[Bahbah]

Our fdl poster has revisited her thoughts on the reasons why they became so obsessed with the Plame investigation and why it was of such earth shattering importance. She explains:

"Imagine that one day you wake up to the incessent ping of your beeper. It is still dark outside your window, and you slide out of bed, pad quietly down the hallway and try not to wake up the wife and kids, as you slip into your home office and place a call on a secure phone. You are told that your cover has been blown, that your family may be at risk. You have to make instant decisions for your own safety, that of your family, and of every asset you have in the field - and to do that, you have to prioritize which assets are more valuable and which you can afford to lose, if necessary. You have to decide then and there which of the people you cultivated, the ones you promised safety in exchange for information and cooperation, which of them may have to die because you may not have time to save them all.

Why has your cover been blown? Because you work as a CIA colleague of the wife of a man who dared to question the veracity of the President of the United States on a matter of national security, a matter of an exaggerated claim that was inserted in his State of the Union address to bolster his case for war in Iraq. And the President's cronies and hatchet men decided to out this man's wife for political payback, as a lesson to anyone else who would dare to question their decisions and as a means to staunch the bleeding from this initial salvo of criticism. Damn the consequences."

I haven't stopped laughing.

More here: http://www.firedoglake.com/category/firedoglake/

[STARWISE]

Thanks, Bah .. you have my ping list, right? George Tenet's name: was it even ever mentioned, and yet he sent THE referral letter?

[Eva]

I can't even go there and read Firedoglake. Do these lefties really believe this crap, or do they just think there readers are dumb enough to believe it?

[Enchante]

Amazing that after all this time the drooling pinheads at FireDogCrap haven't figured out the most basic facts of the case. I know we find their "live blogging" of the trial helpful, but let's not forget that they are a collection of raving moonbats over there.......

Why has your cover been blown? Because you work as a CIA colleague of the wife of a man who dared to question the veracity of the President of the United States on a matter of national security, a matter of an exaggerated claim that was inserted in his State of the Union address to bolster his case for war in Iraq. And the President's cronies and hatchet men decided to out this man's wife for political payback, as a lesson to anyone else who would dare to question their decisions and as a means to staunch the bleeding from this initial salvo of criticism. Damn the consequences."

[eureka!]

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[muawiyah]

That was funny. Ol' Joe Wilson was doing everything but passing his wife around to his friends for a quick roll in the hay ~ (and a really good pun follows that one).

The leftwingnuts have a very strange view of the CIA. They seem to actually think that everything over there is SECRET. 10 years living two doors down from a CIA "safe house" has taught me that an awful lot of their cloak and dagger stuff is done OUT IN THE OPEN.