I still haven’t found out, why leaking Velerie Plame’s identity considered a useful thing?
Why these important and accomplished men thought this would help their cause in any way?
I never heard of Valerie Plame or cared about her, untill the leaking of her identity became an issue. Actually, I STILL don’t care about her or the leak. Liberal media sure makes it sound like another Watergate, and that is the ONLY reason I even bother care about it just a little bit.
So as someone who no one knew and most people still don’t know, how did Valerie Plame come to be percieved as a threat to our War Efforts by some of the most experienced and brilliant men around?
How dumb do you have to be that you view Valerie Plame as a threat to War efforts and not Dummy Rummmy, who was fighting for a “small footprint”?
If you are going to leak, then leak the identity of all those losers who concluded that we would be greeted as Liberators and will have flowers and rice thrown at us. Who are those people? I know Ahamad Chalabi is the leader of that group. Who else?
I have still not found any article or story that explains to me why it was important to try and discredit Valerie Plame?
Also, how does being a CIA agent discredit you? I thought it is one of the coolest jobs in the world. I mean if you can’t be a MLB Clean Up Hitter, or Air Force Fighter Pilot, Ace Pitcher, or National Geographic Photographer, then I can’t think of a better job than being a CIA agent.
How does that information discredit her?
A descent looking blonde who works for CIA. Isn’t that an ultimate compliemnt?
Oh well, I guess I would never understand the enigma that is Valerie Plame Scandal.
Excuse me, but have you been following this story at all?
Plame's importance was that, as a CIA employee and Joe Wilson's wife, it was she who sent him to Niger. Not Cheney, as Wilson had been claiming.
Further, nobody in the White House was responsible for leaking Plame's name in an attempt to discredit her. Instead, it was an anti-Bush State Dept gossip named Richard Armitage.
It was true, though, that the White House had a real interest in finding out who sent him -- because Wilson was claiming it was Cheney and they knew better. However, once they found out, the White House kept their mouths shut.
The whole narrative that the MSM has established is a complete lie.
Wilson & Plame are important only in the sense of how far the media and their liberal cohort will go in order to promote an anti-war, anti-Bush interpretation of events.
What evidence is there that the White House was trying to “discredit” Plame? That is the Dem’s spin. What the WH was trying to do - IMHO - was to set the record straight. The media were circulating the story that the WH (Cheney) had dispatched Wilson to Niger, didn’t like what he reported back to them, ignored his findings, and then tried to smear him when he went public with the truth. The WH was trying to get out the FACTS that Cheney didn’t send Wilson (Plame apparently recommended him to her seniors), the WH didn’t even know about Wilson’s trip, was never briefed on it, didn’t ignore it because it disagreed with their presuppositions, and therefore was not “punishing” him for telling the truth. Moreover, Wilson’s findings in Niger were NOT as he presented them to the press, per the Senate investigation into this matter.
It answers the question: "Why would anyone in their right mind working for the White House have told the CIA to send Joe Wilson on a sensitive mission?" Answer --"Nobody did. His wife got him the gig."