White House Denies Leaking CIA Identity

AP (Yahoo) ^ | 9/29/03 | DEB RIECHMANN

[Wolverine]

What also might be worth asking: "Who didn't know?"

NRO: Clifford May: Who didn’t know Joe Wilson's wife worked for the CIA?

[Dane]

The same old, same old, is the unbridled truth about this Administration's "Limited" War on Terror.

For the record WR on FR, the only successful "War On Terror" to you, IMO, would be Israel's destruction, as you parrot Bob Novak's writings.

So, IMO, your above italicized passage is moot and intuitely fraudulent.

[Mo1]

someone is trying to start a scandal with this administration just in time for the election...coinky-dink?

That would be my guess

Check out Chuckie's comment in the article about having a special counsel

If I recall the Dems hated the special counsel and a freeper posted that Chuckie was oppose to the bill about leakers

And now all of a sudden he is a big fan of both??

Like I've said .. this smells on so many levels it ain't funny

[Mo1]

It is like Ambassador Ginsberg on Fox News as their Middle East analyst. Found out he is an analyst for Al Jazerra

an analyst for Al Jazerra ???

Well ain't that just special

[Ann Archy]

You CAN't have it both ways. On one hand, the rats say "this is the most SECRETIVE White House EVER"....and then accuse it of Leaking. Grow Up....or be more consistent.

[ravingnutter]

If you will bother to check posts 184 and 208, you will find that Novak NEVER cited "Administration Sources" as having revealed Plame's identity. This is a scandal made up by the leftists who twisted Novak's words. Novak's exact wording was:

Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me his wife suggested sending Wilson to Niger to investigate the Italian report. The CIA says its counter-proliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him. "I will not answer any question about my wife," Wilson told me.

[autoresponder]

Wilson wrote an article for the radical Commie magazine "The Nation" and a op-ed for the NYT

How could his wife, Valerie Plame, not have discussed both with her husband prior to submission for publication?

This would be a willful and knowing breech of her CIA security clearances.

Wilson was a paid consultant for Gore 2000.

It appears to me that Valerie Plame and Wilson are engaged in a conspiracy to leak and fabricate national security information.

Plame's first move will be to refuse to testify or be questioned citing spousal privilege.

Her problem is that she can be charged herself and and any CIA employee that refuses to be questioned or refuses to testify is toast.

MoveOn.org is linked on the Communist Party of America website and is a brainchild of Hillary Clinton.

This whole deal is a crock; Tennet has appeared on TV with his wife and one of her friends in their own home kitchen discussing remodeling plans.

Anti-war activist Valerie Plame is a common CIA clerk with an insane agenda to attack the Commander in Chief in time of war.

Peaceniks in the CIA; it worked under Klintonistas except for all the terrorist bombings and kilings of Americans all around the world starting with WTC 1993.

Time for Tennet to be given a figurehead only executive order in preparation for his sudden desire to spend more time with his family.

Valerie Plame should be shipped to Afghanistan on extended field assignment in the Tora Bora area.

[PRND21]

You know deep down this is true.

Wilson: I Made it Up Rove Leak Allegation

[alnick]

Have you even acknowledged the fact that Wilson's involvement with Moveon.org makes his accusations suspect?

[cake_crumb]

"Exposing CIA agents was termed treason under the first Bush. If this story turns out true Rove needs a cell beside Pollard for the next 20 years."

Why do you assume Rove is the leak?

[Mo1]

Why do you want to believe the worst about W?

Because they like to annoy folks ... Kind of reminds me of my inlaws

[Peach]

We'd be all over Clinton because we knew he was a liar. Do you remember how many 'Gates there were during this 8 years? AND, they all led directly back to the White House.

We all want the person who did this arrested and tried. BUT, we have more faith in this president and his administration than in the Clinton administration and so are finding it difficult to believe anyone truly support of President Bush would endanger his administration this way.

He has yet to lie to us, so we trust him more than Clinton. Plus, none of the allegations lead directly back to President Bush. The various 'Gates during Clinton led directly back to him or Hillary PERSONALLY.

Big difference.

[Wolverine]

What's not to like about Wilson...among other things...

 

Excerpt from NationalReview

 

Wilson was affiliated with the pro-Saudi Middle East Institute and he had recently been the keynote speaker for the Education for Peace in Iraq Center, a far-Left group that opposed not only the U.S. military intervention in Iraq but also the sanctions and the no-fly zones that protected Iraqi Kurds and Shias from being slaughtered by Saddam.

[Miss Marple]

This guy sounds like Wesley Clark. Good grief!

I remain convinced that there is some sort of a tie-in between this flap and the BBC/Kelly/Gilligan mess. They both occurred at the same time, which is just far too coincidental, in my book.

I would like to know if Wilson or his wife have ties with anyone in the BBC. Perhaps they make contact through that MoveOn.org place.

[steve50]

Why do you assume Rove is the leak?

That's how the story went a couple months ago when it broke. That's why I say "if true".

[Pietro]

"The Washington Post on Sunday quoted an unidentified senior administration official ..."

Zero credibility. ZERO.

As long as the liberal press continues using "unidentified senior officials" as the single source of a news item, I will continue to ignore them.

[Peach]

Have you seen the comments by Wilson where he backs far off of Rove and admits he has no proof and is just guessing?

[ravingnutter]

I did find evidence that Wilson attended a news conference of Win Without War, a Moveon.org affiliated group.

[alnick]

Whither Novak is a "conservative" or not isn't part of the story, the question is who illegally dropped a dime on an active CIA operative and why. The next question is do "conservatives" accept such behaviour as long as it's from a republican administration.

No, your "next question" is premature. No such thing has been proven, and in fact, Wilson's anti-Bush agenda wrecks his credibility on this issue.

[alnick]

1. Novak was one of a half dozen reporters called by two high-level White House officials who said Plame had abused her position to get her husband the Niger job.

That should read, "Novak was one of a half dozen reporters allegedly called by two alleged high-level White House officials who said Plame had abused her position to get her husband the Niger job.