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| 2007-03-17 |
| Hat tip Instapundit. For those following such things, blogger Sweetness and Light summarizes -- with copious links -- the chronology of the Valerie Plame outing. Herewith excerpts for your delectation: It was almost certainly Mr. Joseph C. Wilson IV who first "outed" his wife as a CIA officer. And he probably did this in early May 2003 after meeting with top level Democrats and around the time he began to work for the John Kerry for President campaign. Note that up until at least March 8, 2003 Joe Wilson still contended that Saddam had WMD and that he was involved in the nuclear arms trade. So what happened after March 8th to make Wilson change his tune about the IraqÂ’s WMD and re-write his findings from his trip to Niger? A version in direct contradiction to what he told his CIA debriefers, according to the 9/11 Commission? The answer is easy. The US invaded Iraq in March and after searching for two months, admitted they had not found any stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. And, coincidentallyÂ… May 2003: Joe Wilson began to "advise" the Kerry for President campaign. Why would Richard Armitage have been talking about Wilson and Plame in June of 2003? This was still weeks before Joe Wilson wrote his New York Times editorial, and a month before Robert Novak published his column mentioning Valerie Plame. Armitage brought this up because he is a gossip and it was already common knowledge because Joe Wilson had been calling all of the newspapers trying to get them to run his story about his mission to Niger. Given the chronology and Mr. ArmitageÂ’s remarks, it seems quite obvious Mr. Wilson outed his wife when he spoke to the Senate Democratic Policy Committee on May 2, 2003 and then to the subsequent reporters at the Times, the Post and elsewhere, when he was hawking his story about his trip to Niger. Remember, there was much talk within the Kerry camp that Joe Wilson might be the new administrationÂ’s Secretary Of State. The vainglorious Mr. Wilson surely had his eyes on that prize. And any concern about the secrecy of his wifeÂ’s job at the CIA was a minor consideration compared to that lofty goal. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #11 old Smokey's or Camel's Breath Inn on Friars? :-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-03-17 21:36 |
| #10 Dang, Frank, didn't really know about, so probably not. Met a guy I've known since 2nd grade the other day - he's been a SD cop for decades, said to call him about something going on today, did so but he didn't get back to me yet. Probably will limit myself to a restrained bit of consumption at a bar near the Mission - just got a call from someone there. |
| Posted by: Verlaine 2007-03-17 21:25 |
| #9 As I read these comments it came to me where the term 'dipshit' must have come from - 'dip(lomatic bull)shit. If not, it could have. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-03-17 18:38 |
| #8 agreed Verlaine, they blew a LOT of opportunities to shut this down in its' infancy. BTW are you attending the St Pat's parade/party in Balboa Park? Should be 10X the antiwar demonstration by Horton Plaza |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-03-17 16:15 |
| #7 The absurdity of this whole chapter beggars description. Sadly, while the villainy and bad form is mostly confined to the Wilson/Dem/MSM side, the stupidity is not. The administration's response to the preposterous op-ed was and remains an unfathomable blend of cluelessness and ineptitude. They could have/should have dispenses with Wilson's silly piece in a few hours - literally. Instead, they walk back from the perfectly well-founded Sixteen Words, start pointing fingers at each other, and then engage in this idiotic gossip campaign (to some extent, which I find uninteresting and unimportant, insofar as Plame's ID was not sensitive). If one looks back, this was the starting gun for administration bumbling on the political/PR side. They somehow managed to hang on and defeat the worst presidential candidate in a century in '04 - but amazingly that opponent got more than 50 electoral votes. The whole affair was a one-stop reminder/revelation that many players were not ready for prime time: Rice, Tenet, Hadley, press office ..... Rove? Cheney? Libby? Bush? We've since seen lots of confirmation on that score. |
| Posted by: Verlaine 2007-03-17 15:26 |
| #6 Whoops. Looks like I did't copy I'm still surprised the CIA didn't pink slip her properly, not to mention PIMF. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-03-17 15:11 |
| #5 Might have been the biggest mistake Truman made, in retrospect. TW, so naive. This whole Plame Game has been a CIA dirty trick. It's all they cna do any more. G_d knows what little bureaucratic tussel with Cheney or Bush they lost and are using this to get even with. All my respect for the CIA has disappeared. Even though there are undoubtedly patriots left in the CIA, they are so outnumbered by the Plames that thes best thing is to dissolve the CIA and start from scratch with DIA amd military retirees. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-03-17 14:51 |
| #4 What an amazing non-secret. The fact that seems to have fallen off the table is that Valerie worked as an analyst. She wasn't a deep cover 00-super-secret agent. She had a desk job. Non-rhetorical question: is the CIA good for anything nowadays? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2007-03-17 13:49 |
| #3 The same kind of dipshit that allows her diplomat husband to name her in his entry in Who's Who. I'm still surprised the CIA didn't pink slip her then -- she clearly doesn't have the brains to work there. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-03-17 13:39 |
| #2 but bush lied, and people died, and scooter liby is going to jail... Dont try and confuse us with facts, our mind is made up. /msm |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2007-03-17 13:36 |
| #1 what kind of dipshit spends 3 years complaining that the W admin "outed" your covert status, yet testifies this week that she doesn't even really know if she was covert? Lil Ms. Plame, of course. Covert status has a definition in the law and in the CIA biz jargon, and if she really was covert, Fitz would've gone after someone besides Libby. What a farce, and what a preening pair of lib narcisissts in the Wilson marriage. She and her husband have now both lied under oath |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-03-17 13:31 |