.... ANY WAY, in ANY WAY, automatically exposed her to every foreign intelligence service. AUTOMATICALLY.Only a tiny number of high officials, such as the president, the secretaries of state and defense, and a few high White House officials even have access to the names of the CIA’s NOC “non-official cover” officers. These are seemingly private individuals who are actually key CIA personnel,
whose clandestine activities are run via carefully designed covers, companies that are legitimate from top to bottom and are not in any way thought to be CIA-associated, and have survived years of scrutiny from foreign intelligence operations,
and are believed by even the best of them to be entirely non-CIA connected.From
A National Catastrophe by Whitley Strieber on June 24, 2004
Link:
http://www.unknowncountry.com/journal/?id=162I read Mr Strieber's article last summer. His summary of those within the CIA of "NOC" status summarizes the framework that I used for a thread I posted earlier this morning.
But, as the day passes and I witness more and more total bullshit from the White House and all their co-conspirators about the issue, I decided to post this comment as a separate thread.
For Mr Rove to have ever known anything about Ms Plame being a CIA employee AUTOMATICALLY TELLS YOU how severe the National Security breach is.
The very nature of a NOC is that only the President, and a few other senior executives of the administration have access to such knowledge; they are the ONLY individuals, other than fellow NOCs and their control person(s) at the CIA, who know they are CIA!!
I've watched this amazingly destructive lie of the Bu$h administration since the day Novak barfed on our National Security. And knew, the moment I read it, that either Bu$h, Cheney, Powell, Rice, Rumsfeld, Tenet, i.e., only the most senior members of our government, had to have been the source of identifying Ambassador Wilson's wife, (aka Ms Plame) as a CIA employee to Rove.
No matter how they try to spin it, it took a nanosecond or less for every person in the realm of our own and foreign intelligence services to know what it meant.
By simply mentioning Ms Plame/Ms Wilson as "CIA" blew her cover and the cover of every person associated with her whether Novak or anyone else used the term 'covert' or not.The White House is full of TRAITORS, at a time when we are at WAR.
Related thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4079272&mesg_id=4079272Peace.
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