Interesting Online Chat with an Ex-CIA Guy

Cush

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Sun Oct-05-03 01:28 PM
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Interesting Online Chat with an Ex-CIA Guy

Robert Baer, the other day on USATODAY. Seems to be saying different things than he does on TV

http://cgi1.usatoday.com/mchat/20031001008/tscript.htm

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ewagner

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Sun Oct-05-03 01:32 PM
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1. That IS different

He seems to be saying that it's Wilson's fault.

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salin

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Sun Oct-05-03 01:34 PM
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2. Didn't hear him on tv

but here he seems to be quite the appologist:

Robert Baer: Generally, some of the best CIA officers do not go public. In fact, exposing this woman's cover is unlikely to hurt US national security, and there certainly will not be an indictment or conviction brought against the leaker, but the damage it does is to further politicize the CIA. As we've seen with this war in Iraq, we need a capable and intelligent agency.

Politicization of CIA - but no indictment, and no damage to national security.

Or below - he is of the blame Wilson camp:

Moorestown, NJ: Didn't Wilson out his own wife in his NYT op-ed where he identified himself as having worked for the CIA? Wouldn't this raise a red flag with any agents who worked with Plame since Wilson's own bios list her maiden name?

Robert Baer: Absolutely. I think that Ambassador Wilson understood that once he enterered this very nasty arena of Washington politics he was putting his wife's cover in jeopardy. You'd have to ask him whether he'd still do it. That's the way politics play inside the Beltway.

He sounds unhappy, but clearly is diminishing the damage done by the leak and the responsibility of the leak.

What was he saying on TV?

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