Posted on 07/22/2005 1:59:59 PM PDT by zencat
Former U.S. intelligence officers criticized President Bush on Friday for not disciplining Karl Rove in connection with the leak of the name of a CIA officer, saying Bush's lack of action has jeopardized national security.
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The libs are hellbent on conforming our nation into a socialist morally ambiguous 'utopia'... They think they can create a heaven on earth LOL -one problem, REALITY...
Friday, August 1st, 2003
Ex-CIA Agent Robert Baer: How Washington Sold Its Soul for Saudi Crude
Ex-CIA Agent Robert Baer discusses why the Bush administration is trying to shield Saudi ties to the Sept. 11 attacks. He also talks about the ties between Saudis and the hijackers; the Bush family's connections with the Saudi royal family and the Carlyle Group; and the possibility of the U.S. someday seizing Saudi's oil fields.
Robert Baer former CIA officer who served for years as an undercover operative in the Middle East. He is the author of the new book Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Its Soul for Saudi Crude.
February 11, 2004
Robert Baer, an ex-CIA field officer in its Directorate of Operations division from 1976 to 1997. He is the author of See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism.
Baer: For a start everyone in the CIA knew that Clinton refused to see his CIA director. This wrecked morale throughout the CIA. Why get yourself in trouble spying if no one in the White House cared? The result was that the really good officers resigned and everyone else elected to stay home.
Baer: I think Clinton was naive. He didn't have the slightest idea there was a dangerous world out there. A baby-boomer, he was more concerned about Nasdaq and the way he felt about things than he was about national security.
Baer: People in the Middle East hate the United States for a variety of reasons. For a start we are accused of propping up corrupt regimes, from Saudi Arabia to Morocco. They believe we profit from these regimes and it is in our economic interest to protect them. Secondly, people in the Middle East hate us for giving unlimited support to Israel. Finally, at the bottom of it all, as the last super power, we are blamed for everything that goes wrong in the world.
Robert Baer, an ex-CIA analyst in the Middle East, argues in his recently released book Sleeping with the Devil, that the Saudi royal family is doomed within a decade, and probably before. With the pincers closing in of escalating fundamentalism on the one hand, and the lingering threat of US pressure to crack down on the other, Baer’s claim is not difficult to believe.
'Bombing Saddam is ignorance'
Robert Baer, the ex-CIA man in Iraq during the failed uprising in 1995, says the US is not in a position to strike against Iraq because it does not understand anything about the country
Sunday March 3, 2002
The Observer
Robert Baer's objections to an attack on Iraq could hardly be principled. As the CIA's point man in Iraq during the failed uprising in 1995, he encouraged dissident groups to believe that the United States wanted the overthrow and death of Saddam Hussein. Yet Baer, whose memoir of life in the CIA, See No Evil, is published in Britain tomorrow, is appalled at the idea of a US strike against Iraq today.
and the ones who didn't know dick about Pakistan's (or was it India's) a-bomb test?
or the ones who let China build up their military from not even being able to reach or find Alaska with a missle to being able to target every city in America? Those bastions of efficiency and concerned for our national security?
Thanks for your well-researched and comprehensive post. That's what Free Republic is all about.
This is the reason the OLD MEDIA is beating this DEAD HORSE...
Dear MoveOn member,
Like a roller coaster, the news out of Washington this week has been an up and down ride. On Monday, the entire country was focused on Karl Rove's leak of the identity of an undercover CIA operative to the media. Then President Bush announced his nominee for the Supreme Court on primetime TV—nearly pushing the Rove story out of the news. The timing was intentional, a top Republican told Reuters: "It helps take Rove off the front pages for a week.”1 Monday, there were 1,043 news stories mentioning "Karl Rove" on top TV stations—yesterday there were 128.2
But last night, Bloomberg broke a major new part of the story: Rove’s explanation to the grand jury of how he learned Valerie Plame’s identity differs sharply from the explanations journalists gave.3 That could mean Rove lied to the grand jury—a felony. We need to make sure the media get back on the case. One easy way to do that is on the Letters-to-the-Editor page of newspapers. We've set up an online tool that makes submitting a letter easy. You write your letter, choose where you want it to go, and click to send. Will you write a letter to the editor? Click below to get started.
http://political.moveon.org/lte/lte_t.html?zip=<e_campaign_id=26&id=5843-5511355-4suTv95MhrwWypFT1tEWdQ&t=5
An effective letter-to-the-editor is short, just a couple of paragraphs. The goal is to show your local media, your neighbors, and even our elected leaders that people are upset about the Rove leak scandal.
Your letter will be very timely. Now, there are new revelations about a memo that made it clear to White House officials that CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity was a secret. The memo is evidence that there are probably multiple people involved in this CIA leak scandal.4
The Rove leak is scandalous because everybody agrees White House officials shouldn't blow the cover of our undercover CIA agents. An ABC News poll shows that a solid majority of Americans—some 75 percent—support firing Rove for what he did. This is true even among 71 percent of Republicans.5 But, so far, Republicans in Washington are ignoring the facts. It is important that the media hears that people are angry about the Rove leak so they keep reporting on developments in the case.
The outing of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame is more outrageous because Karl Rove and the other White House leakers clearly had a political, not a patriotic, agenda. Ambassador Joe Wilson was refuting the bogus claims by the Bush administration about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Revealing the undercover identity of Wilson’s CIA agent wife was an attempt to discredit Ambassador Wilson and silence critics of the Iraq war. The lies that Wilson exposed were central to the rationale for war the Bush administration sold the American people.
Your letter can send a signal to the media that people don't want officials in important government positions who put their political agenda ahead of their patriotism. We can insist on media coverage of the White House leak. Please write a letter today.
http://political.moveon.org/lte/lte_t.html?zip=<e_campaign_id=26&id=5843-5511355-4suTv95MhrwWypFT1tEWdQ&t=6
There is also good news from Congress—the Democrats are standing up and working hard to make sure there is accountability. Today, Senate and House Democrats will hold their own hearings on the national security implications of the leak. They’ll hear from former CIA agents including a former classmate of Valerie Plame. The hearings will be chaired by Senator Byron Dorgan and Congressman Henry Waxman.
Together, we pushed stories like the Downing Street Memos into the news. Let's jumpstart the Karl Rove story.
Thanks for all you do.
–Tom, Carrie, Wes, James and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team
Friday, July 22nd, 2005
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WOW!
Are all the broom closets booked? They just don't stop!
Great work!
Ravingnutter has done a tremendous job researching this matter.
What does this mean:
"Shortly after the “surprise” Tenet-Pavitt resignations, current and former senior members of the U.S. intelligence community and the Justice Department told journalist Wayne Madsen, a former Naval intelligence officer, that they were directly connected to the criminal investigation of a 2003 White House leak that openly exposed Valerie Plame as an undercover CIA officer."
And are the Powell and Armitage resignations included in the criminal investigation?
That never stopped any one of these so-called "Disgruntled ex-CIA employees".
They want to be perceived as doing "the people's work".
That's BS and he knows it.
The guy is a real nutjob. To tell anyone, let alone his wife, anything about his job, he had to get clearance from his superiors, and as dumb as he looks and sounds, I doubt he ever went that far.
I used to feel like the CIA was our security blanket....
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They did not see the collapse of the Soviet Union coming - end of their credibility for me.
Then the Clinton years probably distilled out most remaining agents who could not buy into the "diversity and sensitivity training" that took prominence in the agency. So we are left with a preponderance of partisans who value their leftist allegiance over their American allegiance.
Their behavior seems similar to what is happening in states where we now have Republican governors but lifetime-entrenched Democrat legislatures and bureaucracies. Serious nasty political warfare.
I think we may have our best opportunity to see all the heads (The Unholy Troika: House & Senate DSA types; CIA & State rogues; and their MSM accomplices) of the multi-headed hydra as they attempt to poison the upcoming trial of Saddam Hussein.
And when you see the head of the snake...
Bump for a Great post!
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