"With all due respect Senator I know how to do my job."
Posted on 09/14/2006 5:28:05 AM PDT by digger48
Your Sept. 12 editorial "Jack Bauer Insurance" was a disservice not to me or to fictional characters like Jack Bauer, but to the very real CIA agents whose commitment to the truth didn't fit the administration's neoconservative agenda on Iraq, and to agents endangered by reckless administration policies.
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Former CIA case officer Jim Marcinkowski argued the Valerie Plame leak hurt "the credibility of our case officers when they try to convince an overseas contact that their safety is of primary importance." Former CIA agent Larry Johnson, a registered Republican, said it "speaks volumes" that President Bush held no one accountable for the leak of an agent's identity. Forgotten is President George H.W. Bush's admonition that those who expose our agents are "the most insidious of traitors." CIA officers don't need Jack Bauer insurance--they need insurance against the recklessness of this administration
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Kerry's using the "it's the Jooooos" codeword.
Don't you remember?, Hanoi John is half Jewish. /sarc
"With all due respect Senator I know how to do my job."
If it was so important that she not be exposed as once working under cover, why did she drive through the front gate of CIA headquarters every day to report to work?
Lame, lame, lame...
Kerry is an irish jew. his parents became catholic to blend in with society. to prevent discrimination against them. his parents didn't bank on the fact he'd destroy his good name and lie as he has.
HA, THAT guy again! Now John Kerry's using him. What a joke.
You know, John. You would have done well to stay out of this particular mess of Fitzy's right now. But you just couldn't help yourself, could you?
There is one reason (among a thousand) you lost the election. You have NO COMMON SENSE!
"nuanced" stupidity
That would be the Frankenstein half.
That's "Frankensteen".
Yeah, we'll when J'Fn' was going up that river to Cambodia on Christmas '68 as per the orders of President Nixon (sic) I bet he was wishing he was wearing Jack Bauer's hat!!
Kerry blew the cover of a "real" covert CIA agent during Senate hearings 2 years ago.
Waiting for a lawsuit (sound of crickets)
John Who?? Who is this guy who wrote that piece of trash??
I think there are some questions KERRY should answer. Under oath.
It looks more like he had a Jewish grandfather who took an Irish name when he came here.
I can't address his motivation but conversion to Catholicism was not the road to social advancement at the end of the 19th century.
Someone please take the whip from Mr. Kerry and get that dead horse out of here.
Oaths don't mean much to Kerry. But it would be nice to officially record his lies.
John Kerry repeatedly (despite Bolton's efforts to move him off the subject) blew the cover of covert agent Fulton Armstrong during Senate hearings for confirmation of John Bolton. The CIA had requested the Armstrong's name NOT be revealed.
Was Kerry dumb (plausible) or simply revealing his arrogant disdain for the Agency (which he has, in the past, opined should be virtually dismantled)?
You decide.
Either way, Kerry should be more prosecutable than anyone named in the Plame game.
And thanks be to God and the citizens of Ohio for saving the US from having this honorless jerk as our President.
Ummmm...J. F'n Kerry needs to read the Senate Intelligence report...Drumheller is a liar:
An addenda to the Senate report on postwar findings about Iraq's WMD program says all the operational documents relating to Sabri indicate he told the CIA just the opposite of what Drumheller claimed. The Senate report refers to Sabri as a source with direct access to Saddam Hussein and his inner circle but does not name him.
"Both the operations cable and the intelligence report prepared for high-level policy-makers [based on interrogation of the source] said that while Saddam Hussein did not have a nuclear weapon, ‘he was aggressively and covertly developing such a weapon,'" the Senate report said.
The documents said "Iraq was producing and stockpiling chemical weapons," according to the addendum, signed by Sens. Pat Roberts, R–Kan., Orrin G. Hatch, R–Utah, and Saxby Chambliss, R–Ga. Iraq's weapon of last resort was mobile launched chemical weapons, which would be fired at enemy forces and Israel, the CIA documents said.
Moreover, there is "not a single document relating to this case which indicates that the source said Iraq had no WMD programs," the addenda said. "On the contrary, all of the information about this case so far indicates that the information from this source was that Iraq did have WMD programs."
What the source said was consistent with the CIA's October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate, the report said. The report added: "The committee is still exploring why the former chief/EUR's public remarks differ so markedly from the documentation."
And this column by Kerry coming out today confirms the suspicions that I had yesterday, Kerry is trying to distance himself from the fact that he is a co-conspirator in this whole mess. It is common knowledge...but most people forgot...that Kerry was considering Armitage for a cabinet post in Defense:
A dark-horse candidate for defense, some said, is Richard L. Armitage, Bush's second in command at the State Department.IMHO, before the Wilsons added Armitage to their lawsuit, they consulted with Kerry. Kerry just threw Armitage under the bus.Kerry Exploring Cabinet Options
Here, here!
Opinion Journal allows readers to respond. Though they don't publish all of them, I'm sure if Hanoi John wanted them, he could have them. Then he would learn exactly how ineffectual he is.
Just another irrelevant Masshole whose Lefty career is thankfully going nowhere, this feeb should content himself with the lucrative sale of ketchup, leave off the attempts at intellectual heavy lifting, and the give over the nation's leadership to W.
He's about as much of a Republican as Helen Thomas (no pictures...pleeeeeezzzze!)Defended Mary McCarthy and attempted to rewrite history on McCarthy's past
Lied about the contents of the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate
Covered for Joe Wilson
Praised his new best friend, Tyler Drumheller, in his lies on CBS
Repeated the Democratic talking points on Plamegate
Publicly, along with his VIPS buddies, called for CIA agents to leak classified information to harm the Bush Administration
I just purchased and am almost through with the book "UNFIT FOR COMMAND". I thank God those swift boat vets came forward and fought so hard to inform the American people what a lying, arrogant, traitous bastard John Kerry is. Having this SOB as Commander In Chief after 9/11 would have been disastrous.
Why should we listen to someone who still, over two years later, hasn't kept his promise to release all of his military records? How about someone who has chosen to ignore the verdict of his peers that Drumheller was lying? How about someone who ignores the fact that the leak did not come from the White House, so who was the President to hold accountable? Someone who ignores that Valerie Plame was not covert? If she had been covert and her identity was leaked, it is up to Fitzgerald to prosecute the leaker.
ping a ling
And isn't Larry a new-found-friend of John Conyers and his basement Bush-bashing "hearings"
"Under oath" means nothing to these guys. If they took their oath seriously, Beelzebubba would have been thrown out of office. Just like the Islamic Fascists, they lie whenever it suits their purposes. And Kerry, especially, has a history of ignoring any solemn vow he makes.
Hey, Bush got rid of Powell and Armitage. Don't tell me he didn't clean out the people responsible.
Weekly Standard: Meet Larry Johnson - 07.25.05
Ya know .. Kerry is worse then an idiot
And he's got that leftist tool Larry Johnson in his corner.
I never read that book. I read the biography "Tour of Duty" by Brinkley -- and that was a devastating account of Kerry's war record, even though Brinkley did his best to put a best light on it.
In that book, Kerry is quoted as saying he only want to Vietnam because he wanted to get revenge on the vietnamese for the death of a friend. He was looking to kill people, and he admitted it in his own biography. It wasn't some noble gesture.
The book also detailed how when he first got there, he wanted to go on a swift boat right away, but when a month passed and he had seen exactly what was happening, he wanted to quit. He was volunteered for a command, and tried to back out of it. That's in his own biography.
There were other very damning things in the biography, including stuff that corraborated the Swift Boat Veterans claims, and conflicted with Kerry's rebuttals.
The book was based on Kerry's own writings, which still have not been released to the public. Kerry said he had promised Brinkley exclusive use of them and therefore couldn't release them, but Brinkley said he was done with them and Kerry wouldn't let HIM release them.
If we had ever gotten to see Kerry's OWN NOTES on the subject, it would have been more devastating than the "Unfit for Command" book.
Yup, he sure is.
But...shhhhh...we wouldn't want to blow his cover as a Republican, ROTFLMAO!
Why did DCI George Tenet suddenly resign on June 3rd, only to be followed a day later by James Pavitt, the CIA's Deputy Director of Operations (DDO)?
The real reasons, contrary to the saturation spin being put out by major news outlets, have nothing to do with Tenet's role as taking the fall for alleged 9/11 and Iraqi intelligence “failures” before the upcoming presidential election.
Both resignations, perhaps soon to be followed by resignations from Colin Powell and his deputy Richard Armitage, are about the imminent and extremely messy demise of George W. Bush and his Neocon administration in a coup d'etat being executed by the Central Intelligence Agency. The coup, in the planning for at least two years, has apparently become an urgent priority as a number of deepening crises threaten a global meltdown.
Shortly after the “surprise” Tenet-Pavitt resignations, current and former senior members of the U.S. intelligence community and the Justice Department told journalist Wayne Madsen, a former Naval intelligence officer, that they were directly connected to the criminal investigation of a 2003 White House leak that openly exposed Valerie Plame as an undercover CIA officer.
Although Madsen is considered a kook by some, he was right about Powell and Armitage and I still believe his stories about a CIA coup are very plausible.
I'm still waiting to see what McCain intends to do about Powell and Armitage. There is no way I would support a candidate with those two as foreign advisors.
Going back to the early 1990's Powell did not want to really get the job done in Iraq. And the dems have latched onto his rhetoric and used it as a club against the President.
Think about what you're asking for... a mentally-healthy high-profile Democrat. Is it any wonder that they can't find what does not exist?
Furthermore, the CIA found “no evidence” that the INC had fabricated information of consciously provided false information aimed at “convincing the United States that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists,” as the Democrats asserted.
Mo1 - look at this:
In a "60 Minutes" interview on April 23, Tyler Drumheller, a former chief of the CIA's Europe division, made a sensational charge.
He claimed that President Bush and his White House ignored intelligence before the invasion of Iraq indicating that Saddam Hussein had no had weapons of mass destruction.
On the CBS-TV show, and in subsequent media interviews that appeared throughout the world, Drumheller said that the White House was excited about the fact that the CIA was getting information straight from Naji Sabri, the then Iraqi foreign minister. But when the White House found out this source was reliably saying that Saddam had no WMD, Bush and his White House weren't interested.
"He [Sabri] told us that they had no active weapons of mass destruction program," Drumheller told correspondent Ed Bradley in a segment called "A Spy Speaks Out."
"So in the fall of 2002, before going to war, we had it on good authority from a source within Saddam's inner circle that he didn't have an active program for weapons of mass destruction?" Bradley asked.
"Yes," Drumheller said, proclaiming himself outraged.
According to Drumheller, Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice brushed aside the CIA report on what Sabri had to say because "the policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming, and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy, to justify the policy."
Drumheller saw "how the Bush administration time and time again welcomed intelligence that fit the president's determination to go to war and turned a blind eye to intelligence that did not," Ed Bradley said in the introduction to the "60 Minutes" piece.
Now it appears Drumheller's claim was untrue, according to the findings of a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence investigation. Rather than undercutting the Bush administration's rationale for invading Iraq, Sabri's account shows how well-founded the intelligence on Saddam's weapons program appeared to be.
Ironically, just as Drumheller claimed that Bush ignored the truth about Iraq, the media have ignored the documentation in the Senate report demolishing Drumheller's claim.
An addenda to the Senate report on postwar findings about Iraq's WMD program says all the operational documents relating to Sabri indicate he told the CIA just the opposite of what Drumheller claimed. The Senate report refers to Sabri as a source with direct access to Saddam Hussein and his inner circle but does not name him.
"Both the operations cable and the intelligence report prepared for high-level policy-makers [based on interrogation of the source] said that while Saddam Hussein did not have a nuclear weapon, ‘he was aggressively and covertly developing such a weapon,'" the Senate report said.
The documents said "Iraq was producing and stockpiling chemical weapons," according to the addendum, signed by Sens. Pat Roberts, R–Kan., Orrin G. Hatch, R–Utah, and Saxby Chambliss, R–Ga. Iraq's weapon of last resort was mobile launched chemical weapons, which would be fired at enemy forces and Israel, the CIA documents said.
Moreover, there is "not a single document relating to this case which indicates that the source said Iraq had no WMD programs," the addenda said. "On the contrary, all of the information about this case so far indicates that the information from this source was that Iraq did have WMD programs."
What the source said was consistent with the CIA's October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate, the report said. The report added: "The committee is still exploring why the former chief/EUR's public remarks differ so markedly from the documentation."
At least 134 stories and TV shows have referred to Drumheller's claims and his criticism of the CIA and Bush administration in general. One of the stories ran as the second lead of the June 25, 2006 Washington Post.
"Warnings on WMD ‘Fabricator' Were Ignored, Ex-CIA Aide Says," the headline over the Post story said. According to the story, Drumheller was dumbfounded when he saw a classified version of the speech Secretary of State Colin Powell was about to give to the United Nations citing Iraq's biological weapons factories on wheels.
Drumheller claimed he had warned George Tenet, the director of Central Intelligence, in a phone call, and John McLaughlin, the deputy director, in a personal meeting that the source for that claim, code-named "Curveball," was a fabricator.
Not until the 32nd paragraph of the Post story did the reader learn that both Tenet and McLaughlin said they had no recollection of warnings Drumheller allegedly gave them. Both men said they would have taken immediate action if he had.
While two former CIA officials said they recalled Drumheller telling them at the time about warnings he allegedly gave McLaughlin, no meeting with Drumheller appeared on McLaughlin's official calendar, according to the report of the Commission on Intelligence Capabilities of the U.S. Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, known as the Silverman-Robb commission.
Carroll & Graf is publishing Drumheller's book, "On the Brink: How the White House Has Compromised American Intelligence," written with Elaine Monaghan, on Sept. 28, according to the Amazon listing. The publisher's Web site lists the publication date as this winter.
Neither Drumheller nor a Carroll & Graf spokesperson responded to messages seeking comment.
So far, no media outlet has run the Senate committee's addendum demolishing Drumheller's claim that Bush and his White House did not want to hear the truth about whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
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Well, that editorial by Kerry had about as much to do with the one he supposedly is responding to...
As HIS foreign policy statements have to do with real life..
NOTHING!!
What an idiot!
These people are not only crooked...they are cowards.
I saw Bret Baier give Brit a report about the Plame thing last night...and he said that they had tried repeatedly to get ahold of Armitage for a comment...no returned calls.
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