Posted on 06/04/2004 6:10:38 AM PDT by Boot Hill
The John Batchelor Show
WABC 770 AM News Talk Radio
New York City
Thursday, June 3, 2004
7:35pm, EST
On Thursday night's broadcast of the John Batchelor Show, long-time intelligence gadfly, John Loftus accused that "the President himself approved the leaking of the name of the CIA agent". What follows is an exact transcription of the relevant portions of the show.
(Transcription begins 3:52 minutes into The Loftus Report segment of the John Batchelor show. [transcriber's notes in brackets])
Batchelor: And I'm certain that Patrick O'Donnell and John Loftus have now convinced you all that the landings on Normandy, the landings on June sixth, sixty years ago, depended upon intelligence and counter-intelligence operations that were successful operations. Fortitude, there was Ultra, the German code and doesn't that bring us to today, gentlemen? Lets, let's deal with the fact that we're in a war right now and the DCI, the man comparable to Wild Bill Donovon, the only one comparable, [talk over] who landed on Utah Beach, lied to everybody and got onto Utah Beach, the man comparable to Wild Bill Donovan, has resigned, John. Ahh, surprised, not surprised and why do we believe he left his office suddenly?
Loftus: You know, it's a combination of things. Partly was because he realized that he was missing his family. The guy has given up a huge amount of his time. His son was getting ready to go to college next year, this is his last year to do it. That was on his mind, but you know part of it was, something else. Now, the the liberals are saying its, oh, he had to be the fall guy for the intelligence screw ups. That's not it. And, uhh, the conservatives are saying that, ahh, you know, he had to fall on his sword to protect the Bush administration, that's not it. What people are telling me tonight is that the guy finally had it. The straw that broke his camel's back was that [Curry?] came to CIA two days ago saying, oh my God, this is what's going on at the grand jury. That it wasn't just Carl Rove and other people, the President himself approved the leaking of the name of the CIA agent.
Batchelor: And were not going to use that aim..., name. I believe everybody knows this in terms of the Wilson affair. This has to do with visit of Africa by Joe Wilson, ambassador Joseph Wilson, who, uhh, visited there at the behest of the Bush administration in two-thousand and three, two-thousand and two, two-thousand and three, two-thousand and two, brought back information that is itself complicated, to do with whether the Iraqi's were trying to buy uranium, U-235, uhh, uhh, ore, in a nuclear weapons program, the reporting, I can not encapsulate it anymore than that. But, there is an active grand jury, we know this from Joe Wilson, himself.
Loftus: And the witnesses are talking.
Batchelor: And this has to do, and Patrick your, your, this is why it's intelligence matter, with the fact that there are laws on the books, and then there's the general understanding that you never reveal the name of a "NOC". What is the..., what is a "NOC", John?
Loftus: Ahh, Non-Official Cover [unintelligible]. It's the toughest job in the world. You have to go in without diplomatic immunity and spy. And, uhh, Ambassador Wilson's wife was a really serious high level CIA spy. For political reasons, a couple people in the Whitehouse said, let's expose this woman to get brownie points.
Batchelor: And this has to do with the summer of two-thousand and three, after that there was contradiction about the uranium 235 story, ahh, from Joseph Wilson who published an op-ed in the New York Times in July of two-thousand and three.
Loftus: Now there's a real danger saying "post hoc ergo propter hoc", it's an old fancy phrase for saying "just because something happened yesterday, doesn't predict what happens tomorrow", there's no connection maybe connecting the dots. But, there's a lot of gossip on the intel side saying, this was it, this was the straw, that that broke Tenant's heart. And he resigned under protest, but didn't protest. He'll protect the Bush administration, umm, John McLaughlin will be the anointed successor. There will be no hearings until after the election is over. Uhh, but Tenent's had it, I mean, he had to stand up for his agency and he's a stand-up guy, he's a class act. A lot of people knock him, but I think that we were very lucky to have a guy like him.
Batchelor: George Tenent, born 1953, graduated Georgetown and Columbia University, uhh, was app..., was confirmed DCI in 1997, we're now an acting DCI.
(Transcription ends 7:43 minutes into The Loftus Report segment of the John Batchelor show.)
If by that you mean "Passed out in front of the 'Emerald Isle'" - I don't know.
Sorry, no idea what you're talking about with the gun, Elaines, WASP, etc.
The rest of my post is pretty much accurate; I'm not sure if Alexander is still writing plays, or working on a novel, or what, but he is temporarily out of the talk radio biz.
Have any of his reports ever been substantiated?
"What Kerry internal poll#s?"
The ones cited by Dick Morris, Susan Estrich, Mort Kondracke, Chris Matthews, Robert Reich, Zell Miller, Juan Williams, Ceci Connelly, Tim Russert, Inside the Beltway, Roll Call, Inside Politics, Paul Begala, James Carville and CNN.....to name a few.
No, but as a CIA "operative", Plame must have run it through her chain, which would include soon to be former DCI Tenet.
How can anyone every tell? That's another part of the beauty of his scam (see #38), his reports are not backed up by transcripts that can be checked later for accuracy. The transcripts I post are done by hand by me.
--Boot Hill
I heard this last night. I am not buying his whole argument.
But I will say this: something is going on that grand jury, someone is saying something, because Bush retained Sharp for some reason. And I don't like the fact that it happened at the same time as Tenet leaving for "personal and financial reasons".
Do we know who has testified in front of that grand jury? Why haven't they subpoenaed Robert Novak? He supposedly knows the truth.
I guess what I sam saying is - I think the left could cook up a case here against Bush, we don't know what the witnesses are saying, are they saying things because someone got to them. Potentially, its a big problem for Bush.
actually, the rift flared up when Alexander trash talked Loftus (on the air) because Loftus would not back up Alexander's claim that there was a conspiracy to kill JFK.
it depends on what the meaning of the word "substantiated" is. LOL!
But seriously - you know his latest grand prediction: The IAEA and the UN will confront Iran on their nuclear weapons program. the US Navy will be engaged in a major conflict in the Persian Gulf - both to embargo Iran's oil, and stop Iran from attacking and closing Gulf shipment of oil from the other states.
Loftus is also the only person who has named the chemical weapons "as VX, Sarin & 70 others" in the "Jordan attack" that never happened. Noone has ever been able to confirm anything he said about that...
There was nothing sinister about that move. He retained private counsel for the very simple reason of assuring attorney-client confidentiality. If the government pays for the lawyer, then the government is the client. If Bush pays for the lawyer, then Bush is the client and his confidential communications can't be breached.
--Boot Hill
Of course not! The lab results are top secret. He could tell us, but then he'd have to kill us!
--Boot Hill
I understand. But I am still uneasy about that - and what's being said on that grand jury.
If the government hires the lawyer, then the government is the client. If Bush hires the lawyer, then Bush is the client and his confidential communications can't be breached.
--Boot Hill
--Boot Hill
If I am not mistaken, Loftus is a part of the Kerry campaign in some capacity.
--Boot Hill
The best reply to this B.S. is the fact that anyone stupid enough to marry this opportunist husband she has isn't smart enough to be a secret agent and stay alive longer than a month.
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