Posted on 07/15/2005 5:57:36 AM PDT by Renfield
After reading this, you realize how ridiculously stupid this entire thing is, and that 98% of the country doesn't give a $hit about it.
What's with all this "undercover agent" crap? This woman was a pencil pusher, not an undercover agent. She wasn't in the field.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
A lot of us have speculated it was Wilson himself who outted his wife. This has some interesting analysis.
And Wilson admitted yesterday to Wolf Blitzer his wife wasn't covert at the time of Novak's article.
I didn't have to read it to realize that. It's ispso facto.......
Valerie Plame and her husband are political activists and most likly gave themselves away by talking to the news people.
I remember the late 70s and early 80s when a former agent (a leftist) went out and published the names of hundreds of covert agents and sources. I don't remember Kerry or any of the other dim honchos calling for his head despite the enormous damage to our intel. I think the name was Philip Agee? Anybody else remember?
Ditto
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Precisely. The issue is why are conservatives even dignifying this with a response? They should simply tell Schmuckie to screw off and go about their business. The entire affair is simply the dems throwing something at the wall to see if anything will stick ---- yet again.
I hate when I do that!
Okay, I know it's a stretch, but I wonder if Plame is just the tip of the iceberg. Meaning. could she be part of a much larger group of Bush-hating CIA agents whose own culpability in failing to predict 9/11, is the reason why they HAD TO wage war on Bush? Kind of a huge coverup, so to speak of their own failures? Could it be that many Clinton holdovers/liberals in the agency are just plain guilty of sleeping on the job (note Plame's principal job was WMD research)? This is quite possibly the number one focus of the grand jury. Not so much to hang the CIA operatives, but in finding the leaker (probably JW), the grand jury might be the impetus for doing what we've wanted for years: clean up the CIA!
yeah, and last week ann coulter said many people in washington knew that valerie plame drove her bmw over to the cia to work.
some "secret" agent!
only a tv moron would believe this story--and that's what this is about.
ping.
This is interesting...round and round we go, where it stops, no one knows..
"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."
According to this paragraph, two senior administration officials told Novak that it was Wilson's wife that suggested him for the trip. It doesn't say those same two officials identified her by name, that she worked at the CIA or was even an Agency operative. So where did Novak get the info that she worked at the CIA and was an operative?
And here's another point I'd like to make on this story.
Why is there not one (one!) so-called journalist who will drive over to Langley and ask someone in charge, what Plame's status was and is. Laziness by the press is one of our nation's worst threats. And if this isn't legal, it would be very nice of the CIA to issue a public statement about this whole thing as well. Instead, this Rove Rage will have DC is a tizzy for another week. Meanwhile, Bush and Rove continue to show up for work on schedule. Ha!
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