http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/valerieplame/ en-us Tue, 3 Nov 2009 17:20:07 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2377519/posts Democrats said that the outing of a CIA agent, personnel, whatever, was bad, and said that someone's head in the Bush Administration had to roll. Democrats wanted Cheney, but didn't get him. When the New York Times outs Karzai's brother as supposedly being paid by the CIA to do who knows what, Democrats act as if it is no big deal. What gives? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2377519/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 17:20:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352777/posts WASHINGTON--A federal judge said the Federal Bureau of Investigation must publicly reveal much of its interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney during the investigation into who leaked the identity of a Central Intelligence Agency operative. The FBI interviewed Mr. Cheney in June 2004 as it was investigating the leak of Valerie Plame's identity after her husband criticized the Bush administration. Both the Bush and Obama administrations said they wanted to keep the interview confidential because future vice presidents may not cooperate with criminal investigations if it became public. The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352777/posts#comment Thu, 1 Oct 2009 20:26:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321599/posts The Associated Press reported today (Friday) that lawyers for certain detainees at the Gitmo Prison in Cuba, possibly violated federal criminal law by releasing the identity of CIA covert operatives. The current Justice Department investigation connects to both the Valerie Plame matter a few years ago, and the current issue of where and how Gitmo detainees should be charged and tried. First, the Plame affair. According to the mainstream media, that was about the “outing” of a CIA “covert operative” in violation of federal law. But that law applied only to people who had been a covert operative “within five... Special to FreeRepublis http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321599/posts#comment Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:34:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2239711/posts Security Breaches: Scooter Libby went to prison for the "outing" of a desk-jockey CIA agent. He forgot conversations. Pelosi forgets briefings. And the outing of our entire intelligence apparatus by Democrats is OK. Remember the thrilling days of yesteryear and the alleged outing of the already known CIA officer Valerie Plame? We were told then that the Vanity Fair cover girl's 15 minutes of fame jeopardized our national security even if everybody already knew who she was. "Scooter" Libby went to prison because his memory of events and who said what to whom regarding Plame differed from the recollections of... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2239711/posts#comment Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:19:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254944/posts Justice Department (through Solicitor General Elena Kagan) urges Supreme Court not to hear appeal from former CIA officer Valerie Plame, after lower courts threw out her lawsuit claiming damages from alleged scheme to invade her privacy by exposing her as a CIA employee. Plame’s exposure led to conviction of Cheney aide Lewis Libby on obstruction of justice charges. -- Josh Gerstein (3:31 p.m.) Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254944/posts#comment Wed, 20 May 2009 20:20:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2193220/posts First, Sean Penn played outed gay politician Harvey Milk. Now it looks like he may play the husband of outed CIA hussy Valerie Plame. “Fair Game,” based on the memoirs by Plame and Wilson, is being made in to a big budget Hollywood fiasco. Tinsel town normally calls a biographic picture a “bio-pic,” but in this case it might be more appropriate to call it a “lie-o-pic.” Producers are negotiating with Sean Penn to play ... IHateTheMedia.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2193220/posts#comment Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:15:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2192696/posts "Fair Game," the drama about the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson, has come together with Naomi Watts starring, "Mrs. and Mrs. Smith" helmer Doug Liman directing and William Pohlad's River Road financing. But the big question is whether Oscar-winning "Milk" star Sean Penn will close a deal to play Ambassador Joseph Wilson. Penn is negotiating, but no deal has closed.Pohlad has a strong relationship with Penn: he was a producer on the Terrence Malick-directed "Tree of Life," which stars Penn and Brad Pitt, and Pohlad also was a producer and financier for "Into the Wild," which Penn directed.... Variety http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2192696/posts#comment Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:41:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042511/posts House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman warned Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Tuesday to turn over a copy of a FBI interview with Vice President Dick Cheney or face contempt charges. The document in question is an interview Cheney gave to the FBI in the investigation of the leak of the identity of Valerie Plame Wilson, a covert CIA agent. “The arguments you have raised for withholding the interview report are not tenable,” Waxman wrote in a letter to Mukasey. “When the FBI interview with the Vice President was conducted, the Vice President knew that the information... Politico/The Crypt http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042511/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 18:53:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036334/posts McClellan Late Show by: Ben Giles, June 25, 2008 Former press secretary Scott McClellan remains concerned about what he calls “a cloud of suspicion over the White House,” particularly concerning the leak of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity. In his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on June 19, McClellan expressed his frustration over alleged leaks and cover-ups by White House officials, and questioned the possible involvement of Vice President Dick Cheney. “I do not think the President had any knowledge,” said McClellan. “In terms of the Vice President, I do not know.” The allegations at the time were... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036334/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:56:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033819/posts Scott McClellan testifies this morning before the House Judiciary Committee beginning at 9:30 (eastern). It will be covered live on C-Span and the three cable networks. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033819/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:47:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1993059/posts I guess things must not be going well with Joe Wilson's (and wife Valerie Plame's) movie. It was hyped bigtime over a year ago and now that Warner Bros project appears to have dropped out of sight. I sure know Wilson's book is way down in the DUMPS at #1,310,194 in Amazon. The paperback edition isn't doing much better at #266,321. This might explain Joe Wilson's over-the-top partisanship in favor of Hillary. 'Fess up, Joe. What did Hillary promise you? The Secretary of State slot if she is elected president? In any event, it is entertaining to watch Wilson... DUmmie FUnnies http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1993059/posts#comment Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:22:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1957852/posts Most Americans have never heard of Sibel Edmonds, and if the U.S. government has its way, they never will. The former FBI translator turned whistleblower tells a chilling story of corruption at Washington’s highest levels—sale of nuclear secrets, shielding of terrorist suspects, illegal arms transfers, narcotics trafficking, money laundering, espionage. She may be a first-rate fabulist, but Edmonds’s account is full of dates, places, and names. And if she is to be believed, a treasonous plot to embed moles in American military and nuclear installations and pass sensitive intelligence to Israeli, Pakistani, and Turkish sources was facilitated by figures in... The American Conservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1957852/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:40:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1942631/posts When former CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson got the redacted manuscript of her draft memoir back from the CIA Publications Review Board (PRB) earlier this year, her book publisher realized it had a problem. "We were looking at a manuscript where 20 percent of the author's story was deemed classified by her former employer [even though] much of the information was probably in the public domain," explains an editor at the publishing house, Simon & Schuster. "So the challenge was, if Valerie can't tell her own story because she is bound by her agreement, then how is this story going... Mother Jones http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1942631/posts#comment Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:33:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1937655/posts Removing any doubt about how she sees the world from the left, Valerie Plame Wilson, in an interview Thursday which aired Saturday night on a Washington, DC area cable channel, admired the work of the far-left Media Matters as she revealed she seeks out the group's postings for their “accuracy” and presentation of “the facts.” Carol Joynt (her blog), a former CBS News producer who as the owner of the Nathans of Georgetown restaurant every week interviews a newsmaker in front of a lunch crowd in what becomes the hour-long Q&A Cafe on NewsChannel 8, asked whether she reads “news... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1937655/posts#comment Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:14:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1692237/posts The ridiculous end to the scandal that distracted Washington. I had a feeling that I might slightly regret the title ("Case Closed") of my July 25 column on the Niger uranium story. I have now presented thousands of words of evidence and argument to the effect that, yes, the Saddam Hussein regime did send an important Iraqi nuclear diplomat to Niger in early 1999. And I have not so far received any rebuttal from any source on this crucial point of contention. But there was always another layer to the Joseph Wilson fantasy. Easy enough as it was to prove... slate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1692237/posts#comment Wed, 30 Aug 2006 01:09:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934449/posts Seated at the Washington Gridiron dinner March 31, I was interrupted by a man crouching at my feet who was dressed Air Force formal with the four stars of a full general. It was CIA Director Michael Hayden, who complained to me profanely that my column had misrepresented him in the Valerie Plame Wilson case. Denying he favors Democrats, Gen. Hayden indicated to me he had not authorized Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman to say Mrs. Wilson had been a "covert" CIA employee, as he claimed Hayden did, but only that she was "undercover." Keeping busy at a Gridiron evening supposedly... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934449/posts#comment Tue, 4 Dec 2007 14:35:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928933/posts The publicist for a book written by former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan released an excerpt on Monday that set all of the Old Media tongues to wagging again about the Valerie Plame Affair: "The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the... Jeff Gannon - A Voice of the New Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928933/posts#comment Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:36:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927835/posts What do you do when your heavily hyped book plummets from number 6 on the New York Times bestseller list to a mere 299 on Amazon.com in just a matter of a few weeks? If you're Valerie Plame, you turn to discredited "journalist" Jason Leopold for self-hype help as you can see in this video. Howard Kurtz has written of Leopold's dubious background in a March 9, 2005 Washington Post article: Jason Leopold got a journalistic black eye three years ago when Salon retracted a story the freelancer had written about a Bush administration official, saying it could not authenticate... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927835/posts#comment Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:40:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1927468/posts This is a fascinating video in many ways. One way is the fact that Valerie Plame allowed herself to be interviewed with a journalist described in a Howard Kurtz Washington Post ARTICLE as engaging in "lying, cheating, and backstabbing." The article also states that Leopold was a cocaine addict who has battled mental illness his whole life. So this is the person that Valerie Plame allows to interview her which says a lot about her. One interesting thing in this 10 minute video is that at 3:45 into it, Leopold FINALLY admits to being wrong about his infamous "scoop"... DUmmie FUnnies http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1927468/posts#comment Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:30:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924412/posts WASHINGTON - Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said Sunday he was foolish to have revealed Valerie Plame's CIA identity. Armitage's acknowledgment came in response to comments by Plame, who said the former Bush administration official had no right to talk to a reporter about where she worked. A year ago, Armitage publicly apologized to Plame and her husband. The former No. 2 State Department official remains the only principal in the leak to have done so. At least three one-time administration officials in addition to Armitage discussed Plame's CIA status with reporters. They are former White House political... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924412/posts#comment Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:22:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1917904/posts The Prince of Journalism by: Malcolm A. Kline, October 29, 2007 It contains more useful information than any journalism textbook we have seen but don’t expect legendary reporter Robert Novak’s memoirs to become required reading in communications classes anytime soon. “I was too much of a right winger for most of America’s institutions,” Novak writes in The Prince of Darkness. The title refers to a nickname that a colleague gave Novak early in his career as a comment on his trademark pessimism that has stuck for decades. When he does get on campus, Novak tells college students something they seldom... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1917904/posts#comment Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:21:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1916094/posts If Valerie Plame's memoir was intended to lay to rest the conflicting accounts of how she came to be outed as a covert CIA agent, it fails. Instead, she paints herself as a naïve, whinging victim of circumstance married to an angry, obstreperous egotist who volunteered to involve himself in a vicious battle between the White House and the CIA over how President Bush came to make untrue statements in a State of the Union speech. Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House (Simon and Schuster, $26) shows how mistaken her husband's judgment was.... New York Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1916094/posts#comment Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:30:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1915632/posts To flip through the first third of Valerie Plame Wilson's "Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House" is to confront an optical maze of gray stripes interrupting juicy anecdotes and methodical musings. CIA censors blacked out 10 percent of the text in her memoir, leaving its narrative disjointed and sometimes hard to follow. "I believe the vast majority of what is blacked out in the book has nothing to do with national security and everything to do with diminishing me and Joe," she said. Agency censors also wouldn't allow Plame Wilson to acknowledge working... The Albuquerque Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1915632/posts#comment Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:56:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914580/posts In a lame attempt to help ex-CIA operative Valerie Plame's soggy book sales (currently #33 on Amazon behind Stephen Colbert, Eric Clapton, Clarence Thomas, O.J./Goldman Family, Paul Krugman, and an umpteenth reprint of "War & Peace"), Katie Couric "conducted" an interview aimed at dummies who didn't pay much attention when the whole episode culminated in the Scooter Libby fiasco. For those of us who did pay attention, this whole episode continues to be an insult to our intelligence.... Bob Parks: Outside The Wire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914580/posts#comment Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:01:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1913317/posts (CBS) Valerie Plame Wilson chides President Bush for not firing anyone for the leaking of her covert CIA identity, which caused a national scandal and an investigation resulting in a perjury and obstruction of justice conviction against Vice President Richard Cheney's chief of staff. She also tells Katie Couric that she has learned of the damage that the leaking of her identity caused agents of the clandestine service and it is serious. Plame Wilson and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, accuse the Bush administration of leaking her identity to the press as retaliation for her husband's public charge that... CBS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1913317/posts#comment Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:29:09 GMT