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2003-10-09 Home Front
Bigger than Watergate
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Posted by Steve 2003-10-09 10:34:28 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 The one responsible for the leak was Joseph Wilson. Was he not an employee of the CIA (or at least hired temporarily) for this assignment. Was he not going overseas to do an investigation for the CIA? He then choose to go on TV and out the entire operation, including his own name (in effect outing a CIA overseas operatives name). Why anybody would think they could go on TV and publicly call the President a Liar, state that AS A AGENT OF THE CIA HE WAS THE ONE THAT INVESTIGATED THIS NIGER INCIDENT FOR THE US AND HE FOUND NOTHING AND THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS A LIAR. It seems to me that either Joseph Wilson broke the law going public about this operation and/or the CIA broke the law utilizing somebody they could not control and was bound to expose the operation. If Wilson's wife is really in danger now this really compounds Wilson's crime.
Posted by Patrick 2003-10-9 11:25:30 AM||   2003-10-9 11:25:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 The most reasonable conclusion that I am seeing is that the Wilson choice for the mission was the CIA's way of half-assing the request from the White House. The CIA and the Bush Administraion have been engaged in a mini-war from the beginning, and the sheer ineptitude demonstrated by both the FBI and CIA in the wake of the revelations about 9/11 clues has not helped.

So far, the only people benefiting from this story are Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame, and Bob Novak. The CIA looks like a bunch of idiots again, having failed to deny Plame's status to begin with, and having sent administration opponent and WMD naif Joe Wilson to drink tea in Niger for eight days. The White House looks inept, because the CIA's actions are viewed as those of the administration, and because Novak's leak was to no rational purpose.
Posted by Chuck Simmins  2003-10-9 11:38:57 AM|| [http://blog.simmins.org]  2003-10-9 11:38:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Did she accompany him on the trip? Was he contacting her sources?
Posted by Superhose  2003-10-9 2:00:25 PM||   2003-10-9 2:00:25 PM|| Front Page Top

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