Posted on 10/25/2005 3:46:41 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
The media version of the CIA leak case is that the White House illegally revealed a CIA employee’s identity because her husband, Joseph Wilson, was an administration critic. But former prosecutor Joseph E. diGenova says the real story is that the CIA “launched a covert operation” against the President when it sent Wilson on the mission to Africa to investigate the Iraq-uranium link. DiGenova, a former Independent Counsel who prosecuted several high-profile cases and has extensive experience on Capitol Hill, including as counsel to several Senate committees, is optimistic that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will figure it all out.
DiGenova tells this columnist, “It seems to me somewhat strange, in terms of CIA tradecraft, that if you were really attempting to protect the identity of a covert officer, why would you send her husband overseas on a mission, without a confidentiality agreement, and then allow him when he came back to the United States to write an op-ed piece in the New York Times about it.”
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Book 'em Danno
deGenova is absolutely correct and many others have held this opinion from the outset.
This seems much more likely han the MSM version.
bttt
" “It seems to me somewhat strange, in terms of CIA tradecraft, that if you were really attempting to protect the identity of a covert officer, why would you send her husband overseas on a mission, without a confidentiality agreement, and then allow him when he came back to the United States to write an op-ed piece in the New York Times about it.”
Because you needed a willing dupe with a political axe to grind, to help you influence a domestic presidential election to the disadvantage of the incumbent, who, by the way, appeared poised to clean house?
Time for Porter Goss to start hanging the bastards.
The fact that the CIA actually WAS running a covert operation against a sitting President surely would explain their behavior since 9-11.
One thing seems to be timeless in the CIA; that it is great at everything it shouldn't do, and does a lousy job at what it's supposed to do. Bush et al may have been set up a bit with "intelligence" from Iraq so we would go to war and Bush wind up looking like an idiot.
Two weeks before Yeltsin was standing on a tank outside the Kremlin, the CIA was still saying that Russia was solid as a rock. They didn't see the Polish Solidarity movement coming. Nothing was heard about Pakistan's nuclear bomb until it was about to be tested. They let the Shah fall (thanks Jimmy). I could go on.
It`s a crime to hire soeone in your family.Plame/wilson.
5 U.S.C. 3110.
" ...to recommend individuals..."
She`s busted.
I have always questioned how a clown like Wilson would be picked for the Niger assignment by the CIA. There must have been much better people available for the job. This story makes sense looking back on hindsight.
Wilsongate........perfect name for this mess.
Parts of the Federal Government are riddled with nepotism. Try to get anybody to do something about it.
Thats a Coup as far as I am concerned!
She has done absolutely nothing in the past two years which would be consistent with a person who has operated under a cover. This ditz probably was operating under a CIA front company some time in the past prior to her meeting Lying Joe Wilson. If her 'life was in danger' as her lying husband as stated (and has Schumer), she wouldn't be appearing in magazines and wouldn't be attending White House functions on C-SPAN and cocktail parties with her loudmouth hubby who brags about his wife being in the CIA.
" ...to recommend individuals..."
She`s busted.
Doubtful. He wasn't a CIA employee and apparently was not paid for taking this trip. He says he did it pro bono
intrep
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