CHRISTINE YEE

Content Marketing. Writing. Social Media. SEO. Digital PR

In the summer of 2010, I had the pleasure of working with an award winning digital creative agency in Los Angeles named Neoganda. They develop graphics, images and interactive web features for corporate brands and high profile entertainment films. 

The company was chosen to design the homepage of the Fair Game motion picture site, including a timeline of real life events spanning 2001-2007, starting with White House allegations of Iraq's purchase of uranium from Niger to build nuclear weapons to Supreme Court trials investigating the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame.

My role was to organize the story into timeline segments and provide copy to describe the individual events. This involved:

(1) reading the script

(2) specifying key events

(3) compiling links to media articles and coverage of these events

(4) developing copy to summarize the principle events of the story

Timeline Copy and Media Links

(2001) The Niger Embassy in Rome was burglarized on New Year's 2001. A dossier surfaced in correlation with this event which implicated that Iraq had purchased large quantities of uranium from Niger.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/07/yellowcake200607

(2001): [July] aluminum tubes purchased by Iraq were intercepted in Jordan by the nation's secret police.

http://www.servinghistory.com/topics/Iraqi_aluminum_tubes::sub::The_Order_And_Shipment

(2001): [September] The tragic 9-11 attacks in 2001 marked the commencement of America's War on Terrorism.

http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/shattered/

(2001): [October] U.S. and British forces launched a series of bombs in Afghanistan as a military reaction to the September 11 events.

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/10/07/gen.america.under.attack/

(2002): [February] Wilson arrived in Niger. During his trip, he found no evidence to support the alleged uranium sale.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/congress/2004_rpt/iraq-wmd-intell_chapter2-b.htm

(2002): [February] Responding to a request by the Counterproliferation Division of the CIA, Valerie Plame recommended her husband, Joe Wilson as a candidate to investigate the claim that Iraq had purchased significant quantities of uranium from Niger.

http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/files/wilson_judgment.pdf

(2002): [March] Dick Cheney gave statements to the media affirming that Saddam Hussein was developing nuclear weapons.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0203/24/le.00.html

(2002): [September] Despite rebuttals by the CIA, Iraq's purchase of 60,000 aluminum tubes was announced through media sources as indicative of nuclear weapons development by Saddam Hussein.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/bush/wolf.htm

(2002): [December] Niger's Prime Minister publicly denied that his country sold uranium to Iraq.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2607081.stm

(2003): [January] In his State of the Union address, President Bush announced, "The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC1tFsGCqSU

(2003): [March] The IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) released the results of their analysis on the dossier which reported uranium sales transactions between Niger and Iraq. They confirmed that the documents were forgeries.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/07/yellowcake200607

(2003): [March-May] The United States and the United Kingdom led a multinational force to invade Iraq.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/19/sprj.irq.main/

(2003): [July 6] Joseph Wilson's article, "What I Didn't Find in Africa," was featured in the New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/opinion/06WILS.html

(2003): [July 8] White House spokes person, Ari Fleischer admitted U.S. error in concluding that Iraq purchased uranium from Niger to advance their weapons of mass destruction program.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/09/iraq/main562312.shtml