Who still believes Rush Limbaugh and Fox News false claim that Valerie Plame was NOT a covert CIA agent?

Question

Friday, March 16, 2007 - Hearing Examines Exposure of Covert CIA Agent Valerie Plame Wilson's Identity
http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1205

Answer 1

Gee...like Henry Waxman isn't partisan? It's also a matter of Congressional record that Kerry says spending Christmas in Cambodia in 1968 is "seared" into his memory. That doesn't make either true.

Under the law that was supposed to have been broken, I forget the name but I did read it a year or so ago, there were several definitions of who was defined as a covert agent.

Valerie Plame fit none of those definitions.

That's what Rush and Fox News are referring to.

UPDATE - The law in question is the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982. I've linked to the text of the law.

Look under Definitions, section 4. Valerie Plame did not fit the definition of "covert agent" under any of those terms, thus no one broke any law outing a covert agent.

The most you can say is Richard Armitage, the original source who has confessed, outed a CIA employee. See second link for the confession.

Answer 2

It's amazing that the person that wrote the law covering the "outing of covert operatives" said that Ms. Plame's duties at the CIA didn't fall under the status of "covert". Second, if she was a covert operative, why wasn't Armatige prosecuted. And third, why did Fitzgerald continue the investigation when he KNEW withing the first month of the investigation that it was Armatige that had leaked the information to Novak and Woodward. Novak reported that he had told Fitzgerald at the beginning of the investigation that it was Armatige that had leaked him the information.
BTW, if you're so concerned about government leaks, where is your outrage about all the secret government operations during the war against terrorists? Where is your outrage about the leaks on how we were gathering intelligence on terrorists by taping THEIR phone conversations? Your indignation about this seems a bit hollow.

Answer 3

If she was actually a covert operative, why wasn't the man that leaked her name to the press (Richard Armitage) prosecuted and convicted? Armitage was no "Bush lackey". He worked for Colin Powell in the State Dept. and was against the war in Iraq. You might want to do a little research. EDIT to Joey's Back: First off, Bush didn't pardon Libby, he commuted the sentence. Second, Do you honestly think that the Bush administration would be able to "buy off" Bob Woodward? You probably didn't know that Armitage "leaked" the info to Woodward 2 weeks before he "leaked" it to Bob Novak. And if you read the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the pre war intel, you'll find that Joe Wilson's report, actually encouraged the CIA thinking that Iraq was seeking uranium from Niger. Wilson's report doesn't jive with what he told the press.

Answer 4

Like, what does Valery Flem have to do with anything?
If she was a spy for the United States, she takes orders from the Boss. If your boss is the President of the United States, you had better obey those orders, even if you are a shill for Hill ery
Now, if we want to examine false claims, how about Hillery's claims that she voted for tyhe war before voting against it? How about Kusinach(full of spinach) claim he speeks to UFO's with Shirley McClain. How about Libs insistance that there were no WMD when we all know about Saddams gasing the Shites and Kurds and the 500+ WMD that have been found in Iraq since the fall of Saddam (declassified Pentagon documents in 2005)?
Whats the point?
More coolaid, I wish it were acctually relavant to something important? Do they even care about Valerie?
No
They just hate Bush. Whats new 'bout that?
Nothin' just more hate, and Bush is a lib too!

Answer 5

I keep hearing the neocons repeating over and over "Valerie Plame was NOT a covert CIA agent" when it is now a matter of public record that she was. This is proof that they simply adopt the talking points of their media heroes and do no thinking or independent research of their own.

Answer 6

At this point Chi, Rush and Fox aren't changing any minds. Rush could say the sky is yellow and his lemming-audience would start spreading his propaganda for him...Same with Fox.

The enlightened laugh at Faux News and Rush. The mindless simply stay mindless.

Answer 7

I take it no one on here caught the fact that "Joe YellowCake Wilson," GAVE MONEY to President Bush's campaign in 2000! Gee; What is it with you conservative wigwams? How come every time one of you gets caught ruining someone's life and/or career simply because they don't agree with you, or soliciting gay sex in a Minnesota airport men's room, or sending explicit e-mails to 16 year old pages, or taking $8,000.00 toilets from Jack Abramof, it's always the person exposing the wrongdoing who is the big liar? I hope Hillary has studied this playbook WELL!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 8

I do, she was a desk jockey at langley. Shes was neither "covert" nor had she been overseas for the last 5 years. According to the law she was no where near being an "agent". To call her one insults the real agents.
A better question is who believes the liberal claptrap that she was a female "James Bond"?

Answer 9

Rush Limbaugh would say anything to try to save his already crumbling party. He would side with the devil just to be against those who are not Conservative Republicans and nothing else. he doesn't make political or social decisions based on common sense and logic but based on what his party believes. A sheep among the sheep following their leader. So sad for such an educated man.

Answer 10

Not me, if CIA Director Hayden says she was covert, I believe him.