Ex-CIA agent claims outing act of treason

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lame blames White House
By Lee Shearer
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Story updated at 11:36 PM on Wednesday, April 16, 2008

America's intelligence-gathering abilities have been damaged for years to come by the Bush administration, outed CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson said in a speech at the University of Georgia on Wednesday night.

Bush administration officials leaked Wilson's covert identity to journalist Robert Novak in 2003 in what Wilson described as an act of revenge against her husband, a former ambassador who had written an opinion article questioning President Bush's justification for invading Iraq.

"In the scheme of things, Novak was nothing. He was used," Wilson said.

But what the journalist did with the help of aides in Vice President Dick Cheney's office - revealing the identity of a covert CIA agent, exposing her sources, or "assets" to danger, as well as her family - amounted to treason, she said ...

http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/041708/news_2008041700156.shtml

[grasswire]

1. thank you, Valerie Plame

I was so hoping for Joe Wilson to be the next Secretary of State.

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2. I'm pretty sure bush said it was too....I guess unless one of

his road dogs are guilty of doing it.

[struggle4progress]

3. "I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the names ...

... of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors."
George Herbert Walker Bush
CIA dedication ceremony
April 26, 1999

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-and-valerie-wilson/treason-is-not-old-news_b_73852.html

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5. I knew it!

Thanks for finding that. I'm lazy tonight you saved me from hunting it down.

[DCKit]

4. She must read DU.

:sarcasm:

Those of us who were holding their breath waiting for * to fulfill his promise hold "Someone" accountable are long dead. RIP.

[DeSwiss]

6. That is precisely what it was.

TREASON!



K&R!!!

[adjee123]

7. Thanks!

Thank you for this great post! I really enjoyed reading this article.

[Lochloosa]

8. Welcome to DU adjee123

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