Posted on 04/12/2005 5:12:18 AM PDT by NotchJohnson
JOHN KERRY OUTS CIA AGENT
Remember all of the outrage and liberal indignation awhile ago when former ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife Valerie Plame was outed as a CIA agent? Evidently it was an unnamed Bush administration official that supplied the name....and the results of that investigation have yet to be made public. Well, it's happened again. Guess who publicly outed a CIA agent this time?
Massachusetts Senator John Kerry. That's right...The Poodle's faux pas came yesterday as he was slamming U.N. Ambassador-nominee John Bolton at his confirmation hearings. Here's how it went down. For the majority of the hearings, Bolton and the Senators on the committee had been referring to a former employee of Bolton's anonymously, calling him "Mr. Smith." Kerry was questioning Bolton about whether or not his actions toward this person were legitimate, or were politically motivated. Then the Soufflé, reading from transcripts of closed-door meetings, says:
"Did Otto Reich share his belief that Fulton Armstrong should be removed from his position? The answer is yes."
Oops...Fulton Armstrong was the anonymous "Mr. Smith," which is how Bolton referred to him in his reply to Kerry. Now, to be fair, Kerry was not the only member of the committee to use Armstrong's name in the hearings. But just stop and ask yourself something. Fulton Armstrong is/was an intelligence analyst, just like Valerie Plame apparently was.
Democrats acted like it was an act of treason when someone blew Plame's cover, even though it was supposedly an open secret around Washington. Now Kerry obviously made a mistake. I'll give him that. But will Democrats and the media treat Kerry's slip-up the same way they treated the Valerie Plame affair?
What? Are you nuts? Of course not!
I hear NRO also picked up on the story.
For that Kerry must be praised, he is our savior, we must raise Kerry as a shining example and we must make him King.
An AP story
Senators May Have Blown Cover of CIA Agent
Mr. Smith came to Washington again Monday, as an alias for a Central Intelligence Agency officer who works covertly. Senators, however, may have blown his cover.
During questioning on John R. Bolton's nomination to be President Bush's ambassador to the United Nations, Bolton and members of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee referred to "Mr. Smith" as one official among several who were involved in a dispute over what Democrats asserted was Bolton's inappropriate treatment of an intelligence analyst who disagreed with him.
"We referred to this other analyst at the CIA, whom I'll try and call Mr. Smith here, I hope I can keep that straight," Bolton said at one point.
Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., both mentioned a name, Fulton Armstrong, that had not previously come up in public accounts of the intelligence flap.
It is not clear whether Armstrong is the undercover officer, but an exchange between Kerry and Bolton suggests that he may be.
In questioning Bolton, Kerry read from a transcript of closed-door interviews that committee staffers conducted with State Department officials prior to Monday's hearing.
"Did Otto Reich share his belief that Fulton Armstrong should be removed from his position? The answer is yes," Kerry said, characterizing one interview. "Did John Bolton share that view?" Kerry said, and then said the answer again was yes.
"As I said, I had lost confidence in Mr. Smith, and I conveyed that," Bolton replied evenly. "I thought that was the honest thing to do."
The above is my draft talking points memo for democrats. I moonlight.
a sleeper freeper
Well we beat the main stream media by about 17 hours.
Obviously Kerry is too old or his brain has taken too many hits of pot that he should retire.
hee hee
probably right ... kind of like going to the mall without wearing pants
Did Kerry name him before Lugar?
Notice how the AP story mentions Luger first. In my book K comes before L.
I watched that whole exchange yesterday on C-Span; Bolton did a great job combating kerri. Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman's response to all this was one for the ages.
nothing to see here then
What did Normy do? As a Minnesotan and one who missed it, did Norm do right?
Where's Lugar in the headline and the story?
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