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To: Txsleuth

I'm trying to remember- I did recall mention on Brit Hume's show. And I think some bloggers mentioned it as well.


186 posted on 07/31/2005 5:48:27 PM PDT by visualops (www.visualops.com)
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To: visualops

From Lilek's Screedblog-
You may recall the story. The xx ran big piece on a charter airline the CIA was using to transport suspects. This isn’t just outing a covert operative; it was outing a covert operation. In the case of Wilson / Plame, we had an attempt to point out how two opponents of the adminstration were trying to thwart the foreign policy of the US government via the pages of the NYT and Vanity Fair; in the case of the airline, we had an attempt to peel back the Tupperware lid of secrecy of an anti-terrorist organization in order to ruin – I’m sorry, let the people know what they needed to know about the operation. Did anyone wonder whether the families of the people in that charter airline might be harmed in anyway? Did anyone wonder whether this information might compromise attempts to interrogate suspects? Did anyone ask what the devil was served by running this story?

Imagine the war was prosecuted by a Democratic administration; imagine a GOP operative blowing the charter airline’s cover to make a point about billing irregularies. Imagine the GOP operative slipping photos of the planes on the tarmac, tailfin numbers visible, to the press.


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If you search about "CIA" and "planes" you'll get lots of stories. Unfortunately alot of them are lefty sites pointing out how evil the CIA and Bushco are.


188 posted on 07/31/2005 5:57:55 PM PDT by visualops (www.visualops.com)
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