Posted on 07/14/2005 8:15:17 PM PDT by macsmind76
BLITZER: But the other argument that's been made against you is that you've sought to capitalize on this extravaganza, having that photo shoot with your wife, who was a clandestine officer of the CIA, and that you've tried to enrich yourself writing this book and all of that.
What do you make of those accusations, which are serious accusations, as you know, that have been leveled against you.
WILSON: My wife was not a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak blew her identity.
BLITZER: But she hadn't been a clandestine officer for some time before that?
WILSON: That's not anything that I can talk about. And, indeed, I'll go back to what I said earlier, the CIA believed that a possible crime had been committed, and that's why they referred it to the Justice Department.
She was not a clandestine officer at the time that that article in Vanity Fair appeared. And I have every right to have the American public know who I am and not to have myself defined by those who would write the sorts of things that are coming out, being spewed out of the mouths of the RNC...
(Excerpt) Read more at transcripts.cnn.com ...
This is a dying non-issue.
In fact, one could sing: "As the farmer hauled another load away... You could tell by the smell it wasn't hay..."
If the MSM weren't such syncophants, this would just vanish from all the radars instantaneously!!!
I'm beginning to think that THAT is what this is all about; he fancies himself James Angelton.
Doesn't matter to the Rats. They know how the game works. Make wild accusations, knowing the MSM will cooperate and give them time on the Nightly News, where the vast majority of Americans get their information. They'll just repeat the same things over and over, so that Joe Six-Pack will think, "That Karl Rove must be a bad guy if they are so upset about him."
Then when the truth comes out, it gets buried so that most won't even be paying attention when it does, but by then the damage is done.
LOL.......well done!
It's my understanding that the "law" is five years of non-covert status before an agent can be outed.
Just think its fair if the reporters want to ask some question why arent they questioning him like that? I swear our press is so lazy.
Before Rush/other conservative talk show hosts, Fox News, the internet and Free Republic, the MSM treated us like mushrooms.
They kept us in the dark, covered us with their bs and expected us to believe whatever they lied about.
Those days are over.
And of course, that is OUT OF CONTEXT from the liar Wilson.
In the days after the Novak column ran, a producer from ABC-Wilson will not say who-phoned him at home and said, "They're saying things about you at the White House so off-the-wall we can't even put them up." NBC's Andrea Mitchell called him that weekend, he says, and told him that sources at the White House were telling her, "The real story here is not the 16 words-the real story is Wilson and his wife." Next, Wilson got a call from a journalist whom he won't name-but who is widely thought to be Chris Matthews-who, according to Wilson, gushed, "I just got off the phone with Karl Rove. He says your wife is fair game. I gotta go." Click.
Now, correct me if I am wrong, but was SHE part of the story? How did he expect her not to be "fair game" since she's the one who suggested him for the trip?
Rush just played this clip from Ambassador Wilson.
How pathetic. Then he refused to say when she stopped being a clandestine officer.
By the way... speaking of rain... turn the danged thermostat down outside, will ya??? (sweatty grin)
Rush has been gutting and deballing this pack of lies all week.
Here is some more info:
October 19, 2003
THE PLAME AFFAIR: HOW MUCH DAMAGE?....Time magazine keeps us up to date on the potential damage from the exposure of Valerie Plame:
Officials with two foreign governments told Time that their spy catchers are quietly checking on whether Plame had worked on their soil and, if so, what she had done there. Which means if one theme of the Administration leak scandal concerns political vengeance — did the White House reveal Plame's identity in order to punish Wilson for his public criticism of the case for war with Iraq? — another theme is about damage. What has been lost, and who has been compromised because of the leak of one spy's name? And who, if anyone, will pay for that disclosure?
And how secret was Plame's CIA role? Apparently she was an undercover NOC (non-official cover), but not a deep undercover NOC:
Fred Rustmann, a former CIA official who put in 24 years as a spymaster and was Plame's boss for a few years, says Plame worked under official cover in Europe in the early 1990s — say, as a U.S. embassy attache — before switching to nonofficial cover a few years later. Mostly Plame posed as a business analyst or a student in what Rustmann describes as a "nice European city." Plame was never a so-called deep-cover NOC, he said, meaning the agency did not create a complex cover story about her education, background, job, personal life and even hobbies and habits that would stand up to intense scrutiny by foreign governments.
....Though Plame's cover is now blown, it probably began to unravel years ago when Wilson first asked her out. Rustmann describes Plame as an "exceptional officer" but says her ability to remain under cover was jeopardized by her marriage in 1998 to the higher-profile American diplomat.
Except Robert Novak, Matt Cooper, Judy Miller, and Walter Pincus.
Wilson is in a big ego trip. He might take down a few people with him.
Speaking of ego trip, Chuckie Schumer was calling himself the "senior Senator from New York" yesterday, since he seems to realize that Senator Clinton is the de facto senior Senator.
And who called who??
My bet is that Chrissy was the one that called Rove
I really haven't followed the story closely, but IIRC, her so-called "cover" was blown in that "heavy make-out session" with her future spouse.
I've had numerous conversations (long ago) with individuals who had knowledge of CIA personnel and operations. There is NO WAY IN HELL they let anybody (including close friends) know they worked for the agency. When asked about where they worked, they used the title of some harmless, nondescript agency.
You are correct.
Look further down the page for the January, 2004 date for primary appearances.
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