William F. Buckley: Plame Outing A Serious Matter

[jefferson_dem]

via Kos via Americablog via National Review via Buckley ->

. . . the root cause of the disturbance. This had to do with revealing that Valerie Plame Wilson was secretly in the employ of the Central Intelligence Agency, using a cover employer to disguise her affiliation.We have noticed that Valerie Plame Wilson has lived in Washington since 1997. Where she was before that is not disclosed by research facilities at my disposal.

But even if she was safe in Washington when the identity of her employer was given out, it does not mean that her outing was without consequence. We do not know what dealings she might have been engaging in which are now interrupted or even made impossible. We do not know whether the countries in which she worked before 1997 could accost her, if she were to visit any of them, confronting her with signed papers that gave untruthful reasons for her previous stay -- that she was there only as tourist, or working for a fictitious U.S. company. In my case, it was 15 years after reentry into the secular world before my secret career in Mexico was blown, harming no one except perhaps some who might have been put off by my deception.

The importance of the law against revealing the true professional identity of an agent is advertised by the draconian punishment, under the federal code, for violating it. In the swirl of the Libby affair, one loses sight of the real offense, and it becomes almost inapprehensible what it is that Cheney/Libby/Rove got themselves into. But the sacredness of the law against betraying a clandestine soldier of the republic cannot be slighted.

http://www.nationalreview.com/buckley/buckley200511011324.asp

[AX10]

1. Bush is in deep trouble.

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[seabeyond]

2. surprise surprise i am truly surprised this man didnt make

excuses for cheney. cool anyway. dont like the man

[Canuckistanian]

3. Buckley? I thought he was dead

Or are these thoughts from beyond the grave?

Come to think about it, all his opinions were from beyond the grave.

[hlthe2b]

5. dead? nah, he's only looked that way...

for the past 40 years!:rofl:

[Canuckistanian]

10. And probably smelled that way, too!

:rofl:

[NewJeffCT]

4. If he's lost Buckley...

that's part of his base...

[Dogmudgeon]

6. Bill lost his brother this way

His brother, James Buckley, was a station chief in the Middle East. He was outed, kidnapped a few days later, and tortured to death. I don't know why he didn't mention it. (Fact checkers -- was James really Bill's brother? I have not seen this in print lately.)

The Penkovskiy of whom Bill writes was an "asset" who passed us Soviet secrets. He was outed, disappeared, and we assumed he had taken a bullet in the base of the skull. The real story was that he endured months of torture, and was finally bound and placed in the maw of a blast furnace right before it was fired up.

--p!

[Emit]

9. Maybe a different Buckley

Seems his brothers are still alive:
~snip~
When Buckley was a young man, his father, William F. Buckley, Sr., was an acquaintance of libertarian author Albert Jay Nock.
Buckley's son, Christopher Taylor Buckley, is an author, essayist, and humorist.
Buckley's younger brother, Fergus Reid Buckley, is an author, debate-master, and founder of the Buckley School of Public Speaking.
Another of Buckley's brothers, James L. Buckley, is a senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and a former U.S. Senator from New York.
Buckley co-authored a book, McCarthy and His Enemies, with his brother-in-law, attorney Brent Bozell Jr. (Bozell married Buckley's sister, Patricia Buckley). Bozell's son, L. Brent Bozell, III, is an author, political commentator, and founder of the Media Research Center.
~snip~
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Buckley%2C_Jr.

[Dogmudgeon]

14. Thanks for the info

I'll keep my eyes open for other references, especially on who James Buckley was. He could have been a cousin, but I'm almost certain that I read he was WFB's brother -- this would have been shortly after James' execution.

--p!

[peekaloo]

15. lots of stuff in this link.....seem to have CIA connections but nothing

about James being killed.

http://www.scripophily.net/pacoofveinde.html

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James Buckley also played a role in arranging the assassination of the Chilean Ambassador to the United States, Orlando Leteiler, in 1976. A week before the killing, he met with CIA-backed Chilean secret police assassins Michael Townley and Guillermo Novo in his New York office. When CIA agent David Atlee Phillips was implicated in this murder of this foreign diplomat on US soil, James Buckley sat on the Board of Directors for his defense fund.
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[Punkingal]

7. I think Buckley was once CIA...

that would explain his being on their side.

[Dogmudgeon]

16. Don't you know it

I'm surprised that the CIA has been so nicey-nice for so long toward Team Bush. W & Co. have hung the CIA out to dry so many times that they must have a permanent spot on the clothesline, and the CIA doesn't like being in that position.

Bill Buckley has always been a paleo-Con, though it's true that NatRev has been a major organ nursing the growth of the neo-Cons. There is a lot of overlap and many common alliances. Now that the Right is starting to fissure, we can see them exposed like so many tree rings when the old oak has been cleft by a lightning strike or a windstorm.

--p!

[Bjornsdotter]

8. I'm stunned

I never thought he would ever, ever disagree with this administration.

Cheers!

[NewJeffCT]

11. I think Buckley is an old school conservative

You know, small government, fiscally responsible, balanced budgets, humble foreign policy.

[NewJeffCT]

12. any subscribers that can summarize the rest?

I'm sure there aren't too many on DU, but maybe by chance?

[UTUSN]

13. William F BUCKLEY-------*NOT* a Serious Matter n/t