[piasa]

I don’t know what Valerie Plame’s status with the CIA was in July 2003 when Robert Novak wrote his column mentioning that she was an “agency operative” and had recommended her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, for a fact-finding trip to Niger. Was Plame a covert agent then? If not, how recently had she been a covert agent?

Well, Walter Pincus of the Washington Post claims she was a covert agent as late as 1999. Maybe someone should ask him how he came to 'know' that?

[blogblogginaway]

According to this Vanity Fair piece......."In 1997, Plame moved back to the Washington area, partly because (as was recently reported in The New York Times) the C.I.A. suspeccted that her name may have been on a list given to the Russians by the double agent Aldrich Ames in 1994."

http://www.jimgilliam.com/2004/01/vanity_fairs_profile_on_joseph_wilson_and_valerie_plame.php

[Howlin]

Well, Walter Pincus of the Washington Post claims she was a covert agent as late as 1999.

They brought her "inside" in 1994.

[piasa]

Pincus is one of the couple of dozen journalists subpoenaed in connection with the Wilson spy lie. I have nothing but contempt for him and the governmental sources that use him. -----20 posted on 04/21/2004 8:11:08 AM PDT by Dolphy

* Pincus, Ann & Walter : Apologize if this has been previously posted - more info on Walter and Ann Pincus: "Journalist Kenneth Timmerman said that when the congressional Cox Commission confirmed that China had committed nuclear espionage against the U.S., "the Washington Post assigned a journalist whose wife was a Clinton administration appointee to cover the story." That was Walter Pincus. Timmerman said that Pincus and his wife Ann were guests of the Clintons at Camp David. Timmerman said that after several years at the U.S. Information Agency, Ann Pincus was transferred in the late 1990s to the Office of Research and Media Reaction at the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the same office that "lost" a laptop computer loaded with highly classified intelligence documents in April 2000. Timmerman noted that, in his reports for the Post, Walter Pincus consistently sought to debunk the Chinese espionage allegations. Now he’s sliming the administration for acting against the Iraqi nuclear threat. No wonder the Democratic National Committee cites his work." entire story here: http://www.aim.org/publications/media_monitor/2003/08/28.html 42 posted on 10/09/2003 3:49 PM PDT by Ben Hecks

To: piasa
And Mrs. Pincus........worked with a Greg Thielmann.......who came out against Iraq......and resigned......made a big show of it.
1,983 posted on 04/13/2004 3:43:11 PM PDT by Dog

[* My note: Greg Thielman was a State Department kook who came out against the war and against his boss Powell because of Powell's address to the UN on Feb 5, 2003. Got a book deal out of it, too, as I recall. ------ piasa]

During the Clinton years Walter Pincus was consider to a mouthpiece for NSA adviser Sandy Berger who was also a former China lobbyist. Pincus' was wife also a Clinton Administration official. On two occasions Pincus was given time off by the Washington Post to work for J. W. Fulbright. These facts certainly help explain why Pincus savaged the Cox Committee intelligence report on Chinese espionage, whose conclusions he called "unwarranted" and whose language he falsely described as "inflammatory".
This is the same Pincus who maliciously described as a "Killer Warhead" missiles designed to protect Americans against nuclear attack. . .What is particularly interesting is that Pincus is tied in with the America-hating Marxist Institute for Policy Studies which from its inception in 1963 acted as a front for the KGB, even hosting KGB officers, until the collapse of the Soviet empire.
In September 1974 Pincus attended an IPS sponsored conference during which he and others present savaged the CIA, basically accusing it of being a criminal organisation. I have no idea at the stage whether any of the IPS' KGB friends were present.
(Incidentally, Anthony Lake was also attended the conference. Readers might recall that Clinton nominated Lake for director of the CIA. The nomination faced a barrage of outraged criticism and was withdrawn. Americans have no idea what a narrow escape they had).
The America-hating Richard Barnet, one of the founders of the IPS and conference sponsor, called for the destruction of the CIA, and even demanded that it cease monitoring international terrorist groups because it violated their civil liberties. . .
So what does Pincus do at the Washington Post? He writes on national security matters. This is a man who associates with America-haters, attacks national defence, maligned an intelligence committee when it produced unfavourable findings about Chinese espionage, and who now lies about Richard Clarke's statements. Now what does that tell us about the Washington Post? ------- "Pincus and Milbank: the low-down on two Washington Post Bush-hating reporters," by Gerard Jackson, BrookesNews.Com, April 5, 2004 , posted by FR's Fedora