Posted on 07/14/2005 9:40:04 PM PDT by FairOpinion
SANFORD: No, I think it's pretty clear that what Karl Rove said to Time magazine's Matthew Cooper doesn't even come close to the kind of knowing violation that is required by the act. Really, the act really requires an intent to harm national security, and that certainly can't be said in these circumstances, I think.
I think a covert agent under the act has to be someone who has deep cover, who is working abroad. Not just traveling abroad, but is stationed and working abroad sometime within the last five years.
And USA Today reported that Joe Wilson's book has even made -- if you do the timeline, the Wilsons were married in 1998. There's some question whether she was even abroad during the last five years.
She really had a desk job at [CIA headquarters in] Langley [Virginia] and was driving in and out of the CIA every day. That's not exactly deep cover.
SANFORD: Well, ... it is worth remembering that when Robert Novak, the columnist, disclosed her identity in his column, he had called the CIA to tell them he was going to do that, and they didn't stop him.
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yup , but ya notice the only Senator with that word passing his lips yesterday ,... ol' Lousenberg ,... and let us remember the shenanigans with "The Torch"
ya mean , the comedy team of , "Upchuck & Wilson" ...??!!?
We could start a list of the lies.
Stem-cell research ban: there is no ban.
Bush invaded Iraq to retaliate for 9/11: hmm, where is that?
I like your oil lie. Because of the war, look at oil prices: no, look at the lack of internal energy resources.
There is another one that drives me nuts, but I can't think of it right now. But, when I hear any of these on TV and the reporter doesn't challenge them, I am pretty vocal about it.
So true.
As a kid tons of my friends had fathers working at NSA and CIA. Matter of fact, an ex-CIA contractor left my office about 1/2 hour ago (that was one of the first things he told me about his work history).
People living around the Beltway are used to this. It's mildly interesting but not remarkable. Only a small percentage are spooks.
But I have little doubt that every cabbie, waiter, and reporter in DC knew about showboater Joe Wilson's wife.
CIA officer named prior to column
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
July 23, 2004
Mrs. Plame's identity as an undercover CIA officer was first disclosed to Russia in the mid-1990s by a Moscow spy, said officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
In a second compromise, officials said a more recent inadvertent disclosure resulted in references to Mrs. Plame in confidential documents sent by the CIA to the U.S. Interests Section of the Swiss Embassy
Wilson's report from Nigeria should be considered suspect. A new Nigerian yellow cake report should be quietly comissioned to see if there were any blatant errors of omission in Wilson's report. If it's proven that he skewed that report in favor of finding nothing when there really was something to be found, then I say let him be the first public hanging of the new millenium.
My parents lived in Northern Virginia for years. Their best friends lived next door. We knew he worked for "The Agency." Everyone did. You cannot keep that a secret in Northern Va. You know who works at the CIA, Pentagon, Secret Service and any other government agency.
We all thought he was a pencil pusher as he drove to work everyday and parked in the parking lot.
My parents went to his retirement party at the CIA. Man, were they surprised to find out he was an operative involved in some of the big issues during the past few decades.
The stories told at that party left my parents speechless. (of course it had been more than 5 years, none of it was classified, all of the operations had long been in the public domain, and none of the specifics were discussed).
In all of the years my parents had known him, they never had a clue. No one did. All we knew is he worked at the agency. They (the next door neighbors) kept their mouths shut, had no involvement with the DC elite and no partisan agenda.....
Contrast that with the Wilsons.
Liberal's List Of Lies
* What ever happned to the Downing street memo?
* Jeff Gannon?
* Bush’s National guard memo?
* The economy tanking?
* Deficit out of control?
* US Troops are Nazi’s?
* Bush bringing back the draft?
* Patriot Act does not catch Terrorists?
* Tom Delay witch hunt? (odd that went away when we found out there were tons of Democrat’s invoved doing the same thing, odd indeed)
* No plane hitting the pentagon?
* Tricks keeping voters from Polls in Ohio?
* The Euro is going to bury the dollar?
* Dems taking back the House? and the Sentate in 2000?,2002?, 2004?...etc etc etc ???????
Joe Wilson will never find another job other than for a kooky demz who doesn't care about credibility. Put a fork in him. He is done.
Now that's Classic!!
Doesn't he know Peter Pan lives in Netherland and molest little boys?
Seems to me Rove may have a case for a lawsuit, claiming defamation of character. I can see it on the docket now, Rove vs. DNC.
Do you have a link for that caption?
We must go post plenty of pictures at DU.
But that would be trying to resolve this non-issue with facts.
Hillary?
Not to mention it's public record for campaign contributions...get this...in 1997 and last year. Heading reads Valerie P, under where the amounts are reads Wilson.
I mean duh..."Rove said Ms. Wilson, so he outed her" Joe Wilson. Dumbass, your name should not be a covert name...why can't anyone get that? Mrs. Wilson...geez.
May not apply? If the person identified is not a "covert agent" as defined by the statute, it does not apply.
Patience.
Earth to Skeeve.
The Press was running full tilt boogie with a bogus story that impacted national security and the VP.
He was correcting a story.
Most of the people that work at CIA are not considered secret.
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