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CIA's Tenet was 'furious' over leak, Schumer says
The Buffalo (NY) Times ^ | July 23, 2005 | Douglas Turner

Posted on 07/23/2005 8:53:56 AM PDT by YaYa123

WASHINGTON - Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., revealed Friday that two years ago he discussed the blown cover of CIA operative Valerie Plame with then CIA director George Tenet and that Tenet "was furious." Tenet promptly called the Justice Department to demand an investigation into who in the Bush administration leaked Plame's identity to columnist Robert Novak, Schumer said at a hearing held by House and Senate Democrats.

Novak revealed Plame's identity in July 2003 in a column in which he said she played a key role in having her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, sent to Niger to investigate reports that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had tried to buy materials for a nuclear weapon there.

The Democratic panel heard from five former CIA operatives who said the disclosure of Plame's classified identity was a breach of the law that forbids government officials from revealing the identity of an undercover intelligence officer and a violation of trust that has harmed America's intelligence-gathering capabilities.

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To: YaYa123
"you think Schumer would make it up?"

LOL, make it up? No, it's more like blow it up to remold for his own agenda.

141 posted on 07/23/2005 12:39:57 PM PDT by Dolphy
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To: YaYa123

Maybe the dems, the CIA, and the MSM work together. If so, it's time to clean house.


142 posted on 07/23/2005 12:41:28 PM PDT by GOPJ (A person who will lie for you, will lie against you.)
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To: YaYa123

Is Schumer testifying without being crossexamined?


143 posted on 07/23/2005 12:46:35 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter
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To: YaYa123
Hey Chuckie Schmuckie, 3/4 of DC knew she was a paper pusher at the CIA. Apparently Rove was the only one that didn't.

Pray for W and Our Troops

144 posted on 07/23/2005 12:50:24 PM PDT by bray (Pray for the Freedom of the Iraqis from Islam)
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To: Txsleuth

Saw a report on MSNBC with Campbell Brown interviewing a dem who sat in on this "hearing". No Republican or conservative to respond to the hearsay the dem was spewing. Campbell didn't seem too interested in getting to the truth, but salivated over the inuendo.


145 posted on 07/23/2005 12:51:09 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter
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To: Howlin; A Citizen Reporter

Mirkankowski(sp) says he graduated in Plame's class. He is also quoted in or has written almost every article on the CIA opinions on this case. He is currently a Prosecutor in Royal Oak, Michigan.


146 posted on 07/23/2005 12:51:12 PM PDT by Miss Marple (Karl Rove is Plame-proof.)
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To: YaYa123

Was Tenet wearing his PINK shirt when he got all pissed off.


147 posted on 07/23/2005 12:52:56 PM PDT by CommieCrusher
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To: Howlin

Howlin, add to that the CIA did not object when Novak told them about the soon to be released article.

That is important to the big picture. No ojections, no threats, no pleas for her potential harm.

Nothing more than a shrugged agency shoulder.


148 posted on 07/23/2005 1:03:43 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Txsleuth
"Dorgan is FAMOUS for holding these, and the(y) only get witnesses that support their point of view...."
Was Tenet a witness? If not, dismiss anything Chuckie said.
149 posted on 07/23/2005 1:56:29 PM PDT by Whispering Smith
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To: YaYa123; All
“The CIA isn’t stupid,” he said. “They wanted this story out. I’m raising the question: Did the CIA mislead Fitzgerald?” ----

Of course.

150 posted on 07/23/2005 2:06:44 PM PDT by beyond the sea ("If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." - Jack Lemmon)
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To: Whispering Smith

No, Tenet wasn't a witness...

What really, really bothers me about Tenet's name coming up, is that is reminds me that President Bush gave that guy a what? Medal of Freedom, or something like that?

I didn't like it then, and I really don't like now...


151 posted on 07/23/2005 2:17:56 PM PDT by Txsleuth
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To: Carolinamom; YaYa123

Doesn't Wilson have his office in the Alamoudi offices....Alamoudi the TERRORIST who is in jail now And doesn't Alamoudi and his partner have business in Niger?


152 posted on 07/23/2005 2:22:24 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: thoughtomator

We are still waiting to hear someone actually say she was undercover, covert, etc. These left wing lying POS are good for nothing.


153 posted on 07/23/2005 2:24:15 PM PDT by Cougar66 (If Sonny had EZ Pass, "The Godfather" would have been a completely different movie)
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To: YaYa123

bttt


154 posted on 07/23/2005 2:25:26 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: YaYa123

Rep. Louise M. Slaughter, D-Fairport, said at worst the leak is treason and at best, an abuse of power.
Someone tell this hag to STFU already. You got that old SOB saying our troops are as bad as the nazis, and this witch opens her trap about treason.


155 posted on 07/23/2005 2:28:23 PM PDT by Cougar66 (If Sonny had EZ Pass, "The Godfather" would have been a completely different movie)
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To: Howlin

That's the problem. Novak wrote an article in October 2003 about this story, but it didn't mention Brewster & Associates. Maybe I'm thinking of something else.


156 posted on 07/23/2005 2:29:14 PM PDT by kesg
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To: Sam Hill; YaYa123; MJY1288; Mo1; All
From your Novak link, Sam

"All this was forgotten until reporter Walter Pincus revealed in the Washington Post June 12 that an unnamed retired diplomat had given the CIA a negative report. Not until Wilson went public on July 6, however, did his finding ignite the firestorm.

During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, Wilson had taken a measured public position -- viewing weapons of mass destruction as a danger but considering military action as a last resort. He has seemed much more critical of the administration since revealing his role in Niger. In the Washington Post July 6, he talked about the Bush team "misrepresenting the facts," asking: "What else are they lying about?"

After the White House admitted error, Wilson declined all television and radio interviews. "The story was never me," he told me, "it was always the statement in (Bush's) speech." The story, actually, is whether the administration deliberately ignored Wilson's advice, and that requires scrutinizing the CIA summary of what their envoy reported. The Agency never before has declassified that kind of information, but the White House would like it to do just that now -- in its and in the public's interest."

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After the White House admitted error, Wilson declined all television and radio interviews. "The story was never me," he told me, "it was always the statement in (Bush's) speech."

How things change. Who convinced him to be more "outspoken?"

And, how many of these ex-CIA anal-ysts, Dims, and Klintonoids are be getting financial support from Soros for their pseudo intelligence gathering think tanks and investigative and security businesses?

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"Just how much verbal filth this Hungarian born billionaire George Soros pays individuals or groups to smear President Bush and Karl Rove would also make an excellent column. Estimates are about 3-4 million a year. Soros finances www.MoveOn.org, and the Air America Radio Station, which has to pay other radio stations to run its Left Wing diatribes. There are some indications that George Soros may also be paying some salaries for individuals to go into AOL chat rooms to verbally attack Karl Rove, President Bush….and the very reputation of the United States.

How do I know this? Because the same people, using the same “screen names” come on line in these chat rooms every day, and seem to come on line in “shifts.” They put in their 8 hours, at the same time, five days a week. There needs to be an investigation. This smear campaign is outrageous. The Republicans do not do this. Republicans act like ladies and gentlemen, and do not engage in smear or hate campaigns

Blogs Against Hillary

Nothing would surprise me about the sack of filth that Soros spews and the evil he engenders and buys.

157 posted on 07/23/2005 2:31:51 PM PDT by STARWISE (You get the gov't you deserve. Call your Congress Critters OFTEN - 877-762-8762)
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To: Howlin

See No. 96 in this thread. Here is the relevant excerpt:

Novak: The Wilsons for Gore

Townhall.com ^ | 10/05/03 | Robert Novak

Posted on 10/05/2003 12:58:21 AM EDT by Pokey78

WASHINGTON -- On the same day in 1999 that retired diplomat Joseph Wilson was returned $1,000 of $2,000 he contributed to Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore a month earlier because it exceeded the federal limit, his CIA-employee wife gave $1,000 to Gore using a fictitious identification for herself.

In making her April 22, 1999, contribution, Valerie E. Wilson identified herself as an "analyst" with "Brewster-Jennings & Associates." No such firm is listed anywhere, but the late Brewster Jennings was president of Socony-Vacuum oil company a half-century ago. Any CIA employee working under "non-official cover" always is listed with a real firm, but never an imaginary one.


158 posted on 07/23/2005 2:32:05 PM PDT by kesg
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To: Sam Hill

No. See No. 96, which refers to the article I had in mind.


159 posted on 07/23/2005 2:32:40 PM PDT by kesg
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To: Dolphy
Bob Beckle (I believe) was just on Fox saying that Dems are considering funneling money that was to be used to oppose the SCOTUS nominee to pile on Rove. He says that Republicans are missing the gravity of the situation.

This, in a nutshell, is how the Democrats became the permanent minority party in this country.

160 posted on 07/23/2005 2:34:57 PM PDT by kesg
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