Rep. Peter King: Prosecute Leakgate Accuser for CIA Secrecy Violation

NewsMax.com ^ | Monday, Oct. 6, 2003 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[jmstein7]

A leading New York congressman is calling for an investigation into whether Leakgate accuser Joseph Wilson violated CIA secrecy when he blew the lid off his role in a February 2002 mission to determine whether Iraq had sought uranium from Niger.

For the last week Wilson has been demanding an investigation into the Bush administration's role in revealing his wife's job as a secret CIA operative, a move that he contends was an act of retaliation for his decision to go public about the Niger mission in a July op-ed piece for the New York Times.

But Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said Sunday that it's Wilson who needs to be investigated - and even prosecuted if he violated CIA secrecy.

"I assume that if he went into this job for the CIA, he had to sign an oath of secrecy - a confidentiality [agreement]," King told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg. "And if he did, then he violated it and he should be prosecuted."

"He conducted a so-called secret mission for the CIA," King complained. "[However] he's talking about it all over national and international television - undermining the president of the United States. ... Why wasn't this guy called in before a grand jury?"

King says that if the CIA didn't require Wilson to sign a confidentiality agreement, then the agency should explain why not - along with why it picked the talkative Wilson for the sensitive mission in the first place.

"Why did they pick the guy who was anti-Bush, anti-war with Iraq, to go over and conduct a really half-assed investigation of Niger?" the House Homeland Security Committee member told Malzberg.

[jmstein7]

Please show some support for Congressman King; contact him at peter.king@mail.house.gov.

http://www.house.gov/king/

[republicanwizard]

GO KING!

Hey, why doesn't he run for the Senate? A suburban Republican, he would be a strong nominee.

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[woodyinscc]

It's about time someone is asking the right questions, and advocating what should be done. Mr. Wilson is the one who should be in the hot seat!

[DLfromthedesert]

What a refreshing change from that lemon sucker Chuck Hagel.

[sport]

I agree with King.

[Zansman]

Who da thunk that it would be a New York Rino that would at long last grow a set of nads and start playing offense.

The way things are with GOP Senate "leadership" (or the rank and file for that matter), I'd take this House Rino over most Senate "conservatives" any day.

[DLfromthedesert]

He may be a RINO, but he's always been up front and not one of these waffle types. I may not have always agreed with Congressman King, but I've always respected him.

I can't say the same about my Senator (McCain) or the ball-less one from Mississippi.

[MHT]

Too bad that John Walker and his son, Aldrich Ames, and a couple of other known traitors (whose wholesale selling of America's secrets can be traced directly to the deaths of CIA operatives) were not executed themselves.

We haven't taken treason seriously in 20 years--why should anyone now?

Frankly, I think it's about time Tenet took the hit. He was given a pass when he was held over from the Clinton administration. He got another pass after 9/11. Then another for the ***tty CIA work about WMD. Why should he be given a pass on this one? Heck, he's probably the leaker helping the Hillary agenda along!

[krb]

Why did they pick the guy who was anti-Bush, anti-war with Iraq, to go over and conduct a really half-assed investigation of Niger?

WOW!!! I like it!!!

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[Paleo Conservative]

Wouldn't that be Robert Novak?

[Grampa Dave]

Congressman King asked the real nut cutting question that I posted on 10/1 re Wilson.

If Wilson went on a real mission for the CIA not some set up job, he would have had to sign secrecy agreements before and after his trip. Disclosure of his mission if he had a mission would be a serious crime.

Here is what I posted re what would have been the normal process re secrecy agreements if Wilson't trip had been a legitimate one.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/992865/posts?page=23#23

To: prognostigaator

Excellent questions.

I have another one.

Did he sign the usual secrecy forms one normally signs with the farm before and after they do a trip like this?

Those forms are very specific about not disclosing:

Where you went?
Who you saw?
What you discussed.

I wonder if Wilson killed any of our agents in Niger with his loose lips?

Then did the loose lips of the lunatic lefty mediots kill anyone?

Wilson and his buddies in bed with him are far more dangerous to our sources than anyone else on this planet.


23 posted on 10/01/2003 7:41 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (May our brave warriors kill all of the Islamokazis/facists/nazis to prevent future 9/11's.)

[Just mythoughts]

Since Mr. Wilson says he doesn't know who sent him, would not recognize them if he met them on the street, did not write a report, only an op-ed maybe this was a hoax.

Maybe he was never "officially" sent to begin with.

[BOBTHENAILER]

I wonder if Wilson killed any of our agents in Niger with his loose lips?

Once again, FreeRepublic is show prep for the world. Good questions. Rep. King must be a lurker and saw your post.

[MizSterious]

Your question is a good one, and I wish more people would ask it instead of criticizing the President out of hand--without any evidence except what Wilson and his cronies are saying.

[Grampa Dave]

If Wilson's trip was legitimate, and I don't think that it was (more on Plame's boss resigning later).

Wilson could have endangered the lives of any contacts that he made in Niger with his blathering and release of his trip. It would be real simple in that country to find out who he talked to on his trip, if he saw anyone.

Did Wilson sign the normal secrecy agreements that would have been required before and after his trip. If he didn't, the trip was not official and was a set up to get GW. If he did sign the normal secrecy agreements, he violated the law and is guilty of publically talking about his trip.