Posted on 07/27/2005 10:54:15 AM PDT by Sam Hill
Former CIA man Larry Johnson, in an interview with PBS's "NewsHour":
This is not an alleged abuse. This is a confirmed abuse. I worked with this woman. She started training with me. She has been undercover for three decades, she is not as Bob Novak suggested a CIA analyst. But given that, I was a CIA analyst for four years. I was undercover. I could not divulge to my family outside of my wife that I worked for the Central Intelligence Agency until I left the agency on Sept. 30, 1989. At that point I could admit it.
So the fact that she's been undercover for three decades and that has been divulged is outrageous.
If Johnson is right that Plame has been undercover for three decades, she must have been quite a prodigy. A Washington Post profile of Wilson says his wife is 40 years old--though we suppose it's not unheard of for women to be "covert" about their age. Putting aside the question of timing, it's possible that both Novak and Johnson are right--that Plame was undercover when Johnson worked at the CIA but was a mere analyst at headquarters by the time Novak wrote about her. This may explain why the CIA asked Novak not to use her name, and also why, as he has said, "it was a very weak request."
In any case, there's ample reason to be suspicious of Wilson's motives in all this...
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Plame is forty-ish now. She would have had to have started at the CIA when she was ten.
It just goes to show that Johnson is willing to say anything to get some attention for his hate-America agenda.
"If Johnson is right that Plame has been undercover for three decades, she must have been quite a prodigy. A Washington Post profile of Wilson says his wife is 40 years old--though we suppose it's not unheard of for women to be "covert" about their age."
I had actually forgotten that Larry "Wrong Way" Johnson was the source of this howler.
Who would have guessed?
Laaaarry. Laaarry. Laaarry. < /sheastadiumtauntingchant >
I think the 'Spy Kids' movies were modeled on her life. BTW, thanks for your efforts in outing the bureaurat lefty punk Larry Johnson...
LOL...undercover but everybody in her hood knew her...LOL
Three decades...So she's been undercover since she was 12 years old then?
lol...I can't believe you said it outloud!!Hope you don't get any of those "threatening" posts from lcjohnso
So, according to Johnson, she started as an undercover operative for the CIA at the age of 11.
"I was a CIA analyst for four years. I was undercover."
His mendacity is just breath-taking. Analysts working at Langley are under "light cover." That is, they tell people they work for Social Security or the Department Of Agriculture or something.
They are not under "non-official cover" which is the only kind of cover the law in question protects. Lying Larry was NEVER under this kind of cover. And Plame, if she ever was, has not been for the required five years.
But this guy will say anything to hurt this country and its war against terrorism. He is clearly twisted.
Who is paying him? He lives on talk shows (which do not pay) and spends all of his time writing anti-American screed on his (crappy) counter-terrorism blog.
Is he sucking on a Soros tit?
Typical liberal - lives in a "dream" world as some covert, James Bond CIA "operative." Only he and his liberal friends can save the world!
Give me a break.
Doesn't 30 years in govt service entitle one to a full pension? At any rate, most women with children who have been working for 30 years are tired. She should be glad she was outed.
Even Johnson can't be stupid enough to threaten other citizens with violence after his last pathetic showing.
Hmmmm......a covert agent at the age of 12......does ol Larry know what a decade means?
Does that make Larry Johnson a pedophile?
Watched him on C-Span testifying to the Senate Democrat Committee of Idiots, and he does, indeed, have the flair for the dramatic. At the start of his testimony, he said that when he "sees a woman getting bullied by a room-full of men" that he fights on behalf of that woman. Almost spit up my Sam Adams (remember: he was a patriot AND a brewer).
Since your exchange with Johnson, you have been constantly attacking all aspects of his credibility, and exposing every thing he has ever said as BS. I like your style. Keep it up.
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Of course! Plame was the inspiration for that movie!
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