related to the controversy over the September 11 attacks, alleged Iraqi WMDs, and the decision to go to war with Iraq
……..
smells like brennan used plume to take down cia leadership under bush

#4574438 at 2019-01-03 04:45:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5835: I'll See You On The Dark Side Of The Moon Edition

Baker NOTABLE

July 2010 "The story about President Barack Obama's bi-sexual past will not go away. Now, in an exclusive interview with The Globe, Norma Jean Young, the 76-year old mother of the late Trinity United Church of Christ choir director Donald Young, has spoken out and declared that persons trying to protect Obama murdered her son at the height of the 2007 Democratic presidential primary to protect Obama from embarrassing revelations about his homosexual relationship with her son. Donald Young's bullet-ridden body was found in his Chicago apartment on December 23, 2007, in what appeared to be an assassination-style slaying…….see full story at WMR ….Larry Sinclair, the gay man who claimed to have had two sexual encounters with Obama in Chicago in 1999, wrote a book, "Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder," in which he states that Obama was linked to Young's murder. Sinclair wrote that he was in contact with Young shortly before his murder and Young revealed his relationship with Obama. At the time of his revelations about Obama at a National Press Club news conference, WMR doubted the veracity of Sinclair's story due to the absence of corroborating evidence coupled with a bizarre news conference. However, since that time, WMR has received corroboration from a number of sources in a number of locations, including Chicago, Alabama, Georgia, and Washington, DC. WMR has received information that various competing camps, including the Hillary Clinton and John McCain campaigns, attempted to co-opt Sinclair and his revelations for their own political purposes. Sinclair, it should be noted, has not deviated from his original story or charges against Obama. … Sinclair's book is now the subject of a defamation lawsuit [Daniel Parisi, et al v. Lawrence W. Sinclair a/k/a "Larry Sinclair," et al] brought by Dan Parisi, the proprietor of the website, Whitehouse.com, who is mentioned in Sinclair's book with regard to his involvement in polygraphs administered to Sinclair after he made his allegations against Obama public during the 2008 presidential campaign. The lawsuit is being handled by the politically powerful Patton & Boggs law firm, the same firm that represented George W. Bush's top political adviser Karl Rove in the Valerie Plame Wilson/CIA leak, and has been filed against Sinclair, his publishing company, and distributors, including Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Sinclair is currently a resident of Florida. … On June 19, 2008, WMR reported: "WhiteHouse.com held a news conference following Sinclair's at which a video of Sinclair's polygraph was to be shown. After experiencing technical difficulties with the video presentation, Parisi abruptly canceled the news conference and took no questions." The aborted news conference was as bizarre as Sinclair's. Sinclair was arrested by Washington, DC police following his news conference based on a warrant from Delaware issued by Vice President candidate Joseph Biden's son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden. The Delaware charges against Sinclair were later dropped. … The lawsuit against Sinclair has been assigned to Judge Richard Leon, the Republican deputy chief minority counsel on the House Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran, aka, the Iran-contra scandal. From 1988 to 1989, he served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General and from 1992 to 1993 was the Republican chief minority counsel on the House Foreign Affairs Committee's October Surprise Task Force investigating the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign's secret dealings with Iran to ensure the defeat of President Jimmy Carter. Leon Leon was nominated for the federal bench by President George W. Bush on September 10, 2001. Leon's involvement in so many high-level cover-ups of White House misconduct makes him an illogical choice to hear a case involving serious allegations against President Obama. … Sinclair has told WMR that he believes the Obama White House is trying to have his book withdrawn from circulation to avoid any further embarrassments about Obama's homosexual past and the possible involvement of his top lieutenants in Young's murder. The Globe reported in May 2008 that a top Chicago private detective said he believed Young was "rubbed out" because of his relationship with Obama. Sinclair has echoed the private eye's beliefs about Young and Obama. The Globe reports that before his death, Young was planning to flee to Africa to teach. The information was provided to The Globe by Young's mother, who also now fears for her life and plans to leave her Peoria, Illinois home for a secret location. Mrs. Young said the Chicago police have warned her that her life is in danger. …search terms, Young, Africa, secret location

Sauce: https://www.newsfollowup.com/obama_phony_left_cia_ford_foundation_trilateral_soros.htm#oss

#2943978 at 2018-09-09 08:40:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3724: God Given Freedom Edition

What if Q is a Jew? ;-)

https://www.businessinsider.com/Valerie-Plame-Wilson-jews-tweet-wars-2017-9

#1026480 at 2018-04-13 18:43:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1279

>>1026145
Valerie Plame HONEYPOT

>Investigate those in front of the camera who scream the loudest.

>>1008955
>Study Carefully
>HONEYPOTS

Why is she so against Trump on twitter? She said he would start a war with NK. She actually wanted to BAN TRUMP. Why is she so opposed to the pardon of Scooter Libby?

https:// www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/24/buy-twitter-ban-trump-Valerie-Plame-Wilson-cia-agent


Valerie says Honeypots don't exist in CIA, so we know the opposite is true

https:// www.wpr.org/ex-cia-operative-explains-what-pop-culture-gets-wrong-about-female-spies

#1026240 at 2018-04-13 18:17:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1279

>>1026229

United States v. Libby was the federal trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a former high-ranking official in the George W. Bush administration, for interfering with special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's criminal investigation of the Plame affair.

Libby served as Assistant to the President under George W. Bush and Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States and Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs under Dick Cheney from 2001 to 2005. Libby resigned from his government positions hours after his indictment on October 28, 2005.

Libby was indicted by a federal grand jury on five felony counts of making false statements to federal investigators, perjury for lying to a federal grand jury, and obstruction of justice for impeding the course of a federal grand jury investigation concerned with the possibly illegal leaking by government officials of the classified identity of a covert agent of the CIA, Valerie Plame Wilson, the wife of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV. Pursuant to the grand jury leak investigation, Libby was convicted on March 6, 2007, on four counts of perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements. He was acquitted of one count of making false statements.

Libby was sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined $250,000. The sentence was commuted in June 2007 by President Bush, voiding the prison term. The convictions still stand on the record.

On April 3, 2007, the District of Columbia Bar suspended his license to practice law in Washington, D.C., and recommended his disbarment pending his appeal of his conviction.[1] On March 20, 2008, after he dropped his appeal, he was disbarred by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, in Washington, D.C., at least until 2012.[2] He delayed reinstatement until June 2016, when he successfully petitioned the court for reinstatement. He was readmitted to the D.C. bar on November 3, 2016.[3]

In the District of Columbia Court of Appeals Disciplinary Counsel's Report reinstating Libby's law license, the Counsel noted that Libby had continued to assert his innocence. As a result, the Counsel had to "undertake a more complex evaluation of a Petition for reinstatement" than when a petitioner admits guilt. But the Counsel found that "Libby has presented credible evidence in support of his version of events and it appears that one key prosecution witnesses (sic), Judith Miller, has changed her recollection of the events in question."[4] The reference to Judith Miller, a former New York Times reporter, involved her memoir, The Story, A Reporter's Journey. In the book, Miller said she read Plame's memoir and discovered that Plame's cover was at the State Department, a fact Miller said the prosecution had withheld from her. In rereading what she called her "elliptical" notes (meaning hard to decipher), she realized they were about Plame's cover, not her job at the CIA. She concluded that her testimony that Libby had told her Plame worked at the CIA was wrong. "Had I helped convict an innocent man?" she asked.[5] Miller went on to note that John Rizzo, a former CIA general counsel, had said in his memoir that there was no evidence that the outing of Plame had caused any damage to CIA operations or agents, including Plame.[6] That statement rebuts the prosecution's closing argument that as a result of the disclosure of Plame's identity, a CIA operative could be "arrested, tortured, or killed." [7] [8]

#1023809 at 2018-04-13 14:32:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1276: Primed For Friday

Valerie Plame, (reposted with breaks in text)

CIA Scooter Libby, Aluminum tubes, Iran

( and how does one man, her current husband, Joe Wilson, father 2 sets of twins with different wives?)



With Scooter Libby pardon in news today, Valerie Plane is all over TV giving interviews.


So who is she?


Valerie Elise Plame was born on August 13, 1963, on Elmendorf Air Force Base, in Anchorage, Alaska, to Diane (née McClintock) and Samuel Plame III.[1][2][3]

Plame's paternal grandfather was Jewish, the son of a rabbi who emigrated from Ukraine; the original family surname was "Plamevotski".[4]

The rest of Plame's family was Protestant (the religion in which Plame was raised); she was unaware of her grandfather having been Jewish until she was an adult.[4]


She graduated in 1981 from Lower Moreland High School, in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania,[5][6] and attended Pennsylvania State University, graduating with a B.A. in advertising in 1985.[7]

While a student at Penn State, she joined Pi Beta Phi sorority[8] and worked for the business division of the Daily Collegian student newspaper.[





After graduating with a B.A. in advertising from Penn State in 1985, Plame was married to Todd Sesler, her college boyfriend.
[7]

In 1997, while she was working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Plame met former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, IV, "at a reception in Washington "..." at the residence of the Turkish Ambassador."[9]

According to Wilson, because Plame was unable to reveal her CIA role to him on their first date, she told him that she was an energy trader in Brussels, and he thought at that time that she was "an up-and-coming international executive."[6]

After they began dating and became "close," Plame revealed her employment with the CIA to Wilson.[6][10] They were married on April 3, 1998, Plame's second marriage and Wilson's third.[11]

Professionally and socially, she has used variants of her name. Professionally, while a covert CIA officer, she used her given first name and her maiden surname, "Valerie Plame."

Since leaving the CIA, as a speaker, she has used the name "Valerie Plame Wilson",[1] and she is referred to by that name in the civil suit that the Wilsons brought against former and current government officials, Wilson v. Libby.[12]

Socially, and in public records of her political contributions, since her marriage in 1998, she has used the name "Valerie E. Wilson."

At the time that they met, Wilson relates in his memoir, he was separated from his second wife Jacqueline; they divorced after 12 years of marriage so that he could marry Plame.

His divorce had been "delayed because I was never in one place long enough to complete the process," though he and she had already been living separate lives since the mid-1990s.[9]

Plame and Wilson are the parents of twins, Trevor Rolph, and Samantha Finnell Diana, born in January 2000.

From his first marriage (1973-86), to Susan Dale Otchis, Wilson is also the father of another set of twins (also a boy and a girl), Sabrina Cecile and Joseph Charles, who were born in 1979.

Prior to the disclosure of her classified CIA identity, Valerie and Joe Wilson and their twins lived in The Palisades, a neighborhood of Washington, D.C., on the fringe of Georgetown.[7]

After she resigned from the CIA following the disclosure of her covert status, in January 2006, they moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico[13][14] where she serves as a consultant to the Santa Fe Institute.

In a 2011 interview, Plame said she and Wilson had received threats while living in the D.C. metro area, and while she acknowledged an element of threat remains in their new home, the New Mexico location "tamps down the whole swirl."[15]

A former senior diplomat in Athens remembered Plame in her dual role and also recalled that she served as one of the "control officers" coordinating the visit of President George H. W. Bush to Greece and Turkey in July 1991.[27]

After the Persian Gulf War in 1991, the CIA sent her first to the London School of Economics and then the College of Europe, in Bruges, for Master's degrees.

After earning the second degree, she stayed on in Brussels, where she began her next assignment under cover as an "energy consultant" for Brewster-Jennings.[7]

Beginning in 1997, Plame's primary assignment was shifted to the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.[28]

She married Wilson in 1998 and gave birth to their twins in 2000,[29] and resumed travel overseas in 2001, 2002, and 2003 as part of her cover job.

She met with workers in the nuclear industry, cultivated sources, and managed spies.[30][citation needed]

One project in which she was involved was ensuring that Iran did not acquire nuclear weapons.[31]

During this time, part of her work concerned the determination of the use of aluminum tubes purchased by Iraq.[

https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Plame

#1023752 at 2018-04-13 14:27:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1276: Primed For Friday

Valerie Plame, CIA Scooter Libby, Aluminum tubes, Iran ( and how does one man, her current husband, Joe Wilson, father 2 sets of twins with different wives?)
With Scooter Libby pardon in news today, Valerie Plane is all over TV giving interviews.
So who is she?
Valerie Elise Plame was born on August 13, 1963, on Elmendorf Air Force Base, in Anchorage, Alaska, to Diane (née McClintock) and Samuel Plame III.[1][2][3] Plame's paternal grandfather was Jewish, the son of a rabbi who emigrated from Ukraine; the original family surname was "Plamevotski".[4] The rest of Plame's family was Protestant (the religion in which Plame was raised); she was unaware of her grandfather having been Jewish until she was an adult.[4]
She graduated in 1981 from Lower Moreland High School, in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania,[5][6] and attended Pennsylvania State University, graduating with a B.A. in advertising in 1985.[7] While a student at Penn State, she joined Pi Beta Phi sorority[8] and worked for the business division of the Daily Collegian student newspaper.[


After graduating with a B.A. in advertising from Penn State in 1985, Plame was married to Todd Sesler, her college boyfriend.[7] In 1997, while she was working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Plame met former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, IV, "at a reception in Washington "…" at the residence of the Turkish Ambassador."[9] According to Wilson, because Plame was unable to reveal her CIA role to him on their first date, she told him that she was an energy trader in Brussels, and he thought at that time that she was "an up-and-coming international executive."[6] After they began dating and became "close," Plame revealed her employment with the CIA to Wilson.[6][10] They were married on April 3, 1998, Plame's second marriage and Wilson's third.[11]
Professionally and socially, she has used variants of her name. Professionally, while a covert CIA officer, she used her given first name and her maiden surname, "Valerie Plame." Since leaving the CIA, as a speaker, she has used the name "Valerie Plame Wilson",[1] and she is referred to by that name in the civil suit that the Wilsons brought against former and current government officials, Wilson v. Libby.[12] Socially, and in public records of her political contributions, since her marriage in 1998, she has used the name "Valerie E. Wilson."
At the time that they met, Wilson relates in his memoir, he was separated from his second wife Jacqueline; they divorced after 12 years of marriage so that he could marry Plame. His divorce had been "delayed because I was never in one place long enough to complete the process," though he and she had already been living separate lives since the mid-1990s.[9] Plame and Wilson are the parents of twins, Trevor Rolph, and Samantha Finnell Diana, born in January 2000. From his first marriage (1973-86), to Susan Dale Otchis, Wilson is also the father of another set of twins (also a boy and a girl), Sabrina Cecile and Joseph Charles, who were born in 1979.
Prior to the disclosure of her classified CIA identity, Valerie and Joe Wilson and their twins lived in The Palisades, a neighborhood of Washington, D.C., on the fringe of Georgetown.[7] After she resigned from the CIA following the disclosure of her covert status, in January 2006, they moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico[13][14] where she serves as a consultant to the Santa Fe Institute. In a 2011 interview, Plame said she and Wilson had received threats while living in the D.C. metro area, and while she acknowledged an element of threat remains in their new home, the New Mexico location "tamps down the whole swirl."[15]
A former senior diplomat in Athens remembered Plame in her dual role and also recalled that she served as one of the "control officers" coordinating the visit of President George H. W. Bush to Greece and Turkey in July 1991.[27] After the Persian Gulf War in 1991, the CIA sent her first to the London School of Economics and then the College of Europe, in Bruges, for Master's degrees. After earning the second degree, she stayed on in Brussels, where she began her next assignment under cover as an "energy consultant" for Brewster-Jennings.[7] Beginning in 1997, Plame's primary assignment was shifted to the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.[28]
She married Wilson in 1998 and gave birth to their twins in 2000,[29] and resumed travel overseas in 2001, 2002, and 2003 as part of her cover job. She met with workers in the nuclear industry, cultivated sources, and managed spies.[30][citation needed] One project in which she was involved was ensuring that Iran did not acquire nuclear weapons.[31]
During this time, part of her work concerned the determination of the use of aluminum tubes purchased by Iraq.[
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Plame