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(John Kerry) Forget Jack Bauer
Opinion Journal ^ | September 14, 2006 | JOHN KERRY

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cia; drunkensailor67; jeanfrancois; kerry; larryjohnson; lurch; lyingtraitor; plamegate; whatamaroon
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To: CharlesWayneCT
From my files:

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.

Source

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.

41 posted on 09/14/2006 7:26:49 AM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: Miss Marple
So that means that within 2 years time, Armitage has been under consideration for a Kerry cabinet, and is now part of John McCain's foreign policy advisory team.

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.

42 posted on 09/14/2006 7:34:06 AM PDT by A Citizen Reporter
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To: A Citizen Reporter
"There is one reason (among a thousand) you lost the election. You have NO COMMON SENSE!"

Amen and amen! Can't the Dems find one man who is mentally healthy?
43 posted on 09/14/2006 7:42:11 AM PDT by pepperdog
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To: pepperdog
Can't the Dems find one man who is mentally healthy?

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?

44 posted on 09/14/2006 7:51:39 AM PDT by kevkrom (War is not about proportionality. Knitting is about proportionality. War is about winning.)
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To: Mo1
Well, Kerry is lying. Again.

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.

Punch Here

45 posted on 09/14/2006 8:00:43 AM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: Mo1

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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46 posted on 09/14/2006 8:08:59 AM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: digger48

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!


47 posted on 09/14/2006 8:36:15 AM PDT by Txsleuth (,((((((((ISRAEL)))))) Pray for the release of the Israelis.)
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To: A Citizen Reporter

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.


48 posted on 09/14/2006 8:43:41 AM PDT by Txsleuth (,((((((((ISRAEL)))))) Pray for the release of the Israelis.)
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To: ravingnutter

Former CIA case officer Jim Marcinkowski - RUNNING FOR CONGRESS AS A DEMOCRAT!

MI-8 DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE


While in the CIA, Jim met Valerie Plame, a classmate whose identity as an undercover CIA officer would later be exposed by the Bush White House. In July 2005, Jim joined two other former CIA agents in testifying at a Senate Hearing on the serious consequences of the leak.


49 posted on 09/14/2006 8:50:49 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Miss Marple; Mo1

New tagline


50 posted on 09/14/2006 9:52:49 AM PDT by Dog (Jack Bauer wears Tony Snow pajamas)
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To: Prysson; Mo1
Someone please take the whip from Mr. Kerry and get that dead horse out of here.

LOL!

51 posted on 09/14/2006 11:18:37 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (We officially have a new American political party. The American Democrat-Stalinist party.)
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To: digger48; potlatch; ntnychik; Smartass; Boazo; Alamo-Girl; PhilDragoo; The Spirit Of Allegiance; ...

I missed this - ping!


52 posted on 09/16/2006 7:23:00 AM PDT by bitt ("And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.")
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To: digger48

What really cracks me up is that this piece-o-crap whiny chronic-absentee do-nothing Senator is the best that the DemonRats could come up with as a presidential candidate.


53 posted on 09/16/2006 7:30:41 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ("A litany of complaints is not a plan." - GW Bush, referring to DNC's lack of a platform on ANYTHING)
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To: digger48

54 posted on 09/16/2006 7:34:30 AM PDT by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans. We Vote.)
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To: digger48

55 posted on 09/16/2006 7:35:09 AM PDT by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans. We Vote.)
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To: digger48

The Jockey Cut&Run goes to the whip on his long Dead Horse, hoping to get back into the race.

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters


56 posted on 09/16/2006 7:36:24 AM PDT by bray (Voting for the Rats is a Deathwish)
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To: bitt

Thanks for the ping!


57 posted on 09/16/2006 10:29:13 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: digger48
Let me guess - Jean Francois wants us to surrender before its too late!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

58 posted on 09/16/2006 10:34:31 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: television is just wrong; ConservativeMan55; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; JulieRNR21; Cindy; ...
RE: "Kerry is an irish jew."

...Au contraire, mon ami.

See:   http://users.cwnet.com/bwj/kerryirish.htm

   

(Please FReepmail if you want on, or off, this list.   I certainly have no desire to increase anyone’s stress-level. Thanks!!!)

59 posted on 09/17/2006 3:07:55 AM PDT by Seadog Bytes (OPM - The Liberal 'solution' to every societal problem. (Other People's Money))
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To: Seadog Bytes

SMILING...
Cut it out seadog (giggling) I am trying to finish up.


60 posted on 09/17/2006 3:10:57 AM PDT by Cindy
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