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Title: Outed CIA agent lectures
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Published: Apr 17, 2008
Author: BRIAN MINK
Post Date: 2008-04-17 22:34:48 by robin
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Former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson speaks about her experiences as a spy and her new book during a lecture Tuesday at the chapel. Outed CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson drew a capacity crowd Wednesday night, rebuking the Bush administration for what she called "treasonous" actions threatening national security. 
Outed CIA agent lectures
Operative: Leak threatens nation
By: BRIAN MINK
Posted: 4/17/08
Plame Wilson spoke about the July 2003 leak of her confidential CIA credentials. That leak led to the 2007 conviction of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.
"This is not a Democratic issue. This is not a Republican issue," she said. "This is a national security issue."
Plame Wilson said she believes the Bush administration revealed her CIA status to reporter Bob Novak out of revenge for a 2003 opinion piece her husband Joe Wilson wrote for The New York Times.
The White House "threw everything they had at us," she said. "I think this was treasonous."
Wilson has lived and worked in Africa for 20 years as a representative of the U.S. government, his wife said.
Wilson's public dispute of the White House's claims that Iraq was attempting to obtain ingredients for weapons of mass destruction from Niger caused the administration to seek revenge against him, she said.
"I was accused of nepotism, my husband would be called a liar, traitor, worse," she said. "We would read about these people - Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame - in the newspapers, and they weren't us."
Plame Wilson said when her covert status was revealed, she feared for the lives of the people in foreign countries who had helped her obtain intelligence during her CIA career.
She said she also worried about her children's safety and said she regretted that she would no longer be able to conduct covert operations as an agent.
Plame Wilson resigned from the CIA several months after Novak's column was published. She has since filed a civil suit against several top government officials, including Cheney.
Plame Wilson spoke about Iraq, sometimes drawing applause from the audience as she condemned the administration's handling of intelligence.
It would be intellectually dishonest to say everyone always knew there were no WMDs, she said.
"Our job was to find out what [the Iraqis] were up to," she said. "I thought that the CIA failed deeply."
Following that lack of evidence, Plame Wilson said the administration manipulated intelligence to make a case for the War in Iraq.
The president's 2003 State of the Union speech initiated the manipulation, she said. President George W. Bush claimed the administration obtained intelligence that Saddam Hussein was trying to buy uranium from Niger, Plame told the audience at the Chapel.
A week later, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell made the administration's case to the United Nations, she said.
"What [Powell] was saying did not match up to the intelligence that I was privy to," Plame-Wilson said. "And I was privy to a lot."
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#1. To: All, *Plamegate* (#0)
'Individuals should not take responsibility for their own defense. That’s what the police are for. ... If I oppose individuals defending themselves, I have to support police defending them. I have to support a police state.”' Alan Dershowitz
Valerie Plame reminds me of Sibel Edmunds: her story diverts our attention by focusing it on a few bad politicians. Never mind the real forces who control them. We can get to the bottom of this if we only have an election and a couple of prosecutions.
Very good point. I can't recall the woman's name offhand, but she was a guest on Hannity's program one day. She's a lawyer married to an ex-US Attorney of prominence and I'll probably remember her name in a little bit ... both she and her husband act as talking heads regarding high profile legal disputes for the cable networks. Any-who ... While she was on Hannity she stated that "none of the intelligence agencies actually work for the governments that write their paychecks" implying that they work for a secret organization ABOVE the governments. I'd conclude it's the international bankers, the elites, the shadow government.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. Thomas Jefferson, Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802)
Victoria Toensing? She made a fool of herself at a congressional hearing a while back.
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.
That must be Victoria Toensing's new tactic. She made a real ass of herself at the Congressional hearings, trying to claim Valerie Plame was just a desk jockey.
'Individuals should not take responsibility for their own defense. That’s what the police are for. ... If I oppose individuals defending themselves, I have to support police defending them. I have to support a police state.”' Alan Dershowitz
That's her.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. Thomas Jefferson, Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802)
#2. To: robin (#1)
#3. To: buckeye (#2)
Valerie Plame reminds me of Sibel Edmunds: her story diverts our attention by focusing it on a few bad politicians.
#4. To: noone222 (#3)
#5. To: noone222 (#3)
While she was on Hannity she stated that "none of the intelligence agencies actually work for the governments that write their paychecks" implying that they work for a secret organization ABOVE the governments. I'd conclude it's the international bankers, the elites, the shadow government.
#6. To: robin (#5)
Victoria Toensing
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