View Full Version : berry outs CIA station chief..
But But I didn't know until I read it in the NEWS..
White House mistakenly identifies CIA chief in Afghanistan, By Greg Miller, May 25
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/white-house-mistakenly-identifies-cia-chief-in-afghanistan/2014/05/25/ac8e80cc-e444-11e3-8f90-73e071f3d637_story.html
Surprise! Obama Administration Outs Kabul CIA Chief During Obama’s Afghanistan Visit
http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/26/surprise-obama-administration-outs-kabul-cia-chief-during-obamas-afghanistan-visit/
Hillary to Gov Officials '07: Don't Even Think About Disclosing Identity of CIA Covert Agents, by Kerry Picket, 25 May 2014
http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2014/05/25/Hillary-to-Gov-Officials-07-Don-t-Even-Think-About-Disclosing-Identity-of-CIA-Covert-Agents
sweet....
....another page straight out of the James Earl Carter Presidential playbook
All we need now is to get the POTUS set up with a construction company to start building houses
Well, that's one way to go...
Amazing! The hits just keep on coming. (groan)
Well, guess he's not going to be CoM/CoS much longer.
Time for a management job or retirement. Sadly, it doesn't stop with him. There will be others and this current admin. just doesn't get it. Truly the most detached of any government I've been able to witness. I'm sure there are others, but damn. And this is coming from a person that has seen first hand the heinous idiosyncrasies of the Hussein Family (Daddy, and his two sons) to the national to village politics of the Afghan mess.
It's ok though, another round of golf and shopping courtesy of the "privileged" section of America.
Oldrotorhead
05-26-2014, 08:00
Must have been the fault of the dip shit that put it on the teleprompter. Oh well, off to the golf course or another vacation? :mad: All we need now is some stupid statement by John McCain, Harry Ried or Little Petey King.
Must have been the fault of the dip shit that put it on the teleprompter.
For The Last Time, Anything You put on that 'Prompter, Burgundy Will Read
... :confused: :rolleyes:
Well, he did campaign for more 'transparency' in government - I guess some of his minions took that one literally.
Richard
I'm waiting for the media outrage, a special prosecutor to be appointed, and the Hollywood movie...
... but I won't be holding my breath.
ddoering
05-26-2014, 17:56
How about a new documentary,"Amateur Hour in the Executive Branch."
How about a new documentary,"Amateur Hour in the Executive Branch."
A fitting sequel to...BJ Clinton hosting "amateur night" in the oval office.
Old Dog New Trick
05-26-2014, 18:50
How about a new documentary,"Amateur Hour in the Executive Branch."
It could be a series - "25 and half hours" because 24-hours just isn't enough time to cover all the lapses of judgement in one administration.
rubberneck
05-26-2014, 18:59
Intelligence Identities Protection Act (IIPA) of 1982. Whoever did this will never be prosecuted but they should be.....
Didn't Scooter Libby actually get sentenced to prison for outing Valerie Plame, who was no longer operational and lived in VA., not Afghanistan? She was mentioned in the article, but what happened to Libby was not. Bush did commute his prison time, but he was fined and did community service .
Didn't Scooter Libby actually get sentenced to prison for outing Valerie Plame, who was no longer operational and lived in VA., not Afghanistan? She was mentioned in the article, but what happened to Libby was not. Bush did commute his prison time, but he was fined and did community service .
Yes, even though it was Richard Armitage who actually "leaked" her name in the first place.
Pat
Airbornelawyer
05-26-2014, 22:02
Didn't Scooter Libby actually get sentenced to prison for outing Valerie Plame, who was no longer operational and lived in VA., not Afghanistan? She was mentioned in the article, but what happened to Libby was not. Bush did commute his prison time, but he was fined and did community service .
As PSM notes above, it was Richard Armitage who leaked Valerie Plame's name. And contrary to the left-wing narrative, her name was not leaked by Bush cronies to harm her in retaliation for her husband Joe Wilson's opinion piece. Armitage was an opponent within the Administration to the President's Iraq policy. He gave Plame's name to Bob Novak to boost her husband's credibility, since people were asking why a former Ambassador with no expertise in WMDs was sent on his so-called fact-finding mission to Niger. Novak asked Armitage why the CIA would have chosen someone like Wilson for this task, and Armitage basically told him that Wilson's wife was a counterproliferation analyst and recommended her husband due to his regional contacts. In other words, "outing" her enhanced Ambassador Wilson's credibility rather than undermining it.
So the leak, such as it was (she was driving to and from CIA headquarters every day already, so her cover was already an open secret to anyone to whom it would matter), was Armitage's inadvertant mistake, not a nefarious plot. But Washington insiders cover for each other, so Novak and Armitage, and Armitage's boss Colin Powell, let the whole investigation go on for months to the point of being a witch-hunt to find some way to justify the time and expense, and Libby was caught up in that. Over the course of the investigation, Libby made some inconsistent statements (some of which were really a matter of "he said/she said") and was charged with perjury and related offenses.
frostfire
05-26-2014, 23:57
why a former Ambassador with no expertise in WMDs was sent on his so-called fact-finding mission to Niger.
'em damn yellow cakes....:rolleyes:
Ah, Yes, I'd forgotten about Dick Armitage..... He was one GHWB's least shiny stars. I never understood why he was resurrected.