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2005-10-26 Home Front: Politix

Rove fight escalates; Plame Covert Status Challenged - by Real Covert Agent

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Posted by .com 2005-10-26 03:55|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 See? I don't duck and run from my friends. Karl, get over here you lughead! *applies noogie*

LOL!

Thanks for the post.

Re:The morally preverted and mentally twisted.
[exhibit A] The Smirky Schumers & [exibit B] Turbin Durbins of this world must be opposed.

It's our duty as citizens, for the future generations.

Posted by Red Dog 2005-10-26 07:29|| 2005-10-26 07:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Hi .com! I ran across this post at "Just One Minute" that covered the "was she covert or not" angle. AFAICT it just about covers the same ground we all came to when we discussed this back in 2002 or 2003:

Really? Actions speak louder than words, so let's look at what Joe Wilson and the CIA did in July 2003 as the Wilson and Novak columns were brewing.

Start with Joe Wilson, retired diplomat turned consultant. On July 6 he writes a column telling the world that he has done some consulting for the CIA. That might reasonably be expected to attract the attention of the spychasers of various foreign intelligence services.

As these spychasers study Joe Wilson, what do they learn? A few minutes on the internet would have turned up his on-line bio with his wife's maiden name; a check of FEC records for campaign donations would have revealed that his wife, as "Valerie Wilson", listed "Brewster-Jennings & Associates" as her employer. Elapsed time - ten minutes?

What would our spychasers learn about Brewster-Jennings? Within a week of the Bob Novak article mentioning Brewster-Jennings, the Boston Globe had done some research, sent a person to the Brewster-Jennings office in Boston, and reported that "Apparent CIA front didn't offer much cover".

There were no employees, the building managers knew nothing of the company, and typical state and local records had not been filed. Does that sound like a legitimate enterprise, or a possible front company? Might suspicions have been aroused?

Per Dun & Bradstreet, the company was set up in May of 1994, a well-known year for spychasers - Aldrich Ames was arrested in February of 1994 for betraying agents and assets to the Soviets, and many US agents learned that they may have been compromised.

So - Valerie Plame works for a phony company that seems to have come into being a few months after Aldrich Ames put a lot of US agents into early semi-retirement. This has taken maybe a week for our foreign spychaser to learn. Might he wonder if Ms. Plame is still with the CIA?

If he follows that trail of logic, our spychaser might then have someone follow Ms. Plame to work. Anyone attempting to do so will either learn that Ms. Plame has an extraordinary knack for eluding surveillance, or that she drives in to Langley each day.

The last shred of her cover will be gone, her photo will be obtained and circulated, her history deduced, her networks identified - all within a few weeks of the NY Times editorial, which was volunteered by Joe Wilson and allowed by the CIA. The dire consequences predicted by Joe will have been realized - yet he published his op-ed anyway. How seriously did he, and the CIA, take her security?

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-10-26 08:53|| 2005-10-26 08:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?

Or is that just for democrats?

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-10-26 09:04|| 2005-10-26 09:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Plame's identity was a closely guarded secret of the Beltway cocktail party circuit. How dare they!

Posted by eLarson 2005-10-26 09:19|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2005-10-26 09:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Just look for the CIA-Langley parking sticker on Plame's car.

Posted by ed 2005-10-26 09:39|| 2005-10-26 09:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Or is that just for democrats?

Democrats are considered innocent even if proven guilty by the MSM.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-10-26 10:15|| 2005-10-26 10:15|| Front Page Top

#7 Today, the world is upside down. What we once considered a religion, Islam is bent on killing or conquering all people of other beliefs. Though this is ongoing, it is not a hot war as we know war can be. Apparently, that leaves enough down time for the criminal fringe and their accomplices, known as the democrat party and the MSM to engage in various manners of tomfoolery. In doing so, both of these organizations contribute to the support of the Islamic radicals engaged in the killing of civilians and soldiers around the world, including our American boys and girls. For that, the MSM deserves to be wiped from the face of the earth. They serve no useful purpose any longer. The democrats, on the other hand will continue as an organization, declining by degree across a few decades until they disappear. I will do my part to bring about these necessary changes. Never again in my life will I ever buy, rent, or in any way support the MSM and it's products with the exception of it's few right leaning members. Also, never will I or any member of my family who seeks to stay on my good side vote for any democrat. As far as we are concerned, they are already dead.

Posted by wxjames 2005-10-26 11:28|| 2005-10-26 11:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Or is that just for democrats?

Well, and Saddam.

Posted by eLarson 2005-10-26 13:57|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2005-10-26 13:57|| Front Page Top

#9 just another circus for the democrats. They've chosen Karl to sit in the dunk box while they throw softballs and have a good laugh if they can drown him. More juvenile antics from people we pay to act like adults.

Posted by 2b 2005-10-26 16:54|| 2005-10-26 16:54|| Front Page Top

#10 Valerie Plame?

What is/was her job at the Company?
Is she a manager?
Is she a section chief?
Or a civil servant with a knack for political opportunism and attention?

Did she recommend that her husband be sent on the 8 day yellow cake junket?

Is it a common practice at the Company to send relatives or spouses on a not so clandestine mission?

How are personal normally chosen for missions over seas?

How is it even possible to devine, definitively, what off the books transtractions took place in Niger?..During an 8 day junket noless.

Niger ie. slavery, thugs, false imprisonment etc.. Niger's Seyni Kountche who in 1981 said that his country would sell uranium âeven to the devil.â

and the ever reliable back stabbers
..The French Government and their subsidized uranium Mining companys, Cogema, Areva & affiliates.

Wilson claims to have been sent by the Central Intelligence Agency because Vice President Dick Cheney's office had questions about a particular intelligence report.

After consulting with the State Department's African Affairs Bureau (and through it with Barbro Owens-Kirkpatrick, the United States ambassador to Niger), "I agreed to make the trip. The mission I undertook was discreet but by no means secret. While the C.I.A. paid my expenses (my time was offered pro bono), I made it abundantly clear to everyone I met that I was acting on behalf of the United States government.

I spent the next eight days drinking sweet mint tea and meeting with dozens of people.."
Linky

Posted by Red Dog 2005-10-26 19:27|| 2005-10-26 19:27|| Front Page Top

#11 nice inlines PD and SW :-)

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