And speaking of "false equivalence", that would be you comparing yourself to a truly "covert" agent ...
Posted on 05/30/2014 7:13:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Valerie Plame, the former CIA officer who was infamously outed during the Bush administration, was on CNN yesterday to react to the accidental outing of another CIA official this week. Plame called it “colossally stupid,” but made it clear this is in no way equivalent to what happened to her. Plame’s outing over ten years ago turned into a full-fledged scandal that implicated a number of Bush administration officials, which she doesn’t believe is in par with one person’s “colossally stupid” accident.
Plame told Wolf Blitzer this week’s embarrassment was “an error of huge proportions with tremendous consequences,” but the difference here is, she said, “my name was intended to be leaked in retaliation against my husband, who was a fierce critic of the Bush administration and the Iraq War.”
On this particular case, Plame did say it raises a serious issue of security clearances and how many people should get them. And furthermore, there are plenty of disastrous implications of a CIA station chief’s name being out there when that information may end up in the hands of people who might want to inflict serious harm upon them.
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Plame was a non-covert "covert" agent living in DC whose husband Joe Wilson outed her long before Richard Armitage. Scooter Libby had nothing to do with any of it, other than being stupid enough to cooperate with Patrick Sleaze Fitzgerald.
The guy Ubama outed was an actual covert agent stationed on foreign soil.
Such a great explanation.
The odds of seeing that in the MSM media are equal to the odds of Salma Hayek dumping her billionaire husband and calling me for a date.
Let’s not forget that Novak let Libby (and Rove) twist as well. He could simply have said, “Libby was not the source.” It would have stopped the nonsense. So I suspect that Rove and or Libby also talked to Novak about Plame, but that the true source was Armitage and one of the other two or both confirmed it for Novak, so as a result he couldn’t openly state that Libby wasn’t the source. None of that ever happened however and the rest is history
You’re right, this wasn’t an accident.
IMO he was outed to blind our intel community in this area.
IMO they don’t want there to be any record of a warning of an attack.
Plame told Wolf Blitzer this week’s embarrassment was “an error of huge proportions with tremendous consequences,” but the difference here is, she said, “my name was intended to be leaked in retaliation against my husband, who was a fierce critic of the Bush administration and the Iraq War.”
No, it wasn't. I can't believe she is still repeating that meme, even after it was proved this is incorrect.
Plame was inadvertantly "out'ed" by Richard Armitrage, in the State Department. He told Robert Novak that she worked for the CIA, because he had seen her name on some material from the agency. However, Armitrage did not know she was a "covert" agent (and had no reason to know). So, he didn't knowingly disclose her covert status, and was not prosecuted.
The Attorney General and the special prosecutor knew this at the outset of the investigation, because Armitrage told them. And they told him to keep quiet, while they continued the "investigation" anyway, and managed to maneuver Scooter Libby into an error that they could portray as intentional.
(For anyone that doesn't know the error: Libby claimed in an FBI interview, and subsequent grand jury testimony, that he first learned about Plame's covert assignment from Dick Cheney, and then subsequently from Tim Russert. Russert countered he didn't tell Libby. This difference in recollection turned into an indictment and conviction for Libby -- not for "outing" Plame, but for "obstructing justice" and perjury).
Here’s my question to all of you.
We know that Armitage was the one who revealed Plame’s identity.
We know this whole drama was bullcrap, bullcrap, bullcrap.
So how come Bush allowed Scooter Libby to go to prison?
I will never ever forgive Dubya for this and don’t try to tell me it was all right.
Sending innocent men to prison is not okay.
And speaking of "false equivalence", that would be you comparing yourself to a truly "covert" agent ...
See my previous post (just before yours), which went up about 1 second before you. :-)
Libby was convicted for intentionally lying to investigators and a grand jury. Of course, I haven't seen all the evidence, but what I've read indicates that it was nothing but an error in recollection -- where Libby first heard about Plame.
But, there was never any evidence that Libby actually repeated it: only that he somehow knew about it before he claimed.
Bush commutes Libby's prison sentence - Jul 2, 2007
RE: the true source was Armitage
So, why was he not jailed?
She’s such a liar. Her “outing” was a slip by Armitage, and the ensuing witch hunt proved there was no intent or coordination. Poor Scooter Libby was caught by a perjury trap thrown out there by a special prosector desperate to get ANYTHING, despite knowing all about Armitage in the first week.
And there was nothing to “out” anyway. She openly commuted to her desk job at Langley - kind of hard to be a super-secret spy when anyone who cared to check would clearly see she was with the CIA.
I can't help but wonder if this "outing" was the whole purpose of this trip.
Novak got Valerie’s last name from Wilson’s bio in Who’s Who. But after he used it in his column, the name Valerie Plame became big news in the media and caused quite a storm. On October 1, 2003, after reading a second column by Novak on the case, Armitage, alarmed by the clamor in the press for the name of the leaker who had outed a covert CIA agent, revealed his role to his boss Secretary of State Colin Powell. They took up the matter with State Department lawyer William H. Taft IV, who then spoke with White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, who allegedly told Taft that he did not want to know. But why didn’t Taft or Powell go directly to the President with this important information?
Among the many things that should give a thinking person pause about this whole sad story is that Patrick Fitzgerald knew from the outset who had leaked the information about Wilson’s wife to Bob Novak. It had been Deputy Secretary of State Rich Armitage, who told the Justice Department that he had leaked the information to Novak, but kept what he had done from the White House. Armitage would later admit that he had even earlier told journalist Bob Woodward about Wilson’s wife’s employment. Indeed, on Bob Woodward’s tape of the June 13, 2003, conversation, Armitage can be heard leaking the fact that Wilson’s wife worked at the CIA four separate times.
The Vice President knew that all of this could have been avoided had Secretary Colin Powell done his duty and told the President that he knew who had leaked Plame’s identity to Novak. But he preferred to remain silent, and thus opened the door to two years of a needless and wasteful investigation which distracted the administration, forced innocent staff members to undergo a costly inquisition, and led to the conviction of a loyal and highly competent public servant. Cheney made sure that the public would know the truth and took a parting shot at Colin Powell.
I was familiar with the evidence, having read all the pleadings and followed the case closely. The jury got it right. Libby was misleading the investigators, which is a no-no. What he claimed was that he was not aware that Plame worked at the CIA (nothing about “covert,” flat out he said he didn’t know she worked there until he read it in the paper saw it on teevee). But he had specifically requested and received information about her, and “shopped” that information around to reporters.
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/when-and-why-joseph-c-wilson-iv-outed-valerie-plame#.U4id6x_D8iE
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/007460.php
Colin Powell: Racist Liberal Opportunist
Written on Saturday, January 26, 2013 by Nathaniel Davidson
One of the most disgraceful acts of treachery by professing Republicans was General Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Hussein Obama for President—not once but twice. It’s so obvious that he followed a number of other African-Americans in voting on skin color. Of course, he wasn’t as candid as Samuel L. Jackson: “I voted for Barack because he was black. … [Obama’s] message didn’t mean **** to me.”
So Powell has ever since rationalized to the public why he did so. This has degenerated into increasingly shrill and irrational attacks on the Republican Party to which he still claims allegiance. Recently, this has included a bitter tirade to the liberal David Gregory of MSNBC (which Mark Levin calls “MSLSD”). Remember Gregory—the anti-gun zealot who mocked the NRA leader for proposing armed guards in schools, but sends his kids to a school with 11 armed guards?
However, although Powell was once much admired as a Republican military man, his outburst should not have surprised people.
But even worse was the Valerie Plame affair. Plame is the wife of Joe Wilson, a noisy opponent of the war to remove mass-murderer Saddam Hussein, and it was “leaked” to the late columnist Robert Novak that she worked for the CIA. The Demagogue party and the Leftmedia wanted to catch some top Republicans in this “crime”, such as VP Dick Cheney and his assistant Lewis (Scooter) Libby. And the appeasing Republicans appointed a special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, who went Inspector Javert on Libby.
However, the real “leaker” was Powell’s assistant, Richard Armitage. But “special prosecutions” take on a life of their own, far from the original “crime”, simply so the funding can continue—much like government programs in general. Javert/Fitzgerald, even after belatedly knowing that Armitage was the leaker, was determined to nail Libby for something. This was “perjury”—which in this case meant that Libby didn’t remember what he told a reporter about a crime he didn’t even commit. A blot on President Bush Jr.’s legacy was refusing to pardon Libby—not the first time he was disloyal to his own people.
But the real lack of integrity was Powell’s, because he stayed silent as Fitzgerald made Libby’s life hell for the non-crime that he didn’t even commit. Sam Blumenfeld writes:
“The Vice President knew that all of this could have been avoided had Secretary Colin Powell done his duty and told the President that he knew who had leaked Plame’s identity to Novak. But he preferred to remain silent, and thus opened the door to two years of a needless and wasteful investigation which distracted the administration, forced innocent staff members to undergo a costly inquisition, and led to the conviction of a loyal and highly competent public servant. … Had Powell told the President the truth, there would have been no need for a special prosecutor or grand inquisition.”
http://patriotupdate.com/articles/colin-powell-racist-liberal-opportunist/#yDd4Cx3L62oxGd4p.99
Powell turns on the party that nurtured him
In his tirade to Gregory, Powell claimed:
“There’s also a dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the party. What do I mean by that? What I mean by that is they still sort of look down on minorities.”
Powell also claimed:
“When I see a former governor say that the president is ‘shuckin’ and jivin’That’s a racial-era slave term.”
Powell is stooping low to attack Governor Sarah Palin this way when she hasn’t a racist bone in her body. But it’s typical of leftist demagoguery to call any criticism of Obama “racist”—even when the issue is big spending, class warfare, hatred of Israel, or anti-business rhetoric. Apparently leftists have a magic decoder ring, whereby all these issues are code words for “Obama is black.” I also didn’t notice Powell criticize Democrat Andrew Cuomo, then Attorney General of NY (and now Governor), for saying “You can’t shuck and jive at a press conference” during Obama’s war with Hillary Clinton in the Dem primaries.
Barry made a boo-boo. Let’s learn from it, and move on.
Plame:
“My scandal was much better than this one because I’m Valerie Plame. Please don’t take my scandal away”
Nobody set a perjury trap for him.
Her 15 mins are long gone. What difference does it make? A LOSER.
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