Maybe Judy Miller's source is David Wurmser.........

[Joanne98]

Blogenlust thinks that Miller is protecting a State Dept source, David Wurmser, who was a special assistant to John Bolton, and maybe there's no Rove connection to Miller. Wurmser was a strong advocate of the Iraqi INC, who certainly fed Miller with lots of good stories, none of which turned out to be true. Eleana Benador of the American Enterprise Institute represented Miller, Wurmser's wife, Richard Perle and others. The mystery deepens.

http://armchairgeneralist.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/07/flotsam_and_jet.html

Remember that Israeli spy scandal? Didn't Matcom start a research theard on that last year?

[madrchsod]

1. could be

ol`e davy boy is right up there on the food chain.....dickie`s right hand man.

[Joanne98]

2. He was Bolton's assistant too! That would explain the State Dept Memo.

Because I thought The CIA and the State Dept were at war with the WH or that was what everybody was saying at the time. Now it looks like the WH and the State were ganging up on the CIA! I got this post from the Armchair Generalist blog. It said it was a progressive military site. Have you heard of him?

[eleny]

3. Bolton!

See my recent post of today about Bolton, Cheney and Ledeen. Just googling and connecting dots. Thanks so much for *your* posting!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1933502&mesg_id=1933502

[sandnsea]

10. Works with Scooter Libby

Bolton was in arms control; Plame in counterproliferation.

[H2O Man]

4. In Wilson's book

he lists Wurmser as being identified by several of his sources as being one of those, who upon instruction from his superior, contacted at least one of the "journalists."

[Joanne98]

5. Here's "The Lie Factory" article that was in Mother Jones

And more on Wurmser and Maloof......

The Lie Factory

Mother Jones
January 26, 2004
BY ROBERT DREYFUSS & JASON VEST
Mother Jones, January/February 2004

Only weeks after 9/11, the Bush administration set up a secret Pentagon unit to create the case for invading Iraq. Here is the inside story for how they pushed disinformation and bogus intelligence and led the nation to war.
IT'S A CRISP FALL DAY IN WESTERN VIRGINIA, a hundred miles from Washington, D.C., and a breeze is rustling the red and gold leaves of the Shenandoah hills. On the weather-beaten wood porch of a ramshackle 90-year-old farmhouse, at the end of a winding dirt-and-gravel road, Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski is perched on a plastic chair, wearing shorts, a purple sweatshirt, and muddy sneakers. Two scrawny dogs and a lone cat are on the prowl, and tne air is filled with swarms

So far, she says, no investigators have come knocking. Not from the Central Intelligence Agency, which conducted an internal inquiry into intelligence on Iraq, not from the congressional intelligence committees, not from the president's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. All of those bodies are ostensibly looking into the Bush administration's prewar Iraq intelligence, amid charges that the White House and the Pentagon exaggerated, distorted, or just plain lied about Iraq's links to Al Qaeda terrorists and its possession of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. In her hands, Kwiatkowski holds several pieces of the puzzle. Yet she, along with a score of other career officers recently retired or shuffled off to other jobs, has not been approached by anyone.

Kwiatkowski, 43, a now-retired Air Force officer who served in the Pentagon's Near East and South Asia (NESA) unit in the year before the invasion of Iraq, observed how the Pentagon's Iraq war-planning unit manufactured scare stories about Iraq's weapons and ties to terrorists. "It wasn't intelligence-it was propaganda," she says. "They'd take a little bit of intelligence, cherry-pick it, make it sound much more exciting, usually by taking it out of context, often by juxtaposition of two pieces of information that don't belong together." It was by turning such bogus intelligence into talking points for U.S. officials-including ominous lines in speeches by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, along with Secretary of State Colin Powell's testimony at the U.N. Security Council last February-that the administration pushed American public opinion into supporting an unnecessary war.

Until now, the story of how the Bush administration produced its wildly exaggerated estimates of the threat posed by Iraq has never been revealed in full. But, for the first time, a detailed investigation by Mother Jones, based on dozens of interviews-some on the record, some with officials who insisted on anonymity-exposes the workings of a secret Pentagon intelligence unit and of the Defense Department's war-planning task force, the Office of Special Plans. It's the story of a close-knit team of ideologues who spent a decade or more hammering out plans for an attack on Iraq and who used the events of September 11, 2001, to set it into motion.
http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/mideast/iraq/14...

And David Wurmser...Wasn't his wife a spy?

David Wurmser
From SourceWatch
David Wurmser replaced Eric Edelman as Principal Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs in the Office of Vice President Dick Cheney in early September 2003, after Edelman was named Ambassador to Turkey. <1> (http://www.world-crisis.com/analysis_more/86_0_15_0_M /) <2> (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/24997.htm )

Wurmser, a neo-conservative, previously served as a "special assistant" to John R. Bolton at the State Department<3> (http://www.hargravepublishing.com/IraqWar.htm ) and was a former research fellow on the Middle East at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) <4> (http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/wurmser_d/wurmser-d.... ).

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_Wurmse...

[H2O Man]

6. The Wurmsers

will soon be seen to have played a role in the "neocon spy scandal." Again, this is one of three leaves (along with Plame and document forgeries)on the clover that St. Patrick Fitzgerald is going to use to teach this administration a lesson on espionage.

[sundancekid]

7. ta-da! ding. ding. ding. you got it. Miller is the lynch(ing) pin that

would inextricably tie the pentagon neocons to sleeza lice, to fukka dick and to Idiot-in-Chimp -- showing he (and they) LIED KNOWINGLY to Congress and to the American People -- can you say express route to impeachment????? the miller-nit-wit figures she'd be SAFER in prison than out in the world where any of these legions of thugs might inadvertently break her neck ...

[Joanne98]

8. Meyrav Wurmser is WAY more interesting than her husband.....

Institutional Affiliations

Hudson Institute: Director, Center for Middle East Policy and Senior Fellow (2001-current) (1)
Middle East Media Research Institute: Co-Founder and Former Executive Director (1998-2001) (1, 2, 5)
Jerusalem Post: Columnist (1)
Ariel Center for Policy Research: Contributing Expert (3)
Johns Hopkins University: Instructor (1)
U.S. Naval Academy: Instructor (1)
Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies: Study participant
Highlights & Quotes

Meyrav Wurmser, an opponent of the Oslo peace accords and a central neoconservative figure, is a senior fellow at the right-wing Hudson Institute and a columnist for the Conrad Black-owned Jerusalem Post.

In 1996 she helped write a report for Israel's Likud party that urged Israel to break off then-ongoing peace initiatives. The report, which was titled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" and was published by the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (an Israeli- and DC-based think tank) advised then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "to work closely with Turkey and Jordan to contain, destabilize, and roll-back" regional threats, help overthrow Saddam Hussein, and strike "Syrian military targets in Lebanon" and possibly in Syria proper. Coauthors of the report included Richard Perle, David Wurmser, and Douglas Feith. (6)

She also cofounded with Yigal Carmon, a former colonel in the Israeli military intelligence, the Middle East Media and Research Institute (MEMRI). According to Jim Lobe, MEMRI specializes in translating and distributing "particularly virulent anti-U.S. and anti-Israel articles appearing in the Arab press to key U.S. media and policymakers." (8)


http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/wurmser_m/wurmser-m.php

[H2O Man]

9. "A Clean Break..." .....

has been interpreted by some as part of a radical policy of "A Greater Israel" that is mentioned in "Imperial Hubris," by Michael Scheuer.

[Joanne98]

11. I saw that.......

[Joanne98]

12. Eleana Benador is everybody's PR consultant

Benador Associates is a public relations firm based in New York and Washington, specialized in the areas of media applied to politics, conflict resolution, the dialogue of civilisations, foreign policy, national security, anti-terrorism, defense of human rights and freedom of religion, among others.

We are also the only public relations firm in the United States that doubles as international speakers' bureau for the experts we represent. We have close contacts with the media, printed, audio and audiovisual, on a national and international level. Our activities expand worldwide.


http://www.benadorassociates.com/

She has Miller, Mrs. Wurmser and that retard Laurie and that's just the girls. Sometimes I think the AEI is just one big spy ring.


Ms. Benador manages the media
PR firm greases skids for clients supporting Bush's Middle East policy


Today we're going to talk some inside baseball. Not to worry, this column is not about America's "national pastime"; "inside baseball" is just an expression. This column actually is about the work of Eleana Benador. She is one of those influential public relations folks who work behind the scenes, managing and massaging the media.
Eleana Benador runs a high-powered media relations and international Speakers bureau called Benador Associates. With offices in New York City, Paris, London, Madrid, and Geneva, she is a woman on a mission. The last time, and I must confess the first time, I heard about her activities was when Brian Whittaker, writing for Britain's The Guardian ("US think tanks give lessons in foreign policy"), described Benador's work promoting a gaggle of spokespeople that support Israel's objectives in the Middle East.

Whitaker's article painstakingly described the coterie of Middle East "experts" -- nurtured by several right-wing, and mostly Washington, DC-based think tanks -- who have come to dominate the public discourse over Middle East policy. (For more, see "Richard Perle's posse".)

This domination has been aided and abetted by the work of Ms. Benador.

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=13915

[H2O Man]

13. Very important.

This thread should be "required reading" for DUers who want a greater understanding of this part of the scandal that is now unfolding in Washington.