"In its formal appeal of Sept. 9, 2004 to current U.S. government officials, the Truth-Telling Coalition said this:
We know how misplaced loyalty to bosses, agencies, and careers can obscure the higher allegiance all government officials owe the Constitution, the sovereign public, and the young men and women put in harm's way. We urge you to act on those higher loyalties...Truth-telling is a patriotic and effective way to serve the nation. The time for speaking out is now.
If persons with access to wrongly concealed facts and analyses bring them to light, the chances become less that a president could launch another unprovoked war—against, say, Iran."
This is a year and a half after the call they put out--that the AP reported on at the top of the thread.
They just can't stop asking people to commit treason, can they?
I guess who ever outed Plame (not that she could be outed) didn't have "a higher calling."
In this article:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/17/1543215
They're talking about the call they put out for whistleblowers to come forward, but what really struck me was this paragraph at the end by MacMichael:
" I think one thing that has to be added about David Kaye, who is identified as a former member of UNSCOM, that is the United Nations weapons inspection team, prior to the 1998 bombing and the departure of the weapons inspectors and prior to their reinitiation under UN resolution 1441, David Kaye in fact, and this is not revealing the identity of an intelligence officer was in fact a CIA officer at that time."
I don't know that this was a known fact, that David Kay was CIA before the war--it's not listed in any bios that I can find. Obviously he worked under cover of one of those companies, which compromises those companies. I can't find any evidence that Kay's employment was revealed before MacMichael's comments. Maybe someone else can.