Do you agree with Republicans that it was OK to out a covert CIA agent as revenge for revealing Bush's WMD lie

Question

Or do you think outing a covert CIA agent is an act of treason?

http://mediamatters.org/items/200602060009

Answer 1

Repubs support treason on behalf of Bush and Cheney.

Answer 2

I don't know where you get your info from but you should find another source. Because of the U.N. the WMD's were moved to Iran. Why do you think that all of a sudden they are wanting to test a nuke. As for name dropping, when the truth came out, she was not a covert agent, just a plain Jane stay at home wife. She should write fictional spy novels. I have served 2 terms over there, & anybody that has been there will tell you the elements to make weapons were there before they crossed the boarder. As for the Ambassador's wife if you believe that I have some good bouncy land in Florida to sell you.

Answer 3

Conspiracy theories run amuck..............who's do you want?

Seymour Hersh went so far as to speculate that rogue ex-intelligence officers had created the Niger forgeries, and that the rumor had become "water-cooler gossip" at Langley.

Joe Wilson, retired diplomat turned consultant. On July 6 he writes a column telling the world that he has done some consulting for the CIA. That might reasonably be expected to attract the attention of the spychasers of various foreign intelligence services.A few minutes on the internet would have turned up his on-line bio with his wife's maiden name; a check of FEC records for campaign donations would have revealed that his wife, as "Valerie Wilson", listed "Brewster-Jennings & Associates" as her employer. Elapsed time - ten minutes?
Within a week of the Bob Novak article mentioning Brewster-Jennings, the Boston Globe had done some research, sent a person to the Brewster-Jennings office in Boston, and reported that "Apparent CIA front didn't offer much cover".
Aldrich Ames was arrested in February of 1994 for betraying agents and assets to the Soviets, and many US agents learned that they may have been compromised.
So - Valerie Plame works for a phony company that seems to have come into being a few months after Aldrich Ames put a lot of US agents into early semi-retirement.

Answer 4

Put the guy up and hang him. Thats the law. They should start hanging people again. In these " tough times" our country is having we need to send a message. The right calls the left traitors for not agreeing with them. I think they use it so much, it made the word traitor soft. He's a traitor, she's a traitor, they are traitors.......... What about REAL treason? Outing a CIA operative?U.S. companies making business deals with our enemies? Lying and as a result, Americans are dying?
Like I said, get a rope and watch the rest of them become more Christ like overnight.

Answer 5

that's staggering that the guy who wrote the regulation overlaying the "day vacation of covert operatives" stated that Ms. Plame's duties on the CIA did not fall less than the status of "covert". second, if she turned right into a covert operative, why wasn't Armatige prosecuted. And 0.33, why did Fitzgerald proceed the learn at the same time as he KNEW withing the first month of the learn that it become Armatige that had leaked the tips that could Novak and Woodward. Novak stated that he had advised Fitzgerald on the starting up of the learn that it become Armatige that had leaked him the tips. BTW, when you're so in touch about authorities leaks, the position is your outrage about each and every of the secret authorities operations in the course of the conflict adverse to terrorists? the position is your outrage about the leaks on how we were accumulating intelligence on terrorists by technique of taping THEIR telephone conversations? Your indignation about this seems somewhat hollow.

Answer 6

Wow, you're a bit behind, aren't you?
1. Valerie Plame was not a covert operative at the time that she was "outed."
2. The president (and vice-president) are authorized to release ANY information they feel needs to be released.
3. Plame was NOT covert.
4. Plame was NOT COVERT.
5. And just in case you don't get it, Plame was NOT A COVERT OPERATIVE when her identity was released, and had not been for quite some time.

Therefore, it's not treason.

Answer 7

Its not what I think, its what the law says, and the law says its illegal. Its pretty clear on that, whether its a covert situation or not at the time, of course, it seems that this administration doesn't take our laws very seriously, and only takes to opinions of the lawyers who agree with them in giving the President almost unlimited executive privilege in deciding which laws to follow and which laws they can torturously finagle into some semblance of agreeing with what he wishes to do.
Lying to the Feds is what gets you into trouble, ask Martha about that.

Answer 8

What are you talking about?? And how is this an act of treason? Do you know what treason is? And for the WMD I guess that makes Clinton a liar too?

Answer 9

1) She was at Langley. If the was covert there, she was working for the wrong side.
2) Richard Armitage is the 1 who revealed her name. Why are they prosecuting Scooter Libby?

Answer 10

Vanity Fair said that her husband Joe Wilson used to take her to fucnctions in DC and introduce her as "My wife, the spy." This was even before Bush was Prez.