Former CIA agents tell RNC to shut up

[ekwd]

Mel Goodman was a CIA analyst who testified against a Bush 1 nominee for the head of CIA (I forget the nominee's name). He accused the nominee of hyping info that the Bulgarians had helped the man who tried to assassinate the Pope. He was the first person I ever heard use the word "counterintuitive". The last I saw of him he was working at the National War College. He has also worked at the Center For International Policy. The following is a link to an article he wrote for "Counterpunch" in July 2003.

http://cc.msnscache.com/cache.aspx?q=2077999367228&lang=en-US&FORM=CVRE10

Its safe to say he was part of the problem with the CIA, not part of the answer

[docbnj]

This memo is incredibly unprofessional. It shows that we have had a lot of real jerks working in out CIA and intelligence services.

I would fire the lot of them.

[mountainfolk]

Somehow, the RNC forgot to inform me of their talking points so I have had to on my own, judge events as they have unfolded. I have not yet figured why this situation concerns a leak when there has been no leak. All I come up with is a MSM beating the drums for entrenched,and unelected, CIA employees who think they should control foreign policy rather than allow the elected President George Bush to do so. I hope to God that this administration is cleaning house big time at all of the government agencies where unelected employees are subverting US policies because of their personal liberal persuasions.

[ken21]

so wha'?

these are democrat cia guys.

[madison10]

And aren't all these people perhaps "outing" themselves or those they worked with by putting their names to this document?

Yeah. LOL Geniuses aren't they?

Valerie Plame-Wilson gave a donation to Al Gore's campaign from the CIA front company. That's a great way to keep a secret. /sarc

[palmer]

Larry Johnson has been part of Wilson's team banging on his drum from the very beginning. His early statements were all partisan anti-Bush crap. Now he's pretending to be just concerned about Plame, yeah right.

Who is Larry Johnson? He's the author of one of the more poorly timed op-eds in history. On July 10, 2001, he wrote in the New York Times under the headline "The Declining Terrorist Threat" that "Americans have little to fear" from terrorism unless they travel or work in a few of the world's hotspots.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994402/posts

[McGavin999]

Hmmmm. How do we know they are former CIA? We could write something and say we were former CIA undercover agents.

[cynicom]

Boo hoo hoo, sob,snivel, whine, don't you people KNOW WHO WE ARE??????

[palmer]

why would they need covert agents stationed inside the US?

They don't, it's illegal to conduct covert operations within the U.S. but it's normal for agents to maintain their cover after coming back from covert operations overseas. That said, it doesn't look to me like Plame's cover was legitimate. Her former boss claims it was, but then I must question his judgement.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

It is illegal for the CIA to operate within the United States. That is the job of the FBI. The CIA works exclusively outside the country.

It used to be illegal for them to operate in the US, but it isn't now. I can't remember what year the law changed but I think it was late 1980s or early 1990s. It was even a question on "Jeopardy" a few years ago.

[palmer]

The CIA was partly responsible for 9/11.

Johnson himself was partly responsible (see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994402/posts

[rwa265]

"You could only muster eleven to sign this nonsense."

You can read about one of them here:

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0922-01.htm

You think he just might have an agenda?

[burrian]

Ray McGovern, eh? He was one of the moonbats at that John Conyers Downing Street Memo "hearing" where they were passing out the anti-Israel literature.

He went on the PBS News Hour that evening and was just frothing at the mouth, completely unhinged, hate-filled, and unprofessional. It's sad these people ever held positions of prominence within the intelligence community.

It just shows you how there really is an left-wing clique within the CIA and other institutions. All these signatoires have done is call attention to that fact and bolster the sense that Plame and her gang did indeed consciously game the process by sending Joe Wilson to Niger for the purpose of lending the credibility of the CIA to their partisan attack. Just as they've done with this letter - wrapping themselves in the Langley flag so we won't notice their shameful advocacy.

[Lancey Howard]

LOL, where did the Democrats come up with THIS pack of lying scumbags?

[dirtboy]

These comments reveal an astonishing ignorance of the intelligence community and the role of cover. The fact is that there are thousands of U.S. intelligence officers who ?work at a desk? in the Washington, D.C. area every day who are undercover. Some have official cover, and some have non-official cover. Both classes of cover must and should be protected.

Notice that they never claimed that Plame/Wilson was under cover. PFFFT!

[narby]

It's pretty obvious to me that from the Church hearings on the CIA forward, the left has attempted to stack the deck at CIA with partisians. They've done a good job.

Someone needs to close CIA and let the military resume covert activities. We can trust them.

[Khurkris]

bump for reference

[Texas Songwriter]

Where is their letter repudiating John Kerry for outting a covert operator for the CIA on the floor of the Senate? Where is the letter from the nonpartisans to Harry Reid for doing the same?

[popdonnelly]

Of course, Wilson went to Niger as an "agent" of the CIA. But it's okay for him to blow his "cover" for political advantage.

[Lancey Howard]

We stand in her stead and ask that Republicans and Democrats honor her service to her country and stop the campaign of disparagement and innuendo aimed at discrediting Mrs. Wilson and her husband.

Interesting that these "case officers" have nothing to say about Plame donating $1,000 to the Gore campaign in 2000, or Wilson joining the Kerry campaign in 2003, or the two of them helping to launch a rogue CIA/State Department operation to influence the outcome of the 2004 election.