Posted on 11/01/2012 3:57:01 PM PDT by Starman417
Valerie Plame was a CIA agent who was catapulted into stardom in 2003 when her name appeared in a Robert Novak column in 2003.
Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me Wilson’s wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate the Italian report. The CIA says its counter-proliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him. "I will not answer any question about my wife," Wilson told me.
It has been argued that Joe Wilson himself outed his wife:
But according to Mr. Armitage and every other indication, Valerie Plame’s work at the CIA had already been revealed to reporters by her husband Joe Wilson to give credence to his new and mendacious claims about what he uncovered in his trip to Niger.And there was another motivation possibly at work here as well. Something that could possibly have induced an ambitious man to completely change his story and even make up things that he could not have actually experienced.
For lest we forget, there was suddenly much talk at this time within the Kerry camp that Joe Wilson might be the new administration’s Secretary Of State. The vainglorious Mr. Wilson most certainly had his eyes on that prize.
Discrediting President Bush on his (then) strongest point, the war in Iraq, would certainly be a feather in Wilson’s cap in the eyes of the Kerry campaign.
And any concern about the secrecy of his wife’s job at the CIA was surely a minor consideration compared to that lofty goal of becoming John Kerry’s Secretary Of State.
But boy oh boy was the outing of Plame of major interest to the media.
The Novak column triggered a scandal and a criminal investigation. At issue was whether Novak's sources had violated a little-known law that makes it a federal crime for a government official to disclose identifying information about a covert US officer (if that official knew the officer was undercover). A key question was, what did Valerie Wilson do at the CIA? Was she truly undercover? In a subsequent column, Novak reported that she was "an analyst, not in covert operations." White House press secretary Scott McClellan suggested that her employment at the CIA was no secret. Jonah Goldberg of National Review claimed, "Wilson's wife is a desk jockey and much of the Washington cocktail circuit knew that already."
Patrick Fitzgerald was named special counsel to investigate the outing.
George Stephanopoulos implicated President Bush and Vice President Cheney in the outing. Scooter Libby was also accused.
The NY Times devoted 386 articles to the Plame affair.
NPR ran many, many articles about Plame.
The Washington Post offered a list of the "key players" in the Plame leak in 2007, which included President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
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David Corn, who had such emotion over the damage the Plame leak caused, has zero intellectual curiosity about Benghazi.
The Obama administration leaked Bin Laden raid details within minutes and has been leaking intel so badly that even democrats are bothered. Just not the press.
The thing is, Valerie Plame is still alive. She has written a book, enjoyed endless TV appearances and even had a movie made about her.
Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty are dead. No movies, no TV appearances, no books.
Tyrone Woods was calling for help. Someone ordered that help to "stand down."
And the press could not care less why.
(excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
I have one word in response to the title of this thread, but I don’t want to put this site in disrepute, so I’ll refrain.
Val, Cindy Sheehan, and Sandra Fluke ought to start a girl band “The Useful Idiots” and go on tour together.
Thanks to Colon Bowel,
Scooter Libby is still in jail.
“Val, Cindy Sheehan, and Sandra Fluke ought to start a girl band “The Useful Idiots” and go on tour together.”
And the Dixie Chicks can open for them.
She is still alive? What a pity!
I checked and her clock is now at 15.5 minutes of fame. Which is a bout 15 minutes too long.
feh...
Nobody wants to hear the Chicken Dix anymore!
-PJ
Weren’t stem cells from aborted fetuses suppose to make Superman fly,too?
My own son, 25 years old, a recent MBA grad, argued with me a month ago, about the Plame episode, saying that we always try to have the moral high ground..
His point was our own party shouldn’t hold the other side to a higher standard, when our own party tried to cover-up our complicity in the Plame fiasco!!! WHAT?
When I told him about Armatige, a lefty, that admitted, only after watching a innocent man get destroyed, and jailed for something that had a lefty behind the claim.. He wouldn’t believe me until I sent him the video of the man admitting to the act..
He was furious, because he told me his professors kept throwing this up to anyone that tried to raise any Republican point, about almost anything.. He then discovered that the confession happened long before those Academics used this claim, knowing it was a bold-faced lie!
I spared him the I TOLD YOU SO, comment, although I was biting at the bit.. LOL
Bush took no further action with respect to Libby's conviction or sentence during his presidential term, despite entreaties from conservatives that he should be pardoned. Two days after their term expired, former Vice President Cheney expressed his regret that Bush had not pardoned Libby on his last day in office.[129]from wiki {scooter libby}
-PJ
But his career as a lawyer is ruined !Bush LEFT HIM BEHIND.
Colon Bowel knew Scooter was NOT involved.
But knew his boy Armitage was the leaker.
“Nobody wants to hear the Chicken Dix anymore!”
My point, exactly.
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