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Edited on Wed Oct-19-05 10:13 AM by npincus
This one is polite, at least, though quite tortured in it's logic.
To: W4ever
For starters, it's a "S" for "secret" classification, and while important, it still is not clear that she was "covert" status as an operative given different types of identification. THAT SHE WAS EMPLOYED BY THE CIA was NOT a secret and that she was identified by whomever as being employed there is not a violation of anything by anyone (Rove is said to have said about her, that she was, as wife to Wilson, "with the Agency" and that's not an outrageous unknown, given that he was stating about her what was by that time public knowledge about Plame).
I understand a lot. If the issue was so clearly understandable as to your view and the WAPO's, there'd be no investigation at all, 'cause Wilson would have had Rove already "frog marched out of the White House," right after he paraded his CIA-employed wife all over the front page of an international magazine and discussed her with just about anyone and everyone he could muster to listen.
I'm just saying that there is a very restrictive law about what is punishable by that law and what is not as to revealing the covert status of a certain type of covert employee of the CIA AND the laws only provide recourse if a employee of that status has been active status as such within a certain length of time prior to the revelation (I can't quote the time frame here, but it's, for instance, five years, maybe eight/ten, but not longer...the person of issue has to have been of a certain classification within that time frame inorder to be covered by the law, for there to be a crime involved if position is revealed by someone else).
I've read the story from start to go and I still think that Joe Wilson is far more problematic than nearly all on the left is willing to admit and I am wondering if but Plame's now "not remembering who" told her Plame's name is because she can't expose them. Not remembering seems preposterous given her willingness to cover for whoever it was she can't now remember's name.
Wilson worked for Kerry on his campaign and given Kerry's gruesome dedication to ruining what is honorable and sincere, I think that Wilson worked very, very hard to create a situation and impale specific targets by way of his work, which to my view, is espionage.
61 posted on 10/19/2005 7:56:16 AM PDT by BIRDS
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and here's more from the same person (tee hee... nothing like a little truth to get under one's skin):
To: W4ever
AND, that cut'n'paste that you include as WAPO published, does not specifically name Plame as a covert agent.
AND, Karl Rove is quoted as having said, and only as having said, that "(Plame) was, you know, with the Agency..."
It's Joe Wilson who has made the allegations afterward that all that "MEANS" (1.) his wife was a secret agent with the CIA and no one knew she worked there otherwise and that (2.) Karl Rove revealed her identity as a secret agent with the CIA.
None of that is proven, and if it was, the investigation would have been long over by now.
The article you quote just states policy level, administrative level information. It does not specify whether Plame was "a secret agent" or if she was, at what time in her work history (dates) she was or was not, nor what was revealed about her by whom. It just states that she was included in a document with information labelled "S" and that because of that, she'd have had secret/covert agent status OR HAD ACCESS TO THAT DOCUMENT. Since she was known to have an administrative position there, it could just be possible that she had access.
Another thing and that is that even Rove has stated that he thought she was "with the Agency" as in, an employee there, in an administrative capacity. That's all. Novak was the guy who wrote her up later as being of secret agent classification.
64 posted on 10/19/2005 8:02:12 AM PDT by BIRDS
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