Rising Hegemon
They have gone on and on with all sorts of spin jobs, but the most laughable one is that Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame Wilson were out and about in public and showing the world they were married. Much as El Chimpresidente & Crazy Pinky do. I know for many of them the notion of even being close to a lady is bizarre enough, unless they're beards (am I looking at you Podhoretz?, am I?), but married people have a tendency to say they are married, and do stuff together. Occasionally, they even lie down together in bed (and other places), naked and rub against each other and make grunts*. It's kind of cool, you should ask your parents about such things.
Undercover agents, don't live their lives looking like undercover agents, they spend them looking like they are NOT undercover agents. Jiminy Jeebus, do you think your readers are sooooooo stupid that they don't know that? Apparently you do.
Here is someone who actually knows what Valerie Plame did:
Valerie Plame was a classmate of mine from the day she started with the CIA. I entered on duty at the CIA in September 1985. All of my classmates were undercover--in other words, we told our family and friends that we were working for other overt U.S. Government agencies. We had official cover. That means we had a black passport--i.e., a diplomatic passport. If we were caught overseas engaged in espionage activity the black passport was a get out of jail free card.
A few of my classmates, and Valerie was one of these, became a non-official cover officer. That meant she agreed to operate overseas without the protection of a diplomatic passport. If caught in that status she would have been executed.
The lies by people like Victoria Toensing, Representative Peter King, and P. J. O'Rourke insist that Valerie was nothing, just a desk jockey. Yet, until Robert Novak betrayed her she was still undercover and the company that was her front was still a secret to the world. When Novak outed Valerie he also compromised her company and every individual overseas who had been in contact with that company and with her.
The Republicans now want to hide behind the legalism that "no laws were broken". I don't know if a man made law was broken but an ethical and moral code was breached. For the first time a group of partisan political operatives publically identified a CIA NOC. They have set a precendent that the next group of political hacks may feel free to violate.
They try to hide behind the specious claim that Joe Wilson "lied". Although Joe did not lie let's follow that reasoning to the logical conclusion. Let's use the same standard for the Bush Administration. Here are the facts. Bush's lies have resulted in the deaths of almost 1800 American soldiers and the mutilation of 12,000. Joe Wilson has not killed anyone. He tried to prevent the needless death of Americans and the loss of American prestige in the world.
But don't take my word for it, read the biased Senate intelligence committee report. Even though it was slanted to try to portray Joe in the worst possible light this fact emerges on page 52 of the report: According to the US Ambassador to Niger (who was commenting on Joe's visit in February 2002), "Ambassador Wilson reached the same conclusion that the Embassy has reached that it was highly unlikely that anything between Iraq and Niger was going on." Joe's findings were consistent with those of the Deputy Commander of the European Command, Major General Fulford.
The Republicans insist on the lie that Val got her husband the job. She did not. She was not a division director, instead she was the equivalent of an Army major. Yes it is true she recommended her husband to do the job that needed to be done but the decision to send Joe Wilson on this mission was made by her bosses.
At the end of the day, Joe Wilson was right. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. It was the Bush Administration that pushed that lie and because of that lie Americans are dying. Shame on those who continue to slander Joe Wilson while giving Bush and his pack of liars a pass. That's the true outrage.
I believe that rarely has the notion of "my team" so trumped the notion of what is good for the nation. I don't want the democratic version of Karl Rove to be able to out some undercover operative married to a Republican and say, "we'll they did it to us, so we can do it to them." The people insisting that this is NOTHING are in actuality the most "insidious of traitors".
Rove's conduct was reprehensible, I don't want anybody doing it to anyone ever, he should be on his ass now, and Republicans should be leading the call. Christ on a cracker, don't you know the price you are paying for defending this a-hole's conduct?
Do you care?
Apparently not. After all, you already got your little perpetual war on.
*Yes, the most magical description of sex ever, I know. Did I make you horny with my romantic prose?
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