Posted on 07/20/2005 10:41:03 AM PDT by StudentsForBush
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Sen. John Kerry, who called for Karl Rove to be fired over allegations that he revealed the identity of CIA employee Valerie Plame, outed a genuine undercover CIA agent just this past April - even after the agency asked that his identity be kept secret.
Kerry blew the cover of CIA secret operative Fulton Armstrong during confirmation hearings for U.N. ambassador nominee John Bolton.
"The answer is yes," the top Democrat continued.
In his response to Kerry, Mr. Bolton did his best to maintain the agent's confidentiality, reverting to Armstrong's pseudonym.
"As I said," he told Kerry, "I had lost confidence in Mr. Smith, and I conveyed that."
Two years earlier, Armstrong had been identified in news reports on his dispute with other officials over intelligence involving Cuba. But he was operating in a different capacity and his identity wasn't secret at the time.
"When the Bolton nomination resurrected the old accounts, however, the C.I.A. asked news organizations to withhold his name," the Times said.
Apparently the CIA directive wasn't good enough for Sen. Kerry - who outed Armstrong anyway and later defended the move by saying his Republican colleague, Senator Richard Lugar, had also mentioned the name.
And besides, said Kerry, the secret agent's name "had already been in the press."
bttt
He,He, and he may be the dems candidate for president????
bttt
who is John Kerry?
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bumoeroonie
Come on, you know the rules. Dems get a pass from the MSM. They are never accountable. And if someone has the "goods" on them, it's Bush's fault. Or it doesn't matter. Or whatever.
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The canonical answer to that rhetorical question is, "You don't say!"
BTTT.
"The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States [as modified by the 27th amendment]. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place."
So only the Congress can punish the Distinguished Junior Senator from the Great Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Forbes Kerry for his speech in the Capitol of the name of a Central Intelligence Agency operative. And with Democrats (read: Seditionists) in firm control of the Senate, that simply won't happen.
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