It’s Still Treason
From the OSC’s press release, the indictment in a nutshell :
Prior to July 14, 2003, Valerie Wilson’s employment status was classified. Prior to that date, her affiliation with the CIA was not common knowledge outside the intelligence community. Disclosure of classified information about an individual’s employment by the CIA has the potential to damage the national security in ways that range from preventing that individual’s future use in a covert capacity, to compromising intelligence-gathering methods and operations, and endangering the safety of CIA employees and those who deal with them, the indictment states.“When citizens testify before grand juries they are required to tell the truth,” Mr. Fitzgerald said. “Without the truth, our criminal justice system cannot serve our nation or its citizens. The requirement to tell the truth applies equally to all citizens, including persons who hold high positions in government. In an investigation concerning the compromise of a CIA officer’s identity, it is especially important that grand jurors learn what really happened. The indictment returned today alleges that the efforts of the grand jury to investigate such a leak were obstructed when Mr. Libby lied about how and when he learned and subsequently disclosed classified information about Valerie Wilson,” he added.
Contrary to conservative claims, there was a leak of classified information that could endanger national security. Regardless of the legal culpability, anyone who helped cover this up is a traitor to this country. The Administration’s moving goalposts in regards to firing conspirators, the media’s faux ignorance about which officials were leaking Plame’s identity, and everyone who pretended that divulging classified information isn’t a big deal….you’re all guilty of treason in my eyes.
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I thought she went out with Ames and thats why they murdered the Deputy dircetor FSB before the Rice visit. Maybe it was Rice’s degree that blew the covert CIA WMD training program at CIA
or was that Plame?
DOJ lost its law enforcement capabilities domestically(it’s in the CIA charter at Congress that CIA oeprates domestically and has badges like other law enforcement agencies) and internationally. After DOJ was turned over to Porter Goss, they indict a US government employee. It makes no sense, they report to the Director at CIA. It is, at the least, a conflict of interest and, at worst, Plame following through on a foreign intelligence operation(yellowcake was a known red herring, hence Wilson and Spain) through DOJ, which now reports to CIA. Lawyers can’t figure this out?
The only person indictable is Plame who confirmed she was a CIA Operations Officer, paramilitarily trained in ‘Vanity Fair.’ The assassinations of the Spanish operations officers in Iraq followed immediately and, later, the Madrid bombing and coup. These were expected results Plame could not find in attacking US government officials. ‘Vanity Fair the movie’ is actually about these type of persons and their insanity. Maybe she did’nt like the movie.?
Did Plame have a waiver or get a waiver from DOJ for do not prosecute?
The statement below can’t be more funny. This is exactly what Plame did:
‘The responsibilities of certain CIA employees required that their association with the CIA be kept secret. As a result, the fact that these individuals were employed by the CIA was classified. Disclosure of the fact that such individuals were employed by the CIA had the potential to damage the national security in ways that ranged from preventing the future use of those individuals in a covert capacity, to compromising intelligence gathering methods and operations and endanger the safety of CIA employees and those who dealt with them.’
–Jason Zengerle
Comment by Syncmaster — October 28, 2005 @ 11:18 am
It is my fervent hope that Fitzgerald simply ran out of time with this grand jury; there’s plenty more he intends to bring before another one, but just cannot see his way clear to say right now. Miller held up the works for a YEAR, and the White House has surely been dancing around, trying to help the clock run out. What if he just flat out insisted this Grand Jury be able to indict that for which they had foolproof evidence, and fully intends to complete his work for the rest of the indictments with a new grand jury? Isn’t that as possible as anything else, given his statements?
Comment by Agent 99 — October 28, 2005 @ 7:29 pm