Posted on 10/28/2005 10:14:04 AM PDT by zeestephen
Just Asking.....
In 1999 Valerie (Plame) Wilson donated $1000 to Al Gore's presidential campaign.
On the FEC disclosure form she stated she was employed as an "analyst" for "Brewster-Jennings & Assoc," a fictitous front company for the CIA.
In fact, Plame knew she was employed as an under cover agent for the CIA, and she knew Brewster-Jennings was a fictitious front company.
She signed the disclosure, under penalty of perjury.
What's the law here?
Are CIA agents exempt from the law?
Yes, if you have ties to the Democrats, can cause a Republican administration trouble you are exempt.
And when you die, you are also still expected to still vote for Democrats in your area for decades...
I suspect that a covert agent (which Plame was not) are exempt from listing "Undercover CIA operative infiltrating foreign operations" on disclosure forms.
CIA agents are not to engage in partisan politics.
Being a Democrat means you NEVER have to tell the truth especially in Washington DC or other Liberal nests.
"CIA agents are not to engage in partisan politics."
The are specifically allowed to donate.
That's the truth (no pun intended)
Dem/Lib lies, hypocrisy and treason have no end.
Don't you know by now, that some people are more equal than others and that laws do not apply to them?
Apparently so. It seems the CIA can do anything they want, even try to undermine the Commander in Chief by leaking daily tidbits to the New York Slimes. No problem, right?
She put down her employer. I suspect that the cover company was in fact paying her salary and thus she was supposed to list them as her employer.
LOL. Yes, I don't think the law is set up to allow that kind of information on searchable databases.
I would assume that there is a legal exception for this type of scenario, just as there would be for someone in a federal witness protection program, who has been given a new identity, and may then legally misrepresent facts like date and place of birth, former residence addresses, former employers, etc. on all sorts of official documents, without breaking the law.
If you gave money to the dems, of course.
In this case I would think she's exempt. Otherwise it is a pretty weak cover.
Wouldn't any civil servant giving money to a political campaign be a violation of the Hatch Act? As a former DoD civilian employee (in the 1980s), I recall receiving memos about Hatch Act prohibitions on politicking around election time every year. I wonder if anything has changed since then ...
Don't you know that the laws do not apply to the demonrats.
If I've learned anything over the past few years, it's that FEC regulations ONLY apply to conservatives. So no, there was nothing wrong done here.
I imagine the CIA probably set up a shell company or a cover company that really exists. No perjury there.
I know someone who was on the board of Air America (the original, which operated in Vietnam). That corporation really existed.
CIA employees are allowed to engage in political outside of work, just like anyone else.
Then you might want to pull this post.
I'm just saying...
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