Archive for March, 2008

Blog in Exile: Reviews for 6/18

Monday, March 17th, 2008

The Kansas City Star reviews Brian Aldiss’s HARM and David Anthony Durham’s Acacia.

Fantasy Book Critic reviews Rebecca Stott’s Ghostwalk.

Fantasy Book Spot reviews Elizabeth Bear’s collection New Amsterdam. [via Neth Space, the reviewer in question]

OF Blog of the Fallen reviews Alan Campbell’s Scar Night.

SciFi Weekly reviews Tim Scott’s Outrageous Fortune.

Scott Edelman’s current column at SciFi Weekly is all about Barry N. Malzberg’s Breakfast in the Ruins (which I was reading myself about a month ago).

SF Site had a mid-June update, and the new things include:
a review of John J. Miller’s Death Draws Fivea review of M. John Harrison’s Nova Swinga review of Tony Richards’s Going Backa review of Timothy Zahn’s Star Wars: Allegiance a review of William Browning Spencer’s The Ocean and All Its DevicesJeff VanderMeer’s “Dispatches from Smaragdine” columnand Neil Walsh’s “Overlooked or Over-Hyped” column, in which he takes on Dhalgren.Strange Horizons takes on Patrick Rothfuss’s The Name of the Wind.

New at Tangent Online this week:
a review of Interzone #210a review of Vera Nazarian’s collection The Salt of the Airand a review of Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy, edited by W.H. Horner.New at Green Man Review:
this review of 1997’s The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror, Tenth Annual Collection, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windlinga review of Tobias S. Buckell’s new novel Ragamuffina review of Neal Asher’s Gridlinkeda review of Poppy Z. Brite’s Antediluvian Talesa review of Ellen Klages’s YA novel The Green Glass Seaa review of Salamanda Drake’s Dragonsdalea review of Worldcon Guest of Honor Speeches, edited by Mike Resnick and Joe Siclaria review of Carol Emshwiller’s The Secret Citya review of E.E. Knight’s Valentine’s Exilea review of Austin Grossman’s Soon I Will Be Invinciblea review of an entire Amanda Hemingway trilogya review of Ian MacDonald’s Brasyland plenty of other stuff as well.New reviews on Don D’Amassa’s Science Fiction page this week include Karl Scroeder’s Queen of Candescence, an audiobook version of Dune, and more.

And, on D’Amassa’s Fantasy page, you’ll find other new reviews.

D’Amassa’s Horror page features new reviews, as well.

At Blogcritics, they have:
a review of Madsen Pirie’s Dark Visitor and Children of the Nighta review of Holly Lisle’s Midnight Raina review of Laini Taylor’s Faeries of Dreamdark: Blackbringer.Book Fetish reviews Guy Gavriel Kay’s Ysabel.

This week’s Publishers Weekly fiction reviews include collections by Sheila Finch and Bruce Sterling; novels by Brandon Sanderson, Ben Bova, and Diana L. Paxson; and Scott Lynch’s pirate extravaganza Red Seas Under Red Skies.

PW’s childrens’ book reviews for this week include YA fantasy novels by Emma Layborn and Jeffrey Kluger, among other things.

And the PW web-exclusive reviews this week include Julie Kenner’s Demons Are Forever, the Fantasy anthology from Wallace and Tremblay, and Jack Ketchum’s Joyride.

The Davis Enterprise reviews Robert J. Sawyer’s Rollback. [via Sawyer]

Kate Nepveu reviews Brandon Sanderson’s debut novel Elantris.

Visions of Paradise reviews A. Bertram Chandler’s classic (well, that might be stretching it — but it’s old and it’s still an enjoyable read) novel Far Traveler.

Travelogue #22: Great Britain: End of year #1

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

<fontfamily><param>Times New Roman</param>Travelogue #22: Great
Britain: End of year #1We have been in Great Britain for one month.Our stops: England: London, Lemington Spa, York, Bath, Oxford Scotland: Edinburgh, Glasgow Wales: CardiffGreat Britain is excellent at preserving its own history. We were
fortunate enough to be able to go back in time, many times!Experiences I would like to share with you:BATH: Bath is a picturesque Georgian resort town (approx.1750s). Jane Austen
placed her novels in Bath. After seeing her museum and the famous
costume museum (exquisite 18th and 19th century gowns and SHOES!) we
saw Jane Austen’s characters walking on every street!Well, to be fair, we also saw some 20th century tourists, but our
imaginations were filled with the romance and intrigue of early 19th
century upper class living. We even saw historic art films every
evening. It was a perfect time travel, and so rich for the imagination!OXFORD:Here are facts concerning Oxford University:There are 28 undergraduate colleges with 10,000 students and 14
graduate schools with 4000 students. (I was amazed to know there are so few students per school!).There are three mosques and one synagogue in Oxford (this is also a
window to the British population).The university was founded in the 12th century. Out of the original 7
original faculties, one was: MUSIC!The Bodleian Library (the largest, most prestigious research library)
was founded in the 16th century. Up until the 1780s, the large books
were CHAINED to the book stacks!The facts speak for themselves!YORK:This is another well-preserved town. The Castle, in the center, has an
excellent museum, which shows the history of hygiene: personal, and
for the home.Bits:Toilet paper rolls were not used in England until the 1950s. At that
time they were sold under the counter, only in pharmacies.Washing the Elizabethan Ruff (the large stand up accordion shaped
collars).[WARNING: this is for history buffs]1. Remove the collar from the garment (unstitch it).2. Wash the collar and starch it (in potato starch= the water from
boiled potatoes)3. ‘Iron’ (no electricity) the collar in the following contraption: There is a series of thin wooden rollers. Each is placed horizontally.
The rollers are stacked one on top of each other so there is a skinny
wall of rollers (about 10-20 rollers stacked). The roller wall is held
in place by 2 towering thin bookends. There is a groove along the
inside length of each bookend, through which the rollers slide. The
wet collar is fed between roller 1 and 2, to the right; then, the
collar is fed between rollers 2 and 3 to the left, etc. Thus the
material is zigzagged up the wall of rollers, and pulled tight so that
it attains a continual series of “s”s in its shape.4.When the material is dry, the rollers are removed. The pleated
fabric holds the zigzagged position.5.The collar is re-stitched back onto the garment.When you consider that baths were not ‘in’ and white powdered faces
were ‘in’, you can imagine the work of the maids!GLASGOW:This is the home of a famous early 20th century, (‘Arts and Crafts’
movement) artist, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (painter, graphic artist,
furniture maker, architect). His work is spread all over the city and
we traced it everywhere! His most amazing innovation is a White Room
(one in his house and one in an award winning reception hall). Everything in this interior is white (off white): the walls, rug,
furniture, curtains, and cushions. The furniture is hand carved with
art nouveau curves and the only colors in the room are in delicate
painted or stenciled flowers on the walls. The illusion creates a
blank canvas for living and for art. It becomes a space filled with
optimism and filled with a wonderful attitude of
“anything-is-possible-here”! Being in these rooms is a balm for the
soul.EDINBURGH:We were fortunate enough to see a special exhibition of the
photographs of Steve Mc Curry. He is the photojournalist who took the
famous picture of the young Afghan girl with green eyes, which was on
the front cover of National Geographic. Approximately, 10 years later
(recently) he found her again and took a twin picture, which also made
the news.These pictures were side-by-side, bigger than life.One sees this young beauty on the left. On the later picture (to the
right) is a disillusioned woman, in the exact same position. Her eyes
have turned a dull grey and her features and wrinkled face have
developed downward curves. It was a riveting dichotomy! A lifetime of
challenges is written into her (relatively young) face. Apparently,
when the 2nd picture was published, an outpouring of donations came
from all over the world, for the education of young Afghan women.There were 3 floors of his pictures. All were on the subject of people
and their lives in Asia. Each portrait told a story of hardship and
endurance through a unique photograph. This was one of the most moving
exhibitions that we have ever seen!LONDON:The best part of London was seeing our friends (people we see once
every few years who live very interesting lives). That aside, London
is museum heaven. Other than the Victoria and Albert Museum (a
favorite) we saw 2 special exhibitions: Dali (500 works!) and Frida
Kahlo (the one who was the subject of a recent movie). Each exhibition
gave us the opportunity to view the soul of a visionary. It was an
honor to gain this glimpse of the work of a ‘great mind’; thus we felt
we ‘knew’ the artist.The culture shock:We took a boat on Loch Lomand in Scotland. We found out that on an
Island near the Southern end, there is a nudist colony
(brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr).That evening BBC had a program on a nudist group of people who tend a
public garden. The middle age, very-very-well-fed-people were
interviewed in their usual non-costume on TV. Coming from the
puritanical U.S., this was quite a shock, (and is not to be viewed for
aesthetic pleasure).British humor:We were on an underground (subway) on the outskirts of London. A
beggar was playing an accordion in our car.A voice came over the loud speaker from the driver’s cabin, “There is
a beggar aboard. This is illegal. If you feel compulsive about parting
with your money, the driver of this train will be happy to accept all
donations”.Finances:One year of vagabondism:Our goal was to travel on a budget, which was 10% above what it took
to be a homeowner and live in suburbia. We have kept careful track of
our expenses, during this year to see what is REALLY reality. In fact,
we have traveled at 15% above what it takes to be a homeowner and live
in suburbia. One reason: the loss of value of the dollar.Basically this means our original dream was possible, In fact, it would be possible for anyone who cared to try.In a later email I will delineate our favorite money saving tricks.Great BritainEveryone is right. It is amazingly EXPENSIVE!It is the pound-dollar ratio, which is the real killer.Hotels versus Bed and Breakfasts:In England there is a large discrepancy between hotel prices and Bed
and Breakfast prices.Thus for a budget traveler, B & Bs are the obvious choice.Pricing example:“One night: 35 pounds”. (At first glance, that does not look bad).But that is 35 pounds PER PERSON.Therefore, the price of a room for a couple is 70 pounds.Double that for the dollar equivalent.The price of that room is really $140 a night.And that…is cheap for sleeping in Great Britain!B &Bs seem to pride their tradition on enormous (heart attack)
breakfasts, no phones in the rooms and no email facilities. There are
also no elevators which makes suitcase lugging a problem for
the-less-than-hearty.Fortunately, we know so many people we divided our “homes” between
friends, B & Bs and hotels (Ibis, our favorite French chain). Needless
to say, friends are the best!We are in Paris for 2 months living like ‘normal’ people.We have a great studio, in an Art Deco building) close to the Etoile
with a bed that descends from the ceiling (made in Germany). Come and visit!Carol(P.S. Temporarily I have no Internet connection in Paris. so it may
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Travelogue #15

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Travelogue #15: Summing up 8 months

OK, We have been living like moving targets for almost 8 months, and we

have visited 17 countries in Europe.

It is time for a practical overview (and we leave for Israel and

Asia…so it is now or never!)

Looking back….

FINANCES:

We started this saga with the goal of living on a budget 10% above what

it takes to live in suburbia as a homeowner in California.

We have been keeping very careful records:

1) We need to keep track in order to prepare for our own future,

however short or long it may be.

2) We are making an experiment to see if this is a possible choice for

other people who have passed the “work-a-day” world in their lives.

If I include all of our expenses, including train and plane costs, so

far we are about 7% above our original budget. Considering the loss of

the value of the dollar… that is a decent record.

So, our original thesis was not far off: the cost of a “homeowner”

lifestyle is amazingly close to a “travel” lifestyle…any (ex)

homeowner, crazy enough, could do this…

Working and traveling:

“Not working” is one option, and working “long distance” is another.

Happily, I still have a buzzing business “Dancetime Publications” whose

daily activities are managed by an excellent team of 3 people. I am

involved by email, but not in daily activities.

Jean and I are both “researching” for the next stage of our lives, as

to what we will do to ensure our future independence.

This is not a vacation. It is a chosen system of living, which is the

precursor to our next stage, whatever and wherever it may be….

HOTELS 2004

Now we are experts on “middle class” hotels in Europe.

Here are rough statistics:

100% of the beds and bathrooms are adequate. There was never any

problem.

95% of the rooms have telephones and TVs.

90% of the telephones have email access.

90% of the TVs have one English channel (News: CNN or BBC).

5% of these hotels have cable or WiFi access.

(Fast Internet access is more plentiful as one moves up the financial

ladder).

5% of the hotels have a computer in the lobby.

All hotels offer breakfast. Some have the price included, and some have

it as an option. Continental Breakfasts are no longer in style. Hotels

serve buffets with many choices for International tastes. If one has

chutzpah, there is always enough for a picnic later in the day….

INTERNET COSTS:

Telephone:

I use ATTGLOBAL.NET.

There is a base fee of $6.00/month. They have local connection numbers

all over the world, and there are help lines in English in every

country. It is an important service.

When one connects by phone, one pays the hotel connection and the

ATTGLOBAL connection.

My daily costs can be from $2.00 to $7.00…more or less….

High Speed Internet:

The costs range from 0.00 Euro (as part of the room) to 25 Euros per

day!

Internet Cafes.

They say they are everywhere. I see them sometimes.

Their costs range from 3 Euros for 15 minutes to 3 Euros for an hour.

For people who are addicted, that can add up, since one is paying for

‘thinking’ time at an Internet café.

LIVING IN COMFORT:

Our only hotel experience, which pressed all my “I can’t take it”,

buttons:

A Bed and Breakfast in Florence Italy (a Sunday Evening-when I call my

family):

Not near the rail station

Not near the center of town

Not near any restaurant

No telephone

No English TV (just Italian ‘snow’)

No Internet access

No elevator for carrying our suitcases up 2 flights of stairs (and no

one to help).

Actually, the room and bathroom were O.K. the problem was with all the

other amenities…

Our happiest surprise:

Azzi Hotel Hotel des Artists: Florence Italy

Jean walked in to ask questions, and was introduced to a ground floor

room especially constructed for handicapped guests. As the building was

centuries old, the ground floor rooms were 16 feet high. The bedroom

was extraordinarily spacious; the entry was big enough for a sumptuous

pirouette in a wheelchair. The bathroom felt ENORMOUS and the light

went on and off automatically, like magic! It felt as though we were in

someone’s forgotten castle. And it was center of city, by everything,

and exactly across the street from a great Internet café. I think that

is traveler’s heaven!

After seeing this magical room we found out its practical details: it

was a 2 star hotel, one of the cheapest we stayed in!

OUR FAVORITES:

Museums:

The Hermitage: St. Petersburg, Russia

The Kunst Museum: Hamburg, Germany (a special exhibition on artist’s

use of natural fibers)

The Kunst Museum: Budapest, Hungary (a ceramic Exhibition: Vilmas

Zsolmay firm founded in 1853)

The Aquarium: Genoa Italy

Nature:

The Sea: The Amalfi Coast in Italy

The Mountains: Tyrol in Austria

The Exotic: Fjords, the Arctic Circle in Norway

Cities:

Paris, France

Barcelona, Spain

Lisbon, Portugal

Stockholm, Sweden

St. Petersburg, Russia

Vienna, Austria

Innsbruck, Austria

Zurich, Switzerland

Florence, Italy

Capri, Italy

Positano, Italy

Right! The list is amazingly long! Every city offers something that is

breathtaking!

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS:

Do we miss “home”? No… just friends and family.

Are we tired of being homeless? Not yet!

Are we tired of discovering new places in the world? Obviously, not at

all!

Are we tired of living out of a suitcase?

I just bought myself a smaller one. It is a great discipline!

I visit my friends who have been in the same place for so many years

and marvel at how we are all are able to collect and collect and

collect. This is a very sobering experience!

Are we tired of being glued to one another?

Sometimes…but it is another fascinating and positive discipline!

As we are seeing our children and grandchildren at the end of this

year, we wish everyone a wonderful family time!

CODA: HEATHROW AIRPORT

Waiting for a middle-of-the-night plane connection for Israel, we

camped on the uncomfortable benches with the other vagrant travelers.

To our surprise, in the middle of the night a man with a hood (A REAL

LIVE VAGRANT) entered in clandestine fashion to make himself at home on

the bench next to us. Duly un-nerved, I eyed our belongings with great

care. After a while, Jean said, ‘€œDon’™t worry Carol, he won’t run away

with our belongings, he just took his shoes off!’€

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and I don’t want a taste of victory

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Interpol’s latest chart-riser, “The Heinrich Maneuver,” opens by asking, “How are things on the west coast?”

The answer is, “Not well.” At least, not just south of the 49th parallel. The Mariners, once threatening the Angels’ lead, have meekly dropped further into second and now cling to the wild card after some uninspired pitching, slipshod defense, untimely hitting, bad luck, and poor coaching.

Did I leave anything out?

The most frustrating thing is knowing that the M’s are better than this. No one expected them to sweep Anaheim, but we had every reason to expect a hard-fought 2-1 series–in either direction.

Geoff Baker writes, That old sports saying about taking things “one game at a time”? It truly does apply here. Forget about dissecting the bits and pieces of today’s game. The M’s were still reeling from last night and finished the moment they fell behind. Happens a lot in these situations.Doesn’t take the sting away, though. A sweep hurts.

WELCOME TO BRILLIANT VISIONS

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Welcome to brilliantvisions, home of New York-based designer and Art Director, Jarrett Brilliant (or “I” as I like to refer to myself in the first person). For the past three or so years, I have worked at Comedy Central in the digital media department. My duties have included (but are not limited to) site design, flash prototyping, and art direction.

If you hadn’t noticed, you’ve been redirected to the news section. “Why?” you may ask, (and ask you may). The site was getting a little stale, with the last major updates occurring nearly five years ago. A time in which few were counting as high as 2.0. The rigors and satisfaction of my work have distracted me from completing a comprehensive redesign of the site. So until that day, I’ll be updating this section with all the exciting news from brilliantvisions.

In the meantime, you can visit the archived site using the links to the right. The freshest content can be found in the Online Ads and Comedy Central sections.

Please keep watching this space for news and fresh design nuggets.

Most Expensive Islands in the World

Monday, March 10th, 2008

An elegant island hideaway gives one a feeling of complete relaxation – you are the master of your space, with no one to disturb you. Many can only dream of living on a private island, as the costs of owning any island listed in Forbes Most Expensive Islands in the World 2006 does not come cheap!

They’re not just for the pathologically reclusive or tragically stranded. Private islands, with their bare beaches, 360-degree views and delicious solitude, are coveted by billionaires and celebrities alike.

“If you win the lottery, you buy a private island,” says Cheyenne Morrison, broker for Coldwell Banker Morrison’s Private Islands in Port Douglas, Australia. “Or if you become a tech mogul, that’s what you do. You think, ‘I’ll buy a yacht. I’ll buy a private island.’”

The main incentive to owning an entire island is pretty obvious: keyword “private.” A huge margin of water serves as a far more effective barrier to the outside world than a stone wall, automatic gate or towering privet hedge. There are no noisy neighbors; no photographers may set foot on your beach without permission.
1. Isla de sa Ferradura Spain
$39.7 million (A$53 million, C$44.9 million, €32.99 million, £22.7 million, Rs1.8 billion)

View the complete list after the jump.

2. Pakatoa Island New Zealand
$35 million (A$46.8 million, C$39.6 million, €29 million , £20 million , Rs1.5 billion)

3. Cerralvo Island Mexico
$35 million (A$46.8 million, C$39.6 million, €29 million , £20 million , Rs1.5 billion)

4. Temptation Island Thailand
$30 million (A$40.1 million, C$33.9 million, €24.9 million, £17.1 million, Rs1.3 billion)

5. Caritas Island Fairfield County, Conn.
$25 million plus (A$33.4 million, C$28.3 million, €20.8 million, £14.3 million, Rs1.1 billion)

6. Allan Island Washington State
$25 million (A$33.4 million, C$28.3 million, €20.8 million, £14.3 million, Rs1.1 billion)

7. Grand Bogue Caye Belize
$25 million (A$33.4 million, C$28.3 million, €20.8 million, £14.3 million, Rs1.1 billion)

8. Blue Lagoon Fiji
$25 million (A$33.4 million, C$28.3 million, €20.8 million, £14.3 million, Rs1.1 billion)

9. Thatch Cay U.S. Virgin Islands
$24 million (A$32.1 million, C$27.1 million, €19.9 million, £13.7 million, Rs1.1 billion)

10. Isola Santo Stefano Italy
$24 million (A$32.3 million, C$27.3 million, €20 million, £13.9 million, Rs 1.1 billion)

11. Little Ragged Island Bahamas
$23.5 million (A$31.4 million, C$26.6 million, €19.5 million, £13.4 million, Rs1 billion)

12. Leaf Cay 2 Bahamas
$19 million (A$25.4 million, C$21.5 million, €15.8 million, £10.8 million, Rs839.5 million)

13. Coakley Cay Bahamas
$18.2 million (A$24.3 million, C$20.6 million, €15.1 million, £10.4 million, Rs804.2 million)

14. Magic Island French Polynesia
$18 million (A$24.1 million, C$20.4 million, €15 million, £10.3 million, Rs797.3 million)

Source: The Private Islands
Images: PPZW
Tags: Expensive | Private Islands

The Young Courtesan

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

The Ebony Courtesan’s picture of the week is, the Young Courtesan by Xavier Sigalon.

It is one of the Ebony Courtesan’s favourite works of art; enchanting and sublime, sensuous and evocative. The model is a dashing young courtesan with a magnificent head of hair and how lovely too that she is surrounded by devoted suitors;-)

“Xavier Sigalon, French painter born at Uzes ( Gard ) towards the close of 1788 was one of the few leaders of the romantic movement who cared for treatment of form rather than of colour”. The Ebony Courtesan appreciates both form and colour as in the beautiful in the sublime. If you happen to be in New York or London - do visit The International Asian Art Fair

or the Hogarth exhibition in London.

Xavier Sigalon ( 1788 - 1837 )

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Silence

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Louann Mims was forced into a kind of stillness that few can imagine. But stillness is something we all need more of. As Mother Teresa wrote, “We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature — trees, flowers, grass — grow in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence … we need silence to be able to touch souls.”

As we struggle to find our way through situations that make us feel helpless, we need to take time to rest in God. Those silent moments can become a source of strength and clarity. As it says in Isaiah 30:15, “In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and confidence shall be your strength.” Surviving Desperation by Jenny Shroedel

Wednesday night I went to the House of Blues in Anaheim with Nathan for the Hotel Cafe Tour (see my review of the show here). Rachael Yamagata was playing a song and had the audience singing along. She got to a point in the song where she paused, and there was silence. An audience member started singing the next line and she stopped them saying “that was a dramatic pause” and launched into an amusing explanation of the dramatic pause while playing the piano.

Music has been on my mind a lot lately as well as how Music, that huge part of myself, relates to God and my relationship with Him.

The above quote made me think of that moment between Rachael and the audience and how silence has it’s own purpose, even with music, which we mostly think of in terms of sound, not silence.

Silence is a reprieve.

It is a moment to take in what you’ve just hear. To anticipate what’s to come. To simply sit back and enjoy the eye of the storm.

Sometimes there is silence before the drop that fills your soul with excitement.

There is silence that reverberates with the harshness of what has passed, allowing your senses to recuperate.

Other times there is silence filled with suspense…in eager anticipation of that final resolution of a chord, the echoes of a music suspended in the conscious.

Yet it all has purpose. Silence is not a void, so much as it is a space. A space to grieve, to heal, to wait, to anticipate. Sometimes you rest, sometimes you are frustrated waiting for what’s to come. It is not always restful if you’re waiting for that resolution.

How does this realization apply to my life now?

I feel in some ways my soul, my musical soul, has been in a period of silence, even with a cacophony of sound happening in the outside parts of my life.

The music within me is swirling, unknown, untouched, waiting for the right moment of silence and openness to reveal itself.

I get frustrated. Sometimes it’s because of the outer sounds of life that crowd out the silence that I desperately need. Other times it’s because I am not letting myself be still and try to create noise that shouldn’t be there.

When I am quiet, when I allow the silence to come over me. That is when I often hear the deep, gut-wrenching cry of my soul to touch the Creator and to create something that honors, praises, and adores Him.

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Senate Intel Committee: Wilson/Plame Lied

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

NewsMax Posted this story:

In a rare rebuke of a public official by name, the Senate Select Intelligence Committee has issued a scathing report blasting former Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV.

The report claims Wilson mislead the public and the intelligence committee about his trip to Niger in 2002 on behalf of the CIA to investigate claims that Iraq was seeking to purchase uranium in Africa.

In his New York Times article, Wilson said that in February 2002 he was asked by the Central Intelligence Agency to travel to Niger to investigate “a particular intelligence report” that documented the sale of uranium to Iraq by the Niger government.

The CIA wanted him to “check out the story so they could provide a response to the vice president’s office,” after Vice President Dick Cheney had raised questions about the purported uranium deals, he wrote.

It was Valerie Plame’s recommendation for the mission that caught the eye of Vice President Dick Cheney when Wilson’s Op-Ed first appeared and ultimately led to the Special Counsel investigation into how her name - supposed classified — was “leaked” to the press.

The committee found that internal intelligence community notes of meetings in which Valerie Plame participated “did not mark her name with a (C) as would be required to indicate that her association with the CIA was classified,” as both Plame and her husband have said. These aren’t the only instance where Wilson’s account did not square with the facts, the senators found.

Wilson has said in his book and in numerous public appearances that reports he reviewed from the U.S. ambassador to Niger, Barbro Owens-Kirkpatrick, “indicated that there was nothing to the Niger-Iraq uranium story . . . This too is untrue,” the committee found. On the contrary, Owens-Kirkpatrick wrote a cable to the State Department which said that the initial CIA reporting of a Niger-Iraq uranium deal “provides sufficient details to warrant another hard look at Niger’s uranium sales.”

Although Nigerien officials insisted in meetings with the Americans that no uranium would be sold to rogue nations, “we should not dismiss out of hand the possibility that some scheme could be, or has been, underway to supply Iraq with yellowcake from here,” she wrote.

Perhaps the most damning conclusion of the Senate report has been known for nearly three years, but has remained classified until now. In the initial July 2004 report, the Senate committee reported that the intelligence community “used or cleared the Niger-Iraq uranium intelligence fifteen times before the President’s State of the Union address and four times after, saying in several papers that Iraq was ‘vigorously pursuing uranium from Africa’”

Once he arrived in Niger’s capital, Niamey, Wilson says he met with U.S. Ambassador Barbro Owens-Kirkpatrick, then “spent the next eight days drinking sweet mint tea” and meeting with former government officials and others involved in the uranium business. “It did not take long to conclude that it was highly doubtful that any such transaction had ever taken place.”

And that is what he reported back to the CIA and to the State Department African Affairs Bureau, Wilson wrote. But according to the Senate Intelligence Committee investigation, released last Friday, much of what Wilson wrote in the article, and has said since, about the trip “is not true.”

Wilson wrote to the committee in July 2004 when they released an exhaustive investigation into the Niger uranium story that included the finding that he had been sent to Niger at the suggestion of his wife. Wilson claimed that was “not true.”

At the time, the Committee did not release the full text of the e-mail sent by Valerie Plame on Wilson to her superior that recommended him for the job, “thinking it was unnecessary in light of the other evidence” they had made public.

But now, “considering the controversy surrounding this document,” the Senate committee decided to make the full text available to the public. The Valerie Plame e-mail shows without any doubt that she recommended her husband for the mission in Niger.

After recounting an earlier fact-finding mission he had carried out in Niger for the Agency, as well as his good contacts “with both the [prime minister] and the former minister of mines,” she concluded by saying that her husband “may be in a position to assist. Therefore, request your thoughts on what, if anything to pursue here.”

In sworn testimony before the House committee on Oversight and Government Reform in March of this year, however, Plame denied categorically that she had suggested her husband’s name. “I did not recommend him. I did not suggest him,” she said.