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To: Ilaine who wrote (10307)10/2/2003 12:17:22 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 793694
 
I share Andrew Sullivan's confusion about just what was supposed to be the motive for the Plame outing:

Like many others, I'm still baffled by the rationale. Okay, so let's say it's meant to intimidate other potential CIA dissidents. How was this information conveyed exactly? I mean: can you imagine what was actually said in the phone call? "Hi, Dana. This is Karl. You know that guy Wilson who gave us such grief over Niger? Maybe you'd be interested to know that his wife's an undercover CIA agent." So? Why are you telling me this? What's that got to do with anything? The only thought that makes any sense to me is if someone in the administration was trying to placate neo-con or conservative reporters or pundits, who were miffed that such a partisan lefty as Wilson was deputed to investigate Saddam's ties to African uranium in the first place. "Well, Brit, his wife's an expert in WMDs at the CIA. She knows a lot about the region and the subject and it seemed a good idea at the time." That's the only way I can think of such info being slipped into the conversation. Maybe the leaker knew she was undercover; maybe he didn't. I'd guess the latter, mainly because I find it hard top believe that anyone in this White House would be either so stupid or so petty. In other words, it was a malevolent leak but not a self-consciously criminal one. Look, I don't know. I'm just trying to make sense of this.
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