Former Intelligence Officials Testify About Damage Caused by Outing

Decided to post this as a separate thread so the references would be readily available in one post.


Peace.

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It's on CSPAN.

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I agree with Mr Wiesbrot - "Karl Rove's actions against Valerie and Joseph Wilson were just one small part of the Bush Administration's effort to deceive the public and make the case for war. But for now, this is the only part that is subject to legal scrutiny. And it's not going away anytime soon.


Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

A few insightful comments about Fitzgerald in the Financial Times.



Mr Fitzgerald appears to be the strict inverse of Bush/Rove and the neoconsters. They should be very concerned.


Peace.

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But for now, this is the only part that is subject to legal scrutiny.

Does this mean that an investigation into this administration's deceptions about the lead-up to war is out of bounds for Fitzgerald; that he is authorized only to investigate the Plame leak?

Filtered through water, Rove loses the lizard skin and boils. Call Heloise!

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=32003
"Career chiefs of mission and retired four-star military leaders are launching a nationwide campaign to stress the need for change in U.S. foreign and defense policy. They are deeply concerned by the damage the Bush Administration has caused to our national and international interests and U.S. worldwide status."

http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines04/0520-02.htm
"This effort was strongly resisted by Powell, a retired army general, when it came to his attention, and by the Judge Advocates Generals (JAG) Corps, the formal name given to the military's lawyers. They argued, among other things, that the introduction of ''stress and duress'' techniques, sleep deprivation and other methods that violate the Conventions would not only result in dubious intelligence, but could also be cited as a precedent for use against U.S. soldiers who fell into enemy hands.

Dissenters, however, were essentially excluded from the discussion, and, according to 'Newsweek', new techniques were formally approved during the Iraq invasion in April 2003, although Feith's immediate superior, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz testified last week he was unaware of such a decision.

At the same time, senior Pentagon officials also authorized the exclusion of JAG officers from observing interrogations to ensure they complied with the Conventions. That was a major departure from the practice in the 1991 Gulf War, when JAG officers were present in all interrogation facilities and could intercede if they witnessed violations of the Conventions.

Even after the new orders came down, senior JAG officers did not give up. According to a number of accounts, a delegation of officers contacted Scott Horton, a former high-ranking JAG officer and chairman of the Committee on International Human Rights of the New York City Bar Association, to see if he and like-minded attorneys would intervene. "

Now what are you going to do about it? God knows you've meddled in everything else -- what's holding you back?

these traitorous Conservatives in order to make sure they won't destroy you first, the country next, and then the world, in their psychopathic quest for total, unreasonably idealistic domination.

Please, help restore your country's proper prestige as well as her true, honest, and cooperative leadership by refusing to follow these criminal Conservatives' total contempt for any law they don't like.

Whatever needs to be done to remove them legally is long overdue.

Not to have anyone be my research monkey but

what democrats on the senate intelligence committee were no shows?

what democrats on the house intelligence committee were no shows?

Bookmarked and recommended!

I watched the hearing today, and they were STRESSING that the Republican's policy of DO NOTHING has DAMAGED the Intelligence Agencies WORLDWIDE! We are losing foreign assets because the bush* administration has FAILED to take ANY action against the obvious perpetrators for over TWO FUCKING YEARS!

America is MUCH LESS SAFE, our National Security has been grievously damaged because of the partisan political agenda of the bush*/Republican administration. Republican Congress shares the BLAME! Their responsibility is oversight!

The WORLD has been watching. The terrorists are GLOATING, our sources are RUNNING! Republicans are HELPING the TERRORISTS!!!

If you don't get CSPAN, watch Over-the-Net:

http://www.c-span.org/watch/


THIS IS A DO NOT MISS!!!!!

Conyers, Slaughter, Dorgan, Waxman were BRILLIANT!!!

The word "TREASON" protected by the White House was used.

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Might be a lot of requests for this one.
There seems to be an intermittent problem.
Try the CSpan.org home page which has the same link via a JavaScript.
It runs for 2:14.

so I can come back and kick again.

Was just watching part of it on C-Span. Whew! Fantastic discussion!

I couldn't help but recall all the speeches and serious discussions that ensued after 9/11 and then at the time of "no WMD" about the U.S. shortage of HUMINT both in penetrating terrorist groups and in knowing what was happening on the ground in Iraq. And that we desperately needed to beef up our human intelligence capabilites. While all that was being said Bushco was actually undermining U.S. intelligence by outing Plame and who knows who else associated with her. And it only gets worse as long as Bush refuses to do anything about it like he said he would.

Who in the world would want to risk their life and their family working for U.S. intelligence knowing that the politicians at the top--your ultimate protectors--may decide to hand you over to your adversaries at any given moment? You'd have to be nuts to trust them.

I had the pleasure of listening to Mr. Larry Johnson's interview on the Al Franken show yesterday!

And I was truly spellbound by what he had to say.

He said that when he and Valerie Plame were colleagues, even he did not know her last time. He only knew her as "Valerie P." That's just how seriously they all took their roles as covert CIA operatives.

He said it wasn't unitl after her name was leaked, that a mutual friend told him "That's OUR Val."

It was one of the most memorable interviews I have heard! He was just so intelligent and so outraged at what the Bush administration has done to Valerie Plame.

thank you very much for posting this!!!!!

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Terrorists are helping the Bush Regime create a Police State in Amerika.

They seem to be partners.

...and should be treated as such - grounded and sent to their room without dinner.

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