Are cons using Plame to justify CIA tape deletion because the White House would pass THEM to the press, too?

Question

It's not like Congress leaked the Plame identity...yet the CIA lied to Congress about the tape's existence and then destroyed them.

But Cheney, Libby, and Rove didn't declassify Plame's identify before they passed it to the press - did they?

Plame had contacts that were exposed, along with other agents who shared her classified cover assignment.
Quit drinking the coolaid.

The spy agency destroyed the tapes in November 2005, at a time when ...Congress and U.S. courts were debating where "enhanced interrogation" crossed the line into torture.

Also at that time, the Senate Intelligence Committee was asking whether the videotapes showed CIA interrogators were complying with interrogation guidelines. The CIA refused twice in 2005 to provide the committee with its general counsel's report on the tapes, according to Committee Chairman Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-12-07-cia-probe_N.htm?csp=34

Answer 1

I think the CIA personnel are scared to death that they will go to jail for committing the war crime or crimes against humanity and the Geneva Convention of torture and the administration is doing what they can to provide amnesty (this is the amnesty administration). There is also an issue of civil liability.

Also if the American public heard the screams it would be hard to justify the administrations orders for torture or the CIA's commission of the crime.

Answer 2

Dear you do know of course that while Presidents and Senators come and go that the FBI and CIA remain. The CIA only has to release to congress what congress needs to know, I did not make this law but that is what it is.


The Executive branch can not "leak" classified information because it is the branch that decides what is and what is not classified.

I know it takes much more effort to find out how our government operates and change the right things than it does to just shout ridiculous accusations. Still it is you that look and sound so uninformed.

Plame was never classified. No one has been convicted of the crime of outing a covert operative because they could not find that it had happened. There was a trial and an investigation yet the defendant was found guilty of only perjury and that was pretty iffy. And the perjury was that he said he had not spoken to someone and I dare say not many of us can tell you what we have said to everyone we talk to or even remember everyone.

Answer 3

What ?

Cons are using Plume to justify CIA tape deletion? are you talking about the tapes of the interrogations which the CIA quite rightly so, deleted, to protect the ID of the INTERROGATORS ?

Plame is not/was not an interrogator, she was a prawn sandwich eater at embassies and social gatherings, , for a total of "20 years, 7 days," including "six years, one month and 29 days of overseas service. Six whole years overseas, doing what ? she is covert ? covert against whom, she is blonde hardly be a convincing covert agent in any part of the world other than northern Europe and last I checked the CIA dont really have any cause to spy on Norway.

She has a $2.5 million book deal and signed a deal to make a film about the scooter libby trail,as if anyone is interested, in her cynical abuse and I suspect all along that this leaking is down to her and her husband political and economic reasons for doing so.

So no Plame has nothing to do with the reason why the CIA deleted the tapes.

Where do you get it from that the CIA lied to congress about the tape's existence ? and they have every right to destroy them to protect the nations interests by keeping interrogators ID's covert.

Answer 4

No. Plame is a disgrace to the nation trying to use the leak as a political agenda and profit from it. Therefore, she is a poor example.