Posted on 10/29/2005 4:40:18 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Finally! In a just-completed segment on Fox & Friends Weekend, we got "the rest of the story" when it comes to the legislation under which Special Counsel Fitzgerald sought, but failed, to indict Libby or Rove.
The guest was Bruce Samford, who played a key role in drafting the legislation.
The law, the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, was adopted in 1982 essentially in reaction to the activities of far-left anti-CIA activist Philip Agee, who systematically disclosed the identities of true undercover CIA agents serving abroad, directly endangering their lives.
The very same people, and their political forbears, who today cry crocodile tears about national security because of the "disclosure" of the name of a bureaucratic desk-jockey in Virginia, were two decades ago hailing the 'courage' of the traitor Agee.
Agee was a former CIA agent himself who apparently underwent some kind of radical religious transformation, and made it his life's work to out CIA agents.
Quoting now from Wikipedia:
"In 1978, Agee and a small group of his supporters began publishing the Covert Action Information Bulletin with, according to Vasili Mitrokhin, the help of both the KGB and the Cuban DGI, promoted 'a worldwide campaign to destabilize the CIA through exposure of its operations and personnel.'
"In 1978 and 1979, Agee published the two volumes of Dirty Work, which exposed over 2000 covert CIA agents in Western Europe and Africa as well as details about their activities.
"Of the KGB’s work, Agee told Swiss journalist Peter Studer that “The CIA is plainly on the wrong side, that is, the capitalistic side. I approve KGB activities, communist activities in general. Between the overdone activities that the CIA initiates and the more modest activities of the KGB, there is absolutely no comparison.”
"US passport was revoked in 1979. In 1980, Maurice Bishop's government conferred citizenship of Grenada on Agee, and he took up residence in that island. But the collapse of the Grenada Revolution removed that safe haven, and Agee then was given a passport by the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. He later found refuge in Cuba.
"In 1982, Congress passed the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, legislation that seemed directly aimed at Agee's works, the law that would later figure in the current investigation into the Valerie Plame scandal.
"Today, Agee runs a website from his home in Havana, Cubalinda.com, which uses loopholes to arrange holidays to Cuba for American citizens.
"Agee is a socialist and a strong supporter of Fidel
Fox & Friends Weekend ping to Today Show ping list.
So said another way this special legislation protected Rove and Libby from other charges by Fitzgerald?
Sorry, but I can't watch that Julian guy and rarely watch F&F Weekends. I tried this morning, but when he started talking, sure enough, I nearly threw up my coffee.
Off to catch a plane... Have a good weekend!
My memory of that time is a little fuzzy, but didn't Carter have a hand in outing those 2000 agents? And aren't they dead because of it?
the bimbette on fox was just screaming how dare exxon make so much money, i promptly changed the channel to a
ron popeil infomercial to keep my sanity
I caught that too. Alisyn Camerota. Disappointing, particularly because I was just extolling her praises here a couple days ago!
I've had it with those ding bats......
Ya well, I've had it with Julian. I like Adam though. Earlier they were talking about Sistani and how he wants us out of Iraq and old Julian was saying how this could really start something.That if Iraq wants us out, we pretty much have to leave. Adam, who has been to Iraq, said well that's only one person who wants us out. If the government there wants us to stay then we'll stay, etc.
Why is Agee still alive?
The article states he's living in Cuba in exile.
And more importantly,why is El Commandante still alive?
bookmark. Thanks for posting.
..which would allow him to fit in very well in the Upper West Side of Manhattan,Cambridge,Bezerkely,DUmmieLand and DNC Headquarters.
Great post!
Thanks. It outrages me when I see liberals wringing their hands in phony concern over the disclosure of Plame's identity, knowing that their they or their political forbears were applauding acts that were a hundred times worse a couple decades ago.
Thanks. Please see #16.
I would love to see what the socialist members of Congress had to say back then and what they are saying now. Hell, with the low turnover rate, I would guess thate ate at least 100 members of the House and maybe 20 or so in the Senate that were there in 1980 and are still there. Levin? Kennedy? Byrd (KKk- WV)?.
Excellent idea. Any takers?
Just to clarify my earlier post.
Socialist = Democrat
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