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09/30/2003 Archived Entry: "This whole thing just went to the next level."
This whole thing just went to the next level.
Atrios (who was described quite accurately as the 'go-to blog' for the Plame Scandal today) has this, transcribed from NewsHour:
This not an alleged abuse. This is a confirmed abuse. I worked with this woman. She started training with me. She has been under cover for three decades. She is not as Bob Novak suggested a "CIA analyst." Given that, i was a CIA analyst for 4 years. I was under cover. I could not divulge to my family outside of my wife that I worked for the CIA unti I left the Intelligence Agency on Sept. 30, 1989. At that point I could admit it. The fact that she was under cover for three decades and that has been divulged is outrageous. She was put undercover for certain reasons. One, she works in an area where people she works with overseas could be compromised...For these journalists to argue that this is no big deal... and if I hear another Republican operative suggesting that, well, this was just an analyst. Fine. Let them go undercover. Let's put them go overseas. Let's out them and see how they like it...
I say this as a registered Republican. I am on record giving contributions to the George Bush campaign. This is not about partisan politics. This is about a betrayal, a political smear, of an individual who had no relevance to the story. Publishing her name in that story added nothing to it because the entire intent was, correctly as Amb. Wilson noted, to intimidate, to suggest taht there was some impropriety that somehow his wife was in a decision-making position to influence his ability to go over and savage a stupid policy, an erroneous policy, and frankly what was a false policy of suggesting that there was nuclear material in Iraq that required this war. This was about a political attack. To pretend it was something else, to get into this parsing of words.
I tell you, it sickens me to be a Republican to see this.
-Larry Johnson, a former counter-terrorism official at the CIA and the State Department.
Shit, meet fan. This could be closer to over than any of us could have dreamed. As Atrios notes, even stomach-churningly right wing NewsMax is jumping ship.
Go sign that damn petition.
Replies: 2 people speak up
NewsMax!?!
This was a completely rational statement; wow...
Posted by DaveH. @ 09/30/2003 09:18 PM NY
its amazing to me that the least of this administrations evil deads it the one that comes back to bite him in the ass. i dont really care about the fact that he outed a cia agent. as far as im concerned, anyone in the cia probobly deserves whatever happens to them, after all they are nothing but a bunch of assasins and overthrowers of third world democracies. however, i love the fact that bush is sweating over it. of all the things that he could finally get caught for: allowing 9/11 to happen, his energy policy, his dismanteling of every social and environmental program in this country, all of the constant lies, invading 2 countries illegally and massacreing civilians under false pretenses, all of the suspiciouse suicides and plane crashes that have aided him and his family over the years, the fact that his family wealth comes mostly from building concentration camps in nazi germany, the fact that his father bailed out of the plane he was flying in ww2, leaving the entire crew to die, his envolvement in the enron scandal, any of those would be enough, you would think, however if this one is the one that brings him down, who am i to complain, i just hope that the other stuff comes back to destroy the bush family within my lifetime. there has seldome been an entire family so stained with pure evil as the clan of prescott bush
Posted by justin @ 10/01/2003 10:57 AM NY
