What If Vice Pres. Gore Had Outed a Covert CIA Specialist in Terror Weapons?

[WillyT]

Blog entry that made it into BuzzFlash today.

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Imagine the reaction from the media and the Republican Party if this story had been in the news ten years ago:

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Sworn testimony has revealed that Vice Pres. Al Gore masterminded the unmasking of a covert CIA agent who specialized in the terrorist blackmarket for weapons of mass destruction — and that Gore’s motive was to exact political retribution against the agent’s husband, an outspoken critic of Clinton-Gore policies.

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It is hardly an exaggeration to suggest that Vice Pres. Gore would have been hounded from office within weeks of such headlines — as Vice Pres. Mondale or any other Democratic vice president would have been.

And yet we now know from testimony by an FBI agent and others at Scooter Libby’s perjury trial in the CIA Leak scandal that it was not Karl Rove who masterminded the campaign to reveal agent Valerie Plame’s identity, as most of us assumed — it was Libby’s boss, Dick Cheney, the vice president of the United States.

It also clear from the evidence that Cheney was fully aware that Plame worked undercover for the CIA’s Counter-Proliferation Division, where she was involved hands-on in tracking of illegal sales and shipments of WMD around the world. It is also clear that Cheney was more than willing to risk whatever intelligence assets Plame had developed in order to retaliate against her husband, former Amb. Joe Wilson, who had dared to call the Cheney-Bush administration on its lies about Iraq’s purported nuclear capabilities.

If Cheney were a Democrat, and these accusations had been made against him as part of sworn testimony, the reaction in Washington would be as clamorous as it would be swift...

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Link: http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/02/05/what-if-gore-had-outed-secret-agent/

I know it's been said before, but it rates continual repeating.

So... repeat, y'all!

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[ThomCat]

1. Another example of the double standard in the media.

Where are all the headlines and editorials demanding that it's a matter of character, that for the honor of the office Cheney must step down?

[WillyT]

2. Exactly !!!

:shrug:

[Lisa]

3. ... and then Gore had proceeded to shoot a long-time friend (Tommy Lee Jones?) in the face

I think it's safe to say that most Democrats would be horrified and ashamed that they'd ever trusted him.