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Title: Outed CIA officer to tell her story to Congress [C-Span Babe Watch Alert]
Source: AP
URL Source: http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.d ... TIONWORLD/703160508/-1/ZONES04
Published: Mar 16, 2007
Author: Darlene Superville
Post Date: 2007-03-16 07:54:24 by a vast rightwing conspirator
Keywords: None
Views: 736
Comments: 80

WASHINGTON -- Valerie Plame's life changed the day her name appeared in a newspaper column, her job as a CIA officer exposed in black and white.


THE COUPLE IN QUESTION: Former CIA officer Valerie Plame and her husband, Joseph Wilson, say her CIA job was revealed to retaliate for Wilson's public criticism of the administration. - HARAZ N. GHANBARI / Associated Press

She goes before a House committee today as both a shadowy figure and a celebrity, with lucrative book and movie deals in the works, a magazine cover in her past and her unceremonious unmasking four years ago the subject of persistent intrigue.
Now she is lifting the veil by her own hand, and to maximum effect.
The House is not in session today, and Plame's only competition for attention in Washington is a Senate subcommittee hearing on next year's budget for smaller federal agencies, and the annual St. Patrick's Day exchange of shamrocks at the White House between President Bush and Ireland's prime minister. In other words, it's no contest.
She's telling her story to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, where Democrats are eager to explore the circumstances of her outing and how the White House responded to the leak of her identity.
Although she's had little to say publicly, Plame has made more than a few splashy appearances with her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson. Last month alone, the Wilsons attended a book party for Terry McAuliffe, the former Democratic Party chairman, and were spotted having lunch with actress Morgan Fairchild at the Four Seasons.
Then there was last year's announcement that they were suing Bush administration officials they blame for ending her career. They rubbed elbows with Washington's glitterati at a celebrity-studded awards dinner for the White House press corps that year.
The couple famously posed in his Jaguar for the January 2004 cover of Vanity Fair magazine. A scarf covered Plame's blond hair, and dark sunglasses hid her eyes -- deepening the sense of mystery.
The disclosure of Plame's name closed one chapter in her life but opened others.
The mother of 7-year-old twins, a boy and girl, is finishing a book about her life and the leak of her name, tentatively titled "Fair Game," for which publisher Simon & Schuster paid her an advance of more than $1 million.
"She is hopeful she'll be able to get it out soon," Wilson said last week. "She's in discussion with the CIA about it."
Plame submitted the manuscript to the CIA for a mandatory review, which is done to make sure the book tells no government secrets. It was returned to Plame, who left the agency in January 2006, with suggestions.
"We are all awaiting Ms. Wilson's resubmission," CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield said Thursday. "In most cases, we are able to work it out in a way that satisfies everyone's concerns."
Plame's story also is headed for the big screen. Warner Bros. is developing a film based on the couple's lives, a screenplay is being written, and Plame and her husband are expected to serve as consultants.
The civil case against Bush administration officials also is moving forward. Arguments are set for May 17 in U.S. District Court.
Plame and her husband blame Vice President Dick Cheney; presidential adviser Karl Rove; I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's former chief of staff; and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage for revealing her identity and, effectively, ending her career. They say it was done to retaliate for an opinion piece critical of the administration that Wilson had written for The New York Times in July 2003.
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#26. To: aristeides (#23)

If such a device is detonated, that will very much suit the interests of any neocons and members of the military-industrial complex who survive the event.

Right.

In fact, some skilled govt scribe may attempt to link militias, gun owners, tax resisters, etc., with the Arab/Muslim boogie persons like Al Qaeda.

A DOUBLE VICTORY!

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2007-03-16   11:11:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: HOUNDDAWG. all (#26)

Valerie's kicking ass.

Dr.Ron Paul for President

Lod  posted on  2007-03-16   11:15:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: lodwick (#27)

She says under oath: she did not recommend her hubby, did not suggest him, did not have the authority.

Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'

a vast rightwing conspirator  posted on  2007-03-16   11:23:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: HOUNDDAWG (#25)

Victoria Toensing (lawyer, and wife of former US Attorney Joseph DeGenova) is going to testify later to that effect.

Toensing and DeGenova are both lawyers for Tom Capano here in DE, and they also defend crooked federal govt types. I guess Victoria is going to "lawyer us all" and sprinkle some fairie dust around to try and protect the regime.

Right you are. Wall-Eye, as I prefer to call Vickie, was closely associated with the "Elves" or "Scaifettes," which included Mr. Ann Coulter. She's a flat-out right-wing operative, as is her worthless husband. I'm not sure elves sprinkle faerie dust, but you get the point.

Mekons4  posted on  2007-03-16   11:34:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: HOUNDDAWG (#26)

Holy cows!!!

There's a new Sarbanes in the congress!!! Of the Sox fame.

Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'

a vast rightwing conspirator  posted on  2007-03-16   11:35:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#31. To: HOUNDDAWG (#16)

I'm guessing it was RushBo, because my barber repeated it as if it was the gospel.

That's their "no foul, no harm" defense. It's a lie. As is the lie that she was not undercover. She was DEEP undercover, and her cover company, which included other agents in the WMD group, was blown when the Bushies outed her.

Mekons4  posted on  2007-03-16   11:41:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: Mekons4 (#31) (Edited)

That's their "no foul, no harm" defense. It's a lie. As is the lie that she was not undercover. She was DEEP undercover, and her cover company, which included other agents in the WMD group, was blown when the Bushies outed her.

I'd love to ask each of the leakers (like Novak) just what their intentions were.

I'd treat Novak as a hostile witness and ask, "Did you know that BushCo was attempting to punish Joseph Wilson by outing his wife and implying that she was instrumental in his selection to travel to Niger to investigate the yellowcake story?"

"Did you know that BushCo was attempting to discredit the yellowcake evidence because the charge that Saddam had attempted to purchase it was untrue and likely "fabbed up" in The White House?"

"If you were asked to help the White House discredit Wilson/Plame would you have agreed to do so?"

"At any time was the subject of a presidential pardon mentioned in the event of you being criminally charged and convicted?"

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2007-03-16   12:33:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: HOUNDDAWG (#32)

Those are the questions Novak is ducking with his "protecting sources" argument. He knew what he was doing would out an operative, but his loyalty to the GOP overcame his loyalty to the United States.

In the case of a criminal act, protection of sources is a no-go among journalists. He hasn't got a leg to stand on, but some journalists, worried about a slippery slope, are backing him and Judy Miller, both Bush operatives.

Mekons4  posted on  2007-03-16   12:38:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: Mekons4 (#33)

Those are the questions Novak is ducking with his "protecting sources" argument. He knew what he was doing would out an operative, but his loyalty to the GOP overcame his loyalty to the United States.

In the case of a criminal act, protection of sources is a no-go among journalists. He hasn't got a leg to stand on, but some journalists, worried about a slippery slope, are backing him and Judy Miller, both Bush operatives.

Right, but I wonder whether it is his loyalty to the GOP or perhaps loyalty to something else....

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2007-03-16   12:41:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#35. To: HOUNDDAWG (#34) (Edited)

The WH security officer... LOL

Man... does he look uncomfortable. Looks like all he wants is to be allowed to go back home.

Rove had a DUTY to report any security breach, the officer says, almost in a whisper.

Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'

a vast rightwing conspirator  posted on  2007-03-16   12:44:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#36. To: All (#35)

The guy is going to resign if he's a man.

Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'

a vast rightwing conspirator  posted on  2007-03-16   12:51:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#37. To: a vast rightwing conspirator. everyone (#35)

A future Medal of Freedom winner here.

Dr.Ron Paul for President

Lod  posted on  2007-03-16   12:52:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#38. To: lodwick (#37) (Edited)

They should not let this guy go yet. It looks like he's about to crack and spill the beans if they lean on him a bit more.

Man should have brought a bunch of lawyers with him.

This is almost as entertaining as the Iran-Contra stuff.

Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'

a vast rightwing conspirator  posted on  2007-03-16   12:59:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: All (#38) (Edited)

"Can you explain why Mr. Rove still has a security clearance today? Or does he?"

"Yes, he does."

"Does the security of the United States depend of the outcome of a criminal proceeding?"

Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'

a vast rightwing conspirator  posted on  2007-03-16   13:12:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#40. To: All (#39)

Hmmm... where are the GOP congressmen? It looks like they all skedaddled.

Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'

a vast rightwing conspirator  posted on  2007-03-16   13:19:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#41. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#40)

Hmmm... where are the GOP congressmen? It looks like they all skedaddled.

Good. I had to record the rest. I'll check it later.

Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is. ~George W. Bush
(About the quote: Speaking on the war in Kosovo.)

robin  posted on  2007-03-16   13:21:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#42. To: robin (#41)

This round is way more interesting than the Plame testimony. The WH security officer basically admits that he doesn't do anything about security leaks if they are done by his higher-ups - and, apparently, just about anyone at the WH is his 'higher up'.

His MO is like this: no investigation whatsoever if an outside criminal investigation is going on. And, after it's over... well... he's not really going to open the cans of worms.

Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'

a vast rightwing conspirator  posted on  2007-03-16   13:24:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#43. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#42)

he doesn't do anything about security leaks if they are done by his higher-ups - and, apparently, just about anyone at the WH is his 'higher up'.

Gone like the wind are the checks and balances. Even this investigation is just a look at the aftermath, not the protections that stop a govt from throwing its own out in the cold, to further an illegal, immoral and treasonous agenda.

Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is. ~George W. Bush
(About the quote: Speaking on the war in Kosovo.)

robin  posted on  2007-03-16   13:29:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#44. To: robin (#43)

to further an illegal, immoral and treasonous agenda

may the perps be buried by it.

"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma K. Gandhi

angle  posted on  2007-03-16   13:49:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#45. To: All (#0)

Gloria Tonsils' turn now. I hope she is entertaining. She seems to imply now that it is all CIA's fault for having Plame outed.

Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'

a vast rightwing conspirator  posted on  2007-03-16   13:49:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#46. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#45)

Gloria Tonsils' turn now. I hope she is entertaining. She seems to imply now that it is all CIA's fault for having Plame outed.

stupid witch

Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is. ~George W. Bush
(About the quote: Speaking on the war in Kosovo.)

robin  posted on  2007-03-16   13:50:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#47. To: robin (#46) (Edited)

It looks like she abandoned the line that: "Plame was not undercover and that she had a desk job."

The new line is that the CIA outed her. They also did not STRONGLY tell Novak not to publish her name.

Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'

a vast rightwing conspirator  posted on  2007-03-16   13:53:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#48. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#47)

Let's see how often that new lie is repeated on LP and FR.

Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is. ~George W. Bush
(About the quote: Speaking on the war in Kosovo.)

robin  posted on  2007-03-16   13:54:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#49. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#47)

This latest chick seems like an apologist for the Bushies.

It is not a Justice System. It is just a system.

bluedogtxn  posted on  2007-03-16   13:54:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#50. To: bluedogtxn (#49)

These 2 are the GOP witnesses lineup.

Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'

a vast rightwing conspirator  posted on  2007-03-16   13:56:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#51. To: robin (#46)

Well, she's a smart witch, but Waxman just kicked the crap out of her.

It is not a Justice System. It is just a system.

bluedogtxn  posted on  2007-03-16   14:06:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#52. To: All (#50) (Edited)

The CIA director said that Plame was a covert agent but Gloria Tonsils says that she was.

Karl Rove says that he leaked the info but Gloria says that he didn't.

It is entertaining. And the Demo darkies are doing a great job. I think it's like three of them and they are merciless.

Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'

a vast rightwing conspirator  posted on  2007-03-16   14:06:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#53. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#42)

The WH security officer basically admits that he doesn't do anything about security leaks if they are done by his higher-ups - and, apparently, just about anyone at the WH is his 'higher up'.

That pud just collects a check - the most damning testimony of all that I was able to see.

Dr.Ron Paul for President

Lod  posted on  2007-03-16   14:15:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#54. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#52)

Diane Watson (D-Calif) nailed Vickie's nazi hide to the wall. Vickie keeps trying to say, as she has brayed all over Fox for years, that Plame was not covert "under the statute." Watson pointed out she was invited to speak about a Presidential Directive, under which anyone being considered covert's identity is classified. She finally got Wall-Eye to admit she was covert under the directive.

Mekons4  posted on  2007-03-16   14:26:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#55. To: All (#54)

Wow, Waxman just called Toensig a liar, said they were going to fact-check everything she said and hold the record open so that documents could be entered disputing her unvarnished opinions. That's close to as nasty as it gets in a house committee hearing.

Mekons4  posted on  2007-03-16   14:31:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#56. To: Mekons4 (#54)

Too bad it's over.

They should have kept that WH security director all day long and then called him back on Saturday.

Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'

a vast rightwing conspirator  posted on  2007-03-16   14:31:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#57. To: Mekons4 (#55)

Wow, Waxman just called Toensig a liar, said they were going to fact-check everything she said and hold the record open so that documents could be entered disputing her unvarnished opinions. That's close to as nasty as it gets in a house committee hearing.

I love it!!

Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is. ~George W. Bush
(About the quote: Speaking on the war in Kosovo.)

robin  posted on  2007-03-16   14:32:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#58. To: Mekons4 (#55)

The Victoria round was inconsequential. If anything, it was probably a plug for herself or for Foxy news.

Plame showed great dignity and she was 100% credible.

The WH director was a WH disaster. I hope they don't stop here.

Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'

a vast rightwing conspirator  posted on  2007-03-16   14:33:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#59. To: a vast rightwing conspirator, ALL (#58)

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The MENA Connection-Bush and Clinton were (still are) heavily involved in the international drugs trade

"You can not save the Constitution by destroying it."

Itisa1mosttoolate  posted on  2007-03-16   14:54:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#60. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#58)

If Toensing was the best witness the Republicans could come up with, they're in big trouble.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-03-16   14:55:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#61. To: aristeides (#60)

I had similar thoughts. This thing has the potential to grow but... other than try to impeach Bush, I don't know what they can do. The Bushies have no shame and no hesitation to pursue whatever their agenda might be and they won't be stopped by words or investigations.

Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'

a vast rightwing conspirator  posted on  2007-03-16   15:05:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#62. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#56)

then called him back on Saturday

Do you know what's the schedule for this investigation?

"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma K. Gandhi

angle  posted on  2007-03-16   15:43:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#63. To: angle (#62)

I do not. I have no idea if they are even planning a follow up.

Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'

a vast rightwing conspirator  posted on  2007-03-16   16:45:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#64. To: robin, a vast rightwing conspirator, christine, angle, Mekons4, aristeides, leveller, Burkeman1, Brian S (#46)

vast rwc: Gloria Tonsils' turn now. I hope she is entertaining. She seems to imply now that it is all CIA's fault for having Plame outed.

robin: stupid witch

Witch is right. Check out this link with the photos of the evil war mongering scary ones: - Gloria Tonsil and her hubby,Joe Degenerate, are included.

Warning! warning! put on sunglasses before viewing - you don't want to have your eyeballs sizzled - ironic title - would you leave your pet parakeet to be vacation babysat by anyone of the following?

http://www.fightingterror .org/members/index.cfm

"Committee on the Present Danger: fighting terrorism and the ideologies that drive it"

scrapper2  posted on  2007-03-16   17:46:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#65. To: scrapper2 (#64)

stupid witch

Victor ia Toensing

"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma K. Gandhi

angle  posted on  2007-03-16   17:53:07 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#66. To: angle (#65)

Can you reproduce the photo of Tonsil's hubby Digenerate?

On another thread, people were wondering where oozer has gone to the past 2 days - and I'm thinking he may have gone to pose for a photo to be pictured with Ms. Tonsilitis et al. I put my $ on oozer being that "sweet" young man, Luft, in real life. yuk, yuk

scrapper2  posted on  2007-03-16   18:01:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  



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