Posted on 11/07/2005 12:06:43 AM PST by YaYa123
November 7, 2005 -- ANYONE who knew the late Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan has to wonder what he'd make of the CIA leak case. The agency was one of his pet targets. Moynihan, a true Washington wise man, would get livid when he fumed about the CIA's "unbroken record of missing what's happening."
In a 1979 Newsweek essay, he accurately predicted that the Soviet Union would collapse in the '80s. The CIA, dead wrong, had no clue of the coming collapse.
At his monthly "tutorials" for New York reporters, Moynihan would recount with outrage that in 1987, just two years before the Berlin wall fell, the CIA was still claiming East Germany had a higher GDP than West Germany — when any cab driver in Berlin could have told you that was ridiculous.
CIA agents on the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan have done amazing, brave things. But when it comes to intelligence, the agency keeps getting the big things wrong.
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As usual, Orin gets it right, and in very few words.
We all know what the Left would do if the shoe was on the other foot. They would be screaming to have the CIA taken apart piece by piece. But since Bush is a Republican? Well, it's obviously the case that he's out to get the "patriots" in the CIA.
Bingo. That seems to be exactly what has gone on here.
Very well done summary.
I don't think Plame and Wilson had the brains to do this themselves. Who is the left's equivalent of Rove?
The CIA is a bigger waste of money than NPR. At least NPR is not in a position to orchestrate palace coups. What is Porter Goss doing over there to clean house and get rid of the liberal holdovers from the Carter and Clinton years? It's painfully evident to anyone who's been keeping up with these events that the only enemy the CIA is interested in toppling is President Bush!
Who knows?
That's the beauty of the thing. Plame can use her status as a mythological "covert agent" to ensure that anyone who asks questions is indicted.
And the Republicans? They evidently don't have enough sense to find out who sent Wilson on his little trip; they don't even have the intelligence to ask if this little operation was legal.
They should have been doing that years ago. They didn't, so now we have a MSM-created fantasy that we have to deal with.
Bump for the late risers
I appreciate your bump. It's good to know Deborah Orin is on this story. Victoria Toenising's letter to the Wall Street Journal sure didn't generate any MSM attention.
It's an uphill battle, especially when the White House and republican senators simply will not engage.
Fitzgerald fattened his bank account and wasted two years failing to establish what any "beat cop" in America could have determined in a day.
Plame was not a "covert agent!"
next case...
WMD (1.7 metric tons of uranium) was discovered in Iraq in June 2004.
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Fitzgerald went out of his way to repeat ad nauseum that she was "classified" but refuse to utter the word "covert. I wonder why?
Excellent find.
We have been saying for years here that the CIA should have had a house cleaning and many other agencies.
bump- (suddenly, the Left just LOVES the CIA!)
OK, so now we all know that this was a CIA dirty trick, what can we do about it. Where do we direct a demand that the CIA be investigated? To congress? Can they assign it to military intelligence or to the FBI?
Yes, and where's Porter Goss when you need him?
Brit Hume said the administration is getting ready to fight back, but I've seen no proof of it yet.
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