i hope EVERY ONE of these pukes gets a CIA Special Review of anything they have ever touched for traces of their filth...
Posted on 07/16/2005 7:05:35 PM PDT by STARWISE
SO much in this article .. sorry for all the snips ..
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Valerie Plame had dinner with five of her classmates from the agency's training academy.
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But even though Plame's "cover" had been cracked wide open, her dinner companions didn't pry for details.(snip)
"Cover is a mosaic, it's a puzzle," said James Marcinkowski, a former CIA case officer who attended the dinner. "Every piece is important [to protect] because you don't know which pieces the bad guys are missing."
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The case also has called attention to the precious, concealing commodity the intelligence community calls "cover." The term refers to the amalgam of lies and props, from false names to phony front companies, that disguise a spy's identity and purpose.
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" .. there are distinct categories of cover that CIA operatives use, and an almost endless list of components. Some cover is tissue-thin and disposable. Other arrangements are so layered and deep that they anticipate hostile probing of every facet of a person's life.
Plame's cover — in which she posed as a private energy consultant while actually working for a CIA department tracking weapons proliferation — was somewhere in the middle of those extremes.
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.... her exposure caused minimal damage, mainly because she had been working at headquarters for years, former officials familiar with the review said.
Still, her clandestine career is over, and the outrage among many current and former case officers lingers because cover is something they go to such great lengths to protect.
"It doesn't matter whether he used her name," Marcinkowski said of the recent disclosures surrounding Rove. "It doesn't matter what her status was. He gave up a piece of the puzzle and he had no right to do it."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Urging all to read the rest of this lengthy article .... what's revealed about different methods of cover and the creation thereof is stunning. I can't imagine how Greg Miller can get away with this.
Sounds like he attended this dinner with these former "operatives?" And who arranged that? Will someone get a knock at their door?
The statute involved here is very specific as to what it means by covert status. I'm not John Kerry, so I don't need the nuances.
She should not have married such a publicity hound.
So, these partisan hacks got caught with their pants down.
And Rove was unfortunate to be in the room when she farted. YYYYyyyaaawwwnnn. Wake me up when the farting's over.
In this article Wilson said that Plame didn't reveal her "job" until well into their courtship....
From other articles he said it was the third date---that is "well into their courtship?"
From reading this, I believe she broke quite a few rules by telling him as easily as she did...
Did you read that book that came out last year before the election, Anonymous by a man names Scheurer (sp)...a CIA agent when he wrote it?
I didn't, but I wonder how explicit he gets in his book about this stuff?
Plame was deactivated right after Aldrich Ames got busted. The CIA believed his spying compromised her. Her cover was blown way before Rove entered the picture.
Funny post, and welcome to FReepville. Your humor will amuse many here.
"It doesn't matter what her status was"
It matters everything what her status was when it concerns legal responsibility but even beside that Rove didn't out her either way.
Give it a rest Covert Drama Queens.
Who could have guessed that spending 5 years at a desk job in Washington as an ambassadors wife,while attending political functions was such an obscure,hard to fit piece of our intelligence puzzle.
This gets funnier as each day goes by,still waiting for the forged documents to show up to make it complete.
Her cover is as an energy consultant, but it just so happens that her husband is a Diplomat flying about poking into WMD. If the hostiles suspected she might be CIA, the antics of her husband would have provided the piece of the puzzle that would blow her cover clean off.
All the MSM are HATE America types. Why does this surprise you?
Marking so I can read it tomorrow...
He's told so many lies, it's hard to keep up with them. I've seen Gary Shroen interviewed, but haven't read the book. All I can say is, I'm glad Porter Goss was sent over to head the CIA.
Yes, I also have an impression that five NOCs had dinner together and invited an LA Times reporter to join them. That is a totally disgusting professional breach.
This publicity hound Plame claims that Rove outed her. What a laugh. I trust she has been taken out of the loop at the CIA, and that these friends are taken out as well.
She was clearly a poor choice for the CIA.
i hope EVERY ONE of these pukes gets a CIA Special Review of anything they have ever touched for traces of their filth...
This is information that came from Wilson himself. This information appears no where in Novak's column, nor does it appear anywhere in any conversation with Rove.
Wilson outed his wife in an effort to get Rove. Except that he really didn't "out" her, since she wasn't really undercover. Just like he outed himself as a CIA agent, when he claimed they sent him to investigate a matter of some controversy, except that they didn't send him, she did, and the matter of controversy wasn't actually controversial. Iraq's trade mission to Niger was public information.
And he lied about what his conclusions were, since he reported to the CIA that it was true, and then wrote in the NY Times that it was false.
She said that the idea that Niger was smuggling uranium was "crazy", but we now know it was true, since Libya exposed its uranium connection. Which makes you wonder just how much did the CIA's WMD expert really know about her supposed area of expertise.
Hiring has been going on for quite awhile now, since Goss got in and rolled up his sleeves and continues:
Dang---there has to be a job on that list for me!!!
How about an undercover "nama"? LOL
Hilail Gildin writes: "Andrea Mitchell was asked, on MSNBC, whether it was generally known to news people, before the hullabaloo, that Ms. Planme worked for the CIA. She answered, somewhat reluctantly, that it was. In the light of this, I don't understand the ensuing fuss."
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