Posted on 07/14/2005 9:26:08 AM PDT by Sam Hill
Agee and his band of patriots published Welch's name in their ultra leftwing rags, "Counterspy Magazine" --what eventually became the " Covert Action Information Bulletin/Covert Action Quarterly".
This outrageous act led to the passage of the "Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982" (aka, "The Agent Identities Protection Act") which was signed by Ronald Reagan into law in 1982.
Bear in mind that it was a "magazine" and "journalists" who outed Welch. It is that kind of exposure that the 1982 legislation was meant to prevent.
Does it really matter? I believe Aldrich Aimes 'outed' Plame years ago in 1994 anyway...
Is this proper grammer from someone with an IQ? How do regimes DISAPPEARED people? Is that like thinking them into the corn field? What's he doing in Cuba, anyway?
It matters because it shows how far the media has gone to forget the reason for this law. It was to prevent agents from being named in the NEWS, not in off the record background phone calls with reporters.
(And, for the record, I don't believe Rove did "out" Plame even to Cooper. He was just correcting the media lies as to who sent Plame's hubby to Iraq. It wasn't Cheney, but Plame herself.)
GHW Bush, who went to the CIA right after the Welch murder, was in fact the person who almost single-handedly pushed through this legislation.
Barbara Bush even named Agee as Welch's murderer--in one of her books. Agee tried to sue her for defamation, then dropped the suit. (Because it is true.)
The ultra left have had an ongoing jihad against this act (they call it the Anti-Agee Act) for years. So it is just too ironic for words that they are using it now to try to damage George W Bush.
Hadn't thought about this jerk for years.
And Welch isn't the only one whose death Agee and his cohorts are responsible for.
I've read Agee's book before.
And you're right. No matter what the bastard says, he did expose Robert Welch and is complicit in his death.
If I remember correctly, he did succeed in exposing other CIA agents as well.
Agee knows that Cuba is one of the few places where he can remain safe because of his treachery back in the 70's.
"What's he doing in Cuba, anyway?"
He runs an agit-prop website from there. And he also runs a travel agency--to sneak liberals into Cuba agains the law.
He's that determined.
But to answer the larger question, he's in Cuba to avoid be brought up on murder and treason charges in the US. I just hope Castro dies in time for Agee to be brought to justice.
A person who helped draw up this law said Plame would have to be overseas or there within 5 years prior to her outing. Plame was neither.
This investigation is about something much bigger. The left wing demons are screaming louder than ever before. So is the left wing media. My guess is they're trying to scream over the top of what's about to happen, as if their noise could somehow save them.
Seems to be out of business as of now.
Shame. Wherever will the enemy dims go for their cuber travel services? Can-eh-duh?
Then I clicked on the "aboutcubalinda" link. This is what I gots:
The page cannot be found The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please try the following: If you typed the page address in the Address bar, make sure that it is spelled correctly. Open the www.cubalinda.com home page, and then look for links to the information you want. Click the Back button to try another link. HTTP 404 - File not found Internet Information Services -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technical Information (for support personnel) More information: Microsoft Support
"If I remember correctly, he did succeed in exposing other CIA agents as well."
Absolutely. Agee and his rag Covert Action Quarterly ran a column called "Naming Names" in which they listed anybody they even thought might be a CIA (or any kind of US intel) agent.
This went on for YEARS, up until the act was passed in 1982. It was extremely popular--especially with the David Corns, Noam Chomskys and Howard Deans of the world.
That is, the same people who are apoplectic about the "outing" of desk jockey Valerie Plame.
You're right of course. Nothing about what Rove is said to have done fits the legislation. And Plame was not a covert CIA agent in any sense of the meaning of the legislation.
Part of my point is that the only people who are even close to having committed a crime are the news organizations that named her. The legislation was aimed at Covert Action Quarterly (aka CounterSpy). That is, the Time Mag and Mathew Coopers of this world. Not the WH staff personnel talking off the record.
(And of course there is no way Rove would have been doing this to expose her and put her at risk, since she was NOT a covert agent.)
The law in question has several provisos:
(1) that the CIA must have tried to keep the agent's identity a secret for the five years previous to his being named;
(2) that the person releasing the name must know that the agent is operating covertly;
(3) that the revealer's intent must be to damage the USA's spying capacity, and must have shown that intent through a history of similar acts.
None of these provisos were met, so there is no case whatsoever. IMHO, the dims are simply trying to get back at Rove for his derisive (but true) commentary on liberals' shameful behavior regarding 9-11.
"None of these provisos were met, so there is no case whatsoever. IMHO, the dims are simply trying to get back at Rove for his derisive (but true) commentary on liberals' shameful behavior regarding 9-11."
They don't need to worry about the facts, since they have a hammerlock on the media. (They are the media.)
Of course it is just another way to get back at Bush for winning the election. The media is war by another means. As is the court system.
This bogus story also serves to keep attention away from the London bombings. After all, none other than John Le Kerry (D-France) assured us that the threat of terrorism has been exaggerated by the Bush WH.
They want to keep this ball in the air until they get all their info from Larry Flynt on the possible Supreme Court nominees.
Shouldn't this guy have been tried, convicted and executed for treason?
The Welch assassination was a tragic and rude introduction to the Revolutionary Organization 17 November, a previously unknown Marxist-Leninist group that takes its name from the date of a bloody student revolt in 1973. The terrorist band has since killed 21 other people, including diplomats, judges and businessmen. Astonishingly, there have been no arrests, few firm leads and scant response to multimillion-dollar reward offers.
"Shouldn't this guy have been tried, convicted and executed for treason?"
He hottailed it to Cuba. The land of social justice.
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