Posted on 07/17/2005 1:12:46 AM PDT by MaineVoter2002
Plame's Former CIA Boss: Plame was No Secret
A former CIA covert agent who supervised Mrs. Plame early in her career yesterday took issue with her identification as an "undercover agent,"...
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
A former CIA covert agent who supervised Mrs. Plame early in her career yesterday took issue with her identification as an "undercover agent," saying that she worked for more than five years at the agency's headquarters in Langley and that most of her neighbors and friends knew that she was a CIA employee. "She made no bones about the fact that she was an agency employee and her husband was a diplomat," Fred Rustmann, a covert agent from 1966 to 1990, told The Washington Times. "Her neighbors knew this, her friends knew this, his friends knew this. A lot of blame could be put on to central cover staff and the agency because they weren't minding the store here. ... The agency never changed her cover status." Mr. Rustmann, who spent 20 of his 24 years in the agency under "nonofficial cover" -- also known as a NOC, the same status as the wife of Mr. Wilson -- also said that she worked under extremely light cover. In addition, Mrs. Plame hadn't been out as an NOC since 1997, when she returned from her last assignment, married Mr. Wilson and had twins, USA Today reported yesterday. The distinction matters because a law that forbids disclosing the name of undercover CIA operatives applies to agents that had been on overseas assignment "within the last five years." "She was home for such a long time, she went to work every day at Langley, she was in an analytical type job, she was married to a high-profile diplomat with two kids," Mr. Rustmann said. "Most people who knew Valerie and her husband, I think, would have thought that she was an overt CIA employee." Asked whether his wife had been compromised before the press leak, Mr. Wilson said, "I have no idea,"
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050715-121257-9887r.htm
Ping.
Yeah right!
Can some body tell me if the President EVER said he would "Fire" anybody involved in leaking this information? All I ever heard him say is "they would be dealt with." I keep hearing reporters say the President said he would fire them but none have backed that up with footage or clips.
bttt
As far as I have seen that "they would be dealt with." quote is the example the liberal media uses whenever they cite that Bush said 'he would "fire" anybody involved with leaking this information'
http://jednet207.tripod.com/PoliticalLinks.html
From what I've heard on the radio, the President said that "anyone who broke the law would be dealt with." He did not say he would discipline anyone who was involved in this leak in any way. He said they had to break the law, and of course the mainstream media is twisting his words into a giant pretzel. Just look at the recent pictures of Bush & Rove with big grins on their faces. That tells you everything you need to know about the Plame game.
"IF law was violated they will be dealt with"
Yes, that's the only one I've heard.
Nope, President Bush NEVER said that he would fire anyone.
I have never seen a transcript of the "fire" quote.
Hmmm, I wonder why the public doesn't trust the media?
Just an FYI...
Longtime editorial director at Random House, Jason Epstein is Judith Miller's husband.
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Jason Epstein, Judith Miller's Husband, Says She Was 'Not Dragged Off in Chains'
By Joe Strupp
Published: July 06, 2005 5:20 PM ET
NEW YORK Just hours after watching his wife, New York Times reporter Judith Miller, hauled off to jail for refusing to reveal her source in the Valerie Plame case, legendary book and magazine editor Jason Epstein told E&P it would have taken putting "a gun to her head" to make her think about revealing her source.
He did not yet know which jail she had been sent to, but said the judge had agreed to keep her out of a Washington, D.C. city jail and instead put her in a jail in the nearby metro area. "I haven't seen her since," he said. "I won't be able to see her this weekend. But as soon as they let me, I will sit down and talk to her."
E&P reached Epstein on Miller's cell phone, which she handed to her husband prior to her court appearance. He was in the law office of Washington, D.C. attorney Robert Bennett.
Epstein, who was next to Miller when Hogan ordered her taken away, said he had almost no time to say goodbye. "They took her through a door, she was their property," he recalled. "I think she was right to stand up on her principles and she knew that, she took her punishment."
Her husband said Miller was "surrounded by marshals and well-wishers" and "was not dragged off in chains. She was prepared for it. I'm not sure I would have done as well."
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>>>I have never seen a transcript of the "fire" quote.
Becasue there is none.
But read thread/post " (Prosecute Plame: More Treachery in the War at Home/Frontpage Magazine/David Horowitz posted by David Telsa. . .) to see beyond the frenzy. . .'nada' may only be the beginning of something. . .
The thread appears to be unraveling, finally. . .maybe. . .
He said he would fire anyone in his adminustration that leaked ''classified information''! So .....if this ''covert CIA operative'' wasnt covert at the time . and secondly if it was a known fact in Washington, and thirdly if Wilson himself had already ''outed'' her on his own website years before. I don't think anythings going to happen to Rove. Anyway Rove didn't leak anything, David Corn a known liberal RAT did. Roves in the clear!
Is there a link you can post?
That's for sure, or Norm Mineta would already have been stuck in an airport security check on his way home for good.
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