Friday, July 15, 2005

David Corn "Outed" Valeria Plame?

Now, it seems to be that writer David Corn outed Valeria Plame that started all this Karl Rove brouhahahahas. Remember folks, Karl Rove was never the target in this probe to find out who the "leaker" was or where it came from.

Now, as for leaking CIA information publicly, all you have to do is look at John F. Kerry's naming of names on the Senate floor this year by outing a CIA agent.

United States senators, including former presidential candidate John Kerry, may have inadvertently blown the cover of a CIA agent.

At a hearing to discuss the nomination of John Bolton as US ambassador to the United Nations, politicians discussed a dispute over Bolton’s treatment of an intelligence analyst.

The analyst was referred to as “Mr Smith” but when Kerry read from a transcript of closed door interviews he mentioned a name that had not previously come up.

“Did Otto Reich share his belief that Fulton Armstrong should be removed from his position? The answer is yes,” Kerry said.“Did John Bolton share that view? Yes.”

While it was not completely clear whether Armstrong was the spy, Bolton replied: “As I said, I had lost confidence in Mr Smith, and I conveyed that. I thought that was the honest thing to do.”

Where's the outrage over that? Typical Liberals they are who go after Rove believing he's absolutely guilty. Well, he's not.

Yet, in one of John Kerry's secret closed door committee back in the Sandinista days in February 1987 somehow leaked the name of a covert CIA agent:

I said, "Senator, this has been the hardest testimony I ever gave in my life."He looked up, glasses perched on his nose.

"Why?"

"Because, sir, it is extremely difficult to have to answer questions from someone you do not respect."...I told him outright, "Senator, my name was leaked by your committee as being involved with drugs. I take that very seriously because it affects my family, my reputation, and my friends."

Kerry looked at me sternly and said, "You're making a very serious accusation, because this committee doesn't leak."

"Senator, leaked or not it was in every goddamned newspaper that, at one of your closed committee hearings, Ramón Milian Rodríguez said I solicited money. That is a damned lie."

Felix Rodriguez wanted his testimony made available to the public, but "Kerry and Blum" refused.


Then we have Senator Leahy (D) or "Leaky Leahy" as he is fondly remembered as:
"Leaky Leahy," allegedly threatened to sabotage classified strategies he didn't like.

Leahy ‘inadvertently' disclosed a top-secret communications intercept during a 1985 television interview.

"The intercept … made possible the capture of the Arab terrorists who had hijacked the cruise ship Achille Lauro and murdered American citizens. …"

"The reports cost the life of at least one Egyptian operative involved in the operation."

In July 1987, it was reported that Leahy leaked secret information about a 1986 covert operation planned by the Reagan administration to topple Libya's Moammar Gaddhafi.

U.S. intelligence officials said Leahy, along with the Republican panel chairman, sent a written threat to expose the operation directly to then-CIA Director William Casey.

Weeks later, news of the secret plan turned up in the WashingtonPost, causing it to be aborted.

A year later, as the Senate was preparing to hold hearings on the Iran-Contra scandal, Leahy had to resign his Intelligence Committee post after he was caught leaking secret information to a reporter.

He should have been indicted, tried and sentenced.

Hey, "R"! Get on the floor and do 50 push-ups! Oh, yeah. You can't. Have a hot dog instead.

Typical Liberal weenies who keep screaming QUAGMIRE! when they are the ones sinking. Karl Rove outed Plame?

Let me laugh for a moment and enjoy this one.

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