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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MrLucky who wrote (56049)	3/17/2007 11:16:52 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 90947

Plame was not only very covert but very important. Plame was a major cog in the wheel which was our entire intelligence program vs. Iran. By outing her, the White House indirectly outed every single person she'd ever come into contact with, including the shell companies, informants, allies, friends, fellow CIA officials, etc. on down the line. And just to be on the safe side the CIA would have to scrap their entire Iran intel network and start from scratch. This could be the biggest disaster for the CIA and US intelligence since one of those Cold War spy revelations. It could cost us billions, and worse, it could mean we are blind when it comes to figuring out what the hell Iran is up to these days on WMD of any kind. Outing Plame was, in short, treason of the most insidious and un-American kind. And it was apparently intentional. The first point Prosecutor Fitzgerald made to all of us was that Plame was covert, clandestine, top secret, etc. There can be no debating that.

To: MrLucky who wrote (56049)	3/19/2007 1:22:11 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

MSM dirty trick #99,999 - when it suits their interests, the MSM will actually report cold hard facts. But when it doesn't, or those facts debunk DNC Talking Points, well then, they suddenly have a massive case of amnesia regarding those same facts they had previously reported widely. From your post: Amazing how, when its own interests are at stake, the media manages to be very forceful in reporting relevant facts. But now, when those facts are even more relevant because Mrs. Wilson and congressional Democrats are bloviating about ruined intelligence networks and threatened lives, the media won't mention them. How can it be possible that a leak in 2002 "jeopardized and even destroyed entire networks of foreign agents" associated with Mrs. Wilson's covert assignment when, by the media's own account to a federal court, those networks had to have been blown for years?