Hypocrisy of CIA Leaks: Plame-gate vs Able Danger
Vox Taciturn (a former member of the intelligence community) does a guest post on CQ about how the CIA works in regards to the Plame/Wilson hoax. As Vox says we should all be very concerned about how this story transpired with the duplicity of the CIA.
I find this interesting:
Still think rogue Bush-haters in the CIA aren’t getting reporters who cover the national security beat to carry their water? Let’s go to an impartial source. I don’t have a LexisNexis account so we’ll use Google News to search for the non-issue that is “Valarie Plame”: 21,800 hits. Now a search for the real intelligence related controversy that is “Able Danger”: 72 hits. Correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t that what is known as a blow-out?
It’s difficult to believe those reporting in the MSM don’t know that Plame/Wilson is a hoax perpetrated on the American public with the complicit hand of the MSM. What is shameful is that the real story of Able Danger has been left blowing in the wind because the story doesn’t fit the picture of the MSM which is to demonize Karl Rove and President George Bush.
What a tragedy that Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer has been abandoned by everyone except for Rep. Curt Weldon. This past week Shaffer lost his appeal for his security clearance which means he will lose his job probably within 30 days.
Captain’s Quarters
I’m hoping that Libby’s lawyers will decide to drill down through the liberal muck and get to the bedrock of this matter. A whole lotta lyin’ and obfuscatin’ has been ignored, willfully, by our esteemed major media, but they wouldn’t be able to ignore trial information dredged up by the defense.
After that, I’m ready to donate to a “Schaffer for Congress” campaign. We need people like him, instead of some of the partially-lobotomized, silver-tongues we now have, running the nation.
Comment by Bachbone — November 5, 2005 @ 4:44 pm
The whole affair is an utter charade. Quite simply, Plame was not a covert operative, and therefore naming her as a CIA employee carries no more weight than if I were to point out that Porter Goss is also a CIA employee.
Unfortunately, apparently Libby did commit a crime–he lied. Why he lied to cover up a non-crime is a mystery to me.
Then again, if lying was such a heinous offense Bill Clinton would have been sent to the chair…
Once again, double standards reign supreme.
Comment by Snake Eater — November 6, 2005 @ 4:21 pm