MichiganTiger Wrote:

Ninerfan1 Wrote:Personally this all makes me sick.  Who gives a crap if a CIA desk jockey who works from the safety of Langley was outed.  There are more important things to be dealing with.

This was about more than just a CIA desk-jockey as you claim. Valerie Plame was at the heart of the CIA's efforts to stop the proliferation of WMDs. Plame worked for a CIA front-company, Brewster, Jennings and Associates that allowed CIA operatives to gather intelligence on WMDs in countries ranging from North Korea and Iraq to former Soviet republics like Belarus. Novak's article exposed the entire operation and forced the CIA to shutdown the front company. Rove, if he did indeed leak this information, put the lives of CIA agents at risk.

Looks like I was right. Read this from page 5, item 9 of the Official Indictment:

On or about June 12, 2003, LIBBY was advised by the Vice President of the United States that Wilson's wife worked at the Central Intelligence Agency in the Counterproliferation Divison. LIBBY understood that the Vice President had learned this information from the CIA.

The Counterproliferation Division is part of the CIA's Directorate of Operations aka the spy division. This is not to be confused with the Directorate of Intelligence, aka the 'desk jockey' division.

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MichiganTiger Wrote:Looks like I was right.  Read this from page 5, item 9 of the Official Indictment:

On or about June 12, 2003, LIBBY was advised by the Vice President of the United States that Wilson's wife worked at the Central Intelligence Agency in the Counterproliferation Divison. LIBBY understood that the Vice President had learned this information from the CIA.

The Counterproliferation Division is part of the CIA's Directorate of Operations aka the spy division.  This is not to be confused with the Directorate of Intelligence, aka the 'desk jockey' division.

<a href='http://www.specialoperations.com/Domestic/CIA/default.html' target='_blank'>Special Ops</a>

Oh come on. Are you really so desperate to be "right" that you'll dredge this thread back up to argue semantics? Geez get over it. She sat behind a desk. She was an analyst. She wasn't out playing cloak and dagger with Iraqi Intellegence Services. She was a desk jockey. Deal with it. :rolleyes:

I'll also remind you Libby has been accused of lying about his conversations with reporters, not outing a spy. Very Martha Stewart if you will.

If you want to start comparing who was right and who was wrong I'll simply direct you back to my first post in this thread that I made back in July.

Quote:And if he did leak the name, he didn't break the law. For the law to apply Plame's case her status as undercover must be classified she must have been assigned to duty outside the United States at the time or in the past 5 years. Neither applies to her.

The fact is she was an analyst at the CIA, not an agent.

This is much ado about nothing.

Make your way back to democratic underground and rejoice in the fact that Libby was indicted for lying about something that wasn't even a crime. Don't try and come back here to argue that she was anything more than what she was.