Plame Wilson: President Didn't Keep Word

[sabra]

Source: CBS News 60 Minutes

(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.

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This irks Plame Wilson. "I don't know about (President Bush knowing about the leak beforehand). But I, like most other Americans, saw President Bush say on TV that he would fire anyone from his administration found to be involved in leaking my name," she says. "It turns out the president is not a man of his word."

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Plame says the morning her identity was made public in the column of conservative newspaper columnist Robert Novak, the world's intelligence services went to work.

"I can tell you all the intelligence services in the world that morning were running my name through their databases to see, did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?" she tells Couric. "(The leak is) very serious. It puts in danger, if not shuts down, the operations that I had worked on."

Only the CIA knows the full extent of the damage. "There was a damage report done by the CIA. I never saw it. I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask them how they're doing, although I would have liked to," says Plame Wilson.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/17/60minutes/main3378089.shtml?source=mostpop_story

[TacticalPeek]

1. K & R

:kick:

[rodeodance]

2. Great headline

[yardwork]

3. k&r

[Gregorian]

4. Recommending.

The timing couldn't have been better for me. All day I've been thinking about this.

[cutlassmama]

5. And I've had rethugs tell me she wasn't an agent or no damage

had been done. I can't wait to show them this! Thanks for posting

[truthisfreedom]

6. It's always been the rove approach to attack the validity of anyone speaking out against bushco

no matter how valid their position/knowledge/connections/background/history/involvement/relevance/intelligence.

At this point, when Plame speaks, America is interested, because like any great CIA spy, she has remained nearly silent until now.

[me b zola]

7. recommended

[Usrename]

8. The president is a lying sack of ...

".. not a man of his word.. "

That's being awful generous, considering what she's been through!!

[Lochloosa]

9. Brewster-Jennings & Associates

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1011-01.htm


Leak of CIA Officers Leaves Trail of Damage
by Warren P. Strobel

WASHINGTON - It's just a 12-letter name - Valerie Plame - but the leak by Bush administration officials of that CIA officer's identity may have damaged U.S. national security to a much greater extent than generally realized, current and former agency officials say.

Plame, the wife of former ambassador and Bush critic Joseph Wilson, was a member of a small elite-within-an-elite, a CIA employee operating under "nonofficial cover," in her case as an energy analyst, with little or no protection from the U.S. government if she got caught.



Training agents such as Plame, 40, costs millions of dollars and requires the time-consuming establishment of elaborate fictions, called "legends," including in this case the creation of a CIA front company that helped lend plausibility to her trips overseas.

Compounding the damage, the front company, Brewster-Jennings & Associates, whose name has been reported previously, apparently also was used by other CIA officers whose work now could be at risk, according to Vince Cannistraro, formerly the agency's chief of counterterrorism operations and analysis.

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Larry Johnson - a former CIA and State Department official who was a 1985 classmate of Plame's in the CIA's case officer-training program at Camp Peary, Va., known as "the Farm" - predicted that when the CIA's internal damage assessment is finished, "at the end of the day, (the harm) will be huge and some people potentially may have lost their lives."

[DemReadingDU]

11. Thanks for this link

great background info about CIA training and Valerie's classmates

[Kolesar]

12. "some people potentially may have lost their lives."

Let's see those names accounted for on the front page, above the fold.

[PurityOfEssence]

10. He mangles his words and he mangles the keeping of his words; come on: the guy's consistent

No mystery about this spaz, is there?

[Orsino]

13. Birds don't swim, fish don't fly...

...* sit in front of us and lie, lie, lie.

[madeline_con]

14. Was Katie Couric a little bitch or what?

Making out like, "What did you expect?"

Plame had to stop herself from rolling her eyes at what an IDIOT she was, and explain how the OpEd piece had nothing to do with her.