I was talking to a friend of mine last night and told him this is a hit job done from inside the CIA. This whole thing has been a set up since before the election.
Found this trolling on DU:
Larry Johnson to give tomorrow Democratic radio address. Transcript follows:
"Good morning. I'm Larry Johnson, an American, a registered Republican, a former intelligence official at the CIA, and a friend of Valerie Plame.
I entered on duty at the CIA in September 1985 with Valerie. We were members of the Career Trainee Program. Senator Orin Hatch wrote the letter of recommendation for me which I believe that helped open the doors to me at the CIA.
From the first day we walked into the building, all members of my training class were undercover, including Valerie. In other words, we had to lie to our family and friends about where we worked. We could only tell those who had an absolute need to know where we worked. In my case, I told my wife.
I knew the wife of Ambassador Wilson, Valerie, as Valerie P. Even though all of us in the training class held Top Secret Clearances, we were asked to limit our knowledge of our other classmates to the first initial of their last name.
So, Larry J. knew Val P. rather than Valerie Plame. I really didn't realize what her last name was until her cover was betrayed by the Government officials who gave columnist Robert Novak her true name.
I am stunned that government officials at the highest level have such ignorance about a matter so basic to the national security structure of this nation.
Robert Novak's compromise of Valerie led to scrutiny of CIA officers that worked with her. This not only compromised her "cover" company but potentially every individual overseas who had been in contact with that company or with her.
We must put to bed the lie that she was not undercover. For starters, if she had not been undercover then the CIA would not have referred the matter to the Justice Department.
Val only told those with a need to know about her status in order to safeguard her cover, not compromise it. She was content with being known as an energy consultant married to Ambassador Joe Wilson and the mother of twins.
I voted for George Bush in November of 2000 because I was promised a President who would bring a new tone and a new ethical standard to Washington.
So where are we? The President has flip-flopped on his promise to fire anyone at the White House implicated in a leak. We now know from press reports that at least Karl Rove and "Scooter" Libby are implicated in these leaks and may have lied during the investigation.
Instead of a President concerned first and foremost with protecting this country and the intelligence officers who serve it, we are confronted with a President who is willing to sit by while political operatives savage the reputations of good Americans like Valerie and Joe Wilson.
This is wrong and this is shameful.
We deserve people who work in the White House who are committed to protecting classified information, telling the truth to the American people, and living by example the idea that a country at war with Islamic extremists cannot focus its efforts on attacking other American citizens who simply tried to tell the truth.
I am Larry Johnson.
Thank you for listening.
"From the first day we walked into the building, all members of my training class were undercover, including Valerie. In other words, we had to lie to our family and friends about where we worked. We could only tell those who had an absolute need to know where we worked. In my case, I told my wife."
Right there is some outright BS suggesting stupidity or lying... "Need to know" is a factual concept; HOWEVER, along with need to know there is a security clearance requirement -regardless, the individual agent does not arbitrarily have the discretion to determine need to know or grant clearances. Anything that can be freely revealed as he infers is by default unclassified. This guy Larry Johnson is a wacko!!!
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 am really creeped out by your post, a) if it is true and the dems circulate their address ahead of its broadcast, b) that they would attack the admin by using Plame in this venue, or c) if someone at DU has the skill to write such a piece for fun.
I would love to send it on to a talk show host that I am listening to right now. Victoria Toensing was one of his guests this morning.
I just don't want to spread a 'spoof.' Do you think it is for real?