I've heard that Plame was tracking nuclear weapons in the mid east - specifically Iran - and that she headed a fake oil services company over there - if she was outed as an agent - wouldn't the Iranians, et all arrest or kill those in their country associated with her? If this is true and Cheney's office outed her cover, isn't that a far more serious crime (treason) than is being covered in the press? Am I just paranoid?
2007-07-03 13:36:09 · 14 answers · asked by zooomlenz 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
If she hadn't been undercover Tenet, then head of the CIA wouldn't have passed the case onto the Justice Department. She was undercover, and it did jeopardize the people she was in contact with. Its a violation of the law that the first President Bush enacted, the first Bush having been a head of the CIA for a while. The Intelligence and Identity Protection Act is what you want to look at.
Libby wouldn't tell what he knew, it was hoped that the threat of jail would convince him to play ball, instead he was 'commuted'. No jail for him. No information for the public as to how our country is being run.
2007-07-03 13:55:05 · answer #1 · answered by justa 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No, because according to the investigation the White House had nothing to do with this. Matter of fact have you heard of any threats to the lady's life because of this? Or to her family or Associates, the answer is no. She was an desk jockey, according to the law an agent has to be covert and serving overseas. She according to the law does not qualify as an "agent". What you heard is incorrect, she did not head a fake oil services company nor did she track nukes. In effect she is not the female "James Bond" that liberals want her to appear as.
2007-07-03 14:51:11 · answer #2 · answered by smsmith500 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are absolutely correct, the risks are not only to her own career and life but to the lives of anyone who had associated with her.
In fact, in the 1970s when the New York Times published the so-called "Pentagon Papers" Republicans decried the publication of these politically unfavorable documents because they argued that exposing the information risked the lives of those individuals who have helped the American government in a time of war.
As for Valerie Plame's covert status, the CIA acknowledged that she was classified as an undercover agent at the time her identity was exposed - there can be no honest debate about that.
Even if she were not a covert agent at the time of the exposure, publicizing her as a CIA agent risked the lives of those she had associated with in the past just the same as if she were still covert (and again, she was).
The debate over whether she was covert or not has to do with whether the Espionage Act was violated or not.
Treason is a difficult crime to prove and with the efforts of so many within our government to cover-up their actions, there was never any real hope of proving anyone guilty of that crime - which is probably truly the crime that was committed.
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One last point for a comment above, Deputy Secretary of State Armitage is a member of the White House staff. The Department of the Secretary of State is a White House Cabinet post.
2007-07-03 13:39:29 · answer #3 · answered by FSJD 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋
At the time she held NOC or Non Official Cover status. She was not undercover nor in a postion that would put others in danger. Apparently her husband also used to boast that his wife worked for the CIA so I do not think much damage was done other then stupidity on the parts of White House personel and her own husband. A side note to this whole fiasco. Plame was resonsible for getting her husband appointed to a fact finding mission to Niger. This was a questionable if not somewhat not legitimate appointment.
2007-07-03 13:56:40 · answer #4 · answered by kudu32 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Weather it did or not is not the issue, the issue is our highest government officers, from the president, vice president and on down the white house have committed treason against our nation, its people and interest, for their own personal political benefit. That is a death penalty crime, for any other in America. This country has voted traitors to its leadership offices, thanks to Christians, republicans & Florida Cubans.
2007-07-03 13:44:47 · answer #5 · answered by Bob 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Justt he ones staking out the water cooler and the copy machine in the office
2007-07-03 13:49:44 · answer #6 · answered by lethander_99 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1) She was NOT undercover.
2) Noone in the White House had anything to do with revealing her identity. It was Deputy Sec State Richard Armitage.
But I'm sure you already knew this.
2007-07-03 13:39:08 · answer #7 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
We don't really know the truth, no one seems to be telling the public anything accept what there P.R. agents want, the fact is that we just don't know and anyone who says they do I think has some political motivation clouding there sense of judgement
2007-07-03 13:43:28 · answer #8 · answered by Greg 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No. She was not classified as covert. Her hubby "outed" her prior to the person who actually did.
I don't think any pencil pushers where KIA, as a result.
2007-07-03 13:46:23 · answer #9 · answered by Mr. Me 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Of course it did.
You are not being paranoid.
Being paranoid would mean that you believed that you could do something about it.
2007-07-03 13:41:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋