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2014-05-30 Fifth Column

When Bushies blew a CIA cover, it was 'treason'; now, it's a mistake

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Posted by Squinty 2014-05-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 No matter. Pushed relentlessly by Democrats....

Comparing Plame to a currently active, COS Libya is laughable, even if she did [at one time] have some sort of intelligence connection. Anyone transiting a US Embassy with a black passport is automatically considered a US intelligence source by the host government. It's what people in embassies do.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-05-30 05:24|| 2014-05-30 05:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Scooter Libby was convicted of lying to the FBI, not outing Plame. Colin Powell's aid Armitage did that, and skated.
They most that would happen here is the guy who drew up the list gets hammered; I hoping you don't think 'White House' and 'responsible' could in any way be related.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-05-30 07:30|| 2014-05-30 07:30|| Front Page Top

#3 I hoping you don't think 'White House' and 'responsible' could in any way be related.Posted by ed in texas

It does paint a bullseye on his arse, but who would want to see him dead? Oh wait !!!!

Posted by Besoeker 2014-05-30 08:14|| 2014-05-30 08:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Ah, yes, the (non)principles of Leftism - One set of rules for me, another set of rules for thee.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-05-30 09:15|| 2014-05-30 09:15|| Front Page Top

#5 "Accountability, competency, and transparency are the Obama Regime's Hallmarks"

*snicker*

Posted by Frank G 2014-05-30 09:24|| 2014-05-30 09:24|| Front Page Top

#6 remember too, Plame was a desk-bound partisan publicity whore, not a COS

Posted by Frank G 2014-05-30 09:26|| 2014-05-30 09:26|| Front Page Top

#7 It was only a mistake to out a station chief? It sure was a BFD when Valerie Plame was outed. One would have thought the gates of hell had opened. And then there was the case of Sandy Berger who was Clinton's security chief who stole federal documents by placing them in his pants. He got his hands slapped. It makes a difference which party you are in.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-05-30 11:24|| 2014-05-30 11:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Geez,

If my memory serves me correctly, only about three people at a given US embassy even know the person is the COS. most only know them as an "attaché"...

The entire Valarie Plame thing was started when some lefty in the DOS sent that idiot husband of hers to Nigeria to check on a back channel from the Brits that Iraq was in Nigeria trying to buy "yellow cake" for their nuke program.

Wilson was obviously a real big lib because as soon as his report came in that he couldn't find any proof, he was being interviewed by the lib media. Armitage mentioned Wilson when some journalistic hack was getting back info on Wilson and why he was chosen to go to Nigeria, Armitage said he wife worked at the CIA and had some "connections" in Nigeria...which led to someone digging around and identifying Plame as Wilson's wife...and it went from there.

Libby didn't lie to the feds, he was asked to remember conversations that had happened three years previously that he had not taken notes of, over the course of the witch hunt, his recollections conflicted...ask me about a conversation three years previous and then ask me again in six months and the recollection will be different. Libby was railroaded by the special prosecutor and the federal judge...both big dems.

Funny thing is that after all of the storm of "see the Iraqis were not buying yellow cake" about three years after Wilson's idiot journey to Nigeria, someone produced documents that stated Iraqis were trying to buy yellow cake AND the unredacted copies of Wilson's report said confirmed the fact while Wilson was saying "no they weren't" the entire Wilson Plame trip to Nigeria was a set up to embarrass Bush and was orchestrated from the get go by the Dems using one of their myriad sycophants in DOS.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-05-30 12:52|| 2014-05-30 12:52|| Front Page Top

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