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Justice
Volume LXIV, Number 14
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
STUDENT UNION
FORMER CIA OPERATIVE
Police report money missing from Union safe ■ Treasurer Daniel Lee ’12
reported that cash was missing from the Student Union’s office in the SCC. By ANDREW WINGENS JUSTICE EDITOR
Student Union Treasurer Daniel Lee ’12 reported $650 missing from the Student Union safe on Nov. 21, said Director of Public Safety Ed Callahan last night in an interview with the Justice. Lee said in an interview with the Justice that he counted the money and put it into the Union’s safe on Wednesday, Nov. 13. On Nov. 21, Lee said he returned to find the safe “wide open.” At first, Lee thought someone had just forgotten to close the safe, but when he counted the money, more than half, but not all, of the money was missing. After speaking with Budget Ana-
Waltham, Mass.
lyst Stephen Costa, Lee informed University Police, who opened an investigation. “We are trying to determine who had the combination and work with the Union people to see if anyone knows anything about this,” said Callahan. Callahan said the case is under investigation and that University Police are in the process of interviewing Lee and individuals who have knowledge of the safe. The safe is located behind the front desk in the Student Union office on the third floor of the Shapiro Campus Center and can be opened only after the user enters a security code. Individuals with that code are Lee, the assistant treasurers and the past treasurer, a total of 11 people. According to Assistant Treasurer Nathan Israel ’14, the code to the safe was not changed until after the money went missing, and any previ-
See MONEY, 5 ☛ JOSHUA LINTON/the Justice
PLAME AFFAIR: Plame Wilson (above) and former Ambassador Wilson spoke about their conflict with the Bush administration.
STUDENT LIFE
Riverside shuttles Couple discusses CIA leak scandal fail to gain support ■ Valerie Plame Wilson and
Joe Wilson gave accounts of the scandal involving Plame and the Bush administration.
■ Public Safety said the
number of students who used the trials does not justify a permanent shuttle. By ANDREW WINGENS JUSTICE EDITOR
The trial shuttles to the Riverside MBTA station failed to attract a substantial number of students, challenging the Student Union’s claim that students want and need transportation to Riverside. Director of Public Safety Ed Callahan said in an interview with the Justice that the shuttle buses
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served a total of 145 students, which is about 12 percent of the total capacity of the buses and about 2.5 percent of the entire student body. These numbers are not enough to justify a permanent shuttle. “In viewing of those numbers, I couldn’t ask for [a shuttle] full time,” said Callahan. “I was willing to pay for the buses because I thought I would see a big return for the community. … I was very disappointed that the numbers weren’t there.” Student Union President Herbie Rosen ’12 said in an interview
See RIVERSIDE, 5 ☛
By ALLYSON CARTTER JUSTICE STAFF WRITER
Former Central Intelligence Agency Covert Operative Valerie Plame Wilson and former Ambassador Joe Wilson spoke in the Rapaporte Treasure Hall last Wednesday about their roles in investigating claims of nuclear threat leading up to the Iraq War and about how the information they uncovered was manipulated by the administration of then-U.S. President George W. Bush. Plame spoke first about her experiences. Rather than telling her story as a political issue about Democrats versus Republicans she said, “This story is about power and the abuse of power,” she said.
Public service was considered “noble” in Plame’s family growing up and this mentality contributed to her choice to work for the CIA, she stated during the talk. “I loved my job. … I really found a great sense of satisfaction from what I was doing,” she said, noting that her time as a covert operative included recruiting foreign spies and gaining expertise in preventing the “bad guys” from acquiring nuclear weapons. In 2002, Plame was responsible for gaining information on Iraq nuclear weapon development. This process was difficult, she said, because the United States Embassy in Iraq was shut down after the First Gulf War and because former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had expelled weapons inspectors from the country in 1998. Plame explained that she learned about the possibility that Niger was selling yellowcake uranium, a powder that can be used in the produc-
tion of nuclear weapons, to Iraq after the Office of the Vice President contacted one of her young employees. A CIA analyst recommended that she send her husband, Wilson, to Niger to investigate the claim, Plame continued. According to Plame, two government analysts met Wilson as soon as he returned from Niger to the Wilson’s home in Washington, D.C. He informed them that the yellowcake uranium claim was “totally bogus,” Plame said. In January 2003, then-President Bush announced that “the British government ha[d] learned that Saddam Hussein [had] recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa,” in his State of the Union address. Plame said she thought at the time that Bush was referring to an African country other than Niger and that the assertion
See WILSON, 5 ☛
Business-savvy student
Women split matches
Usdan POD trials
Sarah Epstein ’12 created EpSteps to sell her mother’s artwork on tote bags and shoes.
The women’s basketball team won at home last Saturday, following a road loss earlier in the week.
Aramark released statistics from the added hours on Sunday mornings.
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SPORTS 16
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