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Where have these people been? According to Fitzgerald, it doesn't matter whether there was harm done to the country by the revelation, her classification status is immaterial, it's all about Libby lying about where he learned that she worked at the CIA and if he told anyone and then didn't tell Fitz that he did so.
thinly veiled, yes. that term certainly appllies when your husband tells andrea mitchell at a DC cocktail party - "andrea, my wife Valerie from the CIA. pass the shrimp."
So NOW the press figures out she wasn't covert? A little behind Freepers. By about a year plus some months.
No news to anyone who has been following this story at FR. But it's amazing that a leftist newspaper like the Chicago Trib would publish it.
The horse is dead already!
Give it a decent burial and move on!
One thing that may be new in this story is that Plame was declared a covert agent AFTER she had worked in an embassy and become known to all and sundry.
And later, she was supposed to be covert yet was sitting at a desk in Langley.
What does that suggest? Either incompetence or, more likely, that someone was setting this whole thing up from the start. Plame appears to have had connections with the rogue element in the CIA, and the whole Plame Wilson thing was carefully engineered as an attack on Bush and the war against Iraq.
HF
I think Fitz is about to find out about the wheels on the bus going round and round.
WHAT?!!! Why cant they make scandals like they used to?
The identity of the spy in question of course is secret in that only petty bureaucrats such as the infallible Joseph C. Wilson IV and Democratic partisans such as the rightful President John F. Kerry can reveal it. White House officials (Democrats excluded) are NOT entitled to know her status, let alone reveal or authorize the revelation. The President does not have a security clearance to know such information; he must get his understanding through the filter provided by The New York Times and various other media outlets.
Cheney, Rove, and Libby all violated the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 by revealing this spy. We know this Truth because Joseph C. Wilson IV said it, and the American people regard the inestimable Ambassador as infallible. Howard Dean and various Democratic partisans also agree.
[This explanation reflects the contents of the Truth, the Whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth--as printed on the pages of The New York Times.]
This is the first time I have seen such a converted effort to correct the record (FIVE articles in the Chicago Tribune on why Plame wasn't a NOC and how sloppy the agency is in protecting the identity of its agents).
This is the first time the CIA and ex-CIA critics of the "Plame was covert" meme spread by the rogue anti-Bush, pro-Kerry ex-agents who are members of the VIPs(Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity) have come forward. Are we seeing a counterattck? I think we are.
Flimsier than the veils of Lily St. Cyr.
Somebody explain to me how you can drive to work each day to CIA headquarters, drive through the front gate and then say it was all a secret...
Doesn't make any sense at all...
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