Focus on State Memo
Wednesday July 20, 2005
Reportedly, Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald is looking closely at a State Department memo which accompanied Secretary of State Colin Powell and President Bush on Air Force One,
the day after Joseph Wilson's op-ed ran in the New York Times.
The classified memo was prepared in June 2003, and it focused "principally" on the disagreement between State and the White House on uranium, Iraq and Africa. The memo was reportedly prepared by Carl W. Ford Jr. (not John Bolton, as some net rumors have suggested) for Marc Grossman, then Undersecretary of State. Grossman sent the memo to Powell on Air Force One, including a "summary prepared by an analyst who was at a 2002 CIA meeting where Wilson's trip was arranged." The memo reportedly did not disclose Valerie Wilson's maident name nor that she was a clandestine agent.
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The classified memo was prepared in June 2003, and it focused "principally" on the disagreement between State and the White House on uranium, Iraq and Africa. The memo was reportedly prepared by Carl W. Ford Jr. (not John Bolton, as some net rumors have suggested) for Marc Grossman, then Undersecretary of State. Grossman sent the memo to Powell on Air Force One, including a "summary prepared by an analyst who was at a 2002 CIA meeting where Wilson's trip was arranged." The memo reportedly did not disclose Valerie Wilson's maident name nor that she was a clandestine agent.
See PLAME. Tags: Plame, Politics