Washington Post on Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame

[Phenom78]

"In an October 27, 2005 appearance on Larry King Live, Bob Woodward commented on the Plame investigation by stating "They did a damage assessment within the CIA, looking at what this did that [former ambassador] Joe Wilson's wife [Plame] was outed. And turned out it was quite minimal damage. They did not have to pull anyone out undercover abroad. They didn't have to resettle anyone. There was no physical danger to anyone, and there was just some embarrassment."[53] In an October 28, 2005 appearance on Hardball, Andrea Mitchell was quoted as saying "I happen to have been told that the actual damage assessment as to whether people were put in jeopardy on this case did not indicate that there was real damage in this specific instance."[54]

 

[Phenom78]

In a November 3, 2005 online live discussion, Washington Post intelligence reporter Dana Priest responded to a question on the Plame investigation by stating "I don't actually think the Plame leak compromised national security, from what I've been able to learn about her position."[56]

 

[Mavafanculo]

"In an October 27, 2005 appearance on Larry King Live, Bob Woodward commented on the Plame investigation by stating "They did a damage assessment within the CIA, looking at what this did that [former ambassador] Joe Wilson's wife [Plame] was outed. And turned out it was quite minimal damage. They did not have to pull anyone out undercover abroad. They didn't have to resettle anyone. There was no physical danger to anyone, and there was just some embarrassment."[53] In an October 28, 2005 appearance on Hardball, Andrea Mitchell was quoted as saying "I happen to have been told that the actual damage assessment as to whether people were put in jeopardy on this case did not indicate that there was real damage in this specific instance."[54]

woodward is a mouthpiece, he'll repeat whatever the WH tells him because he wants continued access to write his books and make millions. He dismissed this whole thing WAY back before many of the facts were known. AND his hands arent clean in the matter. He had motive to try to minimize the whole thing and make it go away as a story.

Andrea is married to Alan Greenspan.

But in either case, its leak/hearsay. I've read the opposite, (I'll find later) that no damage assessment was done (or perhaps that it was done and not submitted to congress oversight commitees as customary? - I forget) the point being that normal procedure in such a case wasnt followed.

 

[Mavafanculo]

Holy Bud Dwyer. I saw that on channel 10 when I was in, I think 4th grade. I had nightmares about it.

His favorite toothpaste? Aim.

What did his wife tell him when he was leaving the house? "Don't go shooting your mouth off at work today."

Kids are cruel.

Inspired a great song "Hey Man Nice Shot"

 

[Phenom78]

Washington Post July 10 2004

Wilson last year launched a public firestorm with his accusations that the administration had manipulated intelligence to build a case for war. He has said that his trip to Niger should have laid to rest any notion that Iraq sought uranium there and has said his findings were ignored by the White House.

Wilson's assertions -- both about what he found in Niger and what the Bush administration did with the information -- were undermined yesterday in a bipartisan Senate intelligence committee report.

The panel found that Wilson's report, rather than debunking intelligence about purported uranium sales to Iraq, as he has said, bolstered the case for most intelligence analysts. And contrary to Wilson's assertions and even the government's previous statements, the CIA did not tell the White House it had qualms about the reliability of the Africa intelligence that made its way into 16 fateful words in President Bush's January 2003 State of the Union address.

Yesterday's report said that whether Iraq sought to buy lightly enriched "yellowcake" uranium from Niger is one of the few bits of prewar intelligence that remains an open question. Much of the rest of the intelligence suggesting a buildup of weapons of mass destruction was unfounded, the report said.

The report turns a harsh spotlight on what Wilson has said about his role in gathering prewar intelligence, most pointedly by asserting that his wife, CIA employee Valerie Plame, recommended him.

 

[Phenom78]

woodward is a mouthpiece, he'll repeat whatever the WH tells him because he wants continued access to write his books and make millions. He dismissed this whole thing WAY back before many of the facts were known. AND his hands arent clean in the matter. He had motive to try to minimize the whole thing and make it go away as a story.

Andrea is married to Alan Greenspan.

But in either case, its leak/hearsay. I've read the opposite, (I'll find later) that no damage assessment was done (or perhaps that it was done and not submitted to congress oversight commitees as customary? - I forget) the point being that normal procedure in such a case wasnt followed.

LOL @ every reporter who disagrees with you is a liar and a fraud.

And you know more

 

[jnevin]

LOL @ every reporter who disagrees with you is a liar and a fraud.

And you know more

You're smarter than this comeback.

 

[Phenom78]

You're smarter than this comeback.

Bro. I listed three seperate journalists who have all investigated this case. I could have quoted two dozen more.

He's better than attempting to deflect by trying to discredit everyone as "biased" who fails to share his view without ever addressing the substance of their claims.

What do i think? I thinj that if there were any credible evidence of damage any one of these journalist whores would print it up and start writing their Pulitzer acceptance speech. And that's the truth.

There is no evidence of damage. The only assertion, completely unfounded and based entirely on heresay, is a claim that she was working (from Washington mind you) on tracking nuclear materials into Iran. If any actual evidence comes to light then certainly I would reconsider my opinion. But there is none.

Conversely he attempted to present such damage as beyond debate and as generally accepted fact. You can't prove a negative, so I quoted various news sources which dispute his statement. Regardless fo whether you accept their statemets as ultimately accurate, they demonstrate clearly that there is no evidence of such damage.

 

[Mavafanculo]

Here's the first of a whole bunch that I'll put up as separate posts.

Leak of CIA Officers Leaves Trail of Damage
by Warren P. Strobel

WASHINGTON - It's just a 12-letter name - Valerie Plame - but the leak by Bush administration officials of that CIA officer's identity may have damaged U.S. national security to a much greater extent than generally realized, current and former agency officials say.

Plame, the wife of former ambassador and Bush critic Joseph Wilson, was a member of a small elite-within-an-elite, a CIA employee operating under "nonofficial cover," in her case as an energy analyst, with little or no protection from the U.S. government if she got caught.

At the end of the day, (the harm) will be huge and some people potentially may have lost their lives.

Larry Johnson
former CIA and State Department official
Training agents such as Plame, 40, costs millions of dollars and requires the time-consuming establishment of elaborate fictions, called "legends," including in this case the creation of a CIA front company that helped lend plausibility to her trips overseas.

Compounding the damage, the front company, Brewster-Jennings & Associates, whose name has been reported previously, apparently also was used by other CIA officers whose work now could be at risk, according to Vince Cannistraro, formerly the agency's chief of counterterrorism operations and analysis.

Now, Plame's career as a covert operations officer in the CIA's Directorate of Operations is over. Those she dealt with - whether on business or not - may be in danger. The DO is conducting an extensive damage assessment.

And Plame's exposure may make it harder for American spies to convince foreigners to share important secrets with them, U.S. intelligence officials said.

Bush partisans tend to downplay the leak's damage, saying Plame's true job was widely known in Washington, if unspoken. And, they say, she had moved from the DO, the CIA's covert arm, to an analysis job.

But intelligence professionals, infuriated over the breach and what they see as the Bush administration's misuse of intelligence on Iraq, vehemently disagree.

Larry Johnson - a former CIA and State Department official who was a 1985 classmate of Plame's in the CIA's case officer-training program at Camp Peary, Va., known as "the Farm" - predicted that when the CIA's internal damage assessment is finished, "at the end of the day, (the harm) will be huge and some people potentially may have lost their lives."

"This is not just another leak. This is an unprecedented exposing of an agent's identity," said former CIA officer Jim Marcinkowski, who's now a prosecutor in Royal Oak, Mich., and who also did CIA training with Plame.


http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1011-01.htm

 

[jnevin]

The hell with damage, right, left, etc.

Right or wrong?