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Itsdb |
07/18/05 |
Did you know that 36 news organizations filed a friend of the court brief in the Miller/Cooper/Plame case in which they made the following claims?
"the circumstances necessary to prove that crime seem not to be present here"
"At the threshold, an agent whose identity has been revealed must truly be "covert" for there to be a violation of the act. To the average observer, much less to the professional intelligence operative, Plame was not given the "deep cover" required of a covert agent." She worked at a desk job at CIA headquarters, where she could be seen traveling to and from, and active at, Langley. She had been residing in Washington - not stationed abroad - for a number of years. As discussed below, the CIA failed to take even its usual steps to prevent publication of her name.
Moreover, the government may have "publicly acknowledged or revealed" her intelligence relationship prior to publication of Novak's July 2003 column...An article in the Washington Times indicated that Plame's identity was compromised twice prior to Novak's publication (7)."
(7) Bille Gertz, "CIA officer named prior to column," The Washington Times, July 23, 2004, at A4 (noting that a Moscow spy first disclosed Plame's identity to Russia in the mid-1990's, and a more recent "inadvertent disclosure" stemming from references to Plame in "confidential documents sent by the CIA to the U.S. Interests Section of the Swiss Embassy in Havana," which was read by the Cubans."
"There are sufficient facts on the public record that cast considerable doubt as to whether the CIA took the necessary "affirmative measures" to conceal Plames identity. Indeed these facts esatblish such sloppy tradecraft that, at minimum, the CIA was indifferent to the compromise of her identity."
"If a serious request not to publicize Plame's identity had been made, Novak would have obliged...Novak's column can be viewed as critical of CIA ineptitude."
So, the media believed there wasn't sufficient evidence of a crime, Plame worked a desk job in Washington with no "deep cover," the CIA outed Plame to Castro, Novak's column was critical of CIA ineptitude, and Karl Rove is to blame? Who's lying now?
Steve
P.S. Thanks to Andrew McCarthy at NRO for pointing this out.
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Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 07/19/05 7:56 am:
it would be a hoot if in the end ;Fitzgerald is actually building a case against Plame and Wilson.
Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 07/19/05 8:08 am:
What is really unfortunate is with all the media braying yesterday they forgot to significantly report on a story that will have a major impact on American foreign policy . President Bush and India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had a major meeting yesterday that will continue today . An emerging American-India alliance is long overdue ,and these two are taking steps to make that a reality .The two largest democracies should be aligned . Clarification/Follow-up by Itsdb on 07/19/05 8:25 am:
What's unfortunate is the only thing on the national agenda this year is "get Bush."
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