"She can't find her brain ... at least she had a half a brain .. once."
Posted on 08/12/2008 3:10:54 PM PDT by rocksblues
BABBINS: On the Joe Wilson-Valerie Plame matter, you focus on that as one piece of evidence about the ClA's operating against the Bush Administration instead of as part of it. We have endured a three-year media spectacular surrounding the leak of Flame's identity, culminating in the commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence for perjury. Why do you think that that was essentially a set-up, an attack on the President by the CIA?
SCARBOROUGH: The ClA was so suspicious and so angry at the Bush Administration's policies that it had no interest in doing a proper investigation of Niger. That's what it boiled down to.
Look at Vice President Dick Cheney. There's a report from the Defense Intelligence Agency that Saddam Hussein's regime may have contacted Niger to buy some "yellowcake," which is lowlevel processed uranium and is used to make bomb-grade uranium. This was not farfetched, because Saddam had bought yellowcake from Niger before, and in fact, the yellowcake was still in his country, supposedly under seal. So a request goes over from Dick Cheney's office to lhe ClA and what happens? How is it handled? Valerie Plame, Joe Wilson's wife-it comes down to her division, the Counter-Proliferation Division, and she decides, "Let's send my former-ambassador husband down to investigate." That's what she decides. And she recommends him for the trip. He is not a trained intelligence investigator. He's a former diplomat who decides he will fly to Niger and jusl ask some questions and then return.
After the 2003 State of the Union address. Wilson decides to leak his trip, breaking his own [self-imposed) vow of confidentiality. Valérie Plume was sitting right next to him when he leaked it to Nick Kristof of the New York Times. She knew her role in getting him the trip. She wrote a memo recommending him. Spouses, in the" CIA, are responsible for protecting the confidentiality of the covert status of their spouse. So at that moment, the Wilsons were, in a sense, outing Valérie Plame, because they had to realize that when this [report about the trip] appeared in the New York Times that people were going to ask, "Who is this ambassador, and how did he get sent to Niger?"
And the answer was going to come back: His wife got him the trip. And thal's exactly what happened, because when that column appeared in the New York Times, the White House said. "What? Who? Why?" and "When did this happen'.'" And they made an inquiry to the CIA, and the bureaucracy reported back that [Wilson's] wife got him the lrip. And that is what spawned this scandal, not some diabolical plot to get Wilson's wife as punishment. It was just gossip. That's how Joe Wilson got the trip.
Selling used cars ... no, brokering mortgages, no, wait, he’s an obamanation consultant.
No story here.
Maybe the National Enquirer, the new “America’s Newspaper” can run the story.
There was so much info on the internet about her not being a covert operative at the time of her outing that it is no wonder that the Judge had to dismiss her suit.
"She can't find her brain ... at least she had a half a brain .. once."
Leni
Re: “What about Mister Plame? What’s Joe doing now?”
He should be growing peppers (or pot since he’s probably into that stuff) in New Mexico. Isn’t that were the couple Plame said they were going to go to get away from the inside the Beltway nightmare?
She was not an operative at the time she was identified as working for the CIA, although she had been on covert status a decade or more before. The law is clear, and she was not covert at the time, nor did she fall within the timeframe the law specifies, so no violation was committed. There was no "there", there in this case...
the infowarrior
She was so top secret that she used the name of her CIA front company, Brewster-Jennings & Associates to donate $1,000 to Gore.
Well AP and Reuters did report it..but what I can agree to is that they will never accurately report this story.
Never ....
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http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2008/08/plame-contempla.html
August 12, 2008
Plame contemplates appealing court ruling dismissing lawsuit
A federal appeals court today rejected a lawsuit by former CIA agent Valerie Plame and her husband against three top Bush administration officials.
Plame and her husband, former ambassador Joe Wilson, had sought damages against the officials for allegedly playing a role in publicly identifying her as a CIA agent.
Plame and Wilson’s attorney, Melanie Sloan, called the court’s ruling a disappointment and says her clients are reviewing options, including a possible appeal.
As long as the MSM is complicit Ms. Plame will try to extend her 15 minutes.
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