Admin outs CIA Station Chief <crickets>

[bodecea]

Looks like Obumbler and his merry gang of incompetents are at it again.... this time outing the CIA Chief in Afghanistan. Of course we all remember the left having a hissy over the outing of the not-so-covert Valerie Plame (who everyone that knew her knew she worked at the CIA) to the point they even jailed Scooter Libby (???) over it.

And this time?

<<crickets>>

White House mistakenly identifies CIA chief in Afghanistan - The Washington Post

Who was punished for Outing Valerie Plume?

 

[BlindBoo]

Actually, Bush had nothing to do with it. It was Colin Powell's boy Armitage... you know, Powell, that darling of the left.

All those quotes came from the original link and they were indeed "officials of the George W. Bush administration".

and once again, the left is saying "our guy is no worse than your guy was"

Now, that wouldnt be a bad thing....except for the fact that you called "our guy" the worst president in history....and you consider "your guy" one of the best.

Sort of makes me laugh.

No it's not at all. It is the right who has been equivocating and trying to make it seem like President Obama is as incompetent as President Bush was.

Is this President Obama's <insert your favorite President Bush fuck up here> moment?

 

[bodecea]

Actually, Bush had nothing to do with it. It was Colin Powell's boy Armitage... you know, Powell, that darling of the left.

All those quotes came from the original link and they were indeed "officials of the George W. Bush administration".

and once again, the left is saying "our guy is no worse than your guy was"

Now, that wouldnt be a bad thing....except for the fact that you called "our guy" the worst president in history....and you consider "your guy" one of the best.

Sort of makes me laugh.

Who was punished for the Outing of Valerie Plume?

 

[Amelia]

Who was punished for the Outing of Valerie Plume?

You think Valerie Plame should have been punished?

 

[BlindBoo]

Poor Bush lovers.

Always looking to equivocate some of the worst behavior from President Bush with President Obama. Yet another failure.

"Initially, the press office raised no objection, apparently because military officials had provided the list to distribute to news organizations. But senior White House officials realized the mistake and scrambled to issue an updated list without the CIA officer’s name>

Whereas Valarie Plame's outing was no accident.

"The only other recent case came under significantly different circumstances, when former CIA operative Valerie Plame was exposed as officials of the George W. Bush administration sought to discredit her husband, a former ambassador and fierce critic of the decision to invade Iraq."

You are one stupid little bitch.

Jesus, another swing and a miss.

Richard Armitage was a member of the Bush Administration. Which is exactly what the link said he was.

 

[Siete]

This is like, what, the third or forth thread on this topic?

Anyone know his fucking name?

Released by a bizarre site, do not wish to label by political affiliation, and darn sure will NOT post the alleged name.

Of course you have the link, right?

I can't seem to find it.

Thanks in advance.

his name wasn't released, nobody can or will find it


ergo .. the right only imagines the agent was OUTED, keeps them happy

 

[bodecea]

Once more (and beginning to believe the RWrs want to avoid this one)...who was punished for the Outing of Valerie Plame?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Looks like Obumbler and his merry gang of incompetents are at it again.... this time outing the CIA Chief in Afghanistan. Of course we all remember the left having a hissy over the outing of the not-so-covert Valerie Plame (who everyone that knew her knew she worked at the CIA) to the point they even jailed Scooter Libby (???) over it.

And this time?

<<crickets>>

White House mistakenly identifies CIA chief in Afghanistan - The Washington Post

Who was punished for Outing Valerie Plume?

So that makes it OK for Obama to try to get another CIA Agent assassinated

 

[Amelia]

Once more (and beginning to believe the RWrs want to avoid this one)...who was punished for the Outing of Valerie Plame?

Ah ... so you weren't misspelling her name on purpose?

You're welcome.





But I still don't understand why you seem to want Valerie or her husband to be punished.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Is Obama intentionally trying to get CIA Agents killed?

 

[Peach]

No, but "clerical error" won't cut it for this mistake. An investigation is warranted, from BOTH the House & Senate.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Looks like Obumbler and his merry gang of incompetents are at it again.... this time outing the CIA Chief in Afghanistan. Of course we all remember the left having a hissy over the outing of the not-so-covert Valerie Plame (who everyone that knew her knew she worked at the CIA) to the point they even jailed Scooter Libby (???) over it.

And this time?

<<crickets>>

White House mistakenly identifies CIA chief in Afghanistan - The Washington Post

Who was punished for Outing Valerie Plume?

Scooter Libby

 

[Edgetho]

Actually no.

It's saying your guy was ALOT worse than our guy was..

The Bush administration participated in a deliberate "outing" of a CIA agent.

And then? Lied about it.

There were many people involved in this.

Multiple people were leaking this to the Press. It's just that Novak was the only asshole willing to play ball.

Lying bitch

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwJCUZHZjV8]Richard Armitage Admits Plame Leak "Extraordinarily Foolish" - YouTube[/ame]

That dog only flies with your right wing buddies, little girl.

Watch the video bitch. Watch it.

What a completely dishonest scumbag you truly are.

In the video, Armitage ADMITS to telling Novak about Plame or Wilson or whatever her fucking name is.

He also tells Blitzer that her name appeared in an UNCLASSIFIED document noting her as an analyst and that it is NOT illegal or otherwise forbidden to 'out' an analyst at CIA or a secretary or a janitor.

But you're too dishonest of a **** to even watch it.

You are truly a scumbag.

Kill yourself. For the good of humanity, kill yourself today.

Nobody would care. Trust me.

Let me know where you intend to be buried so I can piss on your grave.

scumbag. dishonest, lying scumbag

 

[StevenC]

Looks like Obumbler and his merry gang of incompetents are at it again.... this time outing the CIA Chief in Afghanistan. Of course we all remember the left having a hissy over the outing of the not-so-covert Valerie Plame (who everyone that knew her knew she worked at the CIA) to the point they even jailed Scooter Libby (???) over it.

And this time?

<<crickets>>

White House mistakenly identifies CIA chief in Afghanistan - The Washington Post

Who was punished for Outing Valerie Plume?

No one. Armitage should have been but the prosecutor was on a witch hunt going after Cheney and Bush.

 

[StevenC]

Looks like Obumbler and his merry gang of incompetents are at it again.... this time outing the CIA Chief in Afghanistan. Of course we all remember the left having a hissy over the outing of the not-so-covert Valerie Plame (who everyone that knew her knew she worked at the CIA) to the point they even jailed Scooter Libby (???) over it.

And this time?

<<crickets>>

White House mistakenly identifies CIA chief in Afghanistan - The Washington Post

Who was punished for Outing Valerie Plume?

Scooter Libby

Libby was scapegoated and punished for lying.

 

[OKTexas]

Cool Soggy.

What's his name?

Or anyone?

Does anyone know the name of the Station Chief?

Try the 600 US and foreign journalist that received the email, and it was the WA Post that brought the name to the attention of the administration. Why are you commies always wanting to rewrite history?

 

[RoadVirus]

Obama is going to design a website to make sure this never happens again!!

What? No hashtag?

 

[Edgetho]

Cool Soggy.

What's his name?

Or anyone?

Does anyone know the name of the Station Chief?

Try the 600 US and foreign journalist that received the email, and it was the WA Post that brought the name to the attention of the administration. Why are you commies always wanting to rewrite history?

Because they're lying scum.

Here I have posted a video, time stamped and dated, of Richard Armitage on CNN (a dimocrap scum-approved news source), admitting to and explaining, that he 'outed' Valerie Plame.



And what do our resident dimocrap scum do? They STILL FUCKING DENY IT.

STILL!!!

Know why? Because they are truly diseased scumbags. They are the scum of the motherfucking earth.

And you know what? It isn't just one of them. It isn't just the lying, cockbreath maggot, shallow...... It's ALL of them ALL the time.

It is ALL they do. Ever.

They fucking lie.

If you're interested (our resident dimocrap scum won't be, they're too stupid and too corrupt) here is some more on the topic.

Fitzgerald himself was the most dishonest fuck in the whole mess....

____________________________________________________________________________________________
Now that memoirs by the late Bob Novak, former Vice-President Dick Cheney, and former President George Bush have all been published, we now know much more about the Valerie Plame case than we did before these individuals put what happened to paper. (Plame, if you'll remember, was a CIA agent whose identity was leaked to the press during a newsman's investigation into George W. Bush's explanation for going to war against Iraq.) Yet, the one book that still needs to be written is a memoir by Lewis (Scooter) Libby, the VP&#8217;s assistant, the only individual indicted by the Special Prosecutor looking into the leak and found guilty in this highly controversial case.

Vice President Cheney had hoped that George Bush would issue a pardon of Libby, since he considered Libby to have been unjustly punished for something he did not do. But Bush decided not to pardon Libby, and this has left a deep sense of disappointment in Cheney&#8217;s otherwise good relations with the former President.

How did this whole controversy start? Bush writes in his memoir: &#8220;In my 2003 State of the Union address, I had cited a British intelligence report that Iraq sought to buy uranium [yellowcake] from Niger. That single sentence in my five-thousand-word speech was not a major point in the case against Saddam. The British stood by that intelligence.... In July 2003, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson wrote a New York Times column alleging that the administration had ignored his skeptical findings when he traveled to Africa to investigate the Iraq-Niger connection.&#8221;

Wilson&#8217;s column in the Times resulted in the President being called a liar, which caused people in the administration to wonder why Joseph Wilson, a Democrat critic of Bush, was sent to Niger by the CIA for this mission. Washington journalist Bob Novak wanted to write a column on the affair and managed to get an interview on July 8, 2003, with Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage.. He writes in his memoir, The Prince of Darkness:

Armitage was giving me high-level insider gossip, unusual in a first meeting. About halfway through our session, I brought up Bush&#8217;s sixteen words.... I then asked Armitage a question that had been puzzling me but, for the sake of my future peace of mind, would better have been left unasked. Why would the CIA send Joseph Wilson, not an expert in nuclear proliferation and with no intelligence experience, on the mission to Niger? &#8220;Well,&#8221; Armitage replied, &#8220;you know his wife works at the CIA, and she suggested that he be sent to Niger.&#8221; &#8220;His wife works at the CIA?&#8221; I asked. &#8220;Yeah, in counterproliferation.&#8221;

He mentioned her first name, Valerie.... The exchange about Wilson&#8217;s wife lasted no more than sixty seconds. Armitage offered no interpretation of Wilson&#8217;s conduct and said nothing negative about him or his wife. I am sure it was not a planned leak but came out as an offhand observation.... Shortly thereafter, he secretly revealed his role to federal authorities investigating the leak of Mrs. Wilson&#8217;s name but did not inform White House officials, apparently including the President.

Novak got Valerie&#8217;s last name from Wilson&#8217;s bio in Who&#8217;s Who. But after he used it in his column, the name Valerie Plame became big news in the media and caused quite a storm. On October 1, 2003, after reading a second column by Novak on the case, Armitage, alarmed by the clamor in the press for the name of the leaker who had outed a covert CIA agent, revealed his role to his boss Secretary of State Colin Powell. They took up the matter with State Department lawyer William H. Taft IV, who then spoke with White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, who allegedly told Taft that he did not want to know. But why didn't Taft or Powell go directly to the President with this important information?

In January 2004, the Justice Department chose prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald to investigate the leak of Valerie Plame's identity. From the outset, he was made fully aware that the leaker was Armitage, who resigned from the State Department in November 2004 but remained a subject of the inquiry until February 2006 when Fitzgerald told him in a letter that he would not be charged. The New York Times reported on Sept. 2, 2006:

Mr. Armitage cooperated voluntarily in the case, never hired a lawyer and testified several times to the grand jury, according to people who are familiar with his role and actions in the case. He turned over his calendars, datebooks and even his wife's computer in the course of the inquiry, those associates said. But Mr. Armitage kept his actions secret, not even telling President Bush because the prosecutor asked him not to divulge it, the people said.

Why would the prosecutor keep this vital information from the President who had expressed concern over the outing of a CIA operative? Meanwhile, the liberal press hysterically speculated that it was Karl Rove and/or Vice President Cheney who most likely leaked Plame's identity to Novak. Dick Cheney writes in his memoir, In My Time:

Among the many things that should give a thinking person pause about this whole sad story is that Patrick Fitzgerald knew from the outset who had leaked the information about Wilson&#8217;s wife to Bob Novak. It had been Deputy Secretary of State Rich Armitage, who told the Justice Department that he had leaked the information to Novak, but kept what he had done from the White House. Armitage would later admit that he had even earlier told journalist Bob Woodward about Wilson&#8217;s wife&#8217;s employment. Indeed, on Bob Woodward&#8217;s tape of the June 13, 2003, conversation, Armitage can be heard leaking the fact that Wilson&#8217;s wife worked at the CIA four separate times.

So why did Patrick Fitzgerald spend more than two years conducting &#8220;a lengthy and wasteful investigation,&#8221; as the Washington Post called it? Members of the White House staff were interviewed by the FBI and dragged before a grand jury at great cost to them in attorney&#8217;s fees. Bob Novak wrote:

After Patrick Fitzgerald ... indicated to me he knew Armitage was my source, I cooperated fully with him. At the special prosecutor&#8217;s request and on my lawyers&#8217; advice, I kept silent about this &#8212; a silence that subjected me to much abuse. I was urged by several friends, including some journalists, to give up my source&#8217;s name. But I felt bound by the journalist&#8217;s code to protect his identity.

Despite the fact that Fitzgerald knew the source of the leak, he decided to go after reporters who refused to name their sources. Thus, Times reporter Judith Miller spent 85 days in jail for refusing to reveal her sources to the prosecutor. She was finally released when she agreed to testify before a grand jury.

So, why did Fitzgerald go after Scooter Libby, Vice President Cheney's top aide? Apparently, Armitage had read a memorandum Libby had commissioned as part of an effort to rebut criticism of the White House by Joe Wilson. Who wrote the memorandum, and did it mention Valerie Plame? That information may have been revealed during Libby&#8217;s trial but has not been made public. Was it the source of any leaks to the press? Apparently not, for it was Armitage who supposedly read the report and made the leak, not Libby.

Nevertheless, it was Libby whom Fitzgerald decided to indict. The jury found Libby guilty, not of revealing Valerie Plame&#8217;s name to the press, but of perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements. What did he lie about? Libby said that he thought he had gotten the information about Valerie Plame from a conversation with Tim Russert, the news analyst. But Russert denied that he had given such information to Libby. As for obstruction of justice, what was Libby refusing to tell the prosecutor? Could it be that Libby was trying to protect his boss, the Vice President, who may have retrieved the information from his contacts at the CIA? And is that the reason why Cheney tried so hard to get Bush to pardon Libby?

Otherwise, there seems to be no reason why Libby would have lied about where he got the information about Plame, and no reason why he would have refused to answer questions that the prosecutor posed. Apparently, neither Cheney nor Libby knew that it was Armitage who had leaked Valerie Plame&#8217;s identity to Novak. Cheney himself had been interviewed twice by the Special Prosecutor in May and August 2004. Even the President himself was questioned by Fitzgerald.

In any case, since Libby was not the person who made Valerie Plame&#8217;s name public, he should not have been the subject of a prosecutor, whose aim seems have been to justify his more than two years of investigation in the nation&#8217;s capital, with all of its perks, good restaurants, and plush accommodations. Even a prosecutor from Illinois needed a respite from the local grind. So he got a conviction of sorts and was thus able to return to Chicago fully vindicated.

The Vice President knew that all of this could have been avoided had Secretary Colin Powell done his duty and told the President that he knew who had leaked Plame&#8217;s identity to Novak. But he preferred to remain silent, and thus opened the door to two years of a needless and wasteful investigation which distracted the administration, forced innocent staff members to undergo a costly inquisition, and led to the conviction of a loyal and highly competent public servant. Cheney made sure that the public would know the truth and took a parting shot at Colin Powell. He wrote:

For the latter part of 2003, all of 2004, and a good part of 2005, members of the White House staff produced box after box of documents, were interviewed by the FBI, hauled before a grand jury, and repeatedly questioned about these events.

Meanwhile, over at the State Department, Armitage sat silent. And, it pains me to note, so did his boss, Colin Powell, whom Armitage told he was Novak&#8217;s source on October 1, 2003. Less than a week later, on October 7, 2003, there was a cabinet meeting. At the end of it, the press came in for a photo opportunity, and there were questions about who had leaked the information that Wilson&#8217;s wife worked at the CIA. The President said he didn&#8217;t know, but wanted the truth. Thinking back, I realize that one of the few people in the world who could have told him the truth, Colin Powell, was sitting right next to him.

So, who was actually guilty of obstruction of justice? Was it Scooter Libby or Colin Powell? Or was it prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald, who told Armitage to keep his mouth shut or face prosecution, [and] did not tell the President who the leaker was and spent the taxpayers' money in a costly prosecution against an innocent man.

Is it not a crime for a U.S. government official to deliberately withhold vital information from the President of the United States? Is it not a crime for a federal prosecutor to threaten a suspect with prosecution if he dared to tell the President that he was responsible for the leak? Had Powell told the President the truth, there would have been no need for a special prosecutor or grand inquisition.

When is the government going to indict Patrick J. Fitzgerald or Colin Powell for obstruction of justice? Of course, never. Meanwhile, Scooter Libby&#8217;s life has been ruined. But we await his own memoirs.

 

[bodecea]

Looks like Obumbler and his merry gang of incompetents are at it again.... this time outing the CIA Chief in Afghanistan. Of course we all remember the left having a hissy over the outing of the not-so-covert Valerie Plame (who everyone that knew her knew she worked at the CIA) to the point they even jailed Scooter Libby (???) over it.

And this time?

<<crickets>>

White House mistakenly identifies CIA chief in Afghanistan - The Washington Post

Who was punished for Outing Valerie Plume?

Scooter Libby

What happened to him?

Never mind...I looked it up:

In October 2005, Libby was indicted by a federal grand jury concerning the investigation of the leak of the covert identity of Central Intelligence Agency officer Valerie Plame Wilson.[5][6][7] Plame's position at the CIA was considered classified information.[5] Libby was indicted on five counts relating to the Plame affair: Two counts of perjury, two counts of making false statements to federal investigators, and one count of obstruction of justice. Libby resigned all three government positions immediately after the indictment was announced.[8]

In the subsequent federal trial, United States v. Libby, the jury convicted Libby on four of the five counts in the indictment (one count of obstruction of justice, two counts of perjury, and one count of making false statements) and acquitted on the second count of making false statements.[9][10] The day after his conviction in that trial, he resigned his later appointment as senior advisor at the Hudson Institute (January 1, 2006 &#8211; March 7, 2007).[11][12]

Libby is the highest-ranking White House official convicted in a government scandal since John Poindexter, the national security adviser to President Ronald Reagan in the Iran&#8211;Contra affair.[13]

So...maybe an investigation is in order....yes.

 

[Antares]

All those quotes came from the original link and they were indeed "officials of the George W. Bush administration".

and once again, the left is saying "our guy is no worse than your guy was"

Now, that wouldnt be a bad thing....except for the fact that you called "our guy" the worst president in history....and you consider "your guy" one of the best.

Sort of makes me laugh.

Who was punished for the Outing of Valerie Plume?

Who "outed" Plame dumbshit?