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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"What did Chuck Schumer know, and when did he know it?"
Is that same George Tenent? Should he not have been a little more irritated with the people responsible for the disintegration of the CIA's network of sources in the mid east?
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Just more of the GROSS LYING HYPOCRISY of left, and wow, little Chuckie Pinko is really stretching, isn't he? Trying to "out-Hillary" Hillary...for the media play...what a disgusting lot of losers...and the MSM is just eating it up, printing the hypocrisy as fast as the left can generate it...(that is their full time job now, by the way)...
Yes, they did. I caught just a bit of it yesterday. It was a Conyers style to do, but they got a real hearing room, I guess because it wasn't just House members or Sensenbrenner would have sent them to the basement again. It is archived on the C-Span site. I tried to watch it earlier today, but I couldn't get it to load.
zzzat right? Sacre bleu, Sacajaweau. That's an amazing fact. I did not know that. Thanks.
You are right about that "hearing" yesterday...this was NOT an official congressional hearing...
Dorgan is FAMOUS for holding these, and the only get witnesses that support their point of view....
It seems to me, if Tenet was THAT upset, we would have heard about it long, long ago.
Translation: Schumer and Tenet plotted how they could use Valerie Plame to bring down the Bush administration.
I think Wilson and Plame were the original plotters, but evidently Schumer and Tenet, a clintonoid, became involved at least this early, if not earlier.
Bush never should have let that clintonoid traitor remain as head of the CIA. As a result, he was constantly undermined by leaks and subversion, including Tenet's very loud insistance, contrary to the evidence, that there were no connections between Saddam and al Qaeda.
I'd say this is evidence of treachery.
I've bee trying to post those dots to every Rove report...I had to HUNT to find it.
Howlin, thanks for this link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050722/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/cia_leak_democrats
Larry Johnson identifying himself as a Republican is laughable.
"You mean the bumbling head of the CIA "
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A bumble clod - perfectly worded - amazing how someone so stupid could rise to this position...possibly deliberately given the traitorous nature of the clintons. I will never understand how/why Bush kept him for so long.
From Novak's second column in 2003:
"This story began July 6 when Wilson went public and identified himself as the retired diplomat who had reported negatively to the CIA in 2002 on alleged Iraq efforts to buy uranium yellowcake from Niger.
I was curious why a high-ranking official in President Bill Clinton's National Security Council (NSC) was given this assignment. Wilson had become a vocal opponent of President Bush's policies in Iraq after contributing to Al Gore in the last election cycle and John Kerry in this one.
During a long conversation with a senior administration official, I asked why Wilson was assigned the mission to Niger. He said Wilson had been sent by the CIA's counterproliferation section at the suggestion of one of its employees, his wife.
It was an offhand revelation from this official, who is no partisan gunslinger. When I called another official for confirmation, he said: "Oh, you know about it." The published report that somebody in the White House failed to plant this story with six reporters and finally found me as a willing pawn is simply untrue."
He may have been rewarded, but he is GONE. And in his place we have a Republican Congressman, Porter Goss, who has let go a number of people. And the agency has been put under John Negroponte.
I believe the first President Bush was fond of Tenet, if one can trust the stories that say so. He felt about him almost like he was a family member, I think. Then, if you give the guy a medal for all his years of fighting the battles there, right or wrong, perhaps he would be less likely to turn on you...if he has even a shred of decency, anyways.
I would bet you, President Bush knows why he gave Tenet a medal. And so does VP Cheney.
I dunno, Arlen Specter called Schuuuumah (his questions over Roberts anyway) a "DumbAss" - twice.
The Dems have a washed up, bitter ex-CIA guy, that just wants TV time, do their Saturday Radio message?
Dang, they are more desparate than I thought...do they not realize the "wienie factor", in having him do that?
The Dims are desperate to keep this non-story alive. BTW, didn't they just spend two months idolizing a government leaker?
Check this out:
It's a letter Johnson sent to the GOP and DNC congresscritters, on behalf of these "rogue agents," and look who signed it:
Sincerely yours, Larry C. Johnson, former Analyst, CIA
JOINED BY:
Mr. Brent Cavan, former Analyst, CIA
Mr. Vince Cannistraro, former Case Officer, CIA
Mr. Michael Grimaldi, former Analyst, CIA
Mr. Mel Goodman, former senior Analyst, CIA
Col. W. Patrick Lang (US Army retired), former Director, Defense Humint Services, DIA
Mr. David MacMichael, former senior estimates officer, National Intelligence Council, CIA
Mr. James Marcinkowski, former Case Officer, CIA
Mr. Ray McGovern, former senior Analyst and PDB Briefer, CIA
Mr. Jim Smith, former Case Officer, CIA
Mr. William C. Wagner, former Case Officer, CIA"
Wanna bet that all these mouthy ex CIA guys are security guys for Hillary.
Perhaps Tenet was ticked to learn about this group sending asshat Wilson to Niger without his knowledge or approval and the subsequent articles and op-eds lying about intelligence and what the President and VP knew and when they knew it.
Funny Tenet would say this to Schumer, who voted against the law in question.
I hope we don't forget that the Democrats cared so much about the CIA and the other US intel agencies, that they gutted them in the Church era.
They've never really recovered.
Exactly (and I've pointed that out here before but some are wedded to hating Tenet).
The important thing to remember is, these are EX-CIA agents.
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