Here, here!
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
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
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!
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