Comey says "extreme carelessness", compared to what? how would U describe outing a covert CIA agent?

[Bill USA]

PLAME’S OUTING MORE SERIOUS THAN PREVIOUSLY REPORTED: CARRIES GRAVE IMPLICATIONS FOR U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY(emphasis my own)

RAW STORY: VALERIE PLAME’S OUTING HAS RESULTED IN “SEVERE” DAMAGE TO HER TEAM, “FRONT COMPANIES,” AND “COVER MECHANISM,” WHILE SIGNIFICANTLY HAMPERED THE CIA’S ABILITY TO MONITOR NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION IN IRAN FOR AS MUCH AS THE NEXT 10 YEARS.

The unmasking of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson by White House officials in 2003 caused significant damage to U.S. national security and its ability to counter nuclear proliferation abroad, RAW STORY has learned.

According to current and former intelligence officials, Plame Wilson, who worked on the clandestine side of the CIA in the Directorate of Operations as a non-official cover (NOC) officer, was part of an operation tracking distribution and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction technology to and from Iran.

Speaking under strict confidentiality, intelligence officials revealed heretofore unreported elements of Plame’s work. Their accounts suggest that Plame’s outing was more serious than has previously been reported and carries grave implications for U.S. national security and its ability to monitor Iran’s burgeoning nuclear program.

Read On….

To those who don't know, nobody was ever charged and found guilty of outing covert CIA agent Valerie Plame.

[NWCorona]

1. That was an intentional act and should have been pursued

They shopped that story until someone took a bite.

[yeoman6987]

5. I wasn't thrilled when president Obama said the same phrase but he did.

[Hortensis]

6. Yes, that was beyond question treason--by

the legal definition. The only question is, was W himself in on it?

[Bill USA]

7. I wonder how much W was "in on" anything. he was Cheney's & Rove's puppet.

[Yupster]

8. Richard Armitage was the one who gave Novak Plame's name

He was not prosecuted by Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald's explanation was that Armitage may not have known about the covert status.

Scooter Libby was prosecuted for lying to the FBI. He was not the leaker.

Supposedly Fitzgerald knew Armitage was the leaker very quickly.

Novak wouldn't say who told him, but he asked Armitage to release him from his confidentiality pledge as Armitage already told Fitzgerald he was the one and people were being bankrupted by the investigation and a reporter was sitting in jail.

Armitage did not agree to the release.

I don't know why he really wasn't prosecuted. I believe he knew exactly what he was doing.

[Bill USA]

9. LOL! Armitage was the fall guy. Cheney directed it all.(IMHO)

[Yupster]

10. If he was the fall guy

he should have at least fallen.

He got off free.

[Bill USA]

11. GOP masters of manipulation (with proper credit given to M$M) of a lazy electorate

he was the one 'directed' (not necessarily explicitly, Cheney's too crafty to be explicit in suborning a crime) to do the deed and take the blame as necessary. (of course, when Republicans commit the crime, it's not at all definite that they'll "do the time".... since they were in control of the Gov't (Executive Br) at the time.

[NCTraveler]

2. His editorial opinion sucked and was beyond the scope of his job.

[Native]

4. Agreed!

[Bill USA]

12. by adding his conjectures and opinions he made his statement a political act

[DURHAM D]

3. Hillary was just trying to do her work.

Petraeus and others were up to no good and trying to line their own pockets.

Re-markedly, Comey and the Republicans and some DUers can't see the difference.

[triron]

13. No evidence Clinton servor hacked

yet numerous government servors have been hacked with compromised data. What does this imply about carelessness? I think just the opposite; a more robust servor protecting against possible hacking.