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Former CIA agents tell RNC to shut up

Posted on 07/20/2005 6:23:03 AM PDT by Perlstein

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1 posted on 07/20/2005 6:23:08 AM PDT by Perlstein
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Our friends and colleagues have difficult jobs gathering the intelligence, which helps, for example, to prevent terrorist attacks against Americans at home and abroad

Boy howdy, these folks did a fine job warning us about 9-11.

2 posted on 07/20/2005 6:27:13 AM PDT by Quilla
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What is this about? Weird?


3 posted on 07/20/2005 6:29:08 AM PDT by newconhere
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You will notice that they are all formers...I wonder why.


4 posted on 07/20/2005 6:29:29 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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Nothing to see here. Move along.


5 posted on 07/20/2005 6:29:32 AM PDT by madfgurtbn
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You have a link to this? What's the origin?

Maybe the CIA should have been a little more careful with their assignments. They hired Wilson at his wife's request who launched a PR campaign against Bush and joined the John Kerry election tour. They have some explaining to do.


6 posted on 07/20/2005 6:31:10 AM PDT by marylandrepub1 (Liberals outlaw God believing that 'they' are the gods and can create Heaven on Earth)
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we are confident that Valerie Plame was working in a cover status

How do you know? Answer, you don't. There are thousands of former CIA employees and it is easy enough to find lots of partisans who hate George W. Bush. You could only muster eleven to sign this nonsense.
7 posted on 07/20/2005 6:32:07 AM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life, or nothing at all)
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To: darkwing104

Larry Johnson. He sounds familiar. Doesnt he do TV now for CNN?


8 posted on 07/20/2005 6:33:14 AM PDT by newconhere
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We are not lawyers and are not qualified to determine whether the leakers technically violated the 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act. However, we are confident that Valerie Plame was working in a cover status and that our nation's leaders, regardless of political party, have a duty to protect all intelligence officers.

So they're confident of the facts, eh? And the people who are defending Rove see it a different way. Who the hell are THEY to say what others can say?? Take whatever stand you want, you lamebrains, but don't tell other people they can't take a stand. Hell, the Washington Times ran a story last week saying that Plame/Wilson were OPEN about their connection to the CIA.

The First Amendment rules, baby.

9 posted on 07/20/2005 6:33:19 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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I wonder who these folks voted for the past 20 years?
10 posted on 07/20/2005 6:34:01 AM PDT by sonofatpatcher2 (Texas, Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
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"These comments reveal an astonishing ignorance of the intelligence community and the role of cover. "

These comments are being made because the liberal MSM and liberal Democrats are attempting to show that an innocent man has "broken the law," and they are using this issue to try to get him fired and to attack the President. It is the Democrats and their lap dogs in the MSM who are keeping this issue alive. Republicans would be happy if the Democrats dropped the issue.

"We are not lawyers and are not qualified to determine whether the leakers technically violated the 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act."

Fine. Then shut up. You're attacking the wrong party anyway - fools.

11 posted on 07/20/2005 6:35:00 AM PDT by Enterprise (Thus sayeth our rulers - "All your property is mine." - - - Kelo vs New London)
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Isn't there a web site that tracks political contribtions?

Maybe we could look for them on that site...

Cheers!

12 posted on 07/20/2005 6:35:29 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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She wasn't covert at the time so there was no crime.

That being said, we shouldn't go around revealing every non-covert CIA agent to the world just because they aren't covert.

Unless, of course, there is a rationale to reveal that name. For example, if the fix was in from the beginning and the CIA agent got her husband an important job even though she knew he wasn't right for the job because of his partisian democratic nature.

Especially, if that non-covert agent cannot stop her husband from blabbing and lieing to the world about the covert job that the non-covert agent got him.


13 posted on 07/20/2005 6:35:46 AM PDT by JustDoItAlways
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The only time Democrats have ever gone so far as to presume giving a damn about the CIA is when they have a chance to target an official in a Republican administration.

This is all quite pathetic.


14 posted on 07/20/2005 6:36:00 AM PDT by TBarnett34 (What part of "up or down" do you RINOs not understand?)
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To: newconhere
What is this about? Weird?

Beats me. I couldn't get past this:

The Honorable Nancy Pelosi

And this:

The Honorable Harry Reid

15 posted on 07/20/2005 6:36:22 AM PDT by Thermalseeker
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lol. So true.


16 posted on 07/20/2005 6:38:36 AM PDT by newconhere
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This is a liberal attack on Republicans. It's that simple. The liberals have been pushing this issue and the Republicans have been defending themselves. Then, the liberals want the Republicans to shut up. This letter is full of crap.


17 posted on 07/20/2005 6:38:50 AM PDT by Enterprise (Thus sayeth our rulers - "All your property is mine." - - - Kelo vs New London)
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To: darkwing104
You will notice that they are all formers.

That should have been disgruntled formers.

18 posted on 07/20/2005 6:39:18 AM PDT by mollynme (cogito, ergo freepum)
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The CIA can not try to manipulate the political process and then demand anonymity for their players.

There are partisan hacks up to their asses in this mess, and some of them are at Langley.
19 posted on 07/20/2005 6:40:28 AM PDT by mmercier (a long acquaintance with sorrow)
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I have a friend who was in the CIA for 20 plus years and he thinks all this crap is a none issue stirred up by the Dems for political reasons.

I agree with him...

20 posted on 07/20/2005 6:40:30 AM PDT by sonofatpatcher2 (Texas, Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
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