Posted on 07/16/2005 8:20:46 PM PDT by DaveTesla
So now we know a lot of the facts. In the midst of a war, a rogue CIA employee named Valerie Plame set out to sabotage the President's war policy -- a policy ratified by both political parties and both houses of Congress. To do this she sent her husband on a mission to Niger to discredit the President's statement that Saddam Hussein was seeking uranium there -- in other words to discredit a justification for the war in which Americans were continuing to die. Forget for a moment the treasonous nature of an action designed to undermine a duly arrived at war policy and to destroy the credibility of the commander-in-chief while this nation's soldiers were in harm's way. The mere act of sending a relative on a mission like this was illegal under existing statutes for someone in Plame's position.
Her husband, Joseph Wilson, went off to Niger, did no investigation and came back and lied about what he had allegedly discovered. The bi-partisan 9/11 commission concluded that Wilson's claims were false -- a year and half after the damage the Plame-Wilson team intended was already done.
The Plame-Wilson lie was designed to make the President look like a liar and the nation's democratically and legally arrived at war policy a fraud. This came right at the climax of anti-war primary campaign of Howard Dean in July 2003, just three months after the fall of Baghdad and when the terrorist counter-attack had already begun.
Immediately the Democratic Party leadership jumped on the President calling him a liar and a fraud using the 16 words in the January 2003 State of the Union address about Niger as evidence. These 16 words were perfectly true than (as now) yet that didn't stop Democrats from using the Plame-Wilson lies to undermine the authority of the commander-in-chief in the eyes of the American people and before the entire world. No psychological warfare campaign ever conducted by an enemy against the United States has been as effetive as this one.
It emboldened our terrorist enemies, and sowed distrust in Europe and throughout the world about American policies, continued for more than six months with of course the megaphone provided by the NY Times and other Bush-hating and America bashing media institutions.
Joseph Wilson threw fuel on the fire by falsely claiming that Vice President Cheney had sent him and not his treacherous anti-Bush wife in her attempt to protect Saddam Hussein and his monster regime. NDavid Corn of the Saddam- and terrorist-sympathizing Nation and other journalists in the opposition press jumped on the story and projected the treacherous activities of Wilson and Plame onto the Bush Administration which was still trying to carry on an anti-terrorist war in the Middle East.
Corn was the first to suggest that outing Plame as a rogue CIA employee was itself treason and certainly against the law. It was not. Plame is not a cover CIA operative and besides and all its Democrat friends in Congress opposed the law protecting CIA agents and protected and even lionized the rogue CIA agent Philip Agee whose leaks of the names of covert CIA agents had gotten one agent killed and was responsible for the enactment of the law. The Nation also has been in the forefront of the fawners at the feet of liar Joseph Wilson giving him a dinner and award for his treachery. (Working against your own government in time of war, while in the employ of your government is by definition treachery.) In other words The Nation is entirely consistent: it will protect those CIA agents (Agee, Plame) who are enemies of the United States or its policies, and and only those agents.
Democrats will of course mentally dissociate themselves from acts of conscious treachery. And many of them have reason to do so. Unlike the Nation radicals, they are not rooting for our enemies to win. On the other hand, over and over in this war they have shown that they are prepared to win elections even at the cost of American defeats in the war on terror -- which as we can easily caculate may cost 100,000 American lives at a blow. Or as the President once put it to Tom Daschle, they are a party who will put their partisan interests above the security of 300 million Americans.
In a synchronity that all honest liberals should pay attention to, an appeals court has found that no torture or illegality took place at Guantanamo and that the legal campaign led by communist supporter Michael Ratner in behalf of the Guantanamo terrorists is based on an even bigger lie than the Plame-Wilson sabotage. In this assault on the war on terror from behind our lines the Democratic Party is also a willing and essential accomplice.
It's time for the Democrats to stop their sabotage of the war on terror. It's time for them to put away the witch-hunt against Karl Rove and Homeland Security, and to begin finally to think about defending this country instead of its internal enemies.
LOL. I know his background, I put Radical Son right up there with Chamber's Witness as two of my favorite political biographies.
Send them to CLUB LEAVENWORTH.
Or club Gitmo for some serious rest and relaxation. It would be nice to see them spend some time among friends.
His assertions are exactly correct. This has been becoming more obvious as this has unfolded. It was clear at the time that Wilson's "mission" was a treasonous one.
What exactly do you know about David Horowitz? I have a thimble around here some place to put it in, when you let us know.
No, I don't really think its exagerated.
Do you remember that at the same time, the story came out about the forged documents, which were supposedly the source of Bush's "sixteen words"?
The documents, it turns out, were forgeries, which were commissioned and paid for by French intelligence, and produced by the Niger embassy. Knowing they were false, they then pushed them on the CIA, and then exposed them as false in order to cover over the fact that France and Niger were, in fact, engaged in uranium smuggling.
This occurred at exactly the same time as Wilson's claim that the Niger story had been investigated by the CIA, and found to be false. If you remember back, this came at a critical time in the run-up to the war, and at a critical time in the presidential campaign. I frankly don't know how Bush got past it. So yes, in terms of psyops, it was pretty slick.
Since Bush did survive it, I suppose you could say that it wasn't effective enough, but it did wound him, and we've been paying for it ever since.
Just remember, Iraq's trade mission to Niger was not really a secret, it was in the public domain. Since Plame and her pals are the supposed CIA WMD experts, they ought to have known this. If they didn't, they're incompetent. If they did, then this is a fake operation.
Remember that Plame thought the very idea that France would be smuggling uranium was "crazy", and yet we now know that they were. Again, either she's incompetent, or she had decided what the outcome of the fake investigation was before he left home.
In any case, Iraq's trade mission was public knowledge, meaning that Bush's remarks were true. Wilson knew about the trade mission, meaning he knew Bush's remarks were true even as he was denouncing Bush as a liar.
This little episode was intended to throw an election, and I'm surprised that it didn't.
The CIA hasn't exactly been covered with glory lately. They missed what happened 911. They missed the big story in Niger (French smuggling). They swore there were WMD in Iraq, but couldn't find them (remember, Plame is the WMD expert). They aggressively leaked to the press again and again that Mohammed Atta wasn't in Prague, although Czech intel says again and again that he was... On what basis does CIA swear it isn't so? On the basis that.... well there is no basis. They say it didn't happen because... they... can't verify that it happened.
There have been a series of leaks coming out of CIA intended to wound Bush and obstruct the war. The Wilson/Plame case just allows us a chance to catch some of them red-handed.
It was Valerie and her I'M A DIPLOMAT AND THIS IS MY WIFE THE SPY Wilson, who cooked this up in consort and I believe with the help ( or at the very least, the tacit knowledge ) of the DNC, the Kerry campaign, and the like. She had to put SOMETHING in the memo she sent, to have her husband sent to Niger, didn't she? I very much doubt that this was her idea, to begin with.
Before you start complaining about me and my posts, I suggest that you get your time lines straight. It is only now, NOW, two years later, that Rove's name is being thrown about as the "outer of a NOC"; yet, all of the stiff about Plame and Wilson has been known for years.
I'll see if we are on the same side, or not, after I see more of your posts. :-)
I like that as well. :-)
She acts as though these are not conclusions which were being reached here for a week or so.
If they aren't being shredded Sandy Burgler will be sent in to switch out the documents.
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I guess you need the time to get the talking points from the DNC and DU. :-)
Oh, this IS "fun", but you won't think it is for long. LOL
Surely you are aware that a GJ is just the tool of the prosecutor aren't you? It's function is essentially to stamp "Approved" on the prosecutors actions.
I sat as Foreman for the Cook County GJ one month and indicted about 300 "Ham Sandwiches."
Two GREAT books, which EVERONE needs to read! :-)
Hmmmmmm .. was it the "rogue CIA officers" who really instigated the trip to Niger ..????
I've thought the exact same thing.
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