Valerie Plame and Obama’s Double Standard on Outing CIA Personnel

~ntpage Magazine ^ | 5-26-14 | Daniel Greenfield

[afraidfortherepublic]

Hoping to distract Americans from his death panels for veterans, Obama made a Bush style visit to Afghanistan and managed to cause even more harm to national security by outing the CIA Station Chief there.

The Democrats did their best to turn Valerie Plame into a martyr even though the only danger that the leftist faced was fewer invitations to cocktail parties. That didn’t stop Hollywood liberals from churning out a movie about her complete with action scenes.

Will the same standard hold for whoever outdated the CIA Station Chief in Afghanistan? Unlikely. The official narrative is that it was an accident. But if you believe that it’s an accident, then you also have to believe in the complete and total incompetence of Obama Inc. when it comes to security issues.

There’s a case to be made for that, but considering the deep-seated resentment of the country in the upper echelons of this administration, it was more likely deliberate.

Unlike Valerie Plame making her cocktail party tour, the CIA Station Chief in Afghanistan is at actual risk.

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The list of names was sent by email to reporters traveling with Obama on his surprise Afghanistan visit and included in a “pool report” shared with correspondents and others not on the trip.

The Post said the White House issued a revised list deleting the CIA official’s name after it recognized the mistake.

The newspaper said its White House bureau chief, Scott Wilson, who was on the trip, copied the original list from the email provided by White House press officials and included it in a report sent to a distribution list with over 6,000 recipients.

Is anyone going to be fired for it?

[Hoodat]

Richard Armitage and Robert Novak could both make the case that they believed Plame not to be an "undercover" operative. The first account of anyone reporting that Plame was "undercover" was David Corn's story that came out a few days after Novak's. In that story, Corn specifically stated that Plame was "undercover" - a classification that Novak and Armitage did not know about. In fact, both Novak and Armitage got their info off the street.

So the focus now rests on Corn who somehow was the only one reporting that Plame was "undercover". Later, Corn would admit that his sole source for the story was Joe Wilson. Thus, Joe Wilson was the one who outed Plame as an "undercover" CIA operative, which is something that Armitage did not do.

[cookcounty]

"In fairness here, no one went to jail for outing Valerie Plame. "

Judith Miller (then a NYT reporter, now with Fox)went to jail for refusing to divulge her source (which turned out to be Colin Powell).

The really weird thing is that the guy who ACTUALLY outed Plame was Richard Armitage, who was exempted from prosecution or any punishment or even any criticism by the Mainstream Media because he was insufficiently conservative, and thus an undesirable target for the demonization he would have caught if he had been seriously conservative.

[Gritty]

...included it in a report sent to a distribution list with over 6,000 recipients

They shouldn't worry about it. Who says 6,000 reporters can't keep a secret?

Look at Fast and Furious, the IRS Scandal, Benghazi, the Birth Certificate, AP spying, NSA abuses, arms to Al Qaeda, massive energy and industry shutdowns because of the EPA, massive voter fraud, stealing of land for federal monuments, hundreds of billions of dollars missing through waste/fraud/abuse and crony corruption, massive unlawful behavior on ObamaCare, etc. Nary a peep. Nobody knows a thing or says anything about any of these, right?

So why worry? The Secret is safe with them. Nobody will know.

[blueyon]

Good post, forgot what the left did about Valeria Plame

[LowOiL]

Richard Armitage

Yep, the democrat went scot free. The whole circus act by the left was a joke. Plame didn't want Armitage, she was just acting as a stooge for the left.