July 28, 2005 -- FBI ratcheting up AIPACgate. As Rovegate continues to boil over, so do two other FBI investigations: AIPACgate and Niger DocuGate. Rovegate Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation has, as reported here on July 13, dovetailed with the FBI's probe of Pentagon accused Israeli spy Larry Franklin and his ties to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the crude forgeries of Niger government documents said to implicate Saddam Hussein in trying to buy uranium from the west African country. Haaretz is reporting today that the FBI wants to interview Naor Gilon, the political affairs director at the Israeli embassy in Washington, as well as several other Israeli officials, including intelligence officers, who are currently in Israel. Israel reportedly rejected the FBI's request for personal interviews of the Israelis, preferring written questions to be posed.
FBI investigators are often adept at determining whether a subject is lying when they conduct personal interviews and obviously Israeli intelligence is aware of this tactic. The FBI is also reportedly investigating whether a private intelligence network in Italy, with ties to the Ariel Sharon government, the Bush National Security Council, and the Italian government of Silvio Berlusconi, was involved in preparing and shopping around the Niger government forgeries. Rovegate is also now focused on the activities of then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in the leak of a covert CIA counter-proliferation operation.
SIDEBAR -- The untold story of Rovegate may be whether the White House not only leaked the name of Joseph Wilson's wife for purely political retaliation but also to close down her and her Brewster Jennings' team's work on counter-WMD proliferation. Some insiders believe that the CIA covert group was getting uncomfortably close to clandestine business deals that would have exposed members of the Bush family and their closest political and business friends. The following quote from George H. W. Bush is germane in this case: "If the people knew what we had done, they would chase us down the street and lynch us." The revelations at Intelligence Whispers regarding Saudi money movements through Texas are also germane to this story.
July 28, 2005 -- FBI Director says one of its counter-terrorism wiretap audio tapes is in a language US intelligence cannot identify. According to today's Washington Post, in response to a Justice Department Inspector General audit criticizing the FBI for failing to analyze more than 8,000 wiretaps of intercepted communications, FBI Director Robert Mueller complained that some tapes could not be translated because the languages were too obscure. Mueller said that of those wiretap recordings, many were in "obscure languages and dialects and one language could not be identified and translated by anyone in the US intelligence community." Mueller's defense is disingenuous at best. The National Security Agency (NSA) has linguists fluent in well over 100 languages. When Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi once used Berber speakers to fool US intelligence, he miscalulated, since NSA had, at the time, two Berber linguists. Unless the speaker of the "unknown" language was from another planet, it is doubtful that the US intelligence community could not have recognized it and sought out a translator among its ranks.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/These are from yesterday but I didn't see them up anywhere. They are dynamite as usual!
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