No Frog Marching for Democrats (John Kerry exposes an undercover CIA agent)

fownews.com ^ | 4/13/05 | John Gibson

[bitt]

'Remember all the screaming from former diplomat Joe Wilson (search), when Robert Novak (search) exposed Wilson's wife as a CIA agent? Her name is Valerie Plame — you'll know her when you see her. She's the one who now wears big Italian dark glasses and a scarf over her head at all times.

"Spooks can't be exposed!" screamed her husband. And he blamed Karl Rove, insisting Rove exposed his wife as payback for Wilson going public with a story that he personally investigated whether Saddam Hussein tried to get nuke bomb fuel and the answer was no.

Wilson said President Bush ignored his information and Rove dealt payback to Wilson by exposing Wilson's wife as a CIA agent.

Wilson said he wanted Rove, "frog marched across the White House lawn." And oh, by the way, be sure to elect John Kerry, the anti-Bush.

Well, cut to Monday. There was the Senate Foreign Relations Committee trying to batter John Bolton for his long and distinguished history as a U.N.-basher — hey, somebody's got to do it — and Senator John Kerry exposed a CIA officer, by name, right there on TV, right there on the wire stories, right there on the Internet. Bolton tried to keep his cool and continued to refer to the CIA officer in question as Mr. Smith, but Kerry had already blurted out the agent's name.

So another spook uncovered, exposed, now not able to work at his chosen profession and forced to do just what Valerie Plame did: Get his spouse to screech that this is treason and then sign a big fat book deal.

Hey, it's America: All aggrieved parties get book deals.

But what about frog marching John Kerry down the Capitol steps? You don't hear a call for that, do we?

[bluemanredstate]

The "secret agent" in question is listed as the CIA NIO for Latin America at the Conservative Caucus website listing Bush Admin Staff

http://www.conservativeusa.org/whosonfirst-fedam.htm

Chalk this up to a bad AP story that has been spun out of control.

[concerned about politics]

Welcome to FR, newbie.
I can see where the guys name is no longer a secret. Why not post it now? Kerry already spilled his guts.

[ajolympian2004]

And here is the info from that website:

National Intelligence Officer for Latin America: Fulton Armstrong, previously Chief of Staff of the DCI Crime and Narcotics Center (CNC). Prior to that, he served two terms as a Director for Inter-American Affairs at the National Security Council (1995-97 and 1998-99) and as Deputy NIO for Latin America (1997-98). In 1980 he was Legislative Assistant and Press Secretary to US Rep. Jim Leach. In 1984-95, he served as analyst, political-economic officer, and manager specializing in Latin America in the both the intelligence and policy communities.

[yevgenie]

The history given on the website only contains references to years NOT in question.