Posted on 10/17/2005 7:25:22 PM PDT by blogblogginaway
I think your analysis is generally correct, except that the answer to a(ii) is "we don't know."
Could the CIA have sent Plame on overseas trips within the past 5 years using her cover as an "energy analyst" for "Brewster Jennings"?
Who knows?
Would it be incompetent to send on an overseas covert assignment an officer who has already been "outed" and who openly drives herself to work at CIA HQ everyday?
Yes, to me that would be incompetent.
But who here thinks, in the case of an agency dysfunctional enough to keep around an idiot like Larry Johnson as an intelligence analyst, that the CIA is not so incompetent as to do that very thing?
There are probably grounds to challenge the "affirmative steps" part. Were I representing Rove or Libby, I would take the position that "affirmative steps" has to mean steps by the CIA that, when taken together, are reasonable to assure that the agent in fact is covert. When an agent is already "outed" by Aldrich Ames and drives herself to CIA HQ everday, the mere fact that the she pretends to be an "energy analyst" for a front company is not a sufficient "affirmative step" to reasonably accomplish the purpose of making her a "covert agent."
The CIA pulled Plame in after it became known that Aldrich Ames ratted her out prior to 1994. Additionally, she told her then boyfriend Wilson she was an agent on their third date.
Your comprehension of this is the same as mine. The "ands" and "ors" ARE very important. The law was not broken. This guy can try and spin it any way he likes but it seems to me that anyone with basic reading comprehension skills ought to be able to see this...
A search of www.google.com demonstrates that.
She may have been pretending to be several other people as well, and probably knows Larry Johnson from the doctor's office!
Yup, and while he can't find an Islamofacist terrorist in the western hemisphere two months before 9-11, he can spot a fake Gucci handbag and confiscate it with aplomb and ease. (Never for personal use, though.)
The first thing I want to see is evidence that Plame actually was a covert DNC operative working for the CIA. Johnson has already been discredited as a disgruntled former gruntle. This is just another Lefty's attempt at making a mountain out of a mole hill. Larry needs to give it up. His "15 minutes" are over.
And I wonder whether Larry was enjoying the BBQ at the 4th of July party at Lyin' Joe & Val's along with half the Washington press corps.
Could she have been covert in open view?
Not after Ames outed her. She had ZERO use to the USA as a "covert" agent once it became known.
Mir Ali Kansi used to work on taxicab brakes every Saturday morning on Villa Park right directly across from Gilbert's home. He later went on to shoot up the CIA main entrance (shortly after Aldrich Ames outed Valerie Plame/Flame/Plume and others).
Both Wiriandonata and Colon are on the lam ~ the FBI wants them for their involvement in one of the Clinton scandals involving James Riady in Indonesia.
If Johnny had any involvement whatsoever with these guys, the circle is closed and it will be quickly seen that the Clintonistas were heavily involved in espionage against the United States.
Billzo forgot to issue pardons to himself and his bodies for that group of crimes!
Given the urgency Johnny has placed on removing the focus of attention on Valerie Plame and her husband, I cannot believe he's not involved in this earlier problem.
This is pure liberal pseudo-intellectual masturbation.
Apparently this guy hasn't gotten the word that Ms. Plame/Wilson's identity had been compromised twice in the 90s (once by Aldrich Ames) and she had been put on an analyst desk in headquarters. She hadn't been an overseas operative for more than five years.
Normally when a conservative posts 'opposition research' (which in the case of leftist opposition research is always lies), the conservative will point out descrepancies (the lies). You did not. Therefore, did you post this to show your support for the enemies of Karl Rove, blogblogginaway, or to demonstrate the lengths Rove's enemies will go to muddy the truth? Just curious.
PING!
I thought she was CIA, not DoD. But in any event the CIA is full of Clintoonistas that are trying to bring down Bush. Wait and see if all the facts ever come out into the light - I bet Hitlery is involved somehow.
Wolf
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