Posted on 05/29/2014 12:05:14 PM PDT by Resettozero
Valerie Plame doesn't deny that blowing the cover of the CIA station chief in Afghanistan is a serious matter. It's just that, discussing the issue at a Wednesday evening forum sponsored by The Atlantic, Plame seemed to view the outing of the CIA's top spy on the front lines in the Afghan war as more of an embarrassment than an outrage.
"My understanding is … it was a military aide who compiled this list of those that were greeting the president when he came," Plame said. "Colossally stupid, but I think it was inadvertent. It was an error … really stupid. The White House apparently has said that they're going to do an investigation, and they'll find someone who's really embarrassed at the end of it."
The leak, if that's what it can be called, happened over the weekend as President Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan. In a routine email to the press, the administration included a name with the description "Chief of Station" after it -- a clear reference to the ranking CIA official in Kabul. It's hard to imagine a more sensitive assignment in a more dangerous place, and blowing the station chief's cover -- in an email to 6,000 reporters, no less -- will surely have repercussions.
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Valerie is a POS.
And she wasn’t even in the field anymore and hadn’t been for years. Yet a man went to prison for it, and he wasn’t the one who “outed” her any way.
A desk jockyette at the CIA is an undercover spy? Whodathunk?
It was a career State Department official that leaked, no Bushies involved
Fear not!
Arrogant Obama will “Make sure that it never happens again, again, or again.”
I think it was no accident that seal team 6 that took out Bin Laden was outed by Obama, and no coincidence that they were subsequently killed. There’s been no investigation, however. Obama is a traitor on the side of al Qaeda.
Except the Bushies never blew CIA cover. Plame was not a field operative.
If you park your car in the CIA office parking lot every day, you’re not undercover.
24-hours and boy has she changed her tune! A "military aid" would know better than to reveal the name of a CIA officer I would think. Certainly he/she wouldn't be identified as such. A "political aid", on the other hand, would probably make a bone-head move like that. One wonders why Valerie would accept this 'explanation'? Oh wait... these are her guys in charge!
And I used to think Valerie was such a beautiful name.
Of course she’s trying to explain it away. She’s a partisan Dim opportunist. It’s also interesting that she’s trying to blame it on a military aide instead of a civilian staff member.
Susan Rice and Staff asleep on the Job again
Well, today’s stories just seem to call my name. I was with DIA in 2003 in Afghanistan and I was selected by Task Force 180 and the CIA Station Chief to do a three day interrogation of a Nangrahar Province warlord who was “rolled up” in Pakistan and flown hooded into Kabul.
That type of assignement would be foreign to Valerie Plane. She just sat at a desk at Langley. Doing what Langley does best, searching for their own assholes with both hands.
Valerie Plame is an example of what is now endemic in all the services to include CIA. She is like a wart. A unsightly, hard to remove, useless bit of diseased tissue, that is just really difficult to get rid of.
I remember when I was branch chief for combating terrorism in the counter-intelligence directorate, J2, USEUCOM. Some pretty little thing showed up to visit. I had the intel on her before she arrived. She was an DIA SES-1 (senior executive schedule, civil servant, one star general officer equivalent).
She polished the right knobs at DIA and went from a GS-5 to SES rank. GS-5 is an entry level clerk.
Like her, Valerie Plame is a fraud, useless.
Some here may recall the CIA “case officer” who planned and set up a birthday party for a dear friend and trusted interpretor for the agency in Bagram AF. I think six people died, maybe 7 when the wretch arrived with a suicide belt and not wanting to wait to blow out the candles on his cake, blew himself up instead.
The two CIA “case officers” who survived had not yet returned from the chow hall with the cake.
Most Afghans list 01 January and guess at the year of their birth—they do not celebrate birthdays.
Now, I remember a time I was not allowed on Bagram in 2006 (I had left DIA and was a contractor, but still had my retired navy ID).
I had to wait at a gate to deliver some proposal paperwork to the contracting office. Even though I had served and lived at Bagram, I was not allowed to enter the base.
This CIA female “case officer” felt that searching her good friend everytime he entered would “hurt his feelings”.
She was right. His feelings got hurt and six others when he blew himself up.
On his birthday. All dead, including her.
I am old, cranky and fed up with affirmative action and poor, everyone gets a gold star, training.
The CIA is a joke. Is that simple enough to understand?
Sorry. I probably need a nap.
Remember, when your dealing with liberals, NOTHING they do is ever their fault..its only when a Republican does something its considered treason..Obama has already proven he can get away with multiple murders
“...blowing the station chief’s cover — in an email to 6,000 reporters, no less — will surely have repercussions.”
Like the man’s life span now being measured in minutes?
Even al-Qaeda cannot count on the Current Resident as a reliable ally, as The Won is notoriously a vacillator and so unsure of any principle, that his opinion on any given subject of any particular day, is pretty much predicated upon to whom he has last spoken to. If it has been Valerie Jarrett, then by golly, he is on the side of the Iranians. If it was George Soros, well, then definitely, he is on the side of Crony Capitalism. If he talks to the Saudi Royals, then the domestic production of petroleum and natural gas are placed on the table for restrictions and even harsher regulations. If he talks to the Chinese, then, by all means, there will be priority for shipping coal to China, and thereby keeping the air over the North American continent clean and pure.
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