In a recent radio interview, Valerie Wilson says she’s been following Sibel Edmonds’ disclosures in the Sunday Times, and finds them stunning.
The previously covert agent, who had worked in the agency’s counter-proliferation division for years monitoring traffic in the nuclear black market under the guise of a cover company named Brewster Jennings until being outed by Bush Administration officials, was asked about the recent series of explosive stories in the British paper during an interview this morning with Florida radio host Henry Raines of American AM.
Those disclosures include allegations that Brewster Jennings’ real identity as a CIA front company was outed to Turkish officials by then-Asst. Sec. of State for European Affairs Marc Grossman as early as 2001…
No wonder this administration was playing fast and loose with Plame-Wilson’s covert status — her operation was exposed years earlier. It sends a chill up the spine…
While Plame Wilson offered today that she has “no insight” into the story, other than what has been published by the Times, she joined Edmonds and other whistleblowers such as Daniel Ellsberg in her criticism of the U.S. mainstream media for failing to investigate and report on the story.
“I think it’s very interesting that it’s showing up across the pond and not here at all, in any of our newspapers,” Plame Wilson said.
“It’s fair to say that in general the American media has been extremely intimidated, it’s been supine, and I think it’s let the American people down,” she explained, pointing to the run-up to the Iraq War when the U.S. media, “took simply what the Administration was dishing up and didn’t question it, didn’t analyze it, didn’t go seek secondary sources. And look where we are today as a result of that.”
I guess it’s easy for the American media to fail to do it’s job when the goal is profit or access, rather than reporting actual news.
The rest of this article and a transcript of the radio interview with Valerie Plame-Wilson can be found on BradBlog.
9 Comments
February 13, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Just look at what our representatives are handling today.
Steriod use and a friggin’ tape of football plays.
Oh-and look over there – Natalie Holloway.
Britany! Are you wearing underwear?
Pathetic. Sorry for the rant, but this topic really burns me.
February 13, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Bread and circuses, True. Oh and look one of those cars where a seemingly infinite number of clowns keeps on coming out, one after another after another….
February 13, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Except the bread prices are going way up….
February 13, 2008 at 1:32 pm
As it should as a conscientious American, True.
The fact that so few actually are is the outrageous part for me.
February 13, 2008 at 1:34 pm
TB – I hear you. Our Congress is more worried about sports players breaking the law then our government officials trashing the Constitution. It’s pathetic.
I just read where a Progressive woman named Donna Edwards won the primary running against an incumbent ‘bush’ Democrat.
Obama started a movement and I think it’s like a snowball, rolling down a hill getting bigger and gaining speed. This is why I like Obama. He motivates people to do the right thing.
February 13, 2008 at 1:38 pm
I just hope it’s not too late to wake Americans up.
Thanks for the support, all.
Don’t you sometimes feel like you’re screaming “fire” in the middle of a room and No One is listening?
grrr….
February 13, 2008 at 1:59 pm
More like rape in the middle of a shopping mall….They ” The public” is wakeing slowly, one forclosure at a time, one high priced loaf of bread at a time…..Blessings
February 13, 2008 at 2:46 pm
It’s imperial decay, sports fans. Happens to them all. Obama is just going to be the one holding the parcel of poo when the music stops…..
I would have thought that a democratic system could avoid the ‘bread and circuses’ phase of decline, but well my premise was incorrect to begin with – America ceased to be a democracy as Eisenhower’s ‘military-industrial complex’ took over. I’m fascinated by the inescapbale fact of history repeating itself again – rather like Paul Kennedy’s “Rise and Fall..” or like “Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”.
300 million lemmings can’t be wrong? Can they?
February 14, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Witch, I think you’re on to something here.
“The public” is wakeing slowly, one forclosure at a time, one high priced loaf of bread at a time…..”
We, as humans, tend to react when something threatens us personally. Empathy to a stimulus when it doesn’t affect someone is a much rarer trait.