The Biggest Spy Story of All Time?

To: The Question Authority

It might not be as easy to say as "eighteen-and-a-half-minute gap," but 203A-WF-210023 might be the new missing link to the worst government crimes of our time.

What is it? Why should I care?

From: Already Cynical Enough



Dear ACE,

The Question Authority wishes he could get his noggin fully 'round this one, but it's almost too bizarre to be true. At the same time, it follows logically from some of the most insane actions of US officials over the last several years.

Sibel Edmonds worked as a Turkish translator for the FBI. She overheard Turkish agents, working on behalf of Pakistan, being helped by US officials, in the proliferation of nuclear weapons. And it was all declared a diplomatic secret.

Just in case this might sound legitimate for even two seconds, let's recall that North Korea got its nukes from Pakistan.

Edmonds went to Congress, to the FBI, to reporters, to anyone who'd listen and investigate. But she was under a gag order, so there were details she couldn't tell. No one who could help did so.

Finally, she just got fed up and put herself in legal jeopardy by telling all.

The Times of London has been the only major outlet to go with the story. But they haven't named names. Larisa Alexandrovna, the scoop maven for RawStory.com, has provided names but not details.

It's like an acrostic puzzle to try to understand what's going on, but the biggest name named is Marc Grossman, a Clinton-holdover Bush Administration official in the State Department till 2005.

The document number you mention, now declared never to have existed by the FBI and perhaps key to the coverup, is covered in this Times story.

And just when you think it can't get any more over the top, there's this paragraph in the Times, highlighted at Alexandrovna's blog, At-Largely:

[A knowledgable anonymous tipster] claims the government official [Marc Grossman] warned a Turkish member of the network that they should not deal with a company called Brewster Jennings because it was a CIA front company investigating the nuclear black market. The official’s warning came two years before Brewster Jennings was publicly outed when one of its staff, Valerie Plame [Wilson], was revealed to be a CIA agent in a case that became a cause célèbre in the US.

Alexandrovna is the reporter who broke the news that Valerie Plame Wilson was working to prevent nuclear proliferation to Iran.

The mind reels.

Did VPW's name get outed not just to intimidate her husband, Amb. Joe Wilson, but as part of a grander plan to thwart peaceful means of making the world safer?

Until we know, please beg your favorite news outlets to cover the story.

TQA