So the rationale for outing Valerie Plame was just revenge for her hubby stating the truth? Just to be aholes?

Question

So weird. Apparantly no real useful purpose for Armitage, Scooter, Karl Rove or most likely Cheney to have done so except as a sophmoric move?

Isn't that just a pretty childish way to approach a situation where another party doesn't hold your faulty opinion??

Was Joe Wilson out of line by writing an op-ed piece? He didn't have the right to communicate his own personal experience?

So basically because Wilson submitting an article goes against the grain of this administration's vow of secrecy on everything his wife's career gets flushed?

All those involved parties ought to be massively ashamed of themselves for failing to act like adults.

Answer 1

Well. you didn't address the fact that Valerie sent Joe Wilson. Or that she wasn't a CIA agent. You forgot that Joe wasn't an expert in the content of his article and he could state anything he wanted, just not as an official representative of the government, Just a little detail that he forgot to mention. Funny that you didn't tell us that there was no crime and when Fitzgerald discovered that, he didn't stop. He had to prosecute someone. Probably an over site. HUH?

Sophomoric? How quaint.

Answer 2

What you are missing is that Armitage, who has admitted that he revealed that Plame worked for the CIA, was working for the State Department, which did not support military action in Iraq. That being the case, he had no motive to make Plame and Wilson look bad. He was gossiping, possibly passing judgment on why Wilson was ever even given the Niger assignment (namely nepotism.)

Answer 3

Well the premise is pretty much correct. And you know this kind of thing goes on all the time. this was just high profile.

A couple things though. Valerie Plame's career was already coming to an end as far as CIA was concerned.
Her former boss stated that her high profile engagement to Joe Wilson had already put her position in jeopardy and she wasnt a covert op at the time of the circumstances in question.

But yea your right about that people involved should be ashamed of themselves... all of them.

Answer 4

I can hear the conversation in the back, dark room.
Cheney--- No one is going to blurt out the truth and get by with it.
Libby---I'll take care of this boss, we will do what ever you say.
Rove---Yeah Dick, the future of the party is at stake here.
Armitage---Boss you need to do something fast before the President gets involved in this lie.
Cheney---Scooter, I need you to expose someone and that someone is a CIA agent. She is married to the blabber mouth Wilson. If you get caught in this, what will you say or do?
Scooter--- Don't worry boss, if need be, I'll take the bullet for you.
Cheney---your a good man Scooter, I talk to the President if this goes bad.

Answer 5

I think it was one of those situations where someone wants to make an example of someone, but not have to suffer the consequences. It's very tricky to achieve this without getting into trouble. Cheney wanted the world to know that Plame got outed for what her husband did, but at the same time he was hoping that it couldn't be proven. We will have to wait to see if Cheney gets away with it.

Answer 6

Unfortunately, the Iraq War was the result of the lies that Joe Wilson attempted to expose.

Listen to these neocons defending the indefensible, they are insane. If Plame wasn't outted, then there would not be an issue about her being outted. The CIA would not have asked the justice department to investigate. And Fitzgerald would not have been invetigating at all. Of course I realize this is just too logical for your average neocon to understand, but it is the truth.

Answer 7

Big Joe lied, look at the record. Valerie flushed her self down the drain.

It appears to be a State Department set up from the beginning with Armitage first leaking the information and letting every body swing for it.

Answer 8

Wilson's piece was a refutation of their main causis belli against Iraq. Cheney et al felt sufficently threatened to try a smear campaign against him (make hi less so we are 'more')

So far, this is pretty normal WH operations and both sides do it.

Except his wife was a covert operative on WMD. Whether intentional outing her or not, it caused far more problems than it solved. It doesn't help that Wilson was right in the first place.

And yes, this is how politics works.

Answer 9

Valerie Plame is a lying 13itch. She was never a CIA operative. She did statistical analysis for the FBI and CIA. Very much a desk job.

Answer 10

You'd have to ask Armitage. My guess is that it was done to impress the interviewer, but then I'm not much for triple-twisted conspiracy theories.