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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-30-03 09:49 PM
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Novack Lied, all of them Lied about CIA analyst
Edited on Tue Sep-30-03 09:51 PM by Mari333
The CIA agent WAS a Covert CIA operative.
Here is a transcript of the FACTS.

LARRY JOHNSON: Let's be very clear about what happened. This is not an alleged abuse. This is a confirmed abuse. I worked with this woman. She started training with me. She has been undercover for three decades, she is not as Bob Novak suggested a CIA analyst. But given that, I was a CIA analyst for four years. I was undercover. I could not divulge to my family outside of my wife that I worked for the Central Intelligence Agency until I left the agency on September 30, 1989. At that point I could admit it.

So the fact that she's been undercover for three decades and that has been divulged is outrageous because she was put undercover for certain reasons. One, she works in an area where people she meets with overseas could be compromised. When you start tracing back who she met with, even people who innocently met with her, who are not involved in CIA operations, could be compromised. For these journalists to argue that this is no big deal and if I hear another Republican operative suggesting that well, this was just an analyst fine, let them go undercover. Let's put them overseas and let's out them and then see how they like it. They won't be able to stand the heat.


http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/july-dec03/leaks_09-30.html
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splatbass Donating Member (59 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-30-03 10:05 PM
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1. Even if
she was "just an analyst", it doesn't change the fact that it is a felony.
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-30-03 10:13 PM
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2. Correct...but the right wing is spinning this
to make her into an "analyst"...use this to show the truth.
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kayleybeth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-30-03 10:14 PM
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3. They're still spreading that lie
Gillespie was making the rounds today saying Valerie Plame was just an analyst and Wilson is just a Democrat with an axe to grind. The repukes are truly putting their party over their country. Disgusting.
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-30-03 10:33 PM
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7. That will come back to bite them in the butt
As I heard more than once today concerning the CIA, "these are guys who carry guns". After about the third time I heard that it sunk in to me what they were actually saying. Bush is between the proverbial rock and a hard place here. He may be in real trouble? I think the CIA wants him gone. And Bush still has not fired the CIA director yet. That alone tells me that Bush and his minions are scared of them.

Don

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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-30-03 11:10 PM
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9. If it only bites their butts, they're lucky
I think heads are going to roll, and that's not a figure of speech. This is palace coup time.

If you believe, as I do, in the deep politics model of the JFK assassination, taking executive action against a POTUS who is perceived as a threat to national security could be considered standard operating procedure for the CIA.

I'm convinced, one way or another, there's going to be a mounting body count to this story.

When even the CIA wants its country back, Bush is fucked.
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kayleybeth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-30-03 11:20 PM
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12. I hope you're right
Bush still has not fired the CIA director yet. That alone tells me that Bush and his minions are scared of them.


They should be scared of them. Somebody needs to go down on this one. This amounts to treason, IMO. I just hope the media stays with it. If not, it will probably blow over like all of the other scandals. <sigh>
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dpbrown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-30-03 10:19 PM
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4. Excellent piece
The more pieces that add up to "undercover" the better it fits into the felony statute.

The Republicans and the White House are going to spin it, not that she was an "analyst" versus "operative" but that "everyone knew" about her, and so therefore the statute, which requires that the role of the undercover person to be, at some level, secret.

This acknowledgement by someone who knew directly contradicts that point.
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Unknown Known Donating Member (829 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-30-03 10:22 PM
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5. The best part will be when Asscrack lies about it
and you know that's coming.

AG Crisco is gonna get boxed in by this thing - he doesn't dare authorize a special prosecutor because once this Pandora's box gets open, all hell will break loose.

But, on the other hand, his tight connection with Rove will make things look REALLY bad for him and the WH when he does nothing. The lies and cover-ups will be what snares them - not the crime that was committed.

The repukes are going to get back one thousand fold what they put out. I can't see Wilson or the CIA letting this one go - if they do, that will be the end of them.



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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-30-03 10:25 PM
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6. even WORSE the Righties are trying to spin this to attack Wilson
BIG mistake...the rest of the CIA wont take this sitting down...this is a Republican retired CIA agent on Lehrer who is pissed..
If the Bushies attack Wilson , and try to destroy him, the Payback will be hell for them.
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wildwww2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-30-03 10:55 PM
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8. If the Bu$hies attack Wilson? I thought they already had. And that is
why the sleaze balls are trying to unattack him and make his wife just a normal person instead of a CIA operative whose cover they have blown. Along with our national security. Just because of Clinton`s Penis. Payback needs to be hell for the Bu$hies. Because hell is something that they deserve.
Peace
Wildman
Al Gore is My President
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Nottingham Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-30-03 11:13 PM
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10. The Rove did the Big Sin he outed a CIA Agent!
:bounce: all for political revenge! Karma Karma Karma

May it be his downfall!

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LanternWaste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-30-03 11:16 PM
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11. Is this possible?
Is it possible to even imagine that one of the other five reporters who had the info might give their stories to another reporter (as an unamed source) so that the names of the WH staffers making the initial phone calls could be tagged?
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