The Plame Outing: Fear and Loathing at the CIA
Jim Kouri, CPP
October 31, 2005
I am deeply troubled. I'm troubled over the liberal-left's newfound love for the Central Intelligence Agency. I guess we should be glad that they're not calling for more restrictions on the CIA or trying to inflict further budget cuts on the beleagured agency. But when I see a political party whose members liken our military to Nazis and offer aid and comfort to our enemies -- intentionally or unintentionally -- defending people they otherwise regularly condemn, it causes me to pause and reflect upon the reasons for the CIA suddenly being protected by the leftists in the Democrat Party and their echo chamber in the news media.
Since Friday, the news media coverage of the Libby indictment has reached the level of absurdity. Even Fox News Channel decided to add a new twist to the alleged outing of CIA bureaucrat Valerie Plame by the Bush White House: fear at the CIA over agents being outed. Personally, they have nothing to worry about. Our enemies know that the CIA's ineptness is an asset to their Jihad, so why would they wish to harm members of that agency? It's in the best interests of those who wish Americans harm to have the same ineffective people operating a dysfunctional intelligence service.
This may shock the reader, but I believe Valerie Plame deserved to be outed, covert or not covert. The woman was running her own covert CIA operation to undermine the Bush Administration's war plans and she used her husband, Joe Wilson, to do it. We still have no information on who at the CIA actually dispatched Joe Wilson to Africa. Lewis Libby's mistake was not telling the American people that indeed he told reporters about Plame and perhaps there should have been a televised press conference announcing the deceit of Wilson and Plame and illegal operations being conducted within the continental United States by an out-of-control intelligence agency.
When Wilson came back from Niger, Africa, he began a campaign to cast doubts on British intelligence reports that were quoted by President Bush. It was repeatedly discovered that Wilson told lie after lie after lie. For example, he claimed he was sent on his fact-finding mission by the Vice President. Liar, liar, pants on fire. Cheney never heard of the man prior to his rantings. He claimed that no one knew Valerie Plame worked at CIA. Lie. Wilson routinely introduced his wife at Washington's elitist functions and parties as his "CIA wife." Wilson said his wife had nothing to do with his Niger assignment. Lie. His wife recommended him for the job. Even his New York Times op-ed denigrating President Bush turned out to be a pack of lies when compared with what he told congress.
The lies continued before the 2004 election until the conservative media proved Joe Wilson to be a pathological liar. Even presidential candidate John Kerry removed Wilson's bio and picture from his campaign website. Kerry dropped him like a hot potato. Cheney, Libby, Rove and even President Bush should have sounded the alarm instead of holding their tongues about a renegade operation being conducted by members of the CIA and John Kerry's foreign affairs advisor Joe Wilson.
With all due respect, I find it hard to believe that Valerie Plame was frightened after having her so-called cover blown. Having her photo in Vanity Fair and going to events with her husband is hardly the behavior of someone frightened by having her identity blown. Instead of looking for the closest safehouse, she's now a Washington celebrity. Look for a movie to come out about her and her hero husband: "All The President's Men Part II."
As far as CIA agents living in fear of being outed, perhaps they should start doing their jobs instead of leaking information to the news media and playing political games. Their track record on intelligence gathering and analysis hasn't been all that stellar. New York City endured the death of over 2,700 people because the CIA couldn't catch a cold in the dead of winter, much less capture terrorists plotting death and destruction in American cities. Perhaps CIA director Porter Goss and the new intelligence czar John Negroponte should accelerate house cleaning at the CIA.
In a previous article, I alleged that the CIA has morphed into a liberal-left think tank. Now more than ever I suspect this deadly transition has occurred within the intelligence community. And why this newfound love for an agency they once detested? The Democrats HATE George W. Bush. Apparently the CIA shadow government isn't that crazy about Bush either. In Mao's Red Book, he says, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." It may be as simple as that.
Since Friday, the news media coverage of the Libby indictment has reached the level of absurdity. Even Fox News Channel decided to add a new twist to the alleged outing of CIA bureaucrat Valerie Plame by the Bush White House: fear at the CIA over agents being outed. Personally, they have nothing to worry about. Our enemies know that the CIA's ineptness is an asset to their Jihad, so why would they wish to harm members of that agency? It's in the best interests of those who wish Americans harm to have the same ineffective people operating a dysfunctional intelligence service.
This may shock the reader, but I believe Valerie Plame deserved to be outed, covert or not covert. The woman was running her own covert CIA operation to undermine the Bush Administration's war plans and she used her husband, Joe Wilson, to do it. We still have no information on who at the CIA actually dispatched Joe Wilson to Africa. Lewis Libby's mistake was not telling the American people that indeed he told reporters about Plame and perhaps there should have been a televised press conference announcing the deceit of Wilson and Plame and illegal operations being conducted within the continental United States by an out-of-control intelligence agency.
When Wilson came back from Niger, Africa, he began a campaign to cast doubts on British intelligence reports that were quoted by President Bush. It was repeatedly discovered that Wilson told lie after lie after lie. For example, he claimed he was sent on his fact-finding mission by the Vice President. Liar, liar, pants on fire. Cheney never heard of the man prior to his rantings. He claimed that no one knew Valerie Plame worked at CIA. Lie. Wilson routinely introduced his wife at Washington's elitist functions and parties as his "CIA wife." Wilson said his wife had nothing to do with his Niger assignment. Lie. His wife recommended him for the job. Even his New York Times op-ed denigrating President Bush turned out to be a pack of lies when compared with what he told congress.
The lies continued before the 2004 election until the conservative media proved Joe Wilson to be a pathological liar. Even presidential candidate John Kerry removed Wilson's bio and picture from his campaign website. Kerry dropped him like a hot potato. Cheney, Libby, Rove and even President Bush should have sounded the alarm instead of holding their tongues about a renegade operation being conducted by members of the CIA and John Kerry's foreign affairs advisor Joe Wilson.
With all due respect, I find it hard to believe that Valerie Plame was frightened after having her so-called cover blown. Having her photo in Vanity Fair and going to events with her husband is hardly the behavior of someone frightened by having her identity blown. Instead of looking for the closest safehouse, she's now a Washington celebrity. Look for a movie to come out about her and her hero husband: "All The President's Men Part II."
As far as CIA agents living in fear of being outed, perhaps they should start doing their jobs instead of leaking information to the news media and playing political games. Their track record on intelligence gathering and analysis hasn't been all that stellar. New York City endured the death of over 2,700 people because the CIA couldn't catch a cold in the dead of winter, much less capture terrorists plotting death and destruction in American cities. Perhaps CIA director Porter Goss and the new intelligence czar John Negroponte should accelerate house cleaning at the CIA.
In a previous article, I alleged that the CIA has morphed into a liberal-left think tank. Now more than ever I suspect this deadly transition has occurred within the intelligence community. And why this newfound love for an agency they once detested? The Democrats HATE George W. Bush. Apparently the CIA shadow government isn't that crazy about Bush either. In Mao's Red Book, he says, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." It may be as simple as that.
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