This shit is totally Illegal. Recall: It is illegal to propagandize inside the United States.
Former intelligence agents have told the New York Daily News that members of the White House Iraq Group funnelled information to Judith Miller and that she was a “charter member” of the group.
There were a number of occasions when White House officials or Vice President [Cheney’s] staffers, or others, wanted to push the envelope on things,” an ex-intelligence official said. “The agency would say, ‘We just don’t have the intelligence to substantiate that.'” When Wilson was sent by his wife to Africa to research the claims, he showed the documents claiming Saddam tried to buy the uranium were forgeries. “People in the Iraq group then got very frustrated. It was a side show,” said a source familiar with WHIG.
Besides Rove and Libby, the group included senior White House aides Karen Hughes, Mary Matalin, James Wilkinson, Nicholas Calio, Condoleezza Rice and Stephen Hadley. WHIG also was doing more than just public relations, said a second former intel officer. “They were funneling information to [New York Times reporter] Judy Miller. Judy was a charter member,” the source said.
