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Posted on 11/18/2005 7:37:11 AM PST by SmithL
BUSAN, South Korea — National Security Adviser
won't say if he was the source who told Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward that Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson's wife worked for the CIA. But Hadley volunteered on Friday that some administration officials say he's not the leaker.
Accompanying President Bush at a summit here, Hadley was asked at a news briefing whether he was Woodward's source.
Referring to news accounts about the case, Hadley said with a smile, "I've also seen press reports from White House officials saying that I am not one of his sources." He said he would not comment further because the case remains under investigation.
Leaving the room, Hadley was asked if his answer amounted to a yes or a no. "It is what it is," he said.
Controversy surrounding the leak of CIA operative 's identity showed no signs of abating Thursday, dashing any hopes White House officials had that the investigation was nearing an end.
A group of former intelligence officers urged Bush not to pardon anyone convicted of leaking Plame's name to reporters and to pull security clearances of any White House officials implicated in the investigation.
Plame's husband went on the airwaves urging The Washington Post to conduct an inquiry into why Woodward kept his editor in the dark about an interview 17 months ago with a senior administration official about Plame's identity and her work at the CIA, a conversation a month before another journalist published her name.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Hadley? Who is spreading rumors about him? This is mind boggling.
The VIPS strike again. I hear they are running scared now, their whole coup is about to be uncovered.
"A group of former intelligence officers" surely includes good old Admiral Stansfield Turner, who did such a brilliant job under Jimmuh Carter. Plus some of the officers who were recently fired for malfeasance and incompetence.
Able Danger is ready to bite a bunch of them on the butt.
The USS Cole AND 9-11 plans were uncovered before the attacks. It wasn't a failure of intelligence. It was a failure of those working in intelligence.
I don't think Hadley or anyone else should be playing cute at this stage when a high administration official, Scooter Libby, may go to jail and the administration is taking a barrage of criticism.
This isn't about him.
We won't know, because the article doesn't identify the "former intelligence officers". That's par for the course for the MSM, but not S.O.P. for Fox. Yes, Turner's probably in there, along with that former CIA analyst who's been spouting off about Bush "torturing and hyping" the pre-Iraq intelligence. All the usual Leftist MSM darling suspects.
"Hadley? Who is spreading rumors about him?"
Raw Story fingered Hadley. Not considered a reliable source.
I saw the mealy-mouthed leftist Stansfield Turner on an excerpt of some Brit TV show and Turner was referring to VP Cheney as "the Vice President of Torture" -- I kid you not, I saw and heard him saying this with the smug sneer of all leftist morons who care more about sucking up to EU fools than about protecting Americans. In time of war, going on an overseas TV show and describing our great Vice President as the "Vice President of Torture"..... Turner should be the one ashamed to be known as a useless, seditious weenie.
Turner was one of the worst high officials in US history, and like his mentor Jimmuh 'Peanut' Carter, Turner will just not shut up and go away.
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Ha! I just found this note on Powerline - guess they saw the same interview I did last night (but I only watched a brief moment of it):
Worse than Jimmy Carter? Could Be
http://www.powerlineblog.com/
In the tradition of his former boss Jimmy Carter, ex-CIA director Stansfield Turner has gone abroad to stab his country in the back. In an interview with British ITV, Turner attacked the Bush administration, and especially Vice-President Dick Cheney, in the most outrageous terms imaginable:
A former CIA director has exclusively told ITV News that torture is condoned and even approved by the Bush government.
The devastating accusations have been made by Admiral Stansfield Turner who labelled Dick Cheney "a vice president for torture".
The former spymaster claims President Bush is not telling the truth when he says that torture is not a method used by the US.
Speaking of Bush's claims that the US does not use torture, Admiral Turner, who ran the CIA from 1977 to 1981, said: "I do not believe him".
On Dick Cheney he said "I'm embarrassed the United States has a vice president for torture.
"He condones torture, what else is he?"
Stansfield Turner is one of the worst bureaucrats ever employed by the United States government. As we have noted before, Turner is one of the chief reasons for the decline of the CIA into virtual uselessness, as he enthusiastically slashed 25 percent of all intelligence operatives from the payrolls.
It's interesting, isn't it, that for the last six months, the newspapers have breathlessly repeated the claim that the identification of a single non-covert desk employee of the CIA, Valerie Plame, somehow did great damage to American security interests. Well, if the neutralizing of a single "agent" is so newsworthy as to dominate the papers and the evening news for months, how about firing one-quarter of all the CIA agents--the really covert ones, I mean--in the world? Wouldn't that compromise our security to an almost unimaginable extent? How much publicity should that act of folly generate, in comparison to the meaningless Plame farce? And how much did it receive? That comparison speaks volumes about the agenda that drives mainstream journalism.
As for Turner, he should be ashamed of himself for slandering a man far better than himself, who has the difficult task of dealing with a world whose dangers Turner never acknowledged or understood, with resources that have never fully recovered from Turner's misguided stewardship.
(((lol))). And of course the press reads it as a "Maybe." Gee, I guess the press needs a decoder ring to hear what I heard Mr. Hadley say, and most civilly. lol.
Turner was directly responsible for depleting our human intelligence programs when he was CIA director. He believed that we could do it all with electronic intelligence, largely based on spy sattelites 22 miles up.
While it is true we can read a classified memo by an outlaw regime at that distance, we can't always rely on someone leaving it lieing outside the cave or Ministry of WMD.
If you had to pin the blame on anyone for the sorry state of our intelligence today, it would be Stansfield Turner.
If Hadley or anyone else put the story about Plame in play with reporters, then it is entirely possible that Libby wasn't obstructing justice when he told the FBI that he got reports about Wilson's wife from a reporter.
After two years, it's entirely conceivable that he could have mixed up a conversation with Woodward with one with Russert at about the same time.
It's clear from Woodward's statement that he had the subject on his notes to bring up at their meeting, but like most folks, he doesn't remember the entire conversation after that long a time.
And all the reports, even from Matt Cooper, make it clear that this wasn't some high priority matter that was a vendetta against Wilson carried out by attacks on his wife. Rove telling Cooper, "I heard that too." is hardly a major leak.
That's why all this makes a difference in the Libby case IMHO.
I've suspected Hadley for a while...
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When I say it's no time to get cute I mean that the time is long past where someone with information about this matter should try to hide behind the closed doors of the grand jury or the confidentiality promised by a reporter.
No one is going to prosecute the Woodward source under the legislative acts that the Special prosecutor was supposed to build a case on because the facts (Plame's status as agent and conscious intent to disclose) simply don't apply in this case.
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