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[Peace Patriot]

May 22, 2003: David Kelly (Brit WMD expert) starts whistleblowing to the BBC on the Brits' "sexed up" intel on Iraq.

July 7, 2003: Blair is informed (after Kelly is identified and interrogated) that Kelly "could say some uncomfortable things" ("COULD say"--not HAD said.)

July 14, 2003: First Plame outing.

July 17, 2003: Kelly emails Judith Miller, stating his concern about the "many dark actors playing games."

July 18, 2003: Kelly found dead, under extremely suspicious circumstances; his office and computers searched.

July 21, 2003; Miller publishes a news article in the NYT on Kelly's death, and fails to disclose her close connections to Kelly.

July 22, 2003: Second Plame outing--of the entire CIA front company, all WMD monitoring projects and contacts disabled (with some contacts probably getting killed).

What do I think that this interesting coincidence of dates adds up to? My guess: There was a plot to PLANT nukes or other WMDs in Iraq--Bush and Blair's most critical political need that summer ('03); Judith Miller would get the "scoop" on the phony WMDs "found" in Iraq (with her special 'embed' contract signed by Donald Rumsfeld, putting her at the scene--even directing the scene, according to reports); David Kelly was killed because he found out about this plot, and maybe foiled it (the "uncomfortable things" that Blair was told Kelly "could say"); and the Bushites did the SECOND Plame outing, of the whole CIA weapons monitoring operation, at much greater risk of treason charges (not needed to "punish" Wilson), because Plame and her network of covert WMD contacts might find out, had found out, or had helped foil it (info found in Kelly's computers).

This scenario explains a number of things, including the Bushites apparent panic in early July--calling at least SIX reporters to get Plame outed--when they first learned WHO was whistleblowing to the BBC (the Brits' almost legendary tough WMD scientist and insider on Iraq intel). It explains why they took the additional risk of treason charges in the outing of the CIA company (after Kelly's computers were searched). It explains WHY the Bushites were making such a big drama out of the weapons--letting Miller run all around Iraq with the troops looking for them--when they all knew there were no weapons there (the UN inspectors had established that). They were going to PLANT them. And it explains what ELSE Kelly knew, that could have got him killed (it wasn't just arguments about "sexed up" into) and also WHY he would whistleblow (insider that he was; he supported the war and wanted Saddam ousted, but started whistleblowing AFTER the invasion).

A bit too neat--more like a novel than like real life--but still, a pretty good working hypothesis. I think that this coincidence of dates in the Plame/Kelly stories is...well, a bit too coincidency. And, lo and behold, there's Judith Miller, laundering a CIA WMD expert's identity to other reporters (to protect the Bushite(s) who told her), on the one hand, and in intimate communication with another WMD expert--and whistleblower--who turns up dead.

Something here. I don't know if I've nailed it. But something....