American Judas, 2nd Edition, Part One (Robert Paulson)

INVESTIGATE CHENEY & UNRAVEL THE CABAL

By Robert Paulsen

Compiled From the Research by Posters on “The Plame Indictment Threads” From 2004 And Other Investigative Threads From 2004 to 2007 At Democratic Underground

Overview of Contents

Part One: Recap and Update

A. 1st edition recap
B. Plame related news update

Part Two: Office of Special Plans

A. CTEG - The "Wurmser-Maloof" project
B. WMD planting story

Part Three: Ghorbanifar & Ledeen: Iran/Contra Redux

A. Ghorbanifar sells phony Iran/Iraq WMD story
B. Ghorbanifar/Ledeen meeting: Dec. 2001 in Rome
C. Ledeen's history with Italian intelligence

Part Four: AIPAC Spy Scandal

A. Franklin guilty of espionage
B. Other suspected neo-con spies for Israel
C. Contents of the documents

Part Five: Niger Forgeries

A. Michael Ledeen
B. Duane Clarridge

Part Six: Sibel Edmonds

A. The Dickersons
B. 9/11 foreknowledge
C. Gag order & cover-up
D. The American-Turkish Council

Essentially, there is only one investigation – a very big one, an all-inclusive one. Completely by chance, I, a lowly translator, stumbled over one piece of it. But I can tell you there are a lot of people involved, a lot of ranking officials, and a lot of illegal activities that include multi-billion-dollar drug-smuggling operations, black-market nuclear sales to terrorists and unsavory regimes, you name it. And of course a lot of people from abroad are involved. It's massive. So to do this investigation, to really do it, they will have to look into everything… That's the beauty of it. You can start from the AIPAC angle. You can start from the Plame case. You can start from my case. They all end up going to the same place, and they revolve around the same nucleus of people. There may be a lot of them, but it is one group. And they are very dangerous for all of us.

-Sibel Edmonds


Part One: Recap & Update


This paper is intended as an update to the 1st edition of American Judas , and a deeper exploration of Dick Cheney’s links to the various aspects of the criminal cabal Sibel Edmonds refers to above.

To summarize, the focus of the 1st edition of American Judas was the role that Cheney played in blowing the cover of CIA agent Valerie Plame and her cover company, Brewster, Jennings & Associates. At the time of her outing in Robert Novak’s column on July 14, 2003 ,  she was active in a sting operation that involved tracking the proliferation of WMD components. One of the operations compromised by the leak involved the nuclear smuggling network of Pakistan’s chief nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan. Khan’s network, vast enough to be dubbed by IAEA chief Mohamed El Baradei a “nuclear Walmart” , was exposed via a CIA investigation into a company in Malaysia called Scomi connected with Bukhari Sayed Abu Tahir . George W. Bush described B.S.A. Tahir as the "chief financial officer and money-launderer" of A.Q.Khan's clandestine operations. http://www.saag.org/papers11/paper1026.html

Could Cheney have had a financial relationship with the Nuclear Walmart, which would have provided a motive for exposing Plame’s operation? Only a full investigation would be able to prove conclusively whether the one unnamed American company implicated in A.Q. Khan’s network of supplying rogue nations seeking nuclear arms had any connection with the former CEO of Halliburton . But the 1st edition of American Judas went a long way in establishing how Cheney had more than enough motive. In fact, he covered up the fact that he knew about Khan’s proliferation network since 1989 . This was done so as not to sacrifice the sale of the F-16 fighter planes to Islamabad , which was secretly equipped to deliver nuclear weapons. State sponsors of terror that were proven recipients of Cheney’s nuclear proliferation include Pakistan, Libya and possibly Iran.

Finally, the 1st edition explored through circumstantial evidence the possibility of how Halliburton might have profited from Khan’s network. A link was discovered between Halliburton’s subsidiary company Baroid and Scomi , the company B.S.A. Tahir (Khan’s chief financier) used to produce components for the centrifuge unit for the uranium enrichment program. The link was a company called Cognis . These links are not in and of themselves direct proof of the laundering of nuclear proliferation profits. But they are proof of a relationship between these companies sharing common goals, through which individuals involved in nuclear proliferation, and there were many in these companies, could operate their network covertly.

In the two and a half years since the research from “The Plame Indictment Threads” inspired me to write American Judas, much has happened regarding the investigation of the outing of Valerie Plame that has validated our findings. Though some were wary of the source reporting that one aspect of Plame’s work involved tracking the nuclear smuggling network of A.Q. Khan, this fact was corroborated by the research of Larisa Alexandrovna in 2006 that while Plame’s team was focused on Iran, they “would have come in contact with A.Q. Khan’s network” . Her research was confirmed in a report on MSNBC . The OUTING THE CIA papers by Mark G. Levey thoroughly document how and when Plame was tracking the Khan network . Through the ongoing trial of Lewis “Scooter” Libby , we have seen evidence presented that Cheney was deeply involved in the leak of Plame, even going so far as to write out what his former Chief of Staff Libby should say to Time reporter Matt Cooper . Libby learned about Plame from Cheney and even told an FBI agent that he may have talked of outing Plame with Cheney. http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2... / In addition to this criminal trial, there is the upcoming civil suit by Joseph and Valerie Wilson against Dick Cheney, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Karl Rove, Dick Armitage and John Does 1-9. http://www.wilsonsupport.org / Much has been publicized in the mainstream media about Armitage being the first to leak the identity of Valerie Plame to a reporter, Bob Woodward. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14533384/site/newsweek / Whether Armitage engaged in malicious or oblivious gossip is almost of secondary importance; our research proves Cheney was the ringleader who helped to instigate such a poisonous environment against the Ambassador, who publicly contradicted the WMD intelligence that helped mislead the nation into war, and his wife, who secretly tracked WMD proliferation, that by the time the dust settled, the leak of a CIA operative and her Counter-Proliferation Division (CPD) cover company could be reduced to such a trivial and tawdry affair that someone as high up the ladder as a Deputy Chief of Staff to the President, Karl Rove, could feel comfortable saying to MSNBC reporter Chris Matthews that Wilson’s wife is “fair game”. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8445696/site/newsweek / This poisonous environment was created initially through the machinations of the White House Iraq Group (WHIG) and the Office of Special Plans (OSP).