Posted on 10/24/2005 7:17:02 AM PDT by Quilla
Must refrain from commenting...Must refrain from commenting
So who would be the new Harry Reams?
My thoughts exactly. I think she's the new "Little ***L Annie".
Matt Cooper? Judy Miller would be Jenna.
Hate to say it...but I tend to agree with this article.
The assumption is that a misdeed was going on that needed to be exposed.
Sorry, Hussein had to go and everyone on the planet in a position to know thought Hussein had WMD.
I don't know, we will have to ask Joe Wilson's boyfriend....
Sad. Only shows that the left can't win in the arena of ideas. They can't win by being who they really are. Instead, they must use the courts and drum up phony stories that most Americans don't give a rat's behind about to achieve power.
Pretty pathetic.
Behind the scenes, the single most important reason for the Valerie Plame/Joe Wilson farce is that CIA Director Porter Goss has finally started to clean house at Langley. Goss’s long-overdue shake-up is clearly backed by the White House, the top levels of the Pentagon and State Department, and the new National Director of Intelligence, John Negroponte.
Judging by Director Goss’s remarks at his Senate confirmation hearings, those whose jobs are most in danger include the CIA “experts” in WMD proliferation – Valerie Plame’s outfit – who completely failed to anticipate the Indian and Pakistani nukes, and just couldn’t figure out what was going on with Iraqi WMDs. Valerie Plame’s bosses are facing the axe for decades of failures.
And it’s about time, because Iran is within sight of its first nukes. You don’t suppose that has anything to do with the Plame/Wilson publicity stunt, do you?
Clearly the CIA managers who failed the United States so terribly on 9/11 should have been fired four years ago. Others now worried about their careers include officials who have long resisted the onerous task of building a topnotch human intelligence capability in the most dangerous parts of the world.
Porter Goss’s new broom should also sweep away:
1) personnel who utterly failed to thwart critical technology theft by China during the Clinton years;
2) those who constantly undermine the war on terror;
3) the ones who make a regular habit of dropping media stinkbombs against the White House.
4) Finally, there is the faction that supported Saddam Hussein’s hold on power, as Joe Wilson did.
It could be a bloodbath, and the Permanent Establishment knows it.
The farcical Plame/Wilson assault on Karl Rove is a shot across the bow of the White House. The spook bureaucracy is fighting for its perks, hand-in-hand with the Democrats and the media. This is exactly the same iron triangle that destroyed Richard Nixon.
I think that happened on the 4th date.
Rogues at the CIA can give anyone the biography they want them to have.
They could even manufacture "proof" that Plame was undercover.
Good.
This piece pretty much sums up my own take on this. I have a VERY hard time believing that - unless they are utterly partisan or profoundly naive about how things work in DC - the 3 judge panel in the Miller case could have seen the Plame leak - in and of itself - as a "serious threat to national security." It just doesn't add up. And if there is some secondary charge such as obstruction of justice, that would sicken me as well, because the Bush White House has to all appearnces fully cooperated with Fitz, the exact OPPOSITE of how Clinton dealt with Starr. If Clinton's tactics were not obstruction and Bush's are obstruction, there is no goddamned justice in this world. It's a crock.
"Valerie Plame’s bosses are facing the axe for decades of failures."
That hits the nail on the head. An incompetent bureaucracy in an area where, post 9/11, incompetence cannot be tolerated. Small wonder these unhappy campers are now among the loudest critics of the Bush Administration.
My personal opinion is that the country should have gone on a war footing on September 12, 2001. Then we should have moved the incompetents aside and installed people whose only responsibility was to get their jobs done.
Sending your husband to Niger to investigate a story you've already concluded is a crock does not reflect competence on the part of the CIA.
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No kidding!! I've believed this since the start. I really am hoping that Fitgerald gets this and will indict the correct people...I won't hold my breath but in my opinion a serious investigation into the CIA leak, from within the CIA as well as Mr. Wilson's trip to Africa and the lies that he spread afterwards...and the role of Valerie Plame in getting him involved...
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