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To: InterceptPoint

If Plame was covert, her identity would be above Top Secret and on a need-to-know basis. Top Secret clearance is very common in the USG.


64 posted on 10/26/2005 10:20:01 AM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar
If Plame was covert, her identity would be above Top Secret and on a need-to-know basis. Top Secret clearance is very common in the USG.

True enough but that doesn't change the argument.

The VP had a need to know since there were questions raised by Cheney about how Wilson (of all people) was selected for the Niger mission - a stupid thing for the CIA to do in any case but particularly so when they sent a liberal partisan hack and known enemy of the administration to do the job. Tenet was just responding to that issue in a meeting with Cheney.

You can make the same argument for the Cheney to Libby exchange. I'll stand by my position.

74 posted on 10/26/2005 10:33:34 AM PDT by InterceptPoint
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