This is going to be short because I am going to work on an Exclusive Interview post about someone I discovered who worked at Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch during certain ‘key’ periods. When I met up with an old friend of mine this summer who I had not seen in years, he told me of a relative of his who had all sorts of interesting information about Michael Jackson and the recent case. I learned some absolutely incredible and troubling things about the most recent trial, and about Neverland. The Neverland details I had never heard of before. But then I did not follow the case the way I follow Able Danger or the Plame Game. Anyway, the relative agreed to an email interview and that will be coming out later today.

Tom Maguire is just dogging Andrea Mitchell on her equivocations regarding what she knew about Valerie Plame. I agree with Tom that Mitchell looks and acts like she is in trouble. I think she told the FBI she did not know anything, when she did, and has been told she is a target. There is no other reason for the continued attempts on IMUS to cover her tracks. She knows IMUS is going to keep drilling her, so why does she go back? Well, if it is a staged interview so one media icon can do a favor for another – then it makes sense.

It also makes sense in light of some new information Tom has been following for quite some time – 8 redacted pages in papers filed with the court by Fitzgerald. Speculation was it was the listing of the classified material the left believes was compromised. The fact seems to be it is Fitzgerald’s strategy that implies the only case to be made was one of perjury, not leaking. Well, Mitchell (and other reporters) may be on the list of those having some perjury troubles. That last bit is all speculation folks.

The fact Anne Pincus worked at the State Department for Clinton, and therefore probably knew ‘ol Joe Wilson, is the lead I have been trying to find between the DC media and DC power brokers circle. It is a very small clique of people in DC who are the long term media and government leaders. I know, I grew up in it. Turns out, Walter Pincus is tight with the CIA as well and may have known Valerie from 1996. More here on Pincus and the CIA. [Hat Tip SBD it seems!]

I am sure Mitchell knows Ann and Walter, and through them the Wilsons. The DC power community is too small not to know long term, key players. One should know through gossip alone, if not direct relationships.

Which leads me to two Mac Ranger pieces on the CIA-MSM ties, their attacks on Bush for Kerry and yellowcake. The fact there are a series of stories placed in the MSM by CIA operatives (Plame), the IAEA (Al Qaaqa) and democrat operatives (Rathergate) that appeared damaging to Bush at key moments, but turned out to be completely benign throughout the campaign season is a troubling sign – for the MSM. Follow Mac’s links -some of them are truly scary, like this one.

On a somewgat positive note for the CIA and our war on terror we learn they may have taken out Al Qaeda’s number three with a Predator Missile:

The operational commander of al-Qaida and possibly the No. 3 official in the terrorist organization, Hamza Rabia, was killed early Thursday morning by a CIA missile attack on a safehouse in Pakistan, officials told NBC News.
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While Pakistani officials publicly said Rabia died in a blast caused by explosives stored in a house for bomb-making, officials speaking on condition of anonymity told NBC News he was killed by a CIA missile strike carried out by an unmanned Predator airplane.

Of course, why the CIA needs to leak the details to the US press, which will blow back against the Musharraf administration and possibly destabilize our best ally in the region, is beyond me. We need another leak investigation it would seem.

UPDATE:

More on the AQ attack here at The Telegraph.

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Hope you all have a great day.