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 What Valerie Plame Really Did at the CIAPosted on Sep 6, 2006The woman at the center of the CIA leak case “was no analyst or paper-pusher;” rather, she was chief of operations on the CIA’s clandestine Joint Task Force on Iraq, which was heading up the CIA’s intelligence hunt for Saddam’s WMD. Thus, her outing by Bush administration officials was a serious breach of national security—not to mention a career-killer.
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By gator68, November 28, 2007 at 12:29 pm #
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Read the court documents, for example:
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/070529 _Unclassified_Plame_employement.pdf
She was covert. She was chief of a section looking at WMD counter proliferation in Iraq.
Fact. Not propaganda.
And Bush had no problem throwing an agent under the tire for a small political gain. So much for patriotism and leadership.
Report thisBy Bax, October 21, 2007 at 10:30 pm #
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Absolute propaganda!!! I cannot believe the willingness to believe the lies of the democratic left.
Report thisBy Tim, March 16, 2007 at 5:08 am #
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She was an analyst -
“The same year she met Wilson, the CIA brought her home to headquarters from overseas out of fear that double agent Aldrich Ames might have spilled her name to the Russians.
At HQ, she tracked weapons proliferation.”
That was in 1997!!!
Report thisBy Tim, March 16, 2007 at 5:05 am #
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She was an anaylst -
“The same year she met Wilson, the CIA brought her home to headquarters from overseas out of fear that double agent Aldrich Ames might have spilled her name to the Russians.
At HQ, she tracked weapons proliferation.”
That was in 1997
Report thisBy Panther, September 7, 2006 at 7:26 am #
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Based on Plame’s duties at the CIA, outing her was treason—aiding and abetting our enemies. The firing squad may be appropriate in this case.
Report thisBy Mad As Hell, September 7, 2006 at 2:42 am #
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People who reveil undercover agents go to prison for life. Think of Ames and Walker and just how many people that got killed by their treason.
While Valerie Plame is personally not a risk to be killed as a spy, by reveiling her, her entire cover organization was “blown”. How many people working for it overseas have died, are in extreme danger, or simply can no longer function?
The high treason involved in betraying Ms.Plame has been just as disasterous to our nation security as that of Aldredge Ames and the Walkers. The individuals involved--such as Cheney, Rove, Libby, et al--deserve the same penalty: Life in prison with no parole.
Report thisBy Jon B, September 6, 2006 at 7:17 pm #
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Regardless what Plame’s postion was in the CIA, disclosing her ID as a proxy to punish her husband’s factual findings on no WMD was fascist and certainly undemocratic.
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