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To: KLP who wrote (144282)	10/24/2005 3:17:06 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793917

Maybe we will know by the end of the week, just who from the CIA was behind the leak, and why....So who were the chief beneficiaries of the leak to NBC News about the CIA referral to the Justice Department? Joseph Wilson and the CIA. I feel certain that these two columns are somehow linked to the truth behind the story and the mess.... Message 21816175 Message 21819701 So who leaked the 2nd leak????? But there was another big leak that no one seems to care about: the leak of the CIA's referral to the Justice Department concerning the Plame matter. Stephen F. Hayes is a serious writer, and seems to have made his career in finding the truth, wherever it is in the room of manure.... A war in Iraq risked exposing this incompetence, and the CIA began to wage its own preemptive war: Leaks from the agency implied that analysts were being pressured into their aggressive assessments. Footnotes filled with caveats became more important than primary texts. This campaign intensified after the war, with the failure to find stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. It culminated in the leaking to the news media of the CIA's referral of the Plame matter to the Justice Department. None of this should be mistaken for an attempt to minimize the seriousness of knowingly and deliberately leaking the name of a CIA operative. If that is what happened in this case, a full prosecution is not only justifiable but necessary. Even so, this entire episode reeks of hypocrisy and blatant double standards. The result may well be a renewed interest in prosecuting leakers of classified information. That would be an unfortunate development for reasons long articulated by the political left--the silencing of dissent and the muzzling of whistleblowers. But if prosecuting leakers becomes the norm, certainly the CIA cannot expect to be exempt from prosecution. Can it?

To: KLP who wrote (144282)	11/3/2005 12:33:33 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793917

Great article Karen (sorry I took so long to get back to you).. The one thing he missed is the fact that it should be Joe Wilson who should be investigated for having introduced his wife as an CIA employee. He also should have discussed the obvious conflict of interest Plame had in sending her husband on this mission, another potential compromise of her NOC status. And it STILL does not discuss the British intelligence reports that the President relied upon in his State of the Union address, which they stand by to this day (quietly, of course).. In my opinion, it's a matter of the CIA having been embarrassed that the President would rely upon British intelligence in a national speech, over their own analysis, despite the obvious reality that the CIA lack sufficient sources to make a valid analysis on the matter. Hawk