Plame's Job: Keep Nukes from Iran
If this outing of a CIA agent had happened with Hillary Clinton as President, all hell would break loose. Imagine a Democrat shopping around for a reporter to disclose the identity of ANY CIA agent, whether at home or abroad ... yet, it seems to be totally acceptable to most Republicans.
The "60 Minutes" interview was very informative. It's just a sad fact that not enough people like Joe Wilson stood up to tell the truth in the run-up to the Iraq war.
Speaking truth to power turns out to be a very dangerous endeavor. If a couple of people wearing anti-Bush T-shirts can be hauled off to jail ... anything can happen.
There is no evidence whatsoever that the press went looking to see what Joe Wilson's wife did for a living. Instead, it was White House officials seeking out the press to impart and make known that little tidbit.
After all, it wasn't for nothin' that the VP's chief of staff was convicted of four felonies related to the outing's coverup.......
Given the track record of this administration I know it might be difficult to fathom that someone like Joe Wilson might just be trying to do the right thing for our country. A glimpse at his service record might bear that out.
As for Valerie Plame, while every phony 'patriotic' Rightie pundit will be trashing her over the next several months, we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that she is the real patriot and hero of our country. She is the person who worked tirelessly to keep us safe from nuclear terror and terrorism itself.
So, let the neo-con chickenhawks viciously attack her, when the Truth finally comes to light -- and it always does -- when history is finally written, she'll go down as the true hero.
From Raw Story: "CBS News has confirmed, in advance of a 60 Minutes interview with outed CIA agent Valerie Plame to be run this Sunday, that Plame "was involved in operations to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons."
"Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons," Plame told 60 Minutes. Plame also indicated that her outing in 2003 had caused grave damage to CIA operations, saying, "All the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases" to see where she had gone and who she had met with.[..]
Yes folks, the Bushies hated being caught lying so much that they actually outed a CIA agent -- who was involved in fighting Iran nuclear capabilities -- to try to cover their sorry arses.
I'm sure this still won't shut up the "she wasn't covert" crowd, but I would think that 3 independent confirmations from CBS, MSNBC, and Raw Story tend to lend some credence.
Nice work Mr. Vice President! Way to uphold your Constitutional obligation to defend our nation.
And nice work Mr. President! Way to stand by your word to punish those involved with this incident. Yet another way you have made our country "safer" under your abysmal MISadministration.
Doesn't this border on Treason?
Dang, why didn't someone in the White House staff give Bush a BJ ... so those knee-jerk clowns on the right would agree he needs to be impeached. Because it looks like a BJ apparently is the only thing that will TOP breaking Congressional FISA laws, lying to America about WMD, and Treason.
